The Official 2014 NBA Draft Thread

[420Phenom]

Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects

I don't think I want the team to add any players at the draft. Between TRob, Meyers, Crabbe, CJ we have plenty of young unproven players with potential. There is only so much room on a roster for developing players.

Depending on us keeping Barton or Mo Williams opting to stay in his contract we will only have 1, 2 or 3 roster spots available. We'll have the MLE and bi-annual exemption. I'd use that to bring in veteran role players in free agency.

I'll preface this by saying this is just like, my opinion, man...

Leonard had a pretty large sample size his rookie year. Terrible defender/rebounder & somehow looked worse this year in preseason/small minutes during reg. I'm basically ready to move past him. There is a reason Joel "decent" Freeland took his job. With his 3pt game he thinks he has he looks at this point like an Andrea Bargnani at the very best.

Crabbe is a solid D & 3 guy, CJ is an undersized 2 guard. Neither of those guys are locks to become anything more than role players. If Olshey sees a guard in the draft he knows will be better I don't see why he would make the move even sending those guys out.

Not ready to give up on TRob with his improvements so far, though if we could get Payne in a swap straight up? Ohhh that could be worth it I'd say.

If Mo tries to accept his deal I say we move him. Can't give up the majority of our backup guard minutes to a guy who plays poor defense & inefficient offense. If Stotts tells him all he is gonna get is 10mpg next year I doubt he accepts his player option.

As I said, I was trying to keep free agency for another thread.

Go Blazers.

 

[THE HCP]

Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects

Man, shut this rookies thread down please! What is happening to this place.....its like the wild wild west!

http://sportstwo.com/threads/239567-The-Official-2014-NBA-Draft-Thread

 

[420Phenom]

Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects

It is a fairly different thread considering you just posted a picture of top prospects for discussion & a few words. While I did a 700+ word description of 5 specific players the Blazers could/would target in this draft w/a poll that ARE in the range for them in the draft as opposed to your top 20 list, which as I mentioned is likely the untouchable range.

If the mods want to its no problem. Just consider with mine you must admit there is a significant amount of content that separates this from just a simple discussion thread. Not too worried about it though. Go Blazers.

 

[420Phenom]

WHO IS THIS 6'9" PG FROM UCLA!!!???? Anderson, this kid can ball!

Wonder how you figured out bout him? He is a point forward, can't guard 1's. Great skillset though.

Will you college hoop guru guys give us the heads up on big TV games we should watch?

sure I'll do more legwork for you


OK State vs Colorado december 21st(tomorrow)

Uconn vs Washington december 22nd

Villanova vs Syracuse december 28th

Kentucky VS Louisville december 28th

St Marys vs Gonzaga Jan 2nd

Oregon vs Utah jan 2nd

Washington vs Arizona jan 4th

Miami vs Syracuse jan 4th

Michigan State vs Indiana Jan 4th

Iowa VS Wisconsin Jan 5th

Oregon vs Colorado Jan 5th

San Diego State vs Kansas Jan 5th

Ohio State vs Michigan State Jan 7th

Baylor vs Iowa State Jan 7th

Arizona vs UCLA Jan 9th

Memphis vs Louisville Jan 9th

Gonzaga vs Portland Jan 9th(listed because I want to see Pilots smash the zags)

Cal vs Oregon Jan 9th

North Carolina vs Syracuse Jan 11th

Iowa vs Ohio State Jan 12th

Arizona vs USC Jan 12th

Kansas vs Iowa State Jan 13th

Wisconsin vs Indiana Jan 14th

Arizona State vs Arizona Jan 16th

Connecticut vs Memphis Jan 16th

UCLA vs Colorado Jan 16th

Houston vs Louisville Jan 16th

Michigan vs Wisconsin Jan 18th

Louisville vs UCONN Jan 18th

OKState vs Kansas Jan 18th

NCState vs Duke Jan 18th

Oregon vs Oregon St Jan 19th

Villanova vs Creighton Jan 20th

Baylor VS Kansas Jan 20th

Indiana VS Michigan State Jan 21st

Colorado vs Arizona Jan 23rd

Michigan vs Michigan State Jan 25th

Colorado vs Arizona State Jan 25th

Michigan State vs Iowa Jan 28th

Arizona vs Stanford Jan 29th

Iowa State vs Kansas Jan 29th

UCLA vs Oregon Jan 30th

Duke vs Syracuse Feb 1st

Ohio State vs Wisconsin Feb 1st

Baylor vs OKState Feb 1st

USC vs Oregon Feb 1st

Kentucky vs Mizzou Feb 1st

Iowa State vs OKState Feb 3rd

Ohio State vs Iowa Feb 4th

Kansas vs Baylor Feb 4th

Mizzou vs Florida Feb 4th

Oregon vs Arizona Feb 6th

Oregon vs Arizona State Feb 8th

Gonzaga vs Memphis Feb 8th

Michigan State vs Wisconsin Feb 9th

Michigan vs Ohio State Feb 10th

Duke vs North Carolina Feb 12th

Colorado vs UCLA Feb 13th

Arizona vs Arizona State Feb 14th

Memphis vs UCONN Feb 15th

Florida vs Kentucky Feb 15th

Wisconsin vs Michigan Feb 16th

OK State vs Baylor Feb 17th

Arizona State vs Colorado Feb 19th

Arizona vs Colorado Feb 22nd

Syracuse vs Duke Feb 22nd

Wisconsin vs Iowa Feb 22nd

UCLA vs Stanford Feb 22nd

Michigan State vs Michigan Feb 23rd

Oregon vs UCLA Feb 27th

Louisville vs Memphis March 1st

Kansas vs OKState March 1st

Ohio State vs Indiana March 2nd

Iowa State vs Baylor March 4th

Iowa vs Michigan State March 6th

Arizona vs Oregon March 8th

UConn vs Louisville March 8th

OKState vs Iowa State March 8th

North Carolina vs Duke March 8th

Kentucky vs Florida March 8th

Michigan State vs Ohio State March 9th

There ya go. Best games of the year projected by me so far.

 

[OregonHuskerMan]

Re: An Early look at 2014 NBA Draft Prospects

I'd check out either of the Harrison twins, before any of these dudes aside from maybe McGary and Clarkson (who won't be available by the time we could grab him, IMO)

 

[MickZagger]

Mitch McGary would be real nice. David Lee but a little more rugged.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Mitch has a little Pekovic to his game.

What's the story with him? He's a soph. but is the age of a Sr.

 

[damianlillard]

well, i been thinking about this for a while now. i really want jabari parkers, he play a lot like paul george. i think maybe trading barton, future picks and t-rob to nets or magic for a pick would be ideal. if we can make a trade like this, then we instantly have other elite scorer and can take batum position and move batum to SG and wesley becomes a 6th man. the lineup would be lillard, batum, parker, aldridge. and lopez. that lineup improve our defense and our offense. once meyers can developed, we will be the once-in-a-generation team

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

BGD, is that you?

 

[Strenuus]

well, i been thinking about this for a while now. i really want jabari parkers, he play a lot like paul george. i think maybe trading barton, future picks and t-rob to nets or magic for a pick would be ideal. if we can make a trade like this, then we instantly have other elite scorer and can take batum position and move batum to SG and wesley becomes a 6th man. the lineup would be lillard, batum, parker, aldridge. and lopez. that lineup improve our defense and our offense. once meyers can developed, we will be the once-in-a-generation team

So this is what un-clutch Dame looks like.

 

[damianlillard]

no i am not the real damian lillard, i am however damian lillard biggest fan

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Holy shit.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Holy shit.

I want to buy into the hype, but I'm still a prisoner to my thoughts about all of the busts that have "only played basketball for ___ years" and therefore have unlimited potential. Maybe that's just because my Grizz drafted Hasheem Thabeet for the same reason, but it doesn't seem like these situations work out very often. It's unfair to pigeon-hole the guy because other prospects didn't develop, and I've only gotten to watch him once this season (vs. Duke), but that's my gut reaction, right or wrong. You don't want to be the team that took Darko Milicic right after LeBron James and before Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade. This has been shaping up for a while to be the most stacked draft since '03, and I'd personally lean towards the sure thing in that scenario. If this were last year's draft, I'd be fine going for Embiid with the #1 pick, but with all the other proven, sure-fire talent like Jabari Parker available, it'd be a ballsy move to take a player that early based on potential.

 

[THE HCP]

I accept your highlight mix and raise you one!

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[Fez Hammersticks]

The year of highlights from T-Rob still aren't nearly as impressive as the Georgetown game highlights from Embiid!

 

[MickZagger]

If you want to see an athletic freak watch Zach Lavine at UCLA. Goodness he's got ups. I have to watch him more though, I'm not really sold on him yet. His athleticism is jaw dropping though.

 

[KingSpeed]

Who gets the Nets and Knicks' picks this year?


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[BrianFromWA]

ATL gets the better of their or BKN's pick.

DEN gets NYK's pick, unless it's a worse pick than DEN's, in which case ORL gets the NYK pick and DEN keeps the best pick

So it looks like BKN will actually get a pick, though it will probably be in the late teens/early twenties, while the Knicks get bupkis (b/c their 2nd goes to HOU)--unless by some miracle the Kings get the 56-60th pick, in which case NYK gets SAC's 56-60 pick

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I think he'll be a riser on draft night but had we kept our (low first) pick this is the guy I'd want:

Doug McDermott continues to shoot the hell out of the ball:

24.8 PPG
7.3 RPG
49 FG%
90 FT%
42 3PT% (6 attempts/per)
63 TS%

He's cut from the same mold as Teletovic/Korver.

 

[KingSpeed]

ATL gets the better of their or BKN's pick.

DEN gets NYK's pick, unless it's a worse pick than DEN's, in which case ORL gets the NYK pick and DEN keeps the best pick

So it looks like BKN will actually get a pick, though it will probably be in the late teens/early twenties, while the Knicks get bupkis (b/c their 2nd goes to HOU)--unless by some miracle the Kings get the 56-60th pick, in which case NYK gets SAC's 56-60 pick

Thank you



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[Fez Hammersticks]

Legit or smoke?

"If you called the Pelicans, the Cavs or any of those teams and offered this year’s first pick for their guy, they’d fall over laughing,” says a Western Conference personnel guy."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhei...ggins-and-entire-class-of-14-arent-that-good/

 

[Draco]

Thank gosh we didn't trade Aldridge to tank!

 

[Run BJM]

Watching my first Kansas game against a good Iowa St. team. Embiid looks legit. Wiggins is pretty far off. Pretty terrible defender and shooter at this stage.

 

[Run BJM]

Embiid dominating.

 

[MickZagger]

Noah Vonleh looks nice.

If we can buy or trade into the 20's in this draft we could get a good player. Deepest draft in years.

 

[MickZagger]

Dante Exum has been talking with agents and is expected to enter the draft.

He will be a top 5 guy.

 

[Run BJM]

Kentucky @ Arkansas game was incredible. Randle is great, and the Portis kid on Arkansas looks like he can play in the NBA.

 

[Natebishop3]

How were people so wrong about Wiggins?

 

[Run BJM]

How were people so wrong about Wiggins?

There are always and have always been guys with a major hype train. Weeding these guys out with the mandatory 1 year of college will do wonders for the league.

 

[santeesioux]

There are always and have always been guys with a major hype train. Weeding these guys out with the mandatory 1 year of college will do wonders for the league.

It seems like there's one every year, last year it was Shabazz. He's now Luke Babbitting it up in the D League.