Blazers came up mostly the 9 or 10 pick on talkathon for me. I seriously played it 100 times just for fun and to see what could happen. #1 pick only came up twice but the 4th pick came up 14 times and the 3rd pick came up 12. Yes San Antonio with the 8th spot got the number 1 pick 8 times and absolutely cooked us on #2 and #3. The Blazers most likely will be picking #9 or #10. Those positions came up a crazy amount of times. When I look at mocks at this point it seems they will be picking up a PG or SG if they are taking BPA. This is not the way this draft was supposed to be handled. They absolutely needed to get in a position to get a top 4 pick.
No, no. I understood that. I haven't really checked it out. I guess I would need to know we actually had a pick to get motivated. @Rastapopoulos usually has some good ideas, but I haven't seen him post any yet.
I just read up on him some. Very athletic, looks like he could learn to shoot threes well. One site feels like he can guard smaller wings. but his overall defensive ratings not good, maybe due to being out of position or not focused. Biggest concern would be lack of rebounding and seeing phrases like: avoids contact and lacks physicality.
Just do not pick another Cody Williams. Like supposed genius Danny Ainge did at the 10th pick last draft. other players available at number 10 were Kel-el Ware, Dalton Knecht, Matas Buzelis and Jared McCain.
I'd love to trash Ainge.... but there were a LOT of fans and scouts who were saying that Cody had a legit chance to be drafted #1. I would have picked Ware and Buzelis before Cody for sure. I didn't really evaluate Knecht or McCain very closely. Cody has a chance to be a decent player.... but he also could end up as Cam Reddish v2.0
Yep. I don't see the + skills elsewhere in his game to compensate for those weaknesses. He'd be ~ #20 on my big board... But with how the draft goes, there will be 4-5 players drafted in the 20-30 range that I'd still take over him.
You flatter me. I only get ideas when it gets closer to the draft because I don't actually watch College Basketball (or Eurobasket)
Cody Williams is 20. Let's not write him off yet. The Jazz also have a strong chance of walking out of this draft with a stud at the top.
I agree. Stats for rookies are often useless when projecting how well they will turn out because they aren't close to being the finished product.
