Notice Chad Ford has the Blazers going heavy on international prospects in mock draft.

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  1. BigGameDamian

    BigGameDamian Well-Known Member

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    IF we keep all 3 picks then I think one of the three will be a Euro to stash for a year or two. But not 2 of the 3.

    Edit: I take that back, only scenario where I see 2 of the 3 Euros is if we have one come over right away to play and 1 stay overseas.

    Of course just my opinion.
     
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    HCP is the only one of us who can afford Insider, so who are these picks?
     
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    Not sure if allowed but I came across an insider workaround:

    http://insider2text.xyz/

    Copy and paste the url of the insider article and voila. Please delete if disallowed.
     
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    I couldn't get that to work; did you happen to see who he had slated for Blazers?
     
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    Casey details it in his rundown in the link on the tweet.
    Justin Patton
    Isaiah Hartenstein
    Kostja Mushidi
     
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    thanks!
     
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    "What I do know is that the Trail Blazers' international scout, Lojze Milosavljevic, is well-respected and dogged in his work, so if they do end up taking one more more international players, they'll have been well scouted by Portland beforehand."

    I didn't know we still had one
     
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    Technically Hartenstein is a white American born center........But I guess he has been gone long enough

    "For the record, I'm not nearly as convinced as Ford that the Trail Blazers will be looking to draft and stash with any of their first round picks, but it's certainly a possibility. And since he's an American citizen, maybe that's not Hartenstein's plan either."
     
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    A few things of note:
    --Ford has us at 18, based on BPI, picking after both Chicago and Atlanta, who are currently either tied with or ahead of the Blazers.
    --Other players he lists in the range of our first two picks (18/20) that have been discussed at length in here: Jarrett Allen (17), Bam Adebayo (19), Justin Jackson (21)
    --Ford also has both John Collins and Caleb Swanigan still available at the 27, but he has us taking an 18-year-old draft-and-stash guard.

    Let's say we get the 17th pick, plus 20 and 27. If Ford's projections were right, we could come away from the draft with Allen, Jackson, and Swanigan--all players who could conceivably come in and contribute immediately. I'd much rather see something like that than what Ford projects. Actually, I'm already excited just thinking about that (despite knowing it won't happen).
     
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    Hartensteins dad is German. Mom is American, so I guess he's both. I think he'll come over though.
     
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    So much depends on if we can sit tight in the 8 seed, I'm less confident now.
     
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    I don't think there's a chance in hell that we keep all these picks.
     
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    It would make sense to stash a guy overseas for awhile as Neil tries to undo the coming salary disaster.
     
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    draft and stash makes little sense with the dearth of bigs we have, there is frankly no need for the bench fodder guys like Quarterman/PatC/Layman IMO
     
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    The last pick we have in the 1st will earn about 2.5. I guess we could stash him but I don't think we will either.
     
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    Ford is the worst draft analyst.

    They need to fire him and just partner with DraftExpress.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Don't worry he'll change it in a few years to better reflect the actual draft.
     
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    I do not believe they'll stash over both Justin Jackson and Ivan Rabb (especially the former).
     
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    Two of the international players are playing at the Nike Hoop Summit.
     
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