Wolves Draft Board (May)

Devilzsidewalk · Post #141 » by **Devilzsidewalk** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:40 pm

Beasley has a standing reach equal to Chris Bosh and greater than Al Horford, he seems to have good length

He only moves like a small forward, but he's not the size of one.

Post #142 » by **revprodeji** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:04 pm

theGreatRC wrote:Now that Rev is off the Hibbert juice, can you sell me on Gallinari and how he would help this team?

Hibbert is still top 10 for me and I would love to get him with a top 3 guy. He has not depreciated for me, as much as I appreciate the other guys. I still think Hibbert will be a very effective 24-28min a night center.

The league works with 2 teams. You have a big team, and you have a fast team. Many teams do this. San An did it, Phx does it (shaq starts, but then he goes to the bench for a quick guy) I think Hibbert could be a very good big man in this roll.

Gallinari is good. Very good. The concern with him is if he is athletic enough to defend the 3 and if he can rebound at the NBA level. He is a point forward in the pure sense. He has a very high BBIQ, great attack style. Good jumper and really loves the game. He is more polished than almost any of the other sub-20 in this draft.

The problem is that he is getting negative love from message boards because they see "white euro" and think Toronto's Andrea. (I am annoyed that the only comparisons people make to him is to other white euros) We need to understand they are very different players with different skills and will have different careers.

The guys in the 4-7---if not the 3-7 could be interchangable and I fully expect them to shift and move and jump and fall before the draft
-Lopez
-Mayo
-Gallinari
-Randolph
With Love(we are seeing it already) Jordan and someone unexpected like Westbrook or Augustin

But Gallinari is clearly a top-5 prospect. He reminds me of what I saw from Lamar Odom coming out of Rhode Island.