Shaedon Sharpe and Jabari Walker meet the media at 10 am!

Uh, Zeller is not talented but I wouldn’t question his competitiveness/effort.

 

He’s officially 6 foot 8 in shoe. He doesn’t look like he 2 inches taller than Sharpe. Maybe sharpe stood on his tippy toes

 

I would. He’s not a dog.

 

Sharpe’s hair makes him look taller but I’d say Walker has him by a couple inches.

 

Number one takeaway for me was Cronin telling everyone of us, "The goal is to win a championship it's plain and simple for us, we're not content (you know) making the playoffs year to year and maybe winning a round or two. Our goal is to grow and take this to the peak and so I guess it's easy to say we could have lost in the Western Conference Finals last year and we still weren't good enough. So I know that covers a lot of things but our goal is to push this to the limit..."

That's fucking awesome! That's saying straight up that he knows we've been treading in the water of mediocrity and he is not cool with that at all. He blatantly said that maybe they could have made it to the WCF and lost last year but he obviously has no interest in that. He wants it all. That's very encouraging as a fan and you can just tell that it's not spin and it's not lip service. This dude means what he says. What a breath of fresh air.

 

The video from when he was a high school kid and he did the hesitation hop before every drive? We need to burn that video it's OLD. In that video the guy showed clips of Harden to show what Sharpe should learn to do instead. Someone posted a recent workout video on here where Sharpe was working on exactly what that guy was saying. He looked good.

I just realized you are probably talking about what looked like AAU video? Yeah, that was some lazy shit. Sharpe practiced with Kentucky last season. No way the coaches let him get away that. If he didn't move his feet and maintain good position in his Blazers workout, they wouldn't have drafted him.

 

What I want to know is how tall Cronin is.

 

Billups has likely seen much more that whatever video you did.

 

Finally, SPAM wisely.

 

Cronin is winning me over.

The Clipper trade was still pennies on the dollar. Assets were not maximized. Not even close.

However, he now gets a pass as his plan is becoming clearer: Not content with merely making the playoffs - this was a shot at Neil.

You’re the man, Joe!

 

The Oregonian says that he was listed at 6'6" when he played college ball.

https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/...chitect behind it,details of the revamped CBA.

 

I know some fans don't want to hear it, but even one season of him playing at Kentucky would have told us more than all the high school/AAU/summer league highlight reels put together.

 

Sure but even one season at Kentucky might have put him out of our range. That’s why it’s a gamble, but it’s a gamble worth taking.

 

I think it would have told us as fans more but I don't think that Cronin and especially Schmitz made a much less informed decision that anyone else did who made a pick in this draft. Having Schmitz is a big deal in feeling safe with these picks. I know in the past he's gone to open and closed practices at different colleges. They went to Sharpe's pro day and worked him out twice.

If he would have played at Kentucky he might have been picked before one of the three PFs and Ivey. Hell, he was the number one guy in his recruiting class before he reclassified he might have gone first if he'd played. This is why we can't discount the possibility that he'll be a major contributor this season and just get better from there. Of course with any rookie there is the unknown and the potential for underwhelming results both initially and throughout their career... I just don't see more negative potential with Shaedon than any of the other guys drafted.

 

Just like kobe and Jermain O'Neal and kg and lebron.

It's a swing for the fences move. Sometimes they work, other times not so much.

If it works, great, if not the blzers are maybe a first round fodder instead of 2nd round fodder? Worth it.

 

That is very true, a full season would have given us more data to go on. But I think the list of successful HS players going straight to the NBA is long enough to make that a moot point.
You either have a good talent evaluator on your staff or you don't. Either way the draft is still a crap shoot

 

Given recent history - and Cronin was a part of that - my confidence in the FO is close to zero.

 

I would expect no less from the late great Paul Allen.