2015 Nba Draft Discussion: Russell, Nance Jr., Brown

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  1. ElginTheGreat

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    No.

    I think the worse thing we could do is get cute or fancy. If you get the top pick, you take Okafor and keep it moving.
     
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    Exactly. You're looking at a potential double-double machine and ROY coming straight out of college into the NBA, IMO. You take that over what anyone offers, period.
     
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    LaVarBallsDad, Feb 21, 2015
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    Hopefully it doesnt hurt as much as its being reported for them. He was a great player for them coming off the bench.
     
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    Dude. F$&k. These teams are really going to make us sweat this out. I have faith in Byron though...
     
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    Shabazz will not stop us from losing games.
     
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    Kareem tops Hakeem in almost every category. Hakeem won defensive player of the year twice and Kareem never did but they were both all defensive first team 5 times. Kareem was MVP 6 times to Hakeem's 1 and All NBA 1st team 10 times to Hakeem's 6. Both finals MVP twice. Hakeem led the league in blocks twice to Kareem's one. Kareem even had a longer career. I mean if one's not avail you take the other and I absolutely love Hakeem but Kareem's greatness gets overlooked so much I just had to respond. I get your point about Hakeem though, phenominal player. I will say that Hakeem had the largest repertoire of skills of any big but if we're talking about greatness, Kareem's got that locked up.
     
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    I love Kareem and consider him the most talented center ever but nobody beats The Big Dipper on being the best two way center ever.

    Back to my subtopic, I didn't know the Sixers has a thing on not lifting weights, lol. Anyway Embiid with Mudiay or Johnson as against Okafor, I think you take a chance. The C Bags did trading the 1st pick Joe Barry Carroll for McHale and Parish which got them almost a decade and a half of competitiveness. Okafor may turn out to be Duncan but he'll most likely be Al Jefferson, not that it's a bad thing being a perennial candidate for All NBA. Embiid looks like he has tremendous upside in the right environment. I don't think the losing culture has stained him permanently add him to Randle and S. Johnson and we'll have our team for the next 15 years.
     
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    D'Angelo Russell playing today on Channel 2 for anybody interested.
     
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    10 am
     
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    Cauley-Stein is now in my top 5, personally.
     
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    Instead of who?
     
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    Jerian Grant scores 12 points in 28 seconds to force OT vs. then #11 Louisville (2013). Kobe-esque.
     
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    Some Kobe s*** right there
     
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    The following week or so have changed my mind...

    Mudiay. Mudiay's is just outside of my top 5; I think he's a legit top 10 talent, but I value centers above all else, and considering that procuring one is very expensive; I'd rather just draft one in this class that's coming out this years class this summer. Plus, Cauley-Stein is easier for me to gauge, and I think we get a good player who at the very least who's going to be very good defender at the next level.
     
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    I laugh at anyone who thinks Mudiay is going to just come in Day 1 and make an impact. You think Clarkson needs work?? Mudiay is a (2-3 years) project in my opinion. I would only draft him after the top 5 and maybe even a little later
     
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    We had a very hard time moving up in the draft last year to grab Clarkson; we'd paid 1.8 million dollars for his rights to the Wizards. I mentioned this earlier; offer cash, Hill, your late 1st and whatever else you have to move up to grab Jerian, IMO. I love me some Russell, but I'd draft a center and a PG later on if I could

    Any combination of Towns, Okafor, Cauley-Stein with Jerian, and I'm good.
     
    LaVarBallsDad, Feb 22, 2015
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