I am looking at the roster the Blazers currently have. The weak link is center. Just don't think Ayton is the answer and we all know from watching the current playoffs that Clingan would be played off the court immediately because he's not a scoring threat and is way too slow to defend multiple positions. IMHO Blazers need to be looking at getting better at the center position. If that means moving Ayton and or both Ayton and Clingan to do that then so be it. Choose a solid Big Man at 11 and trade to get a pick further down in the draft and pick up some more defensive length that can shoot.
I just don't think we have enough sure things on the roster. I don't think we have the luxury of picking for need. Best player available.
I think ideally we can keep Clingan but we will need to add a more switchable 5, at that point we can dictate the mismatch. People can try to play Clingan off of the floor but if he can make free throws, it will be very hard for them to do that if we have enough athletes around him to make playing 5 out too low of a percentage offensive philosophy... and again we would still need that other C and I don't think Ayton is it. I don't know if he'll be there at 11 but if he is Asa Newell might be BPA and fill that need. There are teams like Brooklyn and OKC who it seems very unlikely that they would want to use all of their picks in this draft. So maybe the BPA at 11 isn't a small ball 5 but we could either trade back and add a second FRP or we could pick BPA and then trade into the end of the first to get a complementary switchable 5 to play with Clingan.
