Warriors select Patrick Baldwin Jr. with 28th pick in 2022 NBA Draft

[shazam_guy]

Speculation without much information is the world's favorite online sport. Far be it from me to try to buck that trend.

[Scoots1994]

LOL. Or how about a taller less athletic, less intense, longer wingspaned, less skilled Jordan?

Yeah, great is probably going overboard, but great for #28 pick for sure. From what I saw he’s a long way from that though.

Oh yeah. I'm in no way sold on him. I was just speculating what it might look like if everything went perfect for him.

Hope to see him in summer league. Hopefully he can make a few nice plays and we can all get unreasonably excited about him. Im anxious for summer league, I dont have a clue how Im going to make it from Summer League to the start of the preseason. The Niners better be good to start the year!

I would be surprised if he is medically cleared.

[Onus]

I’m shocked no one said he could be mpj

[WarFan]

I’m shocked no one said he could be mpj

I'm just not at all convinced he can play the three.

He's the next backup 4/5 shooting big, in the line of Speights, Jerebko, Smailagic, Bjelica.

[CS707]

Oh yeah. I'm in no way sold on him. I was just speculating what it might look like if everything went perfect for him.

Hope to see him in summer league. Hopefully he can make a few nice plays and we can all get unreasonably excited about him. Im anxious for summer league, I dont have a clue how Im going to make it from Summer League to the start of the preseason. The Niners better be good to start the year!

I would be surprised if he is medically cleared.

I’d actually feel better if he wasn’t. That at least supports the possibility that his poor athletic testing was partially due to still being injured.

[thunderdunk]

I’d actually feel better if he wasn’t. That at least supports the possibility that his poor athletic testing was partially due to still being injured.

Exactly. If the word is real that he failed a physical, then he probably needs surgery. The scary thing is that he injured the ankle in HS and then played a year in college and did the combine on a bad wheel? If it's a full-blown reconstruct, expect him not to play this summer, or for most of next season for that matter.

[Scoots1994]

I’d actually feel better if he wasn’t. That at least supports the possibility that his poor athletic testing was partially due to still being injured.

Exactly. If the word is real that he failed a physical, then he probably needs surgery. The scary thing is that he injured the ankle in HS and then played a year in college and did the combine on a bad wheel? If it's a full-blown reconstruct, expect him not to play this summer, or for most of next season for that matter.

Yep.

[Old_Blue]

I’d actually feel better if he wasn’t. That at least supports the possibility that his poor athletic testing was partially due to still being injured.

Exactly. If the word is real that he failed a physical, then he probably needs surgery. The scary thing is that he injured the ankle in HS and then played a year in college and did the combine on a bad wheel? If it's a full-blown reconstruct, expect him not to play this summer, or for most of next season for that matter.

You got a link to this? I'm not questioning the veracity. It would just help clear up what exactly happened to this young man in high school and then college.

[TB]

I think people are sleeping on his handle/passing potential. Rather than being a Brian Cook, Frye, Cam Johnson, Porzingis type, I think he got drafted 1st round because he's more on a projected path of:

Kyle Anderson - Hedo Turkoglu - Lamar Odom with a shot

I don't think he reaches that third ceiling, but I think a Slo-Mo/Hedo hybrid is what we are after. Whereas to get to Odom with a shot level, he's going to have to learn every bit of defending/rebounding from Looney.

[Onus]

I’m shocked no one said he could be mpj

I'm just not at all convinced he can play the three.

He's the next backup 4/5 shooting big, in the line of Speights, Jerebko, Smailagic, Bjelica.

Can mpj play the 3? His defense is pretty awful.

I agree that he’s most likely a 4 when he gets strong enough maybe a 5. But I doubt he’s going to be able to anchor a defense so most likely a 4