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For like the 3rd time the Cavaliers 2nd round pick goes to Phoenix.

MYoung23 wrote:For like the 3rd time the Cavaliers 2nd round pick goes to Phoenix.

He doesn't use traded draft picks yet. Goes by NBADraft.net's draft order.

No Richard Hendrix? If I were Portland, I'd pick him up in the 2nd round.

No Shahsa Kaun or Hansborugh? What are you thinking?

y would sac take budinger with k martin already on the team

No reason for the Clipps to take Donte Green especially since drafting Thornton last year.

no need for seattle to draft deandre since they already drafted a bunch of bigmen on potential that sucked..

Still no Blake Griffin?

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He doesn't use traded draft picks yet. Goes by NBADraft.net's draft order.

No Richard Hendrix? If I were Portland, I'd pick him up in the 2nd round.

No matter how many times I say I go by nbadraft.net's order, people still bring it up every mock. I don't think Hendrix will come out.

Silver Man wrote:No Shahsa Kaun or Hansborugh? What are you thinking?

Hansbrough won't be coming out if he is smart, if he does he is a late 1st rounder, possibly falling into the 2nd. He should stay another year. Kaun is a guy who could go in the 2nd round, his stock is moving up, but right now he's nothing more than one of the 50 or so guys who could go in the 2nd.

$mooth wrote:y would sac take budinger with k martin already on the team

Because no PF's are on the board and Buddinger is by far the BPA. The draft will probably play out where Buddinger is gone by this point, but with no real need fillers for Sacto I gave them BPA.

ClipperDomination wrote:No reason for the Clipps to take Donte Green especially since drafting Thornton last year.

I see no reason they can't play together.

BMF Jet Jaguar wrote:no need for seattle to draft deandre since they already drafted a bunch of bigmen on potential that sucked..

So they should give up on drafting centers because they keep drafting crappy ones? That seems like bad logic. They may go with a combo guard like Bayless or Gordon, but passing on potential franchise bigs because they have taken a couple of super raw centers in the mid teens that didn't pan out seems a bit on the overly cautious side to me.

nitetrain8603 wrote:Still no Blake Griffin?

He'd be a top 10 pick, but everything I have read has him going back to school.

I agree with Griffin, but there seems to always be the guy who says he is staying in school but comes out anyway (Jeff Green last year) and gets into the top 10.

Cammo, there is absolutely no way the Sonics pick D Jordon. But I've mentioned that before. So maybe you know something about the team the rest of Sonics fans don't.

But the funniest part of your mock draft is that you then assign the Sonics with yet another project center with the #33 pick. Let's see, that would be five centers on the roster. Ya, that'll happen.

On the plus side your late 1st pick of Weaver is pretty good.

I like the Wolves taking Rose.

If Detroit gets Hardin, that would be another steal for them..

djthesonicsfan wrote:Cammo, there is absolutely no way the Sonics pick D Jordon. But I've mentioned that before. So maybe you know something about the team the rest of Sonics fans don't.

But the funniest part of your mock draft is that you then assign the Sonics with yet another project center with the #33 pick. Let's see, that would be five centers on the roster. Ya, that'll happen.

On the plus side your late 1st pick of Weaver is pretty good.

Seattle may not take Jordan, but there is simply no other player worth putting at #3 right now. A lot can happen and this is by no means locked in. I don't buy into the logic though that you have taken bad centers the last few drafts so now you won't take a good one. Jordan is not the huge project you seem to be implying. He is much further along than any of the other 3 centers you have taken who haven't panned out and has a lot higher upside. Gordon, Mayo, or Bayless are surely an option here, but right now, IMO, the smart pick is Jordan. Seattle is in no hurry to compete, he along with Green and Durant make a strong core.

As for Asik in the 2nd round, he would be stashed overseas and not on Seattle's roster.

theGreatRC wrote:If Detroit gets Hardin, that would be another steal for them..

Joe D could add a good big to his already nice list of late-1st/2nd round pickups.

Non-lottery picks by Detroit the past 7 years:
Tayshaun Prince 22nd pick in 2002
Mehmet Okur 38th pick in 2001
Jason Maxiell 26th pick in 2005
Carlos Delfino 25th pick in 2003
Amir Johnson 56th pick in 2005
Rodney Stuckey 15th pick in 2007
Arron Afflalo 27th pick in 2007

Dumars drafts better late in the draft than he does when he gets lottery picks.

Cammo101 wrote:Seattle may not take Jordan, but there is simply no other player worth putting at #3 right now. A lot can happen and this is by no means locked in. I don't buy into the logic though that you have taken bad centers the last few drafts so now you won't take a good one. Jordan is not the huge project you seem to be implying. He is much further along than any of the other 3 centers you have taken who haven't panned out and has a lot higher upside. Gordon, Mayo, or Bayless are surely an option here, but right now, IMO, the smart pick is Jordan. Seattle is in no hurry to compete, he along with Green and Durant make a strong core.

As for Asik in the 2nd round, he would be stashed overseas and not on Seattle's roster.

It's your mock, say whatever you want, but again, D Jordon won't be selected by the Sonics. Any draft has to integrate best available player & team need. In this case D Jordon is neither.

Maybe you haven't been to Key Arena lately, but J Petro is playing fantastic basketball. He's learned a ton from Kurt Thomas and at 22 years old appears ready to assume a significant role. R Swift is just about to return from injury. We're all hopeful. M Sene continues to develop in NBADL. Kurt Thomas is manning the position on an interim basis this season & the plan is for R Swift & J Petro tol take over. The center position is sorting itself out. There is no need to draft another center.

D Jordon is also not the best available center prospect according to many now. His stock is dropping like a rock. He's no longer even starting on his college team. He can't get a shot there, what makes anyone think he's close to ready for the NBA. Brook Lopez is probably likely to be taken ahead of D Jordon.

The Sonics will pick D Rose if they can. J Bayless if D Rose isn't available. That's about as sure a thing as anything at this point.