Exclusive Official 2020 Draft Thread

The correct answer is to trade to a spot where the BPA is at a position of need.

 

I wonder what it’d take to move up. Toppin is a sure fire top 5 guy, Avdija 6-10 likely.

 

Scottie Lewis is growing on me.

Like him best in a small role on a good team. Very similar mentality and strengths/weaknesses to Terrance Ferguson, but I like Scottie's movement / athleticism more and think he's the better shooter.

Terrance's advantages mainly were that I think he knew what he was a bit more and was a more reliable decision maker.

Physically, Terrance is taller but has less length. Scottie actually has an inch reach advantage despite being two inches shorter. Also think his frame is better (slighter wider, especially through lower half).

Think he's decent value if a team can get him outside the top 20. Would take him over Josh Green based on his strengths standing out more at the NBA level.

 

I've been meaning to watch some Florida footage to check him out. In this draft, he might be a good late 1st canident.

 

He's a fit guy for sure.

Alongside a dominant creator where he can be strictly a catch and shoot / cutter / transition finisher, he can bring some value offensively, alongside is disruptive perimeter defense.

Swing skills for him will be being better as a team defender, cleaning up his technique in help and recover situations and if he's able to do anything in the half court besides catching and shooting and finishing on cuts.

If he doesn't, he's likely a fringe rotation guy.

 

I wonder if he'll even come out this year? Defensively he'd probably be able to play fairly soon in the NBA but he's still a project offensively.

For the Blazers one of the problems is that I think Lewis is more suited for a faster paced offense, like Ferguson who you mentioned. The Blazers have played at a faster pace this year than they ever have under Stotts but I think that has been more of a product of being behind a lot more than they are accustomed to which forces them to run more.

 

Yeah I don't love his fit with us.

Dallas would be a good landing spot I think. Their personnel is better equipped to take advantage of his strengths and hide his weaknesses.

 

Oh, hey, it's the draft expert! How's Naz Reid doing this year? Here's what you said about him last year:

 

The bounce pass was pretty sick.

 

Wasn't even saying it as a bad thing, just knew you'd like him. I'm not perfect, but at least I don't fall for every single international prospect that ever has a chance at getting drafted.

 

You're not perfect, but you are drawn to wildly inaccurate generalizations.

 

One upside of a canceled season: LET'S HAVE THE DRAFT NOW!!! Or at least, as soon as March madness gets canceled (which will be any minute now).

 

Are you proposing just to use whatever the current draft order is and ignore the lottery? Or have some sort of lottery and then do the draft now?

 

That is a problem. For example:

Should we pick after the Spurs, Pelicans and Kings because we have a better winning %, or should we pick BEFORE them because we've lost one more game? It's not our fault we've played more games than them!

 

I guess they already had:


So let's go!

 

I say we pick before them... because reasons.

 

In our current range who would you target?
I'll throw out a couple names (might be picking them too high).
Precious Achiuwa, Theo Meledon (I'm sure I misspelled that).

 

I don't watch college bball, so I'm the wrong guy to ask. Around draft time I usually look up a bunch of mock drafts and then watch a ton of YouTube, but I'm too busy preparing online classes right now...