Grade this years draft

[Fez Hammersticks]

#6:

Damian Lillard

#11:

Meyers Leonard

#41:

Will Barton​

 

[bigbailes]

Grade The Blazers Draft

damn you fez beating me by a minute!

 

[RoyToy]

Re: Grade The Blazers Draft

B

Lillard: A - PGoTF

Leonard: C - I foresee and average NBA career

 

[bigbailes]

Personally I give it a C+ maybe a B- depending on how the summer league shakes out. I think we are very thin at the wing spots and there were good PG/SG propects late 1st and early 2nd, which would have been taken if we had picked Barnes. Leonard I'm meh on, could be good, could be a big bust but at 11 you don't expect a world beater but hopefully a solid player. Finally I really like Barton but it's such a crap shoot in the 2nd round.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I voted "C", but it *might* work out better than that.

 

[Blaze01]

No F- ?

I actually like the Barton pick, best pick POR made tonight.....Lillard could be ok....Leonard is a douche.....

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I gave this a C.

I really like the potential of Meyers Leonard. Elite athletic ability for a true 7-footer with skills to boot. He's a project and a bigman coach will be very important. If we bring Grgs on board I think he can be special.

We reached for Lillard. At best I think he can be a taller Jameer Nelson (Haynes agrees). IMHO, passing on Barnes is going to come back and haunt this franchise. With Batum's situation in the air you would have killed two birds with one stone with Barnes -- Need and BPA.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Incomplete.

However, for tactics I'd give it a C+. They didn't necessarily draft for need because all of the guys they took were at least thought to be ranked about where you'd expect them to go ... but it sure gave the appearance of a needs based draft. And what was with selling the second rounder for cash? Just weird.

 

[HailBlazers]

A, simply because we got three picks. This draft without Lilllard would have been an F. Was a deep draft and we got some much needed depth.

You can go back to the BPA argument, but this was definitely a draft of tiers.

 

[OregonHuskerMan]

I say A-.

Lillard - Great pick, a lot of -Blazer- fans are under valuing him.

Meyers - Decent pick, glad we avoided Drummond (although he is VERY, very tempting), Zeller, Henson. Ross was my true target for this pick, followed by Lamb. I did have Meyers on the same tier though. I think he'll be serviceable, but nothing special. We got BPA as well as addressing needs. I have a sneaking suspicion that Meyers is more of risk/reward pick, and that we are going to try and target a C in FA. Even if we don't, its still a solid pick. Has a higher ceiling than most would think.

Barton - Late 1st round pick in middle of the second round? Yes please. Great value.

Not thrilled with the selling of the pick, kind of wish we drafted O'Quinn, but not earth shattering.

 

[Draco]

D- for passing on Barnes, BPA my fucking ass! Neil you are scaring me this is the start of the John Nash era 2.0. Way overreach for a prospect who shoots lights out in an epic Blazer practice workout.

C for Meyers, he is as big a project as Drummond but with less upside

A- for Barton I like that pick
F for selling a pick. At least take a flyer on someone

D+ overall grade

 

[Blaze01]

D- for passing on Barnes, BPA my fucking ass! Neil you are scaring me this is the start of the John Nash era 2.0. Way overreach for a prospect who shoots lights out in an epic Blazer practice workout.

C for Meyers, he is as big a project as Drummond but with less upside

A- for Barton I like that pick
F for selling a pick. At least take a flyer on someone

D+ overall grade

Well done....I concur....

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

LOL, I didn't have to look at who voted for the F grade, pretty easy to tell.

 

[Blaze01]

Anyone with a brain?

 

[VanillaGorilla]

D- for passing on Barnes, BPA my fucking ass! Neil you are scaring me this is the start of the John Nash era 2.0. Way overreach for a prospect who shoots lights out in an epic Blazer practice workout.

I don't know why people are saying the workout is the only reason we drafted Lillard. Hell, Waiters didn't even work out for anyone and he went #4. It's not all about one single workout. It was a combination of his scoring and passing efficiency in college, which were both fantastic, his athletic numbers (fantastic) and yeah the workout probably helped.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

B+, would be an A if they moved up a couple of spots from 11.

 

[Pinwheel1]

B average

A=Lillard
B=Barton
C=Leonard

It could very easily go up if Barton turns out to be as good as Lamb.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I gave it a B+. Instead of selling the #41, packaging it and the #40 to move up to the late first round or, hell, even in the 30s to get Crowder would have bumped it up to an A.

To me, Lillard is an A, Leonard is a B-, and Barton is a B

 

[HailBlazers]

Have a sneaking suspicion will sold the pick as a underlying promise of the Nets Wallace trade,, possible?

 

[tlongII]

C. I hope Lillard works out but Drummond was the 3rd best prospect in this draft.

 

[RR7]

Have a sneaking suspicion will sold the pick as a underlying promise of the Nets Wallace trade,, possible?

you think part of the conversation was hey, after you make a follow up trade with houston for a 2nd rounder, if tyshawn taylor happens to be there, you have to sell it to us. Otherwise, no deal. Uhm, no.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Neil and his scouts rated Lillard the best PG in the draft and Leonard the best C prospect in the draft.

 

[HailBlazers]

you think part of the conversation was hey, after you make a follow up trade with houston for a 2nd rounder, if tyshawn taylor happens to be there, you have to sell it to us. Otherwise, no deal. Uhm, no.

Well if you look at it, NJ got hosed in the deal. Maybe it was a sweetener??? Taylor's the pride of N.J. born and raised

 

[VanillaGorilla]

C. I hope Lillard works out but Drummond was the 3rd best prospect in this draft.

Leonard is almost as good of a physical specimen as Drummond, with more skills already, and just as much room to improve. I'm not even trying to pimp Leonard up, I just don't think Drummond is a much better prospect than him. If Drummond were at #11 he would have been the pick.

 

[Rhal]

B.
We filled the holes on our starting lineup with rookies, with bringing over two euros were looking to give up next year to let everyone grow a year.
This draft doesn't inspire in me a belief we can beat okc or Miami in a playoff series but it is a step in the right direction. We need to stockpile talent but for that talent to increase their value we need to put them in the best position to show off their talents. In that part I think we did a great job.
I think the master plan is eventually trade our talent for a superstar, that almost never happens but you need good young semi proven players at multiple positions to do that.
There is a lot up in the air and with the FA that were unsure how it will turn out. I'm leaving this with a B that could go up to an A if we make some nice pickups with our capspace a C if we really strike out with our money.

One last little note, I have no confidence that Jeremy Lamb could have beaten out Wes/ewill for minutes, and him/zeller were the players I figured we were choosing from.


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[RR7]

Well if you look at it, NJ got hosed in the deal. Maybe it was a sweetener??? Taylor's the pride of N.J. born and raised

and was promised by chicago, before teague slipped, supposedly. no way they would do a deal like that, thinking a late pg should be sold to them. the pick would have just been traded then.

 

[tlongII]

Leonard is almost as good of a physical specimen as Drummond, with more skills already, and just as much room to improve. I'm not even trying to pimp Leonard up, I just don't think Drummond is a much better prospect than him. If Drummond were at #11 he would have been the pick.

Leonard has nowhere near the athleticism that Drummond has.

 

[Drttimmy]

I give it a solid B. Lillard at worse, adds some outside shooting which we desperately could use. If we bring back Joel to tutor Leonard, maybe we get a young Joel. If he can become Joel like, that's outstanding value at 11. I'm a little disappointed we couldn't nab Robinson as he fell. To me, he along with Beal and Davis, are the only sure things in this draft.

 

[HailBlazers]

and was promised by chicago, before teague slipped, supposedly. no way they would do a deal like that, thinking a late pg should be sold to them. the pick would have just been traded then.

That's most likely. Perhaps Prokorov called up PA and asked him to return the favor of a one sided deal. N.J. needed something to save face after that trade, who know's what kind of Billionaire deal went down.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/28/3682249/kus-taylor-winds-up-close-to-home.html

Just nearly 10 miles from his childhood neighborhood in Hoboken, N.J., Taylor will now try to make good on an NBA Draft dream after a sometimes unstable four-year career at Kansas.
“(It’s just) right over one of those bridges over there,” Taylor said on Thursday, thinking about the distance from Hoboken to Brooklyn.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/28/3682249/kus-taylor-winds-up-close-to-home.html#storylink=cpy​

 

[HailBlazers]

Impressive 2nd round pick we did get:

Perhaps no wing player in America had better all-around numbers than those tallied by Barton during the 2011-12 campaign (18.0 PPG, 8.0 RPG, 2.9 APG, 1.4 SPG).

His jumper is NBA-ready, he's an above-average defender, and he rebounds ridiculously well for his position.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ewsletter&utm_campaign=portland-trail-blazers