Bill Simmons/Chad Ford Draft

[Dark Defender]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2008/co...ftDebate-080624

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[User01]

I would be so unbelievably pissed if we passed on Bayless for Arthur. Or anyone.

 

[rory]

I'm enjoying reading the take on the players, but the mock itself seems very screwy.

As for LeBron, I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[footswalker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (User01 @ Jun 24 2008, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would be so unbelievably pissed if we passed on Bayless for Arthur. Or anyone.</div>
Why do you want Bayless so bad? Don't you think they need a frontcourt guy over a backcourt guy? This is a draft weak in guards after Rose, and strong up front. At 21 or 40 they can get a shooter.

 

[danxcr]

at 21 take courtney lee!!! thats a shooter we need... at 10 take best player available and that means no brook lopez... dont really want another standford twin center... ( and i kno thats been said so many times but its tru)

 

[User01]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (footswalker @ Jun 24 2008, 04:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (User01 @ Jun 24 2008, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would be so unbelievably pissed if we passed on Bayless for Arthur. Or anyone.</div>
Why do you want Bayless so bad? Don't you think they need a frontcourt guy over a backcourt guy? This is a draft weak in guards after Rose, and strong up front. At 21 or 40 they can get a shooter.
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1) Bayless is one of the top 5 players in the draft IMO.

2) He would be a great compliment for Devin and/or Vince.

3) He could start right away if we move RJ.

4) Like you said, there aren't many guards, so at 21 we probably don't have many options, but there would be plenty of good bigs left.

5) We don't have nearly as much depth at the guard/wing spots as we do at the bigs. Hassell and Ager are our only backup 2s.

 

[footswalker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (User01 @ Jun 24 2008, 05:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (footswalker @ Jun 24 2008, 04:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (User01 @ Jun 24 2008, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would be so unbelievably pissed if we passed on Bayless for Arthur. Or anyone.</div>
Why do you want Bayless so bad? Don't you think they need a frontcourt guy over a backcourt guy? This is a draft weak in guards after Rose, and strong up front. At 21 or 40 they can get a shooter.
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1) Bayless is one of the top 5 players in the draft IMO.

2) He would be a great compliment for Devin and/or Vince.

3) He could start right away if we move RJ.

4) Like you said, there aren't many guards, so at 21 we probably don't have many options, but there would be plenty of good bigs left.

5) We don't have nearly as much depth at the guard/wing spots as we do at the bigs. Hassell and Ager are our only backup 2s.
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Good points there, but I don't see how he could start next to Harris in the backcourt. They'd be undersized, and Bayless is supposed to be a point guard and not a 2. There's a chance Douglass-Roberts or Rush will be around at 21, and they'd be good fits.

With their big pick, I'd like to see them get a big that can really bang down low, get to the line and get easy buckets, and rebounds the way guys like Big Baby, Powe and Millsap do. You're right, they could get that kind of guy at 21. I think Jason Thompson or Speights would be good picks there.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

If we make the rumored Blazer deal imagine the dream draft if some guys fall

Bayless at 10
Rush at 13
21 Speights/Jordan


Or you could traded 10 and 13 and grab love and then wait for Lee at 21

 

[Joey FistPump]

Rush seems like a poor man's Antione Wright...

 

[soul driver]

Wright, who is a poor man's acid trip induced vision of Kobe, right?

 

[#1_War_Poet_ForLife]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (soul driver @ Jun 24 2008, 07:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Wright, who is a poor man's acid trip induced vision of Kobe, right?

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6 month nostalgia ftw .

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Rush isnt afraid to play the game though

 

[Carter15Nets]

I will be sad to see RJ leave on draft night since I will be there it will hurt the guys the longest current net

it would be similiar to JRich trade last year's draft

 

[Universe]

Guys calm down. We are trading the 21st and a future second for LeBron.

 

[infinet]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Carter15Nets @ Jun 24 2008, 04:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I will be sad to see RJ leave on draft night since I will be there it will hurt the guys the longest current net

it would be similiar to JRich trade last year's draft</div>

No way is it similar. RJ had MUCH more success with the Nets then JRich did with the Warriors. 2 finals trips, an important piece to the greatest years of this franchise. It would sting a bit more.

But I agree, if RJ is traded it will be a bummer for this Nets fan.

 

[Kidd Karma]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (turdymclovin @ Jun 24 2008, 06:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>If we make the rumored Blazer deal imagine the dream draft if some guys fall

Bayless at 10
Rush at 13
21 Speights/Jordan


Or you could traded 10 and 13 and grab love and then wait for Lee at 21</div>

The nets won't end up with 10 and 13. The rumored offer was the Nets send out the 10 for #13, #33 and Jack or Blake.