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

it's exactly like it reads:

If we go to the lottery and end up with a pick in the top 5 THIS summer, we keep the pick. If we end up with #6 or lower, the Suns get the pick.

Assuming we kept the pick in 2015, then in 2016 if we end up with a top 3 pick, we keep that pick. If the pick is #4 or later, then the Suns get the pick. Same for 2017.

If the Suns haven't gotten the pick by 2018, then they get it no matter what.

 

What am I looking at there?

 

I couldn't make out who I was watching, thanks.

I like Towns. He's more mobile than Okafor and I think he might have a higher ceiling, but he's also really unpolished offensively by comparison. Okafor might not be the greatest athlete, but the guy will score in the post at the NBA level. Great footwork. Towns looks like he could be very good, but certainly more of a project.

 

Chris Bosh is a pretty unique fit though. He's very mobile for his size and gives full effort defensively and has a solid stroke from outside. You're going to have a hard time finding anyone who fits a "Chris Bosh" type besides the man himself.

I think an ideal fit next to Randle is a mobile big man that blocks shots and rebounds well. Barring that, a low post presence with good hands.

Getting that guy through the draft would be great, but honestly we have so many needs I'm starting not to care who we get with that pick. There's a couple of solid wings (Stanley Johnson and Justise Winslow), there's a couple solid bigs (Okafor and Towns), and Mudiay looks like a potential stud PG.

Getting ANY of those guys this summer in the draft would be a great find, then fill in the rest with available free agents. How about a combination of-

Draft Johnson or Winslow and Andrew Harrison (?) with later pick
Sign Goran Dragic- 4/44
Sign Robin Lopez- 3/21
Sign Ed Davis- 3/15
Minimum deals to fill out (Clarkson and Sacre)

Dragic/Harrison/??
Bryant/Clarkson
Winslow/Young
Randle/Kelly
Lopez/Davis

Better, right? If we get that Top 5 pick we're going to be in a good position to bounce back quickly.

 

Precisely. Getting the pick would be a great thing for us. I'm already kind of looking forward to it even if I know it's not guaranteed. There's plenty of very solid combinations we could come up with. Even ones where we don't get a guy like Dragic and try to swing for the fences. We could pick up:

Rondo/Winslow/Ed Davis
Dragic/Okafor/Wes Mathews
Mudiay/Monroe/Wes Mathews
Dragic/Monroe/Winslow

Stuff like that really makes me hope we get that pick. We won't be great, but we could be so much better than we are now.

 

From what I have seen so far (2 Kentucky games) Towns really impresses me more so than Okafor who I have seen just 1 of his games. Towns has the defense that I think some folks dont think hes got. He has the BBall IQ to make the right plans out of traps and double teams and is great as a help defender. Towns also has the better outside game than Okafor and can shoot FTs better. Both players will be high picks but from the scouting videos I've seen on Youtube and the games I have watched, so far give me Towns for sure.

 

Yeah I'm sorry, but I just disagree. Okafor is a rock solid Center. He's a throw-back, post up, kind of Center and I love it. If we had the #1 pick I take Okafor and I don't look back. For me it's easy right now:

1. Okafor
2. Mudiay
3. Towns
4. Everyone else (starting with either Winslow or Stanley Johnson though)

 

Not big on Oubre, but he could be a good add too.