Deandre Jordan

[GreenMachine 22]

I know a lot of people aren't going to like this but I really think that Seattle should try and trade Wilcox and any of our picks (other than are 1st pick) to move up and select Jordan. Wilcox is in a contract year and will probably want more than Bennet is willing to pay for anyway...and I see Jeff Green eventually sliding over to the PF position. So why not take a chance on Jordan? In 5 years or so are starters would be one of the biggest and most athletic in the NBA.

Imagine a line up of:

PG: D. Rose 6'4"
SG: FA signing / future drafts
SF: K. Durant 6'9"
PF: J. Green 6'9"
C: D. Jordan 7'

In a lineup like this Jordan wouldn't be required to do hardly any scoring. All Jordan would need to be would run the court to get easy baskets, rebound, and play some defense. I can see him being like a Samuel Dalembert in a few years.

[colombianbrew]

or like Sene?

[AbdicatedReign]

DeAndre Jordan is one of the worst basketball players I've seen in years.

And I'm not being facetious. He's terrible.

[djthesonicsfan]

There's an old saying, "Not everything that can be measured counts, and not everything that counts can be measured."

Certainly D Jordan measures out to be a major NBA big, but so did a lot of other center draft picks who busted. There's hardly a year that goes by without some center with amazing potential winding up as nothing more than a complete waste of a top pick... especially when you consider all the other talented players who went on to have solid NBA careers who could've been selected instead.

2006 - #1 Andrea Bargnani, #9 Patrick OBryant, #10 M Sene
2005 - #8 Channing Frye
2004 - #12 Robert Swift
2003 - #2 Darko Milicic
2002 - #5 Nickoloz Tskitishvili
2001 - #1 Kwame Brown
2000 - #7 Chris Mihm
1999 - #5 Jonathan Bender
1998 - #1 Michael Olowokandi, #3 Raef LaFrentz
1997 - #8 Adonal Foyle
1996 - #7 Lorenzen Wright
1995 - #6 Bryant Reeves
1994 - #9 Eric Montross

I'm thinking D Jordan is the guy that will be written down for 2008.

[nwsports253]

DeAndre Jordan is one of the worst basketball players I've seen in years.

And I'm not being facetious. He's terrible.

I agree with you 100%

I thought he was going to be some big deal at A&M but whenever I saw them play he was no where to be found.

[HeavyP]

I don't like his FT %. And the fact that he sat at the end of the game against UCLA when Love was schooling him.

[big L]

I would rather take the chance on signing, cheaper cast-off Patrick O'Bryant for a year (and that's something I don't want to do) than wasting a draft pick on this guy. Really don't like what I saw out of him this year.

Better yet, let's give all the minutes to Petro and see how much further he develops?

[colombianbrew]

^ or draft Hibbert at 24

[BBen]

I'm actually pretty sold on our bigs. I couldn't care less if we get rid of Collison though. I'd go for a project type that already has an offensive repertoire with the 24th pick since the problem with most project centers is their hopeless offense. There's another French guy in this draft that fits that description, anyone wanna take a chance? Or how about a Serge Ibaka gamble?

PS. Serge also needs to learn English but we do have 2 French speakers on the team.

[girlygirl]

DeAndre Jordan is at least 2-3 years away from being able to play even limited minutes in the NBA. He needs to stay in school

Nick Collison is 3 inches shorter, but way way WAY better of a player than Jordan. In fact. Sene, Petro and Swift are all better, too

[Patches Pal]

Petro is way, way better than Jordan. He is just as athletic and a much better shooter. In the top five you have got to get an All Star not a project. It does not matter what position.

[Det the Threat]

I really liked Jordan before the College season started, but after watching him a couple of times i really wouldn't like us to take a shot at him.

As pointed out already, he's at least 2-3 years away from helping an NBA team and i'd rather pick up a guy like Robin Lopez, Roy Hibbert or Jason Thompson later in the first round.

[Downtown]

Djthesonicsfan, I have to point out and defend one of the players on your list.

Being from Vancouver, I watched Bryant Reeves from day one of the Grizzlies. For his first three seasons he was a very good player and I would go as far to say he was on par with Andrew Bogut how he is today. He hit his stride by his third year and averaged over 16 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, and a block per game. He had at least two games that I can recall where he scored 40 points(I believe one was against Boston and the other against Portland but that was long ago to remember), and more than a couple where he scored over 30.

I was lucky to be sitting right on the endline for a game against the Lakers when Shaq was in his prime. The refs put their whistle in their pockets and let Shaq and Reeves bang away at each other all game long. To this day I have yet to see another player stand up to Shaq as well physically as Big Country did that game.

It was only once he tore up his knee that next season that he went downhill. He played 25 games that season, tried to come back during the next, but by then he was both terribly out of shape and overweight, and he never recovered the mobility he had. It's unfortunate that most fans remember that Bryant Reeves and not the pre injury one.

He never was able to get back to form and was forced to retire with a bad back that was so severe that he couldn't even bend over to pick up his 2 year old daughter. I always wonder that if he came along in todays age where the medical procedures are far better, and with personal trainers able to keep players in better condition how he would fit in. He was at least the equal of Zydrunas Ilgauskas in his prime.

[Ex-hippie]

I agree that Reeves was better than a lot of people remember, although I don't think he was as good as Ilgauskas. Ilgauskas was a more solid body in the paint and was a decent defender/shotblocker in his prime. For me, the player Reeves brings to mind is Kevin Duckworth. Reeves and Duckworth had a comparably doughy physique with a good jump shot and general ability to put points on the board.

[djthesonicsfan]

Ok. Fair enough. Consider B Reeves retracted & exonerated. Injury is beyond one's control.

However, if I'd gone back to 1984, I'd have gotten to the infamous Sam Bowie pick. No injury allowed excuse there.