Following potential 2013 draftees

[Dr. Jones]

Wut?

Hal wasn't TtT..

 

[UGLI baby]

Hal wasn't TtT..

What did I read in the who got banned thread then?

 

[The Midnight]

What did I read in the who got banned thread then?

Hmm.. my bad then, it was one of my wild speculations.

 

[UGLI baby]

Hmm.. my bad then, it was one of my wild speculations.

Seriously?

*** you dude. Had enough of
Your trolling for one day.

Welcome to ignore clown.

 

[Dr. Jones]

If you wanna know who Hal is, why not just ask, Uggs?

 

[Hal]

Hal back from the dead? Wtf

I was dead? Wtf

Beal might be the best SG in the league a few years from now.

Not even close.

 

[UGLI baby]

If you wanna know who Hal is, why not just ask, Uggs?

I hate you.

 

[UGLI baby]

Not even close.

Who will be better Hal?

 

[Dr. Jones]

Hal bringing the SG heat early..

 

[UGLI baby]

Hal bringing the SG heat early..

Stop it bro srs why are you doin this to me?

 

[UGLI baby]

In 3 years....

James Harden
Paul George
Bradley Beal

 

[Hal]

Who will be better Hal?

James Harden.

OJ Mayo.

DeMar DeRozan.

Klay Thompson.

Gordon Hayward/Alec Burks (depending on who plays the 2)

Wesley Matthews.

A slew of players coming in from college.

Beal will either be at the same level or worse than all of those players.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Stop it bro srs why are you doin this to me?

Wut?

 

[Dr. Jones]

James Harden.

OJ Mayo.

DeMar DeRozan.

Klay Thompson.

Gordon Hayward/Alec Burks (depending on who plays the 2)

Wesley Matthews.

A slew of players coming in from college.

Beal will either be at the same level or worse than all of those players.

Dude makes points, Ugggs..

 

[UGLI baby]

James Harden. Yes

OJ Mayo. lololololololololololololol

DeMar DeRozan. Bahahahahahahahahahaha

Klay Thompson. No, but not embarrasing

Gordon Hayward/Alec Burks (depending on who plays the 2) Sadly, no.

Wesley Matthews. GTFO bro Srs

A slew of players coming in from college. Possibry. who knows?

Beal will either be at the same level or worse than all of those players.

Youre a bitch.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Not offensively. Defensively okay.

And since McDermott probably can't guard anyone, he probably shouldn't be in a rotation. But we'll see.

Defense matters.

 

[Dr. Jones]

And since McDermott probably can't guard anyone, he probably shouldn't be in a rotation. But we'll see.

Defense matters.

and way underrated by most..

 

[Sandy Braille]

James Harden.

OJ Mayo.

DeMar DeRozan.

Klay Thompson.

Gordon Hayward/Alec Burks (depending on who plays the 2)

Wesley Matthews.

A slew of players coming in from college.

Beal will either be at the same level or worse than all of those players.

Cool story, Halamon.

 

[Jazz4ever]

But it's an odd numbered year. Last year's draft was the strong one. Therefore, this year's must be the weak one. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

2009 - Greg Monroe went back to school. People called it weak. Looking back, it was way underrated.
2010 - They called it strong, the year of the big man. If Favors doesn't pan out soon, it will go down as way overrated.
2011 - Like this year, everyone called it the weakest ever. Kyrie's a star, and somehow we came out with Kanter at 3 and a prototype SG (kinda rare) at 12. It's looking underrated.
2012 - How much did it suck to lose out on two picks in such a deep draft? It's true Drummond would have been there for us had we won the coin flip, but Terrance Ross went eighth, Austin Rivers tenth. I know it's early for some of the skinny big guys, but so far 2012 is looking not as great as advertised.
2013 - Granted, it hasn't looked awesome for picks 1-3. There are no Derrick Williamses, Evan Turners, or MKGs in this draft, no truly worthy, all-star potential, surefire #2 picks, but maybe it's deeper than it's being given credit for. No way would I trade whichever PG we draft at 13/14 for Kendall Marshall. All in all, it might be better that we lost our pick in a deep draft and got to keep one in this weak draft.

I wish we would just admit how bad we are at evaluating the quality of a draft class as a whole. Maybe it's true that one class may be weak and another strong, but I haven't yet seen the data to prove it. I wish instead of just judging a class by the number of superstars (3 = strong, 1 = weak), that someone would measure draft classes by average production or even just career minutes played. So much of it is opportunity anyway. We know this in Utah. We'll have to listen to people calling Kanter and Favors busts, as if they haven't earned more minutes.

For now, however, GMs will allow the media to call entire draft classes weak because it makes their job easier. They have an excuse when they make a bad pick. But I bet good GMs really know that there is talent to be found in this draft, and hopefully this makes trading up a little easier.

This guy is as smart as his avy looks.

 

[Dr. Jones]

But it's an odd numbered year. Last year's draft was the strong one. Therefore, this year's must be the weak one. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

2009 - Greg Monroe went back to school. People called it weak. Looking back, it was way underrated.
2010 - They called it strong, the year of the big man. If Favors doesn't pan out soon, it will go down as way overrated.
2011 - Like this year, everyone called it the weakest ever. Kyrie's a star, and somehow we came out with Kanter at 3 and a prototype SG (kinda rare) at 12. It's looking underrated.
2012 - How much did it suck to lose out on two picks in such a deep draft? It's true Drummond would have been there for us had we won the coin flip, but Terrance Ross went eighth, Austin Rivers tenth. I know it's early for some of the skinny big guys, but so far 2012 is looking not as great as advertised.
2013 - Granted, it hasn't looked awesome for picks 1-3. There are no Derrick Williamses, Evan Turners, or MKGs in this draft, no truly worthy, all-star potential, surefire #2 picks, but maybe it's deeper than it's being given credit for. No way would I trade whichever PG we draft at 13/14 for Kendall Marshall. All in all, it might be better that we lost our pick in a deep draft and got to keep one in this weak draft.

I wish we would just admit how bad we are at evaluating the quality of a draft class as a whole. Maybe it's true that one class may be weak and another strong, but I haven't yet seen the data to prove it. I wish instead of just judging a class by the number of superstars (3 = strong, 1 = weak), that someone would measure draft classes by average production or even just career minutes played. So much of it is opportunity anyway. We know this in Utah. We'll have to listen to people calling Kanter and Favors busts, as if they haven't earned more minutes.

For now, however, GMs will allow the media to call entire draft classes weak because it makes their job easier. They have an excuse when they make a bad pick. But I bet good GMs really know that there is talent to be found in this draft, and hopefully this makes trading up a little easier.

I'm going to rep the **** out of this post later.

This guy is as smart as his avy looks.

Are these two posts srsly srs?? Hahahaha..
I enjoy mct's posts, but to cherry pick one or two names to prove the strength and weakness of each draft is comedy at best and intellectually dishonest at worst.

It may be fun to cherry pick one or two others from each of these drafts to 'prove' the exact opposite is true.. but the contrarians and conspiracy theorists here won't want to believe more conventional wisdom.

Oh.. and GOOD MORNING!!!