I'd love to get Shabazz at 10. I'm growing on that idea and almost hoping we don't trade the pick now. Almost everyone else i'v seen at 10 i'd rather just trade the pick away for, not sure why i'm buying into the Shabazz hype so much.
Carter-Williams doesn't excite me at all. I get the idea of a 6-6 PG being an interesting prospect and his APG were surprisingly high but he didn't excite me when I watched his team (maybe once this season), I don't see him as something special. By the way, that kid they compare to Ray Allen that is now first in the NBAdraft.net mock-draft, I've seen his team play once and didn't even notice he was on the floor until after a few minutes the broadcaster mentioned his name. I read a scouting report about him in MM's thread that said he tends to disappear so maybe it was one of these games. He's one of the players I'm glad will go high because it means other players will be available for us...
If Shabazz is all that and a bag of chips I can guarantee he will go in the top 5 maybe even top 4. Do you know how hard it is to find pure SG nowadays? Everyone wants to be combo guards.
He's definitely a shooting guard. Definitely, definitely a shooting guard. (Dustin Hoffman in Rain man voice...)
I just played the draft lotto about 20 times over at ESPN, and it shows us getting Muhammad 90% of the time. http://espn.go.com/nba/lottery2013/mockdraft
Ok, I'll stop this nonsense, this is the player we should take: Giannis Adektobu, currently number 20 on nbadraft.net's mock. Hopefully, he wouldn't be unavailable to us by the time of the draft.
I am not sure someone could give a worse analysis on a player just drafted. No one wonder why a few of our posters were so wrong about Lillard. They were probably reading this guy.
Sounds like the Blazers should take this guys advice, and do the absolute complete opposite of. So if he doesn't like Shabazz, Shabazz will be ROY.
Will Shabazz be a bust or will he be a great player? The answer is that nobody knows. He's got NBA size which helps, he was highly touted coming out of high-school which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but doesn't hurt, he had a pretty "blah" season at UCLA in terms of showing off a diverse skill set which doesn't help, but he was willing to compete in all of the pre-draft drills which suggests that maybe he's got a little bit of competitive fire (or maybe he's trying to be shrewd?) and that doesn't hurt. There's really nothing else to say until he goes up against NBA talent, except that it's certainly OK to have concerns about how he'll adjust to the next level. In any case, if Olshey drafts him, I'll assume there was nobody better and that he thinks there's a spot and a role for him on this roster, if I say anything else I'm just pretending to know things that I don't.
The question about Shabazz rattling around me lately relates to Shabazz vs. Jemery Lamb I would trade #10 for Lamb+PJ3 in a heartbeat - not sure if OKC would or not. However, I do know that neither saw any playoff minutes (actually, they saw 5 minutes combined).
