Why the hell did we move up from 24 to 22?

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andalusian said:
About an extra $70K next year, if my calculations are right - but this is based on last year's draft - so... there might be a small variation there...
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Thanks for the info . . . basically a negligible amount and not a factor when talking cap space
 
Wheels mentioned that Psycho T was #1 on the Blazers' draft broad, so the move was supposedly made to target him. But, Indy made the idiotic decision of taking him in the lottery, so KP went to plan B (aka Claver).
 
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Wizard Mentor said:
We wanted Rudy to come over, he just couldn't. I don't believe that to be the case with Claver at all.
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Well true he is younger and coming off a broken ankle and we are stacked at SF this year. We prefer he doesn't come over so we don't have to pay his salary. But he is also considered one of the top players out of Spain. Freedland and Kopono were not even close to this.
 
Nikolokolus said:
I think people are just upset because KP didn't wheel and deal to make a really splashy move into the lottery; have we all forgotten what it's like to be a year-in-year-out playoff team? These are usually the kinds of drafts those teams have -- you don't get a lot of homeruns in the late first round and beyond, you feel lucky if you get rotation quality players. Be excited that the draft was anticlimatic and that the team is probably going to be aggressive in free agency.
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I think there's only a small bit of truth to that. For myself and those I talked to, the major disappointment was that we passed on Blair multiple times. He's someone that nearly everyone (outsider Blazer management, apparently) felt is a perfect fit if the cost is low, but that it would be too difficult to move up enough to get him. The fact that he fell into our lap and we said 'no thanks' is what stings and is why the question in this thread's title is so appropriate ... what did we accomplish and why?
 
I suppose Pritchard just decided to throw away a couple second rounders to foolishly move up in the draft. Whatever.

How about this. Portland had a bundle of assets that needed to be utilized by tonight. They find the best deal, moving up two spots, using those available assets to grab a player high on their draft board. What the fuck is wrong with that?

Should they have risked not getting a player as high up on their draft board, taken another second round draft pick, and then kept next year's second rounder instead?

To be critical of this move makes zero sense to me.
 
Draft Express had Darren Collison as a second rounder. He went mid-first. Just because a player is mocked in the second round doesn't mean he will last until then.

Pritchard probably felt that Claver wouldn't last to #31. None of us have any way of knowing but, due to track record, I'll trust his judgment.

And I was hoping for Blair at #22 also. In fact, I was anxious at #20, worried that Utah would take him. But after seeing every team pass on him until the mid-second round, I'm less bullish on him. Yes, sometimes the entire industry blows it, but that's not what I'd bet on.
 
Nikolokolus said:
People are really upset which is baffling to me. Our opportunity cost to move up to 22 was a nearly worthless 56th pick and our 24th as an insurance policy in a very fluid draft to get the player KP supposedly really wanted in Claver. Secondly, we shed some money, another second round pick and an incosistent third year point guard who wanted out so we could get a possibly solid backup 4 in Jeff Pendergraph and 1.6 million more in cap room to use in free agency and possible lopsided trades.
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Agree with the bold. Agree with italics. Can even wait to pass judgment on Pendergraph. But Cunningham over Blair and Brockman at 33 really bothers me, b/c our one potential get in the draft that could help our rotation was a big banging PF for 12 mpg. Unless we got Rubio, I didn't think our PG answer was here. No SF's floated my boat. I just do not get the 33 pick at all. 31's boggling a bit, but if KP was really targeting Jeff for a Frye-type PF, I'll go along. I don't think we fixed an area where we really could have, and had elite-level skills drop into our laps.
 
I think it was mainly a move to dump (Sergio's) salary.
 
LOL ABM...that was kind of funny.
 
LittleAlex said:
Please take your glass of kool aide and move to the back of the line.
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Why because I think all of us have very little knowledge when it comes to most players in the draft? Especially euro players that you have never seen play? Or is it the "Draft the Stache" Kool aide" I should be drinking since most fans get all excited about only the players we know about.

Fuck I have been reading bullshit like this since our fans were in a up roar that we took Hollins over Ronnie Lee.
 
I pretty much agree with the OP on this, but it's not a big deal. I fully expected us to trade out of the 1st round, but we must not have got an offer that was attractive enough. I believe Claver was the guy the Blazers targeted in the draft and they took him as a fallback when a good deal didn't materialize.
 
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