Game Thread: Official Draft Thread ESPN/ABC 7PM CT

WindyCityBorn · Post #421 » by **WindyCityBorn** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:41 am

MGB8 wrote:All they had to do was take the gift horse…. Oh AKME, how I hate you.

A guaranteed bench player in KJ?

samwana · Post #422 » by **samwana** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:41 am

Noa with very big bust potential IMO, not high on him at all. I don't see his game translating.

Dan Z · Post #423 » by **Dan Z** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:41 am

Hawk made a trade with New Orleans. Pelicans get Queen.

nomorezorro · Post #424 » by **nomorezorro** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:41 am

it's really nice of new orleans to remind us our awful gm situation could be even worse

madvillian · Post #425 » by **madvillian** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:42 am

MGB8 wrote:Sorry, folks. Can’t buy in. Another non-shooting raw athlete. Better than a Terry… but crushed. Huge bust risk, even bigger JAG risk.

Eh, unlike Terry when drafted he's younger, has a much more fluid handle, and importantly is just bigger and can impact the game on both ends potentially. Terry was always a silly pick because he needed to improve his handle into above average for an NBA guard to every be anything valuable.

This kid has tools physically Terry does not and is starting from a higher floor as well imo.

Dresden · Post #426 » by **Dresden** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:42 am

I guess on the bright side is that Noa was regularly mocked in the top 10.

Jo Jo English · Post #427 » by **Jo Jo English** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:42 am

Wow, potentially great trade for Atlanta.

Dan Z · Post #428 » by **Dan Z** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:42 am

nomorezorro wrote:it's really nice of new orleans to remind us our awful gm situation could be even worse

I agree. What are the details of the trade?

Infinity2152 · Post #429 » by **Infinity2152** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:42 am

Great pick, imo. Could end up best defensive player in the draft. Building around Giddey and Matas, Noa is way more useful than KJ. Coby stays, even more so. Not like KJ's a lights out shooter, and we have two players already in Ball and Giddey that do what he does.

More risk than KJ, but higher upside and better fit.

MrSparkle · Post #430 » by **MrSparkle** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:42 am

Man, SAS or OKC get Kasparas?

Lotto PG #4 for both squads…

MGB8 · Post #431 » by **MGB8** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:43 am

WindyCityBorn wrote:
MGB8 wrote:All they had to do was take the gift horse…. Oh AKME, how I hate you.

A guaranteed bench player in KJ?

Anyone who watches him and thinks bench player in the NBA with greater space, IMO has no basis to give any opinions on basketball. Boa, OTOH, is guaranteed to be a bench player for a while, and may well never be anything more.

ShadyMoney · Post #432 » by **ShadyMoney** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:43 am

The pelicans had to have called the BULLS

Chi town · Post #433 » by **Chi town** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:43 am

Ebo21 wrote:I’m ecstatic tonight.

Me too!

I was the first poster on here to talk Noa. He’s been my guy for months.

Dan Z · Post #434 » by **Dan Z** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:43 am

If KJ is there at 16 maybe the Bulls can trade back into the draft (using the Portland pick and something...?)?

dawhizz · Post #435 » by **dawhizz** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:43 am

Would have rather the Bulls do the deal the Hawks did than take Essengue.

madvillian · Post #436 » by **madvillian** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:43 am

Infinity2152 wrote:Great pick, imo. Could end up best defensive player in the draft. Building around Giddey and Matas, Noa is way more useful than KJ. Coby stays, even more so. Not like KJ's a lights out shooter, and we have two players already in Ball and Giddey that do what he does.

I will never be mad at taking a HR swing at late lotto for a (potential) defensive monster. Let this kid get some weight on him and see what happens. We need defense all over on this roster.

Muzbar · Post #437 » by **Muzbar** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:44 am

Dan Z wrote:If KJ is there at 16 maybe the Bulls can trade back into the draft (using the Portland pick and something...?)?

AK won't make any moves.

He's done for the night.

Chi town · Post #438 » by **Chi town** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:44 am

Trade Zo and the POR pick back to POR for 16 and get KJ

Dan Z · Post #439 » by **Dan Z** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:44 am

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ChiTownHero1992 · Post #440 » by **ChiTownHero1992** » Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:44 am

Noa is huge project and that is what worries me, because we have NOT been good at developing projects, Phillips, Terry, Williams, Hutchinson, Snell, Valentine, all have one thing in common project guys that failed miserably.

I'm fine with the pick overall, disappointed but fine...just dont want history repeating itself yet again, only time will tell