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Alexis Ajinca fans, rejoice. Your man carried more than 50% of the vote in our poll for Pick # 22. We add another center to THE LIST.

Pick # 23 will begin tonight and will get us one spot closer to the end of the first round. If I remember correctly, this is currently the Utah pick. Have we any interest in trading with the Jazz? They have a couple of nice pieces in Williams and Boozer (whom they would demand a king's ransom for in trade). But as a perennial playoff team, and a team in the W.C., they might have some kind of a deal for us- say something with Okur or Kirilenko. I know I'm dreaming, but considering the way that the W. C. teams were trading before the trade deadline, I can honestly say that the hoarding of players might be on the way out.

Now, how does the list below look to you? We have listed:

Point Guards- Derrick Rose, and D. J. Augustin

Shooting Guards- O. J. Mayo, Eric Gordon, and Brandon Rush

Combo Guards- Jerryd Bayless, and Russell Westbrook

Small Forwards- Danillo Gallinari, Donte Greene, and Nicolas Batum

Power Forwards- Michael Beasley, Anthony Randolph, Kevin Love, Darrell Arthur, and Marreese Speights

Combo Forwards- Robin Lopez

Centers- Brook Lopez, DeAndre Jordan, JaVale McGee, Roy Hibbert, Kosta Koufos, and our latest installee- Alexis Ajinca

Now that we have who has been "elected" to our draft board, let's add a new guy! What's your preference? Center, Power Forward, Point Guard, Swing Man... we should have something here to interest you.

So let's begin. You know the drill. 24 hours. 1 vote. 9 players to choose from, plus an opportunity to write in. Thank you and good luck!

Claw on, guys!

Lawson

Chase Budinger
This would be now the best Player avaivable.

chaz

Alexander.....

really like him as a player... only downside to me is that I'm skeptical how much PF he can play.

Buddinger strikes me as a guy who relies on his athleticism too much. He can beat up on lesser players but against players as athletic as him he will struggle.

I like CDR alot but the Bobcats don't need another 2

I want nothing to do with Lawson.....

Ellington shouldn't even be on the list IMO

May I humbly suggest JJ hickson or Nikola Pekovic for the next list....

e4Nf6 wrote:I like CDR alot but the Bobcats don't need another 2

I want nothing to do with Lawson.....

Ellington shouldn't even be on the list IMO

May I humbly suggest JJ hickson or Nikola Pekovic for the next list....

Author's Note to e4Nf6- While I agree with what you said up to the selected quote, I decided that I need a little bit of help in minimizing the possibility that I would not put up credible candidates in "the Nine". What I decided to do was to take five mock drafts which use the full 2 round format and put the contents of those mocks in a spreadsheet. Those 5 mocks are: Draft Express, NBA Draft.net, Cammo's NBA Guru site, RealGM.com's mock, and Hoops Report.

As a player comes off the board, I then take the top 9 Remaining Players from each mock, and add their positions from each mock. I then take their average positions and the top 9 averages are in for the next round. Tonight, one name will come out of the 9, because the new name moving into the 9 has a better average score among the top 9s than the guy originally in the 9.

Specific to your request for Pekovic and Hickson, they each had a problem. Hickson was not included in NBA Draft.net, and was assigned the number equivalent to Pick 61. This I felt was fair, but it killed his average standing. The top 9 for pick # 23 had positional averages of 2.4 to 16.5. Pekovic had a worse fate. Neither RealGM nor Hoops Report had him in their mock. So instead of a 16 average, he ended up with a 40 average, and out of consideration. Ellington, listed in all 5, had an average score of 12.0. Lawson, rated the top remaining player in Hoops Report, and # 2 in RealGM, scores a hefty 6.4 average.

If there is another method of putting forth credible candidates, I am open to consider that. Any comments or ideas, guys?

And, by the way, I voted for Thompson. I want a guy brawny enough to handle the front court, just like e4Nf6. Thompson has that build.

August Us Seazr wrote:And, by the way, I voted for Thompson. I want a guy brawny enough to handle the front court, just like e4Nf6. Thompson has that build.

Are you calling me "brawny"?

You've clearly put a lot of thought and effort into finding a reasonably objective way to make the list, so I retract my previous b*tching. In any case I can still vote for whoever as a write in so that's perfectly fair.

LOL

for e4- Wasn't talking about any posters. People would look at me and say much worse than Brawny. I don't call people names. Gets too little done. I'd rather work with people than argue. What I was referring to was a comparison of the two players I was considering- Alexander and Thompson. I went to Thompson for the extra height and weight- "Brawny"!

My tiebreaking reverse raffle went like this:
Alexander
Alexander
Budinger
Budinger
Alexander
and our winner is Chase Budinger.

Thank you for voting and your comments! On to the next thread!