AdonalFoyle4Prez wrote:Wiggins + Looney + Paschal + 2020 Top 3 1st Round Pick for Bradley Beal + 2021 Future First Round Pick (Protected)?
This makes 0 sense.
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AdonalFoyle4Prez wrote:Wiggins + Looney + Paschal + 2020 Top 3 1st Round Pick for Bradley Beal + 2021 Future First Round Pick (Protected)?
youngWizzy wrote:AdonalFoyle4Prez wrote:Wiggins + Looney + Paschal + 2020 Top 3 1st Round Pick for Bradley Beal + 2021 Future First Round Pick (Protected)?
This makes 0 sense.
SUPERBALLMAN wrote:I think the 3 guys I have at the top of my list for our pick is 1.Okongwu 2.Jalen Smith 3.Okoro.Spoiler:
youngWizzy wrote:AdonalFoyle4Prez wrote:Wiggins + Looney + Paschal + 2020 Top 3 1st Round Pick for Bradley Beal + 2021 Future First Round Pick (Protected)?
This makes 0 sense.
Ruzious wrote:SUPERBALLMAN wrote:I think the 3 guys I have at the top of my list for our pick is 1.Okongwu 2.Jalen Smith 3.Okoro.Spoiler:
Okongwu yes, but he won't be there unless we get lucky in the lotto.
Stix - only if we trade down. He might slide quite a bit. Why pick him at 9 when he might slide past 20.
Okoro - just say no to wings who can't shoot. Look at him when it's time for his 2nd contract.
Ruzious wrote:And as we know, every team goes by "the chart" and is always willing to make any trade that shows equal value. It's as easy as pushing a button.
gesa2 wrote:PIF you make this comparison a lot and I think it isn't a fair one. If we trade pick 9 for 17 and 30, we dont get to wait and see how all of the picks after 17 develop, we have to make a discrete pick and live with the consequences. So you have to compare a given pick at 9 with either a given pick at 17 and 30 chosen at the time not with hindsight, or you have to use average value for those picks.
Endless Loop wrote:Just talking math, it is ALWAYS true that the guy taken #9 SHOULD be better than any player available after him....
Endless Loop wrote:The issue is that it's difficult to know who that guy is....
Endless Loop wrote:The focus should just be on picking that best player....
Endless Loop wrote:If this were a numbers game, then it would make sense to say, well, since I can't know who will be the best, I might as well grab a bunch of picks. That way I have more shots in the lottery. But the numbers game approach is definitely not right, because-
1. Surely it's obvious that some players are going to be less successful than others. So it's not a true lottery.
2. Getting two picks instead of one isn't very good diversification anyway.
3. If you trade back because you THINK somebody will be available later, then you're gambling on the idea that other GMs either are dumber than you or that you have better information. I don't think that's a smart gamble. ...
Endless Loop wrote:In the NBA quality wins over quantity. A higher draft pick means a better chance for higher quality. I'd almost always not trade down.
payitforward wrote:Ordinarily, we'd be on our 2d-3d day of discussing what we did in the draft & what other teams did as well....
Damn... what an awful year...!
payitforward wrote:Hey younwizzy -- have you seen this? https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/lists/2020-nba-mock-draft-all-60-picks-latest-intel-prospects/
Scroll down to pick #24 -- you're famous!!
Ruzious wrote:payitforward wrote:Ordinarily, we'd be on our 2d-3d day of discussing what we did in the draft & what other teams did as well....
Damn... what an awful year...!
Well, we can always blast the Knicks in advance. Actually, with them drafting a few picks ahead of us, them screwing up could end up pushing someone like Haliburton to us. Thank you, in advance, to the Knicks!
Jimmy Recard wrote:...I just don’t see Haliburton or Okongwu falling past the first 8 picks. I wonder if any team ahead of us would bite on a pick swap + Thomas Bryant. I would do it to get Okongwu in a heartbeat.
youngWizzy wrote:payitforward wrote:Hey younwizzy -- have you seen this? https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/lists/2020-nba-mock-draft-all-60-picks-latest-intel-prospects/
Scroll down to pick #24 -- you're famous!!
I did and it made my day when I saw it! Also from the same author (https://hoopshype.com/2020/06/04/cole-anthony-coby-white-north-carolina-tar-heels-nba-mock-draft/)
If you have TheAthletic subscription I got featured here (https://theathletic.com/1835049/2020/06/09/draft-profiles-6-wings-the-raptors-could-select-with-the-no-28-pick/) and a few other articles by Blake Murphy who covers the Raptors for TheAthletic!!
Also I was featured here on an article by Kyle Boone (https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2020-nba-draft-pro-comparisons-for-every-lottery-prospect-in-this-years-class/) which was awesome!
I'd say I'm honored but I got a lot of work to do but we'll see where this takes me!