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Since he is garnering a lot of interest gere you go:

http://www.draftexpress.com/article/NCA ... -Part-One/

I liked the part about his abilities at the open court...and his defense of course.

Consider me unimpressed. This kid screams Corey Brewer to me. His draft status is inflated because he is surrounded by high quality players.

The rest of the analysis goes onto say how he isn't involved in their half court sets, is a poor 3 point shooter, he can't create for himself or set up his teammates and he is adequate at bringing the ball up the court.

I think it would be a mistake for him to come out this year. He'd be much better served staying an extra season and adjust from being their #1 option. If he does come out, I hope the Blazers avoid him. We have a young roster as it is and our primed for a PO run next year so I'd like us to pick someone who is alot more NBA ready than Westbrook.

He's athletic and very good defensively but needs to improve his shot and ball handling.

He's having a great season but there are far to many questions about his game for me to be that crazy about drafting him. That said the NCAA should atleast give me a chance to see how he matches up vs a variety of different situations. (assuming UCLA goes deep which I think they will). Personally I'd like to see him atleast stick around for another yeah at UCLA and im sure it would help his game considerably.

Milkdud wrote:He's having a great season but there are far to many questions about his game for me to be that crazy about drafting him. That said the NCAA should atleast give me a chance to see how he matches up vs a variety of different situations. (assuming UCLA goes deep which I think they will). Personally I'd like to see him atleast stick around for another yeah at UCLA and im sure it would help his game considerably.

If KP can't trade for a PG he wants or trade up for a better pick I "could" see Westbrook as a choice, mainly because he plays great D and seems to be able to fit fairly well with an established PG. He would see a very good fit with Roy, if they think his other skills will improve, I could see him as an understudy to Blake for a few years to develop those skills, but he would likely get solid playin time because if his D, amd Nate love s D from PGs!

If the Blazers have a pick around Westbrook
then they need to trade it with players for a
prooven NBA talent. Westbrook is to risky.

He sounds like he does better in the open court, which does not mesh incredibly well with Roy. However, I like the thought of good defense from a guard, and he seems like he has a chance to improve. I also wish he was already a good shooter. That would put him over the top as far as my opinion is concerned. As it stands, I would be alright getting him, but not exactly excited.

Apparently I'm in the minority here, but I fail to see how adding an undersized, underclassmen shooting guard is going to help us at all. We've already got an all star starter in Brandon Roy. And we've got Rudy Fernandez who will prob be over here soon. I don't understand why people on this board are so high on Westbrook and Gordon. We need a point guard. An undersized shooting guard trying to play point guard will only get us into the Jarrett Jack situation all over again. If we're going to try to fix the point guard situation, I think we should go after an NBA ready player who naturally plays PG cuz playing a SG out of position in a conference loaded with point guards is just asking for trouble. From watching our team's core and seeing how other teams are building, I'd suggest bringing in a veteran point guard as the most effective option.

kdawg32086 wrote:Apparently I'm in the minority here, but I fail to see how adding an undersized, underclassmen shooting guard is going to help us at all. We've already got an all star starter in Brandon Roy. And we've got Rudy Fernandez who will prob be over here soon. I don't understand why people on this board are so high on Westbrook and Gordon. We need a point guard. An undersized shooting guard trying to play point guard will only get us into the Jarrett Jack situation all over again. If we're going to try to fix the point guard situation, I think we should go after an NBA ready player who naturally plays PG cuz playing a SG out of position in a conference loaded with point guards is just asking for trouble. From watching our team's core and seeing how other teams are building, I'd suggest bringing in a veteran point guard as the most effective option.

I'd be all for adding a young, proven NBA PG to our core but the key word is young. A PG around 24-26 would be best IMO.

If the Blazers draft around #13-#9 I think
they would being taking a step sideways at
best. Its really important to take a step
forward with this draft & I just dont see a
player around that area that can do that.. .

Moving up thru trade to #5+ or trading for a
proven NBA talent is the only way to go!!!!!!!!

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I'd be all for adding a young, proven NBA PG to our core but the key word is young. A PG around 24-26 would be best IMO.

Thats exactly what I was thinking.

people don't want a monta ellis clone...okay time to get your head checked

I am also starting to lean towards getting a veteran PG. And by veteran I mean a good PG under 26. Thing is, its going to be hard as hell to find one.

Going to be very hard to find one. Calderon would have been perfect, but that's a no go for now.

If Westbrook were a more proven shooter he would be the perfect compliment to Roy.

Great Defender. The phrase "lock down" is used a lot.
Decent ball handler. He could easily do all the "bring the ball up the court " grunt work I don't want Brandon doing.
Good finisher.
Great at working it off the ball.

But the ability to hit outside shots and spread the floor is, imho, the #1 quality we want in a guard to play with Roy.

As it matters to us: If we have a late lottery pick and he's there, I'd take him. Hell, I'd be delighted to have him. But I wouldn't make much effort beyond that. If Darren Collison or OJ Mayo is available I'd be just as happy with either of them.

we may need to go for Devin Harris for pg. Maybe Jack and Frye and our pick would get him. I would be willing to do that, if Rudy is coming over to play back up shooting guard. We may just need to hope that our pick develops well. I am going to go play the lottery simulator until we get top three and then go to bed. That will make me happy.

fourth try and I got us the #1 pick for Rose! that means we have a 1 in 4 shot of getting Rose!

^^^I dont know why, but it seems like we either get 13 (the vast majority of the spins) or we get a top 3 pick. There's really no in between. I hope Paul Allen cut Mr Stern a tremendous check the other day!

Yadadimean wrote:^^^I dont know why, but it seems like we either get 13 (the vast majority of the spins) or we get a top 3 pick. There's really no in between. I hope Paul Allen cut Mr Stern a tremendous check the other day!

Just the way the lotto works. Only the top 3 picks are part of the lottery, the rest go by record. The way the lotto sim is currenly set up the only possible picks Portland could get would be #13, #14, #3, #2, and #1.