Official DRAFT Prospects Watch

[PR07]

According to the Indy Star, Pacers were not impressed at all with Blair's workout... and on top of that, his knees did raise a few eye brows in our front office. Blair to Indiana is as good as dead guys.

I never caught this. Do you mind providing a link?

[chatard5]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... s_promise/

Pistons promise to take Mullens. HA! Good news for Pacer fans.

Uhoh, I hope I didn't just pull a JJSG.

[Grang33r]

According to the Indy Star, Pacers were not impressed at all with Blair's workout... and on top of that, his knees did raise a few eye brows in our front office. Blair to Indiana is as good as dead guys.

I never caught this. Do you mind providing a link?

(And, as a follow up, I'm not too bullish on the possibility that DeJuan Blair is the choice, either. There are concerns around the league about his knees, although there were concerns about Danny Granger's knees, too. I'm hearing, though, that Blair didn't blow away anybody in his workout.)

Link- http://www.indystar.com/article/2009061 ... +NBA+draft

[8305]

I don't understand how your top 2 are Holiday and Flynn, both two different style PG. Ones tall, ones not. Ones a great defender, ones not, ones a pass first, ones a shoot first, one makes a lot of turnovers, one doesn't. lol

Flynn will be the huge bust in this draft... and i am a fan of Syracuse basketball.

Aside from the tall short differences I think it is a stretch project the other characteristics to the next level. Hard to know how Flynn will do as an on ball defender since he was never asked to do in college. Flynn was the unchalleged leader on his team and the team needed his scoring, he was probably told to look for his shot. Flynn had the ball alot more than Holiday so the turnovers could also be expected.

If you are a Syracuse fan you must have seen more of Flynn than I have. I'm going off what I've read on the Hoopsworld and Draftexpress sites and not more than 2 or 3 late season games where I tried to focus on him. Doubt that there are more than a handful of pg's in the NBA now who match his combination speed, strength, and ups. From what I've read he appears to be a natural leader.

On Holiday, it just sounds like he is similar to Westbrook in a lot of ways and Westbrook is a monster. It also sounds like he is a hard worker and a high character kid.

Saw something on the Minn board written by someone who got to watch their workout of Jennings, Holiday, Flynn, Lawson, Teague and Evans. Interestingly, his observation was that Flynn appeared to be the best defender of the group. It sounded like Holiday and Teague were the least impressive. Jennings was the best athlete there but otherwise inconsistent to the point of not doing the drills as directed. Saw this after my "inconsistent" post.

Am I remembering you want Jennings?

[PR07]

Isn't Kravitz the one that has been clamoring for Blair for the past month?

[freeman]

(And, as a follow up, I'm not too bullish on the possibility that DeJuan Blair is the choice, either. There are concerns around the league about his knees, although there were concerns about Danny Granger's knees, too. I'm hearing, though, that Blair didn't blow away anybody in his workout.)

Link- http://www.indystar.com/article/2009061 ... +NBA+draft

I don't think Blair needs to make the scouts blow their minds about his potential. He is what he is. What you see is what you get. Are the scouts expecting Blair to hit 10 consecutive 3-point shots? If that's how they determine who goes above everyone else, then Blair probably is in the bottom 10.
He probably wouldn't be the Larry Johnson type to make the big time but he'll be pretty serviceable to any team that would acquire him.
He's got heart, no question about it. Blair's just being true to his form, doing what he does best.
If Larry picks Blair, then i'm fine with it, because that would likely mean that we're gonna keep our young core as it is.

[Boneman2]

^^Agreed

Drafting DeJuan would signal Larry wants immediate help based off of our needs. A win now mentality. Blair might be short and vertically challenged, but he is a lot tougher than most of these fat lazy players some haters are comparing him to. Furthermore, Blair has never relied on his athleticism to become a great rebounder. He simply uses superior leverage and strength to eat up large chunks of space. It's not like he'll turn into a frail victimized punk-ass once he enters the NBA. I love that he is motivated by money (like some claim) to get into shape. If that is the case he'll be looking forward to his real payday (in about three years).

I could live with Blair as long as Jrue, Jennings and Flynn are gone. Assuming Evans and Curry are top 8 locks. If we go big I'd hope for Hill and settle for Blair.

[PR07]

I'm fine with Blair if no one falls. He's a tough hard-nosed blue-collar player that any team could use.

[It_Was_Typed]

I would have traded down with Chicago.

Draft Lawson/Maynor/Holiday at 16 and draft Blair at 26.

[Grang33r]

Anything would have been better then the nightmare that we have in front of us now....