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NOVoodoo said:
The one thing that I don't understand in this year's draft is that most mocks have Trey Burke in the mid-first. That's a head scratcher. I know there are other areas that the Blazers need to address, but Lillard/Burke point guard combo would be deadly, especially if they can run both of them at the same time the way they've been doing with Maynor.
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Burke reminds me a ton like DJ Augustin and Kemba Walker.
 
Burke is going to be a great player, I liked him since the first time I saw him, we don't need him as much with both Lillard and Maynor but he may very well be BPA if he's there when we pick.
Another player we didn't discuss much is Jeff Withey, I would be very happy if he's our player, I think he could add a lot to our front-line.
 
I wonder if LaQuinton Ross of Ohio State will come out? He looked pretty good to me. He could develop into a solid NBA player imo.
 
NOVoodoo said:
The one thing that I don't understand in this year's draft is that most mocks have Trey Burke in the mid-first. That's a head scratcher. I know there are other areas that the Blazers need to address, but Lillard/Burke point guard combo would be deadly, especially if they can run both of them at the same time the way they've been doing with Maynor.
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Best player available. If he is there I would take him. I don't ever want them to worry about playing time. Rosters change quickly. Injuries occur. They need to just take the best player on the board. They can always trade one of them later.
 
The transformation of Gonzaga junior forward Kelly Olynyk from turnover-prone backup to Wooden Award candidate owes a lot to hard work—and a lot more than you'd think to baseball. When the 7-foot former guard from Kamloops, B.C., decided to redshirt in 2011--12 to address the difficulty he had staying balanced and in control while playing in the post, he became a special project for the team's trainer, Travis Knight, a former Zags second baseman. Knight recognized the cause of the problem: It was taking Olynyk, who was just three years removed from a seven-inch growth spurt, too long for his brain to communicate with the rest of his body. Enter former Mariners slugger Edgar Martinez. Or rather, the pitch-recognition drills the DH once practiced to increase his reaction time at the plate.

After a daily hour in Gonzaga's weight room, Knight and Olynyk would head to a court to practice Olynyk's footwork with a series of tennis ball drills that Knight adapted from Martinez's workout. Knight would mark tennis balls R and L and then toss one to Olynyk, who would have to read the letter on the spinning ball and catch it with the corresponding hand while running, say, from half-court to the free throw line. Once Olynyk got comfortable doing that, Knight changed what the letter meant. R might indicate run out to the corner and spot up for a three, while L meant sprint to the elbow and shoot a jumper. Adding balls marked 1 through 6 required Olynyk to process increasingly complex information quickly. "Once Kelly could occupy some of his mental effort with things like making reads, his feet started doing what they were supposed to be doing on their own," says Knight.

An unexpected bonus: Olynyk's vertical increased from 32 inches to 39. "I think he always had the ability to jump that high," says Knight. "But everything wasn't firing on all cylinders. Once we improved that rate [of communication], everything opened up."

Olynyk 2.0 is not only the most efficient high-usage player in the nation (he averages 17.5 points on 65.2% shooting in just 25.7 minutes a game), but he's also a deft passer and a reliable rebounder (7.2) who can post up defenders, guard perimeter players, hit the three (34.6%), make free throws (78.5%), throw down dunks and reject shots. The guy who once played rugby "as a noncontact sport," according to his dad, Ken, has evolved into a bit of a bruiser too. "Kelly's attitude has changed," says Matt Santangelo, a radio broadcaster for the Zags. "He's kind of a tough guy now, protecting his turf."
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1207159/index.htm
 
The Beavs need somebody like that to work with Eric Moreland. He could be special. Too bad Obama's brother-in-law is too stupid to realize it.
 
tlongII said:
The Beavs need somebody like that to work with Eric Moreland. He could be special. Too bad Obama's brother-in-law is too stupid to realize it.
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hopefully Robinson finds himself looking for a new job soon.
 
tlongII said:
The Beavs need somebody like that to work with Eric Moreland. He could be special. Too bad Obama's brother-in-law is too stupid to realize it.
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I just saw that Moreland declared for the draft.. He's not on any top 100 lists though, so I'm assuming he'll dropout? When is the deadline for that?
 
Blazer4ever said:
Burke is going to be a great player, I liked him since the first time I saw him, we don't need him as much with both Lillard and Maynor but he may very well be BPA if he's there when we pick.
Another player we didn't discuss much is Jeff Withey, I would be very happy if he's our player, I think he could add a lot to our front-line.
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I'll be shocked if Burke measures 6'1" with shoes. Lillard looks like a midget on the court, but he is nearly 6'3" with shoes and has long arms with a 6'8" wing span.
 
tlongII said:
The Beavs need somebody like that to work with Eric Moreland. He could be special. Too bad Obama's brother-in-law is too stupid to realize it.
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I thought Moreland was declaring for the NBA draft? Didn't I just read that somewhere?
 
Dream the dream. The silly season of underclassmen with little chance of being a first-round pick are declaring for the NBA Draft.

Oregon State sophomore forward Eric Moreland says he has filed his paperwork with the NBA to enter the ’13 draft.

Moreland, a 6-10, 215-pound native of Missouri City, Texas, averaged 9.4 points, 10.6 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game last season for the 14-win Beavers. His offensive game and his body certainly need a lot more work.

"I'm going to be testing the waters,'' Moreland told The Oregonian on Friday. "It's a blessing to even be in discussion.

"It's exciting that it could come true.”

Moreland told the newspaper that he does not plan on hiring an agent, to keep his options open to returning to Oregon State if he doesn’t feel he’ll get a respectable draft slot.

Even if scouts tell him to return to school, he might not do it. He says he’s emboldened by former teammate Jared Cunningham, who was told he wouldn’t be a first-round pick but stayed in the draft and ultimately went No. 24 overall to the Dallas Mavericks.

However, Cunningham has appeared in only eight games this season (playing 25 minutes total) for the struggling Mavericks (33-36).
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http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...-23/oregon-state-eric-moreland-2013-nba-draft
 
Yeah, but he should wait to test the waters later, right now is pointless to test the market because his stock is non existant
 
Well he just entered the 2013 NBA draft as announced on espn less than 10 minutes ago.
Updated: April 19, 2013, 6:54 PM ET

Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Gonzaga forward Kelly Olynyk said Friday he will skip his senior season to enter the NBA draft.

The decision caps a whirlwind season in which Olynyk went from afterthought to All-America selection and led Gonzaga to the top spot on The Associated Press poll for the first time in school history.

The 7-foot forward said he made the final decision Thursday night and informed coaches and teammates. He said the big factor was his desire to play in the NBA.
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Source: http://espn.go.com/nba/draft2013/st...aft-kelly-olynyk-gonzaga-bulldogs-enter-draft
 
I hope the Blazers don't draft this guy. I can't pronounce his name to save my life.
 
BBert said:
I hope the Blazers don't draft this guy. I can't pronounce his name to save my life.
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Just think of it spelled like it's an Irish name. "Kelly O'Linnik" (Oh-Linn-ik)

I say that because I was talking to a friend about him, and he thought the guy was Irish just hearing his name and not seeing it spelled out.
 
Are we really going to draft finesse centers in the late lottery two years in a row?
 
Give it up Zags....... doesn't matter how many videos you post.
 
MickZagger said:
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A 7' player who apparently can't finish with a dunk in the rim in traffic. He'll be a nice perimeter C, but he's not a difference-maker for any franchise.
 
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