Mr Sixer wrote:I've been thinking about a couple of scenarios. My gut feeling is that the top pick will be Towns or Okafor next year. I feel that if we have the number 1 pick, and Jahlil was the consensus no. 1, we would trade down and get a helluva lot of value out of that pick because Hinkie has confidence in Embiid being center. The way Hinkie's been trade raping people it's scary to think what he could do with everyone knocking at our door for a potential franchise center at the no. 1 overall pick. On the other hand, maybe he keeps him as insurance.
If we pick Towns, that's where things start to get interesting. I think we definitely keep him because he has the potential to be that compliment to Embiid that we want Noel to be, with less shot-blocking but more offensive firepower. But what if all 3 of them pan out, do we have a 3 man big system going with one of the 3 coming off the bench, do we trade our beloved Noel even though he is looking like a great player, do we find a way to play a huge man lineup with towns at the 3 on offense and Noel at the 3 on defense. This is even more complicated by the fact that we have Saric who seems like he will probably be a super sub 4.
I have no clue, and we could obviously have worse problems because trading Towns, Noel or Okafor could get us huge return and really bolster the rest of our starting lineup and bench, but it is kind of scary. On the other hand, if Silver puts his curse on us and we don't get an ideal pick out of the lottery, at least we can pick up a wing player like Hezonja
Noel could probably play the 3 defensively pretty well, but I'm not sure yet if Towns would be a great 3 offensively. Towns has mentioned that he doesn't know what position he'd play in the pros yet because of his diverse skillset. He's a great shooter and ballhandler for a big man but it's yet to be seen if his ballhandling skills are good enough to play the 3 spot.
If he can develop at least Giannis type handles, he's absolutely my #1 pick. He has the most intriguing skillset out of the 2015 draft candidates and a lineup of MCW/McDaniels/Noel/Towns/Embiid would be a potential defensive nightmare.
