OT: Lawson

[Fez Hammersticks]

This guy looks great. He gets to the rim at will and can finish. He's a pitbull on both ends. On top of that he has good court vision and PG skills.

How is Bayless a better prospect than this guy?

 

[B-Roy]

You're right, he can't possibly be a better prospect after one pre-season game. What were we thinking?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I didn't make my assumption off of the pre-season.

Lawson can score but also has PG skills.

Bayless is a SG whom we are trying to force to play PG.

 

[B-Roy]

If you say so.

 

[THE HCP]

He looked lost out there last night though.

 

[RoyIsClutch07]

Denver got a nice player. Its too bad he didnt fall another four spots.

I wonder if we would have took him.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I was not pleased when I heard the Nuggs had grabbed him in a trade. I wonder if KP even made a play for the kid? If he didn't, it just reinforces my belief that he was off his game on draft day.

 

[RoyIsClutch07]

I was not pleased when I heard the Nuggs had grabbed him in a trade. I wonder if KP even made a play for the kid? If he didn't, it just reinforces my belief that he was off his game on draft day.

I tell you what. I think KP has struggled closing trades in the last year or so. He didn't have one trade in the offseason and it wasn't due to a lack of trying. The week before they signed Andre, he appeared spent to me. Watching him interviewed at the summer league, he just look like a defeated man. He seemed that way then but I also got a lil bit of that last year at the trade deadline.

I wonder if he has what it takes to close the deal on a trade. Im starting to have my concerns.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I know he's short and he played for the North-South oriented, run-n-gun Tarheels, but I wanted KP to draft him if at all possible ... I still don't know what his projection is long term, but my guess is that he'll turn out to be a better pro than Ray Felton, for instance.

 

[THE HCP]

If KP had drafted him, everybody on here would have been freakin out about how small he is!

 

[Natebishop3]

If KP had drafted him, everybody on here would have been freakin out about how small he is!

Like Patty Mills?

 

[MickZagger]

He's good. But, he's TJ Ford good. I don't think he'll ever be anything but a sparkplug type point.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

KP had targeted Lawson, but was unable to trade up for him. I think he'd be a good fit for this team.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

He's good. But, he's TJ Ford good. I don't think he'll ever be anything but a sparkplug type point.

That's an interesting thought. I happen to think pretty highly of Lawson, but there are a lot of similarities.

 

[BenDavis503]

I really like Lawson. I think he is going to be a great player.

 

[Minstrel]

TJ Ford is a nice player, just has those injury concerns. If Lawson were a healthy version of Ford, the Nuggets will have themselves a nice replacement for Billups, when Billups' tenure with Denver is done.

 

[hasoos]

What? You aren't stoked with the draft pick of Viktor Clavor?

 

[Nikolokolus]

What? You aren't stoked with the draft pick of Viktor Clavor?

Balls

 

[Rastapopoulos]

You mean this Lawson:

[video=youtube;DEK7k5cU1rY]

 

[MrSelfDestruct]

You mean this Lawson:

???

I freaking love Batum.

 

[THE HCP]

Get that shit out of here son!

 

[hasoos]

Get that shit out of here son!

I wonder if he yells that at them in French!

 

[oldmangrouch]

What? You aren't stoked with the draft pick of Viktor Clavor?

And one pick later, the Kings get Casspi.

 

[jlprk]

I tell you what. I think KP has struggled closing trades in the last year or so. He didn't have one trade in the offseason and it wasn't due to a lack of trying. The week before they signed Andre, he appeared spent to me. Watching him interviewed at the summer league, he just look like a defeated man. He seemed that way then but I also got a lil bit of that last year at the trade deadline. I wonder if he has what it takes to close the deal on a trade. Im starting to have my concerns.

Agree, but I go further. Pritchard wasn't off his game on draft day. He has never had a game. He had one good day when he got Roy and Aldridge and that's about it for his GM career so far.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

That's kind of true. It's like he doesn't know what to do with himself and the roster when it's not draft time.

Last season we had a gold mine in Raef's contract and did absolutely nothing.

I really like Andre Miller but when RLEC = Miller/Howard, that's a big failure on KP's part.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

chadfordinsider Props to @johnhollinger who said pre-draft that Ty Lawson was 2nd best player. Lawson leads rookies with 24 PER. http://tinyurl.com/klsoa3

Denver got this guy for peanuts. But who needs a 5'11" PG when you have a 6'3" combo, right?

 

[crowTrobot]

he would be stagnating on the end of the bench if he was here.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

With KP's man-love for Blake, McMillan's offense, Lawson would be racking up the DNP's in Portland.

 

[Nikolokolus]

With KP's man-love for Blake, McMillan's offense, Lawson would be racking up the DNP's in Portland.

Pretty much.