NBA Draft Open Thread (Not OT - Yay!)
Good luck, Timmy!
Trey Burke: 3* -> Lottery Pick
THJ: 3* -> 1st rounder
Congrats to all of them. Amazing how far the program has come in just a few years. Can't wait for next season
LET'S HEAR IT FOR NEW YORK!!!! CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OF!
Timmy's gonna be having a lot more fun than Trey...
New York is going to love Timmy's enthusiasm. He will be an excellent option coming off the bench, and could become a quality starter if he develops more consistency.
Jalen Rose ~
Is my favorite NBA commentator. Love Charles as well just b/c he's Charles. I've always loved Jalen so I am biased, but still, I love his comments tonight. Casual, comfortable, relaxed, but insightful but not full of himself. Same can be said for Bill Simmons as well. Well done Jalen. Now, have some children and send them to Michigan already.
IIRC, he has a daughter.
Link: http://www.nba.com/bulls/#/story/news/nba-summer-league-2013-schedule-a…
Note: sorry about the format - on the iPhone.
http://www.nba.com/jazz/news/20130523-jazz-orlando-summer-league.html
They are playing in something called Orlando Pro Summer League.
I know DeShaun Thomas is a bit of a tweener but I'm surprised no one's picked him - the guy can fill it up.
he only can score. He's definitely a tweener. He's way too small to play PF at 6'7" and not quick/athletic enough to play SF. He is a liability on defense and he doesn't contribute much other than putting the ball in the bucket.
Biggest reason why he excelled at OSU is he abuses PF with his shooting and uses his size to muscle out smaller players. He won't do it in the NBA.
Joe Dumars really must have thought that Burke block on Siva wasn't clean...
He should be able to be a 2nd or 3rd PG on a team. I think he has that alpha-dog personality that will fit in well on the roster at the PG position. Always thought he was underrated in college. Hopefully he's good enough to grab a roster spot.
I was rooting for CJ Leslie or Trevor Mbakwe but I can definitely live with Siva. For a PG he's a hell of an athlete with that 41 inch vertical and 15 bench reps at 185 (tied for 13th in the whole draft).
And we (Pistons) have no wing scoring? This is so bizarre. We (Pistons) now have logjams at PG and PF.
Maxiell is a FA and Villanueva is expiring.
Bynum and Calderon are free FAs and Stuckey is expiring.
Our current depth chart is:
Knight 21/Stuckey* 27
Caldwell-Pope 20/English 24
Singler 25/Middleton 21/Jerebko 26
Monroe/Villanueva* 28/Allen 21
Drummond 19/Kravtsov 25
I don't really see any log-jams at this point, just a nearly completed youth movement.
he is a freak athlete at 6'9" who can play both SF and PF.
So far the depth chart should look like this:
PG: Knight/Siva
SG: KCP/Stuckey/English
SF: Singler/Mitchell/Middleton
PF: Monroe/Jerebko/Villanueva
C: Drummon/Kravtsov
Knight can move to SG if Pistons both play Siva and Knight at the same court. Mitchell can slide down to PF to play alongside either Monroe or Drummond. Monroe can play C to spell Drummond.
Allen=Mitchell. There's a vet swingman out there named Tony Allen and he was on the brain when I meant to write Tony Mitchell. Probably because there haven't been many Tonys in the league to mix up with each other.
I don't think Mitchell's a SF, though.
He had a dramatic shift his last season in college and started to take a lot more jumpshots, but I don't think he has the ball-handling or face-up game otherwise to justify a move to SF; he's just another big who's falling in with the deep ball, like Rasheed Wallace.
I expect to play up Stuckey and Villanueva to start the season to showcase them as more than just expiring contracts. If the trade deadline comes and passes without them being moved, then the depth chart will shift to incorporate the younger guys in the long-term plan.
but he just shoots too many jumpers. He is an exact replica of Paul George coming out of Fresno State. Read the scouting report and stat line, both are basically carbon copy of each other. There is a reason why Tony Mitchell was thought of as a lottery pick before last season.
who will provide wing scoring at SG.
Thomas is a tweener. Too small to play PF and not athletic enough to play SF. He can score but that's all he can do for you. No interest playing defense and is a bit of a ball hog.