Shout out to Fez And Rasta!!!!

I just want to say..

THANKS!!! If it weren't for you two, I would literally know nothing about the draft and college players.

I know many people are up on the info, but you two? WOW!!!
I still don't comment in those threads much because I would look like a fool talking about what I don't know, or just repeating others. But man, have I learned a lot about the players coming out and how the draft works in general...

THANKS GUYS!!!!!

HUGE bonus to this forum if you ask me.

 

dont let that stop you, it doesnt stop anyone else! (me included)

 

Lol, It usually doesnt, but I try not to be blatantly ignorant all the time.

 

Fooled another one!

 

Not a problem! Just don't buy Rasta's anti-Kristaps propaganda.

 

Now if only (at least) one of them cared about US College players.

 

Give us a top 3 pick and I'll have cause to care. (And, hey, I'll take just about any US college player who's been projected a first rounder over Porzingis.) But if you're picking at 23, then disproportionately your chance of getting a good player is by draft and stash.

PLUS: my favorite part of the game is passing, and US players just aren't programmed to think pass first the way that young Euros (who enter a club system at age 12 sometimes) are.

 

The only thing I know about the draft is that it's cheap at Pineway Golf Course.

 

How about you buy this guy's:

Not to mention:



So the guys who aren't so high on KP are, y'know, the guys who follow European basketball...

 

No calling out posters in the thread title!!!!

 

http://www.nba.com/blazers/projected-draft-candidates

Yet the few they are looking at are American based...

 

Posters not from earth are exempt.

 

Definitely doesn't stop HCP.








JK, HCP you're cool and stuff.

 

When Jabari first reported that Neil wanted to move up the first player that came to mind was Mario.

But if you can trade up high enough you have to go for the player with the most upside - KRISTAPS.

Though, both are boom-or-bust prosoects. You go with the 7'2" PF who can be a go-to guy down the road.

 

It's it me or is Kristaps a more glorified version of Meyers Leonard?

 

That quota is full already my friend..I haven't followed the draft since Luke Ridnour was drafted. Rasta is a wealth of Euro talent knowledge and Fez knows the college game really well...good shout out

 

Or posters with new babies who haven't slept in a few weeks!

 

Or: you go with the guy who hasn't got a glaring hole in his game. Again, name me the most successful non-rebounding big man. Porzingis isn't a 7'2" PF he's a 7'2" shooting guard.

 

I've never been a fan of Leonard's game, but he at least LOOKS like a center. The idea of Porzingis even trying to slow down Marc Gasol is scary. On the other hand, Porzingis blocks shots. But it's certainly true that any team with both of them on the floor at once is in trouble.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement about Porzingis is from his athleticism. We're not used to skinny white Euros dunking like that. But David Lee was athletic when he came into the league - athleticism goes fast (a [black] guy I play pickup with was expounding this theory that white guys age faster and said their athleticism is gone by age 26. Make of that what you will) When Porzingis's jumping goes away he's Matt Bullard.

 

I'm sorry guys, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but everyone in here knows jack shit about this guy. Maybe I'm jaded but I've seen everyone in here be so spectacularly wrong before that heavy handed self assured prognosticatin' rings a little hollow.

You guys are both wrong though, Porkzinger is gonna be a taller Olden Polynice with better pick and roll defense and a killer crossover.