OT Draft Grades

[Rastapopoulos]

Post any reviews you find online.

Seems to me that Dallas ran away with this draft and nobody else came close. Phoenix is a distant second.

If your draft position was determined by your performance on the previous draft (the worse you do, the better your pick next time) then we'd have a shot at the top three in 2019.

 

[Sarni]

Detroit should get a high grade. To not have first rounders and come out with Bruce Brown and Khyri Thomas is pretty great.

 

[CupWizier]

Post any reviews you find online.

Seems to me that Dallas ran away with this draft and nobody else came close. Phoenix is a distant second.

If your draft position was determined by your performance on the previous draft (the worse you do, the better your pick next time) then we'd have a shot at the top three in 2019.

Draft grades are worthless at this stage. It would be like a teacher assigning a grade to your paper before handing out the test and based on past performances. It will take a couple years to determine the impact of this draft.

 

[julius]

Draft grades are just self congratulatory clap trap.

 

[e_blazer]

Draft grades are just self congratulatory clap trap.

They’re clickbait for mindless Lakers fans.

Anybody heard from HCP today?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

They’re clickbait for mindless Lakers fans.

Anybody heard from HCP today?

Except I bet the Lakers get pretty bad ones this year.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Draft grades are just self congratulatory clap trap.

Better not click on this then:
https://www.si.com/nba/2018/06/22/n...ayton-michael-porter-trae-young-kawhi-leonard

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Loser: Blazers
Portland president Neil Olshey has tried to pan for gold with long-term draft projects during his tenure, and he went down that path again by selecting Anfernee Simons, a 19-year-old guard who didn’t play college ball. Simons doesn’t address a positional need, he will likely struggle to find rotation minutes in the next year or two, and his slight frame needs serious work.

While fellow West playoff teams like the Warriors and Timberwolves logically added three-and-d wings who will likely be able to contribute immediately, the Blazers will have to upgrade one of the league’s worst wing rotations via trade or free agency, where Olshey has largely fizzled. Portland pledged to upgrade its personnel following an embarrassing playoff sweep against New Orleans but made zero progress on Thursday.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Washington Post:

Winners:
Anfernee Simons

My colleague Rick Maese chronicled Simons’ decision to go to IMG instead of college, and the decision paid off in the end. While Simons was seen as a fringe first-rounder, going 24th to Portland could inspire other players to consider taking his same path.

[Anfernee Simons, NBA draft’s biggest mystery, chose hoops prep school over a year in college]

Even if they don’t, Simons deserves credit for doing it — and getting a guaranteed contract as a result.

Losers:
Portland Trail Blazers

Perhaps Simons will become a terrific player. And maybe Gary Trent Jr. will work out. But with Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum in their primes, Portland needed to find players who could help them immediately. Such players were on the board at Nos. 24 and 37, where they got Simons and Trent.

This is similar to Portland taking Zack Collins with the No. 10 pick a year ago. All three could become good players. But on a team with two guards ready to win now, immediate help didn’t to be a priority. And General Manager Neil Olshey’s post-draft insistence that finding a player in the second round who can contribute to a winning team is not possible, to be honest, fell flat.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

The Suns had the best draft, Mavs did well, Nuggets got what I think will be the steal of the draft.

And we got another young combo guard and a shooter

 

[Wizard Mentor]

They’re clickbait for mindless Lakers fans.

Anybody heard from HCP today?

His wife says he's working

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Loser: Blazers
Portland president Neil Olshey has tried to pan for gold with long-term draft projects during his tenure, and he went down that path again by selecting Anfernee Simons, a 19-year-old guard who didn’t play college ball. Simons doesn’t address a positional need, he will likely struggle to find rotation minutes in the next year or two, and his slight frame needs serious work.

While fellow West playoff teams like the Warriors and Timberwolves logically added three-and-d wings who will likely be able to contribute immediately, the Blazers will have to upgrade one of the league’s worst wing rotations via trade or free agency, where Olshey has largely fizzled. Portland pledged to upgrade its personnel following an embarrassing playoff sweep against New Orleans but made zero progress on Thursday.

I like reading draft grades, but they're garbage, like this one is. This year I find them to be annoying garbage.
Which wing player drafted #24 or later is better than Harkless, Aminu, and Turner. None. It's fucking stupid. When they like you, they praise you for BPA. When they don't, they say you didn't get an immediate contributor.

 

[Reep]

Given what they started with, top grades from me would be for Phoenix and Dallas (tie). Phoenix because of the Bridges trade and Dallas robbing Atlanta.

Portland gets an incomplete, but I'm okay with that. At least we didn't come out with DiVincenzo or Grayson Allen.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

2017 Draft Grades by SI:
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/06/23/2...d-losers-bulls-lakers-jimmy-butler-lonzo-ball

Boston is a loser for trading down and getting Jason Tatum.
Portland is a loser for drafting Collins.

sigh.

edit: Washington Post said same thing. Boston and Portland are Losers
because of Tatum and Collins.