re: Just for fun: NBADraft.net and DraftExpress recent mocks.

Hope we can get a superstae

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Visions of Ben mcclemore dance in my head

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They are actually not similar at all. Mainly bc of attitude.

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Granted, anyone outside the top 5 probably won't be

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Yup. I'm on same page as you with the top 4 being potential super stars and immediate help.

I also think this draft is pretty deep (specifically at the C), and there's guys in mocks falling outside the lottery than can provide help. We just need the picks.

Valentine, Beasley at FSU, even Grayson Allen at Duke can shoot lights out at the 2 at be EG replacements.

If we miss on Dunn, guys like Melo Trimble and Baldwin at Vandy have the size and handle to be a NBA PG

I feel like there's 5-6 7 footers in the 1st this year that can do what Asik does.

Once again, we just need the picks and should be sending out Ryno and EG for any 1st we can get our hands on.

Hield may not be the most physically gifted option when we draft but he is 100% the type of player we need, both on the court and in the locker room. He shoots lights out as the main focus of elite college teams defense, think how he'll be as a 2nd or 3rd option. Plus Gentrys offense requires an elite shooting 2 guard. We need a JJ or a Thompson or a Joe Johnson like Gentry has always had. EG ain't cutting it.

This is a good article that really shows his intangibles. Guys a trash talker who is the heart and sole of a team and despises losing. Outside of Perk we have no one like that.

Buddy Hield

I agree with the Reddick comparison, and that's why I don't want him if other higher potential prospects are available. We need a star to pair with AD, not another role player.

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We need a star to pair with AD, not another role player.

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And how do you propose that? Outside of Ben and possibly Ingram who has 100% star written on them?

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And we don't have time for a Redick

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We are currently 7th. Even if we trade Gordon and Ryno for future assets, I don't see how we finish higher/lower than 6th. Maybe if you trade a Tyreke package to Brooklyn and help them win games, but outside of that it will be hard to be worse than the 5 teams at the bottom that have at least a 7 game lead in the loss column.

He's got a good wingspan and large hands and has shown the work ethic/tenacity and basketball iq to be at least an average NBA defender. I see a higher upside than JJ Reddick, but it's really the personality that I want. We need someone to be a vocal leader and a guy that's gonna force our guys to play with a chip on their shoulder like Draymond does for GS or Garnett does or Chris Paul. If you didn't read the article you should, it's a good read and really makes you like the guy

Obviously if Simmons, Ingram is available take them but other than that I'd value Hield over the other top 10 prospects. i could be convinced on Brown

I'm with you on wasting losses. Utah won last night so we are now 5 games out of 9th. If we don't get any crazy ideas in our head and beat a team we shouldn't hopefully we'll be even further behind when the trade deadline comes when they have to decide if they think they can save the season.

Blow it up!