Notice Blazers Pick Shaedon Sharpe With #7 Pick

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illmatic99 said:
Some measurements:


Sharpe: 6'4.25 without shoes, 8'7.5 standing reach, 6'11.5 wingspan.

Winslow: 6'4.5 without shoes, 8'8.5 standing reach, 6'10.25 wingspan
Brown: 6'5.25 without shoes, 8'6.5 standing reach, 6'11.75 wingspan
Iguodala: 6'5.75 without shoes, 8'9.5 standing reach, 6'11 wingspan
Nassir: 6'4.5 without shoes, 8'8.5 standing reach, 7'1.25 wingspan
Miles Bridges: 6'5.25 without shoes, 8'7.5 standing reach, 6'9.5 wingspan
Hart: 6'3.75 without shoes, 8'5 standing reach, 6'8.25 wingspan
Brooks: 6'5 without shoes, 8'4.5 standing reach, 6'6 wingspan
Crowder: 6'4.75 without shoes, 8'3.5 standing reach, 6'9.25 wingspan

Sharpe can play SF. Just needs to put on weight and get stronger.
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He's already got a sturdy lower body for sure. and the frame overall.
 
illmatic99 said:
Some measurements:


Sharpe: 6'4.25 without shoes, 8'7.5 standing reach, 6'11.5 wingspan.

Winslow: 6'4.5 without shoes, 8'8.5 standing reach, 6'10.25 wingspan
Brown: 6'5.25 without shoes, 8'6.5 standing reach, 6'11.75 wingspan
Iguodala: 6'5.75 without shoes, 8'9.5 standing reach, 6'11 wingspan
Nassir: 6'4.5 without shoes, 8'8.5 standing reach, 7'1.25 wingspan
Miles Bridges: 6'5.25 without shoes, 8'7.5 standing reach, 6'9.5 wingspan
Hart: 6'3.75 without shoes, 8'5 standing reach, 6'8.25 wingspan
Brooks: 6'5 without shoes, 8'4.5 standing reach, 6'6 wingspan
Crowder: 6'4.75 without shoes, 8'3.5 standing reach, 6'9.25 wingspan

Sharpe can play SF. Just needs to put on weight and get stronger.
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Good grief. Imagining Sharpe getting experience, gaining weight and strength playing with Simons and Lillard. That could be crazy.
 
blazerfan11 said:
Good grief. Imagining Sharpe getting experience, gaining weight and strength playing with Simons and Lillard. That could be crazy.
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This is what I'm seeing too -- it's somewhat moot because positions are more or less meaningless anymore, but I'm considering his longer term fit to be our 3 next to those two...
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I'd settle for
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Remember that one time Dre dunked against DEN?
 
I don’t want to put too much expectations on him, but profile-wise, he’s the closest comparison to Kobe that I’ve seen. We’d be lucky to have any guy be able to score like that and consistently make All Defense though. I always seem to forget Kobe is 10+x All Defense.

One thing I do like is that his shot already looks NBA ready like Ant was when we drafted him. It took Ant almost three full seasons to put it all together, but that was also during a pandemic. Sharpe’s ability to shoot will get him playing time right away if it translates. Then at the very least, he’ll have a McLemore kind of role right away.

I would guess that if he’s pretty reserved like he’s shown in his interviews, he’s also pretty lowkey. Hopefully that means he’ll spend a lot more time in the lab.

The future is bright for him.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
My guess is that Chauncey preferred Grant over Randle. Giving up on Ant for Randle now...is not going to happen.
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Even if we got Randle for scraps and kept Ant I still don't like his fit. Plus as you said: Grant > Randle.

:cheers:
 
blazerfan11 said:
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Someone help me out here... I see Batum, Bayless, Rudy, Jeff Pendergraph, Patty Mills...... who the hell is the little white dude? I'm drawing a complete blank.

Nevermind..... Andalusian answered my question.
 
Dame needs to spend the entire summer schooling this guy at 1v1.

I wonder what a season with Dame and Ant would do for Sharpe as opposed to, say, Fox and Mitchell, or Tyrese and Brogdon. We need him to become a great point of attack defender ASAP.
 
BankTeller said:
I don’t want to put too much expectations on him, but profile-wise, he’s the closest comparison to Kobe that I’ve seen. We’d be lucky to have any guy be able to score like that and consistently make All Defense though. I always seem to forget Kobe is 10+x All Defense.

One thing I do like is that his shot already looks NBA ready like Ant was when we drafted him. It took Ant almost three full seasons to put it all together, but that was also during a pandemic. Sharpe’s ability to shoot will get him playing time right away if it translates. Then at the very least, he’ll have a McLemore kind of role right away.

I would guess that if he’s pretty reserved like he’s shown in his interviews, he’s also pretty lowkey. Hopefully that means he’ll spend a lot more time in the lab.

The future is bright for him.
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McLemore + serious lob threat / finisher at the hoop. With better defense than McLemore. Better ball handling and most likely better passing than McLemore.
 
BankTeller said:
Dame needs to spend the entire summer schooling this guy at 1v1.

I wonder what a season with Dame and Ant would do for Sharpe as opposed to, say, Fox and Mitchell, or Tyrese and Brogdon. We need him to become a great point of attack defender ASAP.
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Have him work with Josh Hart and Justise Winslow on defense. They're closer in size to him anyway than Simons and Lillard. He needs to know everything they know.
 
blazerfan11 said:
McLemore + serious lob threat / finisher at the hoop. With better defense than McLemore. Better ball handling and most likely better passing than McLemore.
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Sorry, I just meant for the season. If he’s a good shooter right away, he will at least have a role on the team, as opposed to not having one at all like Simons during his rookie year. If Simons was shooting 36% from 3 consistently that season, there should’ve been no reason for Stauskas to ever play ahead of him.

Yes, I agree Sharpe will be better at all those things than McLemore eventually.
 
I don't get the McLemore comps.

Sharpe: 6'4.25 without shoes, 8'7.5 standing reach, 6'11.5 wingspan.

McLemore: 6'3.5" without shoes, 8'4.5 standing reach, 6'7.75 wingspan.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Taking, who a lot of “experts”, think is the most talented player with the highest ceiling in the draft could be a great thing
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Maybe he will be great but when? Not soon. And who's he going to play ahead of right now? Do you see minutes for him?

So, in three or four season (optimistically) he *might* be awesome. Why are we acting like this is a good thing? This is about complimenting a guy who is awesome wight now.

Your explanation no working for me.
 
Propagandist said:
Maybe he will be great but when? Not soon. And who's he going to play ahead of right now? Do you see minutes for him?

So, in three or four season (optimistically) he *might* be awesome. Why are we acting like this is a good thing? This is about complimenting a guy who is awesome wight now.

Your explanation no working for me.
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Because the likelihood of building a legit contender around Dame in 1-2 seasons, even if we did trade the pick, was and is almost zero.

We need another foundational star. The draft, and in this case Sharpe, are the best chance that we have to acquire a superstar talent. We simply don't have the assets to go after anyone else, unless Durant says he only wants to play in Portland.
 
In typical Blazer Fan Forum fashion we have people comparing him to Michael Freakin Jordan, Kobe "Mamba" Bryant all the way down to Ben Myopic McLemore.

I understand. I want him to be good also but this kid won't see serious minutes this year other than garbage time is what I'm thinking at this point.
 
blazerkor said:
I get it, I was excited in a different way about OG. That being said, this is the person in this draft with Paolo, Chet, Ivey, Jabari etc. who has the highest ceiling. He was and has been the number one ranked prospect for next year's draft class until he reclassified and went to Kentucky in January. So we're getting the closest thing anyone has had in a while to a guy straight out of high school except he got to be coached by Calipari for a few months. I'm really excited to see him play in summer league where he'll either dominate and make me think he'll contribute right away or I think he'll at least show flashes of brilliance that will make me think he's an exciting developmental player.

I'm not ruling out the chance that he takes over the starting SF spot from Nas by the end of the season, if a different player isn't acquired for that role. He's definitely a shot maker and a threat at the rim (both getting there himself and cutting), so he might hang in the super sixth man/instant offense role for a season or two. Mostly, if we're going to stick with Dame for the rest of his career (which I think is the only plan any of us can point to Cronin having publicly stated) this might be the beginning of the end for Ant here. I think we will see Ant signed to a reasonable contract and that announced Thursday afternoon. I think he'll be featured heavily early in the season and if Shaedon is picking things up quickly, especially defensively, I think we could see Ant moved as soon as the trade deadline this upcoming season or next summer. I think it all depends on if Shaedon is a force on defense. If he is, he's just a much better fit next to Dame than Dame has ever had.
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Okay. So he's an undersized 3, and therefore, will just slip into the starting lineup at some point? This season? I'm less optimistic, and therefore more irritated at the situation than you.

And now we are just going to give up on Dame's prodigy? An actual, legitimate player? This does not bode well for winning basketball, which allow me to remind you, was the whole point of all this. We are behaving like a lottery team, not a team looking to win anything.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
In typical Blazer Fan Forum fashion we have people comparing him to Michael Freakin Jordan, Kobe "Mamba" Bryant all the way down to Ben Myopic McLemore.

I understand. I want him to be good also but this kid won't see serious minutes this year other than garbage time is what I'm thinking at this point.
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He should see serious minutes, even if we lose a few games because of it. If he shows promise he can shift the foundation of this team because it either:

1.) Changes the way you view some of the other players on this team (Dame/Ant/Hart etc.) as far as whether you're comfortable trading them or not.

or

2.) Increases his trade value for other teams and we can trade him for a starting/star level player.
 
Propagandist said:
Okay. So he's an undersized 3, and therefore, will just slip into the starting lineup at some point? This season? I'm less optimistic, and therefore more irritated at the situation than you.

And now we are just going to give up on Dame's prodigy? An actual, legitimate player? This does not bode well for winning basketball, which allow me to remind you, was the whole point of all this. We are behaving like a lottery team, not a team looking to win anything.
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I'm just not sure what you expected. Did you think we were going to be able to build a contender over night?
 
blazerfan11 said:
Dame needs another star to go far.
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Uh...and this is it? We are fucked. The kid might end up being a star, sure, but on Dame's timeline?

But this is why I'm asking. The answer so far is that no one is thinking critically about this at all. It's exciting to have a high ceiling player, don't get me wrong, but we should be sacrificing the high ceiling for help now. Now we have an actual superstar who needs much more than Grant to succeed.
 
blazerfan11 said:
Contributing off the bench shouldn't take years.
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This is very untrue. Ant was a drag on the whole system until last season.

And it just doesn't make us better now. Am I alone in thinking that should be the priority?
 
Am I the only one who thinks Sharpe should get a guaranteed spot in the rotation???
 
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