Posts under ‘Draft-Blogging’

And I don’t know if the braintust of the teams making the picks do either, but I know why it seems like teams are just randomly picking European players who may, or more likely, may not ever play in the NBA. They don’t have to pay them for a couple years and they don’t [...]

I think Portland got a steal by getting Patty Mills with the 55th pick. Yeah, I’m biased because he’s a Mid-Major stud, but the dude can play. He should get major minutes backing up Steve Blake for the Trailblazers this season and I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up supplanting Blake at [...]

Stock on point guards. Not sure what the strategy is, or even if there is one, but at least Calathes will be playing in Europe the next couple of years instead of teaming up with Rubio and Flynn in a three point guard alignment.
Bet if they had one more pick that Patty Mills would [...]

Jonas Jerebko, the 6-9 Swedish forward Detroit took with the 39th pick, was this close to hooping it up for my UB Bulls. He had actually signed a letter of intent to play for Buffalo, but backed out on after blowing up in some European hoops tournament the same summer he signed the letter. [...]

Taking Brandon Jennings at 10 means they should be able to put last year’s Joe Alexander fiasco behind them. It also means that I will never see Jennings play since I’d rather sit through a Gossip Girl marathon than watch the Bucks.

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He will end up sucking. Toronto’s draft history is littered with horrible picks (Rafael Araujo anyone?). Being drafted by the Raptors is a ticket to professional mediocrity. Sorry Demar…

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Jordan Hill was not the pick with Holiday and Derozan still on the board. Last time the Knicks took a big from Arizona this early in the draft, the guy ended being able to do little other than make an uncovered 15-foot jumper. That isn’t Hill’s game and, to be honest, I don’t [...]

Dude is gonna fill it up in Nellie’s run-n-gun offense. I don’t know that Golden State really needed more firepower but that’s what they just got in Curry. I was hoping Curry was going to be Gotham bound, as did most of the fans at The Garden, but that’s not going to happen. [...]

Taking Jonny Flynn at number 6 with Stephen Curry still on the board is asinine. The T-Wolves now have two point guards who can’t make an NBA jumper. Fucking genius…

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19-year old French wing Nicholas Batum with the 25th pick in the first round is the official sign that we’ve passed to that part of the NBA draft where teams can officially just pick names out of a hat or from the yellow pages or randomly out of Facebook or from wherever. Somebody’s got [...]

With this pick they just acquired in a trade with Denver and they took one, but it’s not somebody I know anything about. French center Alexis Ajinca looks, well, tall, and probably has a great pallet but I don’t know if he brings much more to tobacco country than that.
Guess that’s why they think [...]

Spindly 7-0 center JaVale McGee, the Wizards have, well, made the type of non-descript pick that befits a franchise that could disappear immediately with few people caring or noticing.

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Player that has a chance to make a, well, minor-to-middling impact this season. If he can give the Phoenix Suns 8-to-10 minutes a game of rebounding and D, then this will be a pretty good pick for the Suns.

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Has moved ESPN’s draft coverage from merely awful to unwatchable. Come 9:00 PM EST, I’m out and over to ESPN2 for the MLS Thursday Night Primetime scrap between FC Dallas and Houston.

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He could supply some instant O off the bench, which is definitely something the Portland Trailblazers need. Not only that, but Rush was the best player on the board, which makes this a pretty good pick for a side that could improve significantly this season.

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Taking 6-11 Rider big Jason Thompson at numero 12 could be a bit of a reach for Sacto but with a frontline that consists of Brad Miller and Mikki Moore, Thompson’s a good fit. Don’t be surprised if he’s one of the few guys picked outside the top five that starts next season.

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Is that he isn’t Jamaal Tinsley, who’s one of the NBA’s primary knuckleheads. Bayless being picked by Indiana certainly marks the end of Tinsley’s time as an Indian Pacer.

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That are giving the Nets C’s and D’s for picking Lopez in the ESPN online poll? Just goes to show that most people who inhabit ESPN’s “Sportsnation” are complete imbeciles.

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Rod Thorn and the New Jersey Nets braintrust to do the smart thing. Taking Brook Lopez is exactly that, and at 10th, it’s a steal.
Should Bruce Ratner ever get the Barclay’s Bank Arena in Brooklyn built, I’m looking forward to watching Lopez man the interior for the then-to-be Brooklyn Nets. Can [...]

That Charlotte’s given up on Raymond Felton?

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Who wishes the draft was still being broadcast by TNT? Chuck, EJ, Kenny “The Jet,” and Craig Sager were so much more fun to watch then the self-important, overly-serious group ESPN as put together. Even Jeff Van Gundy’s wry wit is in hiding.

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Joe Alexander’s a good story and has shot up the draft board meteorically, but is really the best player the Milwaukee Bucks could’ve gotten with the 8th pick? The answer to that question is no.

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But he’s going to eternal mess that is the LA Clipper so he’s pretty much irrelevant until his contract expires in three years.

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That Donnie Walsh, Mike D’Antoni and the rest of the Knicks braintrust wanted to hear lots of boos because they picked Italian forward Danilo Gallinari. I don’t know much about Gallinari’s game but I do know that he’s got to have a brass pair and Rambo-like guts to sit there with Steven A. Smith, [...]

Maybe something is going on with Brook Lopez that I don’t know about because there’s no way I’d take Kevin Love before Lopez like Memphis just did. I dunno, maybe Love reminds the Grizzlies of Pau Gasol but when you’re starting center is Darko, I can’t understand why you wouldn’t take the 7-footer rather [...]