Pistons get the number one pick
As the title say's pistons get the number one pick now it's time to determine who we should get . Everyone is saying Cade Cunningham as the obvious choose but I wanna here what everyone thinks. There was a lot of freshmam in the g league poeple are forgetting who played against grown man who are better then most college teams.
Smart move, Serbia.
Nobody likes Kuminga like that?
I definitely don't think it's a no-brainer for Cunningham.
Kuminga is more likely to go 7th than 1st. No chance he's the first pick and I'd wager a fake hefty sum of cash that he doesn't go top 3.
Look up Kuminga's G League efficiency stats.
Jonathan Kuminga looks like another Stanley Johnson. Did Pistons fans not learn anything from that draft bust? It was recent too. Johnson looked like Tarzan (6'7", muscular, bouncy) but couldn't do the things needed of a premier SF in the modern game.
Like shoot a basketball? You’d think the number one thing a team would require from a basketball player would be the ability to shoot a basketball.
nobody is forgeting the G League players
1) Cade
2) Green
3) Mobley
4) Who cares?
Hear me out.
Mobley is a better fit for their current roster, and it's not even close.
Mobley and Beef Stew give you a dynamic frontcourt that can switch, rebound, and defend at an elite level. If you take Cade, what do you do with Hayes, who is the better ball handler and penetrator? He's a lot less effective off the ball.
I don't disagree, but Cade's too good to pass up
It's a rebuild. Choose best available unless you can't play your developmental superstar hopefuls on the court together (e.g. don't consecutively draft two ball-dominant PGs with the #1 overall if you can help it).
You eventually trade Killian. You have take the best player, a guy who looks like a franchise talent.
Mobley looks very good. Don't get me wrong. But he seems to have a real ceiling on offense.
Hayes looks like a multi year project. Hopefully he can become useful off the bench in the near term.
I respect the thoughtfulness, but I still think they’ll take Cade. When the choice was Melo or Darko, Melo was thought to be redundant with Rip. So they take Darko and never hear the end of it. Safer optics, safer choice, trade Killian if you need to: take Cade.
I really don’t think anyone is forgetting about the G-League players. In every mock draft I’ve seen they have 2 or 3 of them going in the top 8. Cunningham is the obvious choice I think. He’s a great player and deserves to go number 1 in my opinion.
I'm talking about from the number one pick pov . Jaleen green had worse stats then cade but also played better competition.
It’s “Jalen.” Normally I wouldn’t nitpick, but this is Michigan fergodsakes, where Jalen Rose played and gave rise to a generation of Jalens.
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Is repeatedly referencing the kid as Jaleen excitement too?
I have seen some real idiots before, but you may win all the prizes.
I'm all for preserving proper grammar but is this MgoBlog or Mean Girls? Sheesh.
Whatever. Celebrate. Go ‘Stones!
Bring back Darko!!
Yay! Any of the top 3 would be good Cade, Green, or Mobley.
Question for those who follow this stuff: where does Suggs fit in the draft? # pick? What kind of role/ideal fit?
Was kind of hoping for the #2 pick as I think Jalen Green has the most superstar potential. You can’t pass up Cade at #1 though imo. I just hope they let him play the wing and don’t get caught up in the 6’8 PG bs everyone is going on about. There’s only ever been one great PG that tall and he’s no Magic
Magic was a point forward - a point guard in a (small or power) forward's body. Many people forget that when KAJ was injured, Magic played center for Lakers in the game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals and nearly notched a triple double as a rookie. (IIRC, it was something like 45 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists.)
That said, 6'7" Penny Hardaway was a pretty damn good point forward too.
I remember rookie Magic playing center, and playing it respectably. That man earned his nickname more so than anyone else ever had. As good as Larry Bird was on a basketball court, he was limited to being a power forward. Earvin Johnson magically covered the entire court, effortlessly.
Luka Doncic wants a word with you
Lukas’s not a point guard either. He can’t defend anyone that size and I argue him always having the ball in his hands is not conducive to winning basketball. He needs to be moved to the wing and allow someone else to start the offense most of the time.
Huh?
And Magic didn't check the opposing point guard either.
Doncic is by every measure a point guard at 6'8".
Never forget the Pistons missed Melo, Wade and Bosch the last time they had a chance to draft in the top 2. Whose the equivalent to Darko in this draft?
Probably that Kuminga kid
Please, PLEASE, learn how to properly use apostrophes.
Go Blew!
ESPN put out a mock draft after the lottery was decided and had Franz going to the kings. That would be awful for him
It sounds crazy because they haven’t accomplished anything, but the Kings May need to rebuild again.
Hield has looked worse and worse since peaking in 2018-19.
Bagley is a good player, but is super injury-prone (like Jaren Jackson Jr. from the same draft).
Fox is their only consistently great player, but I believe he is due an extension and may be an RFA this off-season or next.
he'll be no Darko, that's for sure.
This is one of the most poorly written OPs in history.
"As the title say's pistons get the number one pick now it's time to determine who we should get . Everyone is saying Cade Cunningham as the obvious choose but I wanna here what everyone thinks. There was a lot of freshmam in the g league poeple are forgetting who played against grown man who are better then most college teams."
As the title says, the Pistons have received the number one overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. Now it's time to speculate on who they should select. A lot of people are saying Cade Cunningham (should be the choice), but I would like to see how the members of MGoBlog feel. Also, there were a number of prospects who passed on the opportunity to play in college in order to play in the G-League. I've found that a lot of people are forgetting about these players, who played against older professionals. These pros are often considered to be better than the talent on most college teams.
I suck at spelling and grammar and what I said likely isn't 100% correct. But I'll be damned if it doesn't sound better than that jibberish in the OP.
That’s not exactly a high bar to clear.
Good for the Pistons. I admittedly don't pay much attention to the NBA, but from what little I've gathered from the Pistons fans on the blog, for the last 10-15 years or so the Pistons have been stuck in some sort of limbo where they either end up as one of the last seeds into the playoffs with no real chance to make it past the first round, or if they miss out on the playoffs, they still end up with a draft pick far enough back to where they can't rely on getting any kind of game-changer for the franchise. That and being saddled with several really bad contracts.
Hopefully this year's draft changes that.
Draft for talent. Don’t draft for fit.
Take Cade and run.
Mobley is the only other guy I’d even look at - but I’m not a GM.
Don’t take Devante Smith.