Should the Trail Blazers Aim For Best Player Available or Best Fit in the 2024 NBA Draft?
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Some thoughts on team building, the Portland Trail Blazers and the NBA Draft
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The perfect solution is keep churning until you acquire a super duper star....I am not convinced any player on the team fits that description. Forget fit. There is no one on the team to fit with! Not yet.
Best player available that is NOT a guard. Stock up on Wings and figure it out.
This is a wing draft 100%. Though backup pg in the 2nd round wouldn’t be the worst thing like that one short french guy or something
There is a thin line between Raptor’s wings who couldn’t make it work and OKC’s undersized SF and PF who had better chemistry and made it work.
Mike you need to do locked on nba next year, duo with the Rockets guy or something. The crossover episode you guys did together was great.
Or embrace the drama and a locked on NBA duo of Blazers and Heat.
This an undervalued draft class. We should go all-in on this class. We should trade veterans for the top picks. Of the top four slots only Washington is unlikely to trade out of their position. We should grab as many top choices as possible.
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@@WKTT_503
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I can't help it. Dude is so knowledgeable! 🤭
I think this is the perfect class to prioritize fit over talent. This isn't the most talented class with alot of high upside guys. This next season should be about getting pieces around Scoot and Sharpe that will help their development. Trade Grant, Brogdon, Rob-Will, and probably Simons. And get draft picks and players that compliment Sharpe and Scoot cause they are the 2 most important young players on the team and they need them to live up to their huge potentials. Next year's draft is where you can get your next star, not this one.
You are one funny person
This draft class isn’t great, I agree to that
@@khaykhay8401 , I'd trade the 7th pick and keep the 14th. This is the draft they should prioritize complimentary pieces to Scoot and Sharpe. And next year's draft is the one they could possibly get the other star. But there's nothing wrong with getting 1-2 good solid role players that compliment the star talents. The team needs another Center and shooters
For the millionth time
We need size
Draft for talent or need? Id say in a stacked draft class its talent. In a year that isnt so great like this one it might make sense to go with need.
It’s interesting looking at the differences between the Pistons and Blazers. Particularly the Ivey pick. He was clearly the best player available… consensus top-4 in a tier above the next group, and only fell to them because the Kings decided to make the high-floor pick. The Pistons took him anyways despite being a bad fit, and will probably have to trade him for lesser value before he gets to his 2nd contract. One could make the argument that this means the Blazers should consider fit, but I think the difference is that the Pistons have an established cornerstone in Cade while the Blazers don’t. Shaedon is most likely to become a star and he can fit with just about anyone. Yes, if they take a point guard then they’ll probably have to decide between him and Scoot within a few years and get slightly lesser value for whichever one they trade, but I don’t mind that. Worst case scenario, Scoot ends up being better and it ends up being a swing and a miss in a slightly depleted draft. Best case scenario, the player becomes better than Scoot and it was a worthwhile pick.
The only reason I don’t advocate for this myself is because j don’t think there are any guards good enough to consider in that regard, and if there were the Spurs or Wizards would probably take them anyways
Mock draft are a pile of poo. Every mock draft blazers drafting guard. We have more than enough. I don't see why people are so stupid in these movk drafts
Go with fit at #7. Knecht is the most advanced and will help Scoot off-ball. Upside at #14 with Missi
I don't think that there is any guard in this draft that is evidently so good that it would be malpractice to draft somebody else instead, and if there were they would NOT be available at 7.
I think this is a really underappreciated point. We can talk hypotheticals about a future star guard falling to the Blazers at 7… but that would mean the Wizards, Spurs, Pistons, and whoever potentially trades with the Rockets all passed up on him. I get the Blazers scouts might just evaluate things differently, but I do think it’s highly unlikely that all these teams that could use point guards would all pass on someone who’s so overwhelmingly good that the Blazers have to take him
Best player available. Always...and not necessarily the player that can help win the next year...go big picture. The player that will be the best player career-wise...even if it is a guard (gulp).
Holistic bell curve spreadsheet analyses!
Never draft over your own young guys even if its best available. That never works out well.
I'm starting to think I like Dalton Knecht at 7, and then Tidjuane Salaun or Tristan Da Silva at 14. If not Salaun or Da Silva maybe a backup big Yves Missi or Kel'el Ware. Granted I don't have the knowledge of most of the prospects though. Dalton Knecht though to me is a bucket,
I like your thinking. I think the Blazers are better off going high floors than praying on high ceilings. Every player that doesn't pop, the fans are gonna say "we told you so". May as well pick dudes who will put in quality minutes as role players and get ready for the next draft.
@@rileymcphee9429 I feel that Knecht is more ready , so I think take him at 7 if he's still on the board, then at 14 take a chance on Tristan Da Silva , Tidjuane Salaun, Yves Missi or Kel'el Ware.
@scootover7 yeah, I think 2-3 of those guys would still be in the boats at 14
Don’t draft anyone under 6’6” and also make sure to an athletic rim protector, we should target being a top 15 defensive team in the next two years
draft very VERY young players that will take YEARS to develop. That way Blazers management can't be criticized, because young players 1 thru 12 haven't fully developed.
Take the best Holland available
You should always draft the best player available trade for fit
mark my words blazers need to get Ron Holland. he is my 2nd best player on the board behind sarr
Talent is very important but at the same time we've seen alot of players and teams fail if that player doesn't fit the team or coach. Sometimes when you get that great fit with a player and team it can elevate that player to a level we didn't think they had. J-Dub with OKC, Giannis with Bucks and more. So I do think fit matters more
An example from the blazers you can go back to Jerryd Bayless he was very talented but the team didn't do a good job devoloping him and he wasn't a good fit with B-Roy. I think DeAndre Ayton coming out of college really needed a veteran that could have taught him how to use his body better and to just have more of an aggressive mindset
Portland needs more guards. Dillingham at 7 Sheppard at 14. 👍👍👍
They can gain eventual cap relief by trading for expiring contracts.
Trade anfernee to Orlando for
Jonathan Isaac
2024 FRP 18
2025 unprotected FRP
A future pick swap that benefits portland of portlands choice.
Trade Malcom brogdon and Robert Williams to Philly
Blazers get
Paul reed
2024 FRP 16
2024 2nd round pick 41
Return blazers 2nd round pick in 2029
What did Isaac do in the playoffs this year? I just watched the highlight vids and he was practically invisible.
Package up picks get number 2 pick
The need to trade up. Aim for 1,3, or 5.
Why? The price would be too high and even you dont know who you are shooting for
This is absolutely not the draft to waste assets trying to trade up. If you can get a good deal sure, but I wouldn’t be seeking it out.
@1123kav exactly 💯
Blazers have #7, 14, 34 and 40 in one of the worst projected drafts in memory. Fr y'all, there may only be decent players in the top 5-7. If Rockets would be want to swap #3 for #14 and take both our second rounders, that's worth it to me.
There may not be anyone decent in the second round ffs
Just make sure Tidjane Salaun ends up in Portland
It will be 2026-2027...and maybe 2026-2028...
Come on man, that’s some pretty damned egregious damning with faint praise on Scoot there. Cade Cunningham has more upside? Really? Their rookie stats are close enough to be a Rorschach test. I know, let’s draft another SG that’s short Nassir Little bekuz upside. Oh wait, Nas was way better in college and was a late 1st. Holland will never be better than Shaedon, and a horrible fit.
Cade is built like a small forward and can do anything you want him to on the court. If the Pistons called up the Blazers and offered Cade for Scoot straight up it’s an automatic yes
And they absolutely should do that if it came up because he's better RIGHT NOW. But also, folks have been chasing the "tall point guard" archetype since Magic Johnson- actually landing one is RARE. I have no idea which has a better career overall at this point. I'm more just not in on even sniffing at "let's move on from Scoot/not care about drafting over him" because he had a typical rookie PG year. If he figures out his 3 point shot everything else falls into place. From what I've seen, it'll probably happen because it's a footwork/handle issue, not a shot mechanics one.
@@joelrosenberg3627 it would be because he projects to be better in the future, not just right now, because the blazers are in no position to be focused on the present. And the fact that this archetype is so rare is exactly the reason why Cade has a higher ceiling. Will he his ceiling be as high as Magic’s or Luka’s? Probably not. But the fact that a guy his size is getting >7 assists per game and steadily improving his scoring efficiency within the context of the most inept franchise since The Process indicates the ceiling is extraordinarily high. I’m lower on Scoot than most people, but this isn’t even Scoot hate. Cade is just really really good
I don’t think drafting over Scoot means they don’t believe in him. The fact that they chose him over Dame implies they do. But the fact is that he hasn’t PROVEN that he will ever be an All-NBA caliber player. We can dispute what we believe is the likelihood of that happening, but until he shows it, the team would be irresponsible to just assume it will happen imo. For as many Darius Garlands and De’aaron Foxes as we like to comp him to who came back from bad rookie PG seasons, there are several Fultzes, Oladipos, and Mudiays. We just don’t know yet what he’ll be
Rip Bill Walton. 🫶🏽