Merged: The Draft Thread For Stuff About The Draft Including Thoughts About The Draft

Shams Charnia? (sp) thinks the Blazers/Nuggets/Suns are teams that have the assets to get someone LIKE PG13

 

This is the right philosophy. We aren't winning anything next year. Accumulate talent

 

Tim Frazier was traded for a late-second rounder! We blew it!

 

This mock draft on nbatv is pure comedy. TJ Leaf at 14? LOL

 

well as wild a past 2-3 "daze" as we've seen why not? and now PJ in NYC is goin off the reservation and looking to trade Zinger - just crazy stuff, lookin forward to tomorrow!

 

John Collins at 15.

"They're looking for a guy to set screens and roll."

Weakness......defense.

LOL, like Nurk?

 

Leaf and J Collins are THE two players I want to see picked by 14 so POR isn't tempted to pick them. Moreso J Collins.

I hoping one of Mitchell, Ntilikina or Z Collins drops to us. If none of those 3 do then I am warming up to Bam. Him or Patton. I wouldn't mind Leaf at 26 but no way he lasts that long. I really want to come out of this draft with either Semi or Jordan Bell or Bolden as well.

A lot to like...

 

Tom Crean and the rest of Wojs crew talked really highly of John Collins tonight on their FB live thing. Crean said he was the best offensive post player in the draft. Woj talked about his background (grew up in military family) and how impressed he was by his athleticism at a workout he attended. Also mentioned his age and rapid ascent. Crean compared it to Oladipo.

Crean was also very high on Leaf. "Highly skilled, just needs to physically mature" was the general point.

Crean also mentioned Jordan Bell, and how his game translates immediately.

 

Also an interesting take on Giles: one of the DX guys mentioned that teams don't really know what he is, since they've never really seen him play besides the one year at Duke. Teams aren't allowed to scout AAU games and he was injured by the time the all star games (McDonald's, Etc) came around.

 

Woj: Portland's priority is to flip those picks to try to move up. Nothing materialized yet but it could closer to the draft. They're the youngest team in the league, so I doubt there's much interest in using all three picks. You can maybe get at the Kings' 10th pick if you give them an established player, but teams in the lottery usually use their pick, so moving up is easier said than done. ..... paraphrasing

 

Yeah I think a move up is probably the first option, although they also mentioned trading those picks for an established player. I'd be surprised if we used all three picks tomorrow. in a trade up scenario, a trade wouldn't happen until a specific player got past a specific point imo. I'm sure not all teams drafting up there are open to moving down.

 

Thanks for this. I knew most of this about Giles, but it was news to me that teams couldn't scout AAU games. That's interesting news to me.

 

My expecatation is we use a pick or two, and then we move one pick for a future pick(s), and/or move a pick with a contract. I expect we'll be okay with half of what we did (likely the pick) and be ho-hum about the other half (the deal(s)).

Won't be surprised if we end up with John Collins or Justin Patton.

 

Man, I haven't been high on Collins at all. These dudes are changing my mind.

 

I am not high on Collins due to he can't play defense. My targets at 15 is Justin Jackson or Giles. Neither of them will be there at 20.

 

Collins is the stiff that's going to replace Meyers Leonard.

 

The more I think about it, Blazers should draft Giles at 15... you have to hit a home run to compete with Warriors and only Giles has superstar upside... but that's assuming we can't trade up or for established star

 

Does anyone know where I can watch NBA Draft in Europe? Any sites streaming it or something? I want to see this badly!

 

So Harkless, 15, and filler for 10?