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Following potential 2012 draftees

Warriors coach Mark Jackson took some heat in his first year as coach for predicting that his team would make the playoffs. They didn’t, of course, and instead, the Warriors finished the season with a disappointing 23-43 record.

Still, Jackson remains confident that his team is on the right track and will be a factor in the Western Conference in 2012-13.

Jackson isn’t doubling down on a playoff prediction for this upcoming season, but on Wednesday he went on the Jim Rome show and made it clear that the Warriors aren’t a 23-43 team.

“We’re closer than that,” Jackson said. “At the end of the day, we are what our record said we were. But we’re much closer. You take a look … we closed the season with our four best players injured (Andrew Bogut, Stephen Curry, David Lee and Dorell Wright). … We are much better than our record indicated.

“But we’re going to have to get healthy and then continue to build toward putting some proper pieces around our star pieces.”

Hopefully for the Warriors, they will have an opportunity to add a player in the NBA draft. The Warriors are currently slotted to have the No. 7 pick, but if they fall to No. 8 or below, the pick will go to Utah.

The Warriors have a 72 percent chance of keeping their pick.

“I think it’s a very deep draft with a lot of talent,” Jackson said. “Certainly, the seventh pick or better will give you somebody who can play right away and help us. What we’ll do as an organization – management, ownership, and I’m definitely blessed to be part of the decision-making process.

“We’ll sit down, take a look at all the guys and make a decision. But we feel comfortable with this draft of getting someone who will help us.”
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PKM said:
Which year? There are so damn many when we look at SR to SO.
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I follow the jrs and seniors most. I believe the 2014 draft has 2003 potential. This summer I am looking forward to watching:
*Andrew wiggins. Wow is he special. Will be better than Parker IMO.
*Jabari Parker. Another amazing wing. He reminds me of grant hill.
*Kuran Iverson. Looks like he has crazy range.
* Andrew Harrison. I've been impressed with what I have seen. Great handles, vision and range.

There are a few others, but these are the guys I will be following this summer.
 
Verlin said:
I follow the jrs and seniors most. I believe the 2014 draft has 2003 potential. This summer I am looking forward to watching:
*Andrew wiggins. Wow is he special. Will be better than Parker IMO.
*Jabari Parker. Another amazing wing. He reminds me of grant hill.
*Kuran Iverson. Looks like he has crazy range.
* Andrew Harrison. I've been impressed with what I have seen. Great handles, vision and range.

There are a few others, but these are the guys I will be following this summer.
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Julius Randle as well.
 
We should draft Jeff Withey next year with our pick, assuming we have a pick in the late teens/early 20's.
 
Got a VM a couple hours ago from my contact that knows about the HOU stuff. I've tried him back a couple times but haven't gotten him. This doesn't mean there's any new news either, just sharing. Hopefully I get him before 5'ish so I'm still reasonably coherent.
 
larryselbows said:
I'm on the Quincy Miller bandwagon. DO WANT.
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I use to be on that wagon. He supposedly has a 7'4 wingspan, so he may propel himself into the lottery on measurements alone. Really interested to see what his agility and athletic #'s show. He always looked kind of slow at Baylor, but maybe that was just the ACL recovery.
 
I've gone to bat for Quincy Miller quite a bit, but I'm as wary as anyone is about the guy. The thing that gives me hope is that Baylor as a program is a joke (get everything and everywhere based on their talent/players) and that Quincy Miller is very young, is coming off of an injury that not that long ago you could not recover from entirely, and I CAN see him growing a lot as a human.

But if he doesn't grow, he's out of the league so fast it will make everyone's head spin.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I've gone to bat for Quincy Miller quite a bit, but I'm as wary as anyone is about the guy. The thing that gives me hope is that Baylor as a program is a joke (get everything and everywhere based on their talent/players) and that Quincy Miller is very young, is coming off of an injury that not that long ago you could not recover from entirely, and I CAN see him growing a lot as a human.

But if he doesn't grow, he's out of the league so fast it will make everyone's head spin.
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Agreed with pretty much everything here. I think his ceiling is a lot higher than many of the other late lottery mid first guys, but he could also easily be gone in 2-3 years if he doesn't improve.
 
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