We all know Embiid, Parker, and Wiggins are going top 3.
No way we can trade up in this draft. They aren't trading down.
This is a very very overrated draft. The majority of these players will be lucky to be in the league in 3-5 years. Most of them are tweeners who can't play any particular position. And they have very big holes in their game.
Marcus Smart - not big enough to play the 2. And not fast enough to play the 1. Not a real PG.
At best he is a combo guard off the bench playing 15-20 minutes a game.
Julius Randle - He is a PF for sure. But he isn't very fast. He has t-rex arms and will most likely have a Sheldon Williams type career.
Noah Vonleh - Average big man. Not great at anything.
Doug McDermott - Adam Morrison. Not fast enough to create his own shot. Not tough enough to play the 4.
Aaron Gordon - Another tweener that can't play the 3. And isn't strong enough to play the 4 full time. His outside shot sucks. 42% from the free throw line. Not sure what the hype is about this guy. Above average athleticism and above average handle for someone his size, but that doesn't mean jack in the NBA. There are 10 guys a year who come in with his talent level that never make a team. Jeremy Evans is already a better player then this guy.
The lottery talent in this draft is normally in the 20's-30's at the end of the 1st round. Its pathetic how many holes these players have in their game.
I am normally someone who is optimistic about players coming into the draft over the last 20 years. The past few years the draft is getting drastically worse. Let another team roll the dice on these players. Get some value in return, because most of these will be wasted picks.
Look at the top 4 teams this year.
2014 - Spurs, Thunder, Pacers, Heat
2013 - Spurs, Grizzlies, Pacers, Heat
3 out of the 4 teams have 2 BIGS playing the majority of the front court minutes. They are not playing small ball with a SF playing PF or a tweener playing PF. They have 2 legit bigs. They might change it up every one in awhile to throw them off but the majority of the time they play big. Playoff basketball slows down.
The heat are an exception to the rule because they have Lebron. They can get away with it. But we also saw how Lebron got embarrassed by David West last game. The trend of these tweener 3/4 players doesn't work very well come playoff time.
We won't be getting a superstar like Lebron any time soon. I post this because Aaron Gordon is overrated and everyone trying to ship off Kanter for literally nothing. It seems a lot of people have bought into the Tyrone Corbin garbage where they can't play together. Just because we had a coach that cannot play with 2 bigs doesn't mean they can't. Again Look at the Pacers, Thunder, Spurs, Grizzlies etc. No reason to cut corners. Build a real team for the playoffs. Not a mediocre .500 club.
