Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects I'll preface this by saying this is just like, my opinion, man... Leonard had a pretty large sample size his rookie year. Terrible defender/rebounder & somehow looked worse this year in preseason/small minutes during reg. I'm basically ready to move past him. There is a reason Joel "decent" Freeland took his job. With his 3pt game he thinks he has he looks at this point like an Andrea Bargnani at the very best. Crabbe is a solid D & 3 guy, CJ is an undersized 2 guard. Neither of those guys are locks to become anything more than role players. If Olshey sees a guard in the draft he knows will be better I don't see why he would make the move even sending those guys out. Not ready to give up on TRob with his improvements so far, though if we could get Payne in a swap straight up? Ohhh that could be worth it I'd say. If Mo tries to accept his deal I say we move him. Can't give up the majority of our backup guard minutes to a guy who plays poor defense & inefficient offense. If Stotts tells him all he is gonna get is 10mpg next year I doubt he accepts his player option. As I said, I was trying to keep free agency for another thread. Go Blazers.
Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects Man, shut this rookies thread down please! What is happening to this place.....its like the wild wild west! http://sportstwo.com/threads/239567-The-Official-2014-NBA-Draft-Thread
Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects It is a fairly different thread considering you just posted a picture of top prospects for discussion & a few words. While I did a 700+ word description of 5 specific players the Blazers could/would target in this draft w/a poll that ARE in the range for them in the draft as opposed to your top 20 list, which as I mentioned is likely the untouchable range. If the mods want to its no problem. Just consider with mine you must admit there is a significant amount of content that separates this from just a simple discussion thread. Not too worried about it though. Go Blazers.
Wonder how you figured out bout him? He is a point forward, can't guard 1's. Great skillset though. sure I'll do more legwork for you OK State vs Colorado december 21st(tomorrow) Uconn vs Washington december 22nd Villanova vs Syracuse december 28th Kentucky VS Louisville december 28th St Marys vs Gonzaga Jan 2nd Oregon vs Utah jan 2nd Washington vs Arizona jan 4th Miami vs Syracuse jan 4th Michigan State vs Indiana Jan 4th Iowa VS Wisconsin Jan 5th Oregon vs Colorado Jan 5th San Diego State vs Kansas Jan 5th Ohio State vs Michigan State Jan 7th Baylor vs Iowa State Jan 7th Arizona vs UCLA Jan 9th Memphis vs Louisville Jan 9th Gonzaga vs Portland Jan 9th(listed because I want to see Pilots smash the zags) Cal vs Oregon Jan 9th North Carolina vs Syracuse Jan 11th Iowa vs Ohio State Jan 12th Arizona vs USC Jan 12th Kansas vs Iowa State Jan 13th Wisconsin vs Indiana Jan 14th Arizona State vs Arizona Jan 16th Connecticut vs Memphis Jan 16th UCLA vs Colorado Jan 16th Houston vs Louisville Jan 16th Michigan vs Wisconsin Jan 18th Louisville vs UCONN Jan 18th OKState vs Kansas Jan 18th NCState vs Duke Jan 18th Oregon vs Oregon St Jan 19th Villanova vs Creighton Jan 20th Baylor VS Kansas Jan 20th Indiana VS Michigan State Jan 21st Colorado vs Arizona Jan 23rd Michigan vs Michigan State Jan 25th Colorado vs Arizona State Jan 25th Michigan State vs Iowa Jan 28th Arizona vs Stanford Jan 29th Iowa State vs Kansas Jan 29th UCLA vs Oregon Jan 30th Duke vs Syracuse Feb 1st Ohio State vs Wisconsin Feb 1st Baylor vs OKState Feb 1st USC vs Oregon Feb 1st Kentucky vs Mizzou Feb 1st Iowa State vs OKState Feb 3rd Ohio State vs Iowa Feb 4th Kansas vs Baylor Feb 4th Mizzou vs Florida Feb 4th Oregon vs Arizona Feb 6th Oregon vs Arizona State Feb 8th Gonzaga vs Memphis Feb 8th Michigan State vs Wisconsin Feb 9th Michigan vs Ohio State Feb 10th Duke vs North Carolina Feb 12th Colorado vs UCLA Feb 13th Arizona vs Arizona State Feb 14th Memphis vs UCONN Feb 15th Florida vs Kentucky Feb 15th Wisconsin vs Michigan Feb 16th OK State vs Baylor Feb 17th Arizona State vs Colorado Feb 19th Arizona vs Colorado Feb 22nd Syracuse vs Duke Feb 22nd Wisconsin vs Iowa Feb 22nd UCLA vs Stanford Feb 22nd Michigan State vs Michigan Feb 23rd Oregon vs UCLA Feb 27th Louisville vs Memphis March 1st Kansas vs OKState March 1st Ohio State vs Indiana March 2nd Iowa State vs Baylor March 4th Iowa vs Michigan State March 6th Arizona vs Oregon March 8th UConn vs Louisville March 8th OKState vs Iowa State March 8th North Carolina vs Duke March 8th Kentucky vs Florida March 8th Michigan State vs Ohio State March 9th There ya go. Best games of the year projected by me so far.
Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects I'd check out either of the Harrison twins, before any of these dudes aside from maybe McGary and Clarkson (who won't be available by the time we could grab him, IMO)
Mitch has a little Pekovic to his game. What's the story with him? He's a soph. but is the age of a Sr.
well, i been thinking about this for a while now. i really want jabari parkers, he play a lot like paul george. i think maybe trading barton, future picks and t-rob to nets or magic for a pick would be ideal. if we can make a trade like this, then we instantly have other elite scorer and can take batum position and move batum to SG and wesley becomes a 6th man. the lineup would be lillard, batum, parker, aldridge. and lopez. that lineup improve our defense and our offense. once meyers can developed, we will be the once-in-a-generation team
I want to buy into the hype, but I'm still a prisoner to my thoughts about all of the busts that have "only played basketball for ___ years" and therefore have unlimited potential. Maybe that's just because my Grizz drafted Hasheem Thabeet for the same reason, but it doesn't seem like these situations work out very often. It's unfair to pigeon-hole the guy because other prospects didn't develop, and I've only gotten to watch him once this season (vs. Duke), but that's my gut reaction, right or wrong. You don't want to be the team that took Darko Milicic right after LeBron James and before Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade. This has been shaping up for a while to be the most stacked draft since '03, and I'd personally lean towards the sure thing in that scenario. If this were last year's draft, I'd be fine going for Embiid with the #1 pick, but with all the other proven, sure-fire talent like Jabari Parker available, it'd be a ballsy move to take a player that early based on potential.
I accept your highlight mix and raise you one! [video=youtube;pPDHhnNDEBw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDHhnNDEBw[/video]
The year of highlights from T-Rob still aren't nearly as impressive as the Georgetown game highlights from Embiid!
If you want to see an athletic freak watch Zach Lavine at UCLA. Goodness he's got ups. I have to watch him more though, I'm not really sold on him yet. His athleticism is jaw dropping though.
ATL gets the better of their or BKN's pick. DEN gets NYK's pick, unless it's a worse pick than DEN's, in which case ORL gets the NYK pick and DEN keeps the best pick So it looks like BKN will actually get a pick, though it will probably be in the late teens/early twenties, while the Knicks get bupkis (b/c their 2nd goes to HOU)--unless by some miracle the Kings get the 56-60th pick, in which case NYK gets SAC's 56-60 pick
I think he'll be a riser on draft night but had we kept our (low first) pick this is the guy I'd want: Doug McDermott continues to shoot the hell out of the ball: 24.8 PPG 7.3 RPG 49 FG% 90 FT% 42 3PT% (6 attempts/per) 63 TS% He's cut from the same mold as Teletovic/Korver.
