Keeping our pick? This might be a Lottery year

he’s the guy I wanted before we ended up trading the pick for Roco. Remember people worried about his frame as well. But skills usually win out.

 

I really hope we don't trade our pick for grant. I would rather take the risk we could get someone better in the draft.

 

Got his first career triple double today in their win over the suns.

 

Or someone better in a trade.

 

I said sixth was the goal because you have a legitimate chance to get in the top 3. Steep drop off from 6th to 7th.

nice try at being a smartass tho.

 

This is interesting because *most* people think Paolo has the best chance at being a superstar while the other two don’t; notably because neither can create their own shot off the dribble.

 

Nah, Shaedon Sharpe. I’m not as interested in Ivey but he’s clearly up there. I’ve got a clear top 5.

 

I've only seen Holmgren a couple of times, but from what I've seen, I'd say Poku has better foot speed and handles than Chet.

 

Looks like we are just about locked into the #6 spot.

We have 2 wins more than the Pacers and they Philly back-to-back and then Brooklyn. Both teams are fighting for Playoff position.
We have 2 less wins than the Kings who finish with the Pelicans, then @ Clippers and @ Suns.

Could the Kings do us a big favor by winning their final home game? Either way, there is room for us to try to get 1 win.....against New Orleans. If not then, the Blazers could reward the home fans with a home win on the final game of the season, and it wouldn't do anything to their Draft position.

 

Historically, that's been by far our best spot to draft at, so there's that.

 

Except for that pesky Martell Webster over Chris Paul thing………

 

Technically, we had the 3rd pick that draft.

 

So we took Martell and Jarrett Jack with the #3 pick?

 

So is this draft going to be more like the one where we passed over Chris Paul (because of Telfair) or the one where we got the two best players in the draft (by trading Telfair)?

 

This chart shows the NBA draft odds for all lottery picks. At this point, it looks like the Blazers' best chances are to end up with the 6th seed, with their own pick, and the Pelicans' pick if it falls in the 5-14 range. As the chart shows, the Blazers would have a 37.23% shot at moving up to a 1-4 pick, an 8.62% chance at remaining at the 6th spot, a 50.32% chance of being bumped back to the 7th or 8th pick, and just under a 4% chance of getting pushed back to the 9th or 10th spot (which would truly suck). I've highlighted the 14th seed for the Pelicans, but it could be higher. The Blazers would have a very high chance of retaining that pick, but the Pelicans could get extremely lucky and grab a top 4 seed.

 

technically, the Blazer drafted Deron Williams at 3 and traded him for Webster at 6 + the 27th pick in that 2005 draft + a lottery protected first in 2006 (Joel Freeland)

they then traded the 27th pick (Lina Kleiza) + rights to Ricky Sanchez to Denver for the 22nd pick, which was Jarret Jack

 

good memory. Amazing that we kind of traded worthless Telfair for the chance to draft Roy. But that didn't help us get Aldridge did it? We had to trade another worthless player to move up to get him. Oops, we actually got the #7 and Randy Foye (another worthless player) for Telfair (and Ratliff) who we traded for #6 pick which we added the worthless khyrapa to to get to #4 , LMA. That was such an exciting day, wasn't it?

 

If the Pels pick conveys it will be no higher than 12 because all four play in teams in the East have already locked up a better record than NOLA. The Spurs, Wizards and Knicks all have harder schedules left than the Pels so I think that the pick is almost a lock to convey at 12 if the Pelicans miss the playoffs, the Knicks might beat the Wizards in their game against each other in which case if the Pels only beat us and the Kings then those two teams end up tied and a coin flip will determine if the Pels pick is 11 or 12.

Edit: I meant it will be no worse than 12 and has very little chance of being better than 11.

 

He's got better foot speed and handles than Nurk and many other 7 footers. I realize he a forward, he's not far from the skills Durant had when he entered the league.

 

Chet Holmgren spins through traffic and slams one home
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