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[PtldPlatypus]

Trade up: Collins

Stand pat:
15 Patton
20 Anunoby
26 Bell

 

[ripcityboy]

The more time I spend studying this draft I'm just making my answer less wrong.

 

[Sinobas]

A lemming and a kitty are animals too.

But Zach Collins won't follow anyone off a cliff nor scratch all the toilet paper off the roll. He's not that type of guy.

 

[Minstrel]

My predictions:
We will not keep all our picks
A lot of us will be very mad/puzzled/disappointed by the end.
However, by the time of Summer League we will be excited again.
Then, after Summer League, we'll be disappointed again.

Well, we're all playing for second now.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Well, we're all playing for second now.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

The more time I spend studying this draft I'm just making my answer less wrong.

If only I had confidence the same is true of our front office.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

My predictions!

Trading up: Zach Collins

Keeping picks:
15: Harry Giles
20: TJ Leaf
26: Isaiah Hartenstein

If we keep all three I can pretty much guarantee that one will be a draft-n-stash if we don't waive a few players.

Leaf IMO would be the BPA if he's still available at #20. I'm basing these on current stocks - otherwise I'd have Jordan Bell at #20.

Harry Giles is based on upside and the rumor that Neil & co. love him.

Hartenstein is a long-term project but he's a quick leaper and has elite size for a PF - just turned 19 and 7'1.25" (w/shoes) he could very well top out at 7'2".

 

[BonesJones]

My predictions!

Trading up: Zach Collins

Keeping picks:
15: Harry Giles
20: TJ Leaf
26: Isaiah Hartenstein

If we keep all three I can pretty much guarantee that one will be a draft-n-stash if we don't waive a few players.

Leaf IMO would be the BPA if he's still available at #20. I'm basing these on current stocks - otherwise I'd have Jordan Bell at #20.

Harry Giles is based on upside and the rumor that Neil & co. love him.

Hartenstein is a long-term project but he's a quick leaper and has elite size for a PF - just turned 19 and 7'1.25" (w/shoes) he could very well top out at 7'2".

Disagree on Leaf. He's an awful defender.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Giles
Ojeleye
Trade for a future protected 1st.

Or trade up for Monk.

I can't wait to get my Mo Williams signed bocce ball.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

There won't be any trades because he won't be able to sell it. He will by default take the best players available his scouting team put together for him at each position. We will then have a log jam of talent at each position scratching our heads wondering whatever he is going to do to fine tune and then out the roster. ONLY to be disappointed when the season comes around and he hasn't done anything significant to improve the team by moving some of this depth. Same ol story by this GM. Unless the team is named Denver, he can't do anything.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Trade up for Zach Collins

Take DJ Wilson with the 26th pick

 

[Nate]

Trade up = Zach Collins. I was all aboard the Zach Collins train before he became the board favorite. He's an animal....he looks to me like the kind of player Rasheed Wallace could have been if he were more aggressive.

Stand pat:
15. Bam Adebayo
20. Anzejs Pasecniks
26. Jordan Bell

Blazers need for a backup for Nurk, and toughness up front. Bam has great potential as a defensive center, he reminds me of Andre Drummond.. Anzejs would be a good prospect for Nurk to take under his wing. Bell would replace Ed Davis, and be a great energy guy off the bench.

Someone can be more aggressive than sheed?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We're trading our draft picks and Lillard to the Lakers for the #2 to draft Ball. Thise will save us from our cap troubles and the Big Baller Brand will help us attract free agents.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We're trading our draft picks and Lillard to the Lakers for the #2 to draft Ball. Thise will save us from our cap troubles and the Big Baller Brand will help us attract free agents.

And we'll make Ball's dad our assistant GM.

Win-win-win!

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

And we'll make Ball's dad our assistant GM.

Win-win-win!

Sly is always so focused on the balls.

Not surprising, having lost two, AND being a dog....

 

[PDXFonz]

Okay for my serious prediction here it is.

A.)Isaac

B.
15 - Ferguson
20 - Adebayo
26 - Bell

 

[Nhawz]

Blazers work hard in trades, but cannot get any done. So NO goes for undervalued players or ones that slip. Go big or go home.

15: Giles
20: OG
26: Bell

I feel this is pretty close to accurate, good call sir.

 

[ripcityboy]

Okay here goes:

First pick: Bam Adebayo
Second pick: Trade with Meyers to Brooklyn for a... Uhhh Veteran Player
Third pick: Jordan Bell

(seriously, I don't have to name the f-ing player, do I? If all that goes correctly... I am batting like 1.000 and nobody else is even close to that basketball.)

 

[Scalma]

Here's another scenario; Olshey trades a pick for a veteran, not necessarily a star, but maybe another plumlee like deal. Someone that can come in and be counted on. Any predictions of possible targets? I'll go with Dieng in minny, especially if they draft Markkanen.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Here's another scenario; Olshey trades a pick for a veteran, not necessarily a star, but maybe another plumlee like deal. Someone that can come in and be counted on. Any predictions of possible targets? I'll go with Dieng in minny, especially if they draft Markkanen.

Marvin Williams would be another guy I could see being obtained that way

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

What was UCD's prize for winning the season-long numbers game, anyway? Was it as cool as a Dame dig ball?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What was UCD's prize for winning the season-long numbers game, anyway? Was it as cool as a Dame dig ball?

Your mom.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Your mom.

So was there no prize?

 

[Jon]

#26 and meyers leonard for a 2020 2nd rd pick, top 59 protected and a mcchicken to be named later.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So was there no prize?

Ouch

And no, not that I know of.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Ouch

And no, not that I know of.

There was a whole discussion on it. But the prize wasn't from the S2 locker.

 

[Dougnsalem]

Here's another scenario; Olshey trades a pick for a veteran, not necessarily a star, but maybe another plumlee like deal. Someone that can come in and be counted on. Any predictions of possible targets?

Fat Felton. The change of scenery resurrects his career, and he drops 50 on the Clippers in his first game back.....

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

There was a whole discussion on it. But the prize wasn't from the S2 locker.

Ummm......bragging rights two years running is no small beer on this forum. The worship of my intellect is worth more than any prize......

 

[Sinobas]

I believe Zach is the Blazers #1 target, and they are trying to not tip their hand.
http://www.csnnw.com/portland-trail...has-funny-encounter-trail-blazers-nba-combine
https://www.blazersedge.com/2017/5/...llins-portland-trail-blazers-personality-test

 

[Sinobas]

I think we're trading up to #8 with the Knicks for Collins. #15, #20 and Harkless to the Knicks for Collins.