if you want to cram sam vecenie actually wrote a full-blown draft guide: https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2020/11/16135122/The-Athletics-2020-NBA-Draft-Guide-2.pdf
pw: nba Dr@ft 2020 (remove spaces)
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
Thanks, Call! Looks comprehensive - appreciate it! Will get up to speed for draft night.
Who do you like the look of?
On a side note - does anyone else think Suns should have been taken a bigger swing at Covington? The Chris Paul move seems very "win now" orientated and Cov seems like the most complementary piece available for that roster.
― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
the suns arent done making moves is the talk here in phx.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
i don't think phx could have responsibly beaten that very aggressive portland offer for covington. there are a lot of players who could help them, tho when they decided to execute the cp3 trade before using cap space my assumption was that they were planning to just bring back saric and maybe baynes. are there different rumors out there?
draftwise i don't go super deep but of the projected top 10 guys i feel like okongwu and halliburton have pretty high floors and will be good nba players. it's a scary draft to have a high pick.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
yeah, its weird but if you're picking like 5-15 or so you should feel pretty good.
― discourse stu (m bison), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
of the "top 3" (ball, wiseman, edwards) wiseman is the only 1 i feel good about. still dont know how i feel about deni.
― discourse stu (m bison), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
question for the room: are we doing a draft zoom
― discourse stu (m bison), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
they want saric back for sure. he really turned it up 2nd half of last season and looked great in the bubble too. baynes is unknown but im sure theyd like them both back at the right price with saric being the higher priority.
as far as the draft i dont usually pay a ton of attention but all the experts seem to be all over the map. hoping the dubs can trade that pick for the right package and if not we'll really find out what kind of player evaluation they have now. their draft record post jerry west is not great.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
trade for aldridge
― discourse stu (m bison), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:49 (three years ago) link
xxp yeah i don't think wiseman is likely to bust at all, it's more like how high do you pick him and what do you think he will ultimately be?
deni is interesting. the concerns (can't shoot, no discernible elite skill) and the pros (hooper, plus defender, good size and moves pretty well) are those of a guy i'd much rather take at like #10 than #4 or wherever he's being mocked.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
i'd prob jump on a zoom, i'm not busy
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
registering interest
― micah, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
i'm locked in for the anthony edwards experience
"To be honest," he says, "I can't watch basketball."He retells the story about the first time he dunked and how it signaled to him that he was talented and could accomplish something he might not have been able to in football, which was his first love. So that's the direction he went, simple as that, hanging up his cleats. "That's all I needed to see," he says.So when after that did he get into basketball?"I'm still not really into it," he says. "I love basketball, yeah. It's what I do."He's not entirely convincing. He says if he were drafted by the NFL tomorrow, he'd let basketball go. "Because you can do anything on the field," he explains. "You can spike the ball. You can dance. You can do all type of disrespectful stuff." In the NBA, he says, "you can't do any of that. You'll get fined."
He retells the story about the first time he dunked and how it signaled to him that he was talented and could accomplish something he might not have been able to in football, which was his first love. So that's the direction he went, simple as that, hanging up his cleats. "That's all I needed to see," he says.
So when after that did he get into basketball?
"I'm still not really into it," he says. "I love basketball, yeah. It's what I do."
He's not entirely convincing. He says if he were drafted by the NFL tomorrow, he'd let basketball go. "Because you can do anything on the field," he explains. "You can spike the ball. You can dance. You can do all type of disrespectful stuff." In the NBA, he says, "you can't do any of that. You'll get fined."
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 November 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
loooooool BUST
― discourse stu (m bison), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
lmao amazing quote
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
someone should tell him that he prob can play in the nfl if he wants
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
he should rap
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
wolves take him at #1 now no question
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
yeah, sleepwalk his way to a max at the Timberwolves on minimal effort
― knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you (fionnland), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/Opp0QpaQqn— Jared Penis 🕊 (@GodsNiceMan) November 18, 2020
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
hahaha I choose to believe that is true
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
I think I like Haliburton out of Iowa State for the Hawks. Honestly I haven't dug into this years draft that much, but he sounds like the perfect guy to back up Trae. Plus the nickname Dick Cheney Haliburton rolls right off the tongue.
― Heez, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
this years draft seems to have the most uncertainty since at least the year anthony bennett went #1
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
this seems very worth discussing... for the warriors
REPORT: The Warriors have discussed trading the No. 2 Overall Pick to the Bulls for Wendell Carter Jr. and the No. 4 Overall Pick, via @KevinOConnorNBA. pic.twitter.com/itEBtHqcUt— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 18, 2020
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
call me old-fashioned but i thinking "liking basketball" is important for the #1 pick
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
i choose to believe Jared Penis (@GodsNiceMan)
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
disliking basketball because youre not allowed to do disrespectful dances is fair tho
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
anthony edwards spilling gumbo at benihana is ilh canon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
So @wojespn... whatcha hearing? I promise not to tell. My DMs are open.— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 18, 2020
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
lol nice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
That bulls dubs deal would be amazing
― Spottie, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
trading a decent young player to move up 2 spots in a draft everyone hates would be a very bulls thing to do
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
listening to local talk radio, our local guy from the athletic was on...sounds like the steam is anthony edwards now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:33 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
called it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
who knows, locally everyone is like gersson rosas is some kinda new age analytics wheeler dealer process guy so it could be a smokescreen, but i haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that any of his supposed draft acumen as of yet
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
smart move for the wolves to trade andrew wiggins and replace him with anthony wiggins, i mean anthony edwards
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
i've always thought the wolves would eventually settle on edwards. lamelo and wiseman just don't make sense given their roster
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
dumb franchises do dumb stuff, such as giving up a first round pick to acquire d'angelo russell and sign him to a huge extension and then taking a SG who would prefer to play in the NFL so he can do disrespectful dances at no 1 bcuz you can't draft a PG
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
edwards shot 40% last year, not great for someone with elite athleticism, granted he was a freshman taking a ton of shots for a team without much talent, but still youd like to see someone whos primary merit is physical dominance be physically dominant, especially in college where he had a bigger advantage
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
all the scouting says he has a low bb iq game which makes sense if he doesnt like basketball
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
mb someone just needs to convince him that dunking on guys and yelling and flexing is disrespectful
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
breaking ankles also very disrespectful
I was surprised to see how bad everyone's stats were in that breakdown CAD posted (thx CAD!)
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
its a bad draft the best player will prob be taken 14th which iirc matt a said months ago
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
lmao
https://i.imgur.com/m3T6uvU.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
what a coincidence that the celtics have the 14th pick
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
haa someones got their head on a swivel over here
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
celtics trying to put something together for harden without giving up tatum or brown? hes obvs an amazing player but harden in boston has very high train wreck potential imho
The Celtics keep searching for trade pathways to get into the top three of tonight's NBA Draft, league sources say. 10-ish hours left to find one ...— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 18, 2020
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
also seems like philly cld just pull the trigger on a simmons swap and beat anything the celtics want to offer
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link