After Davis, I think Beal and the younger Zeller are the cream of the crop. Zeller would be ideal. He's incredibly efficient, blue-collar, has a high hoops IQ, and is great from FT for a 19-year-old big. I think Daryl will trade up for him.
I see Cody Zeller as a better version of Nick Collison, he would help us tremendously I doubt Drayl trades up for Cody, but he might trade up for Drummond, or Beal
There are only two players in the top 5 who interest me. Thats Drummond and Thomas Robinson. I don't think Davis should be a top pick. He struggled against good competition too much.
Where are you getting that information? Against Florida he had 16/6/4 (pts/rebounds/blocks), 22/12/6, & 15/12/2. Against Baylor in the Elite 8 he had 18/11/6. I mean the dude is averaging 4.5 blocks. He might not be perfectly refined offensively, but there's no denying he has skill. Thomas Robinson is good, but he has troubles when people front him and doesn't make the greatest decisions with the ball (shoots too often). Drummond, on the other hand, literally hasn't done a damn thing all year. There's no such thing as a sure thing in the draft, but I think if you asked anybody, Davis is w/out a doubt the deserving #1 pick.
Agreed, ideally Morey trades picks, Martin, Scola, Lowry and whatever else to get as many top 10 picks as possible. You sign Deron and then tank again to get Shabazz or whoever is the consensus #1 next season and then sign Dwight. Howard, Deron, lotto picks from 2012, #1 pick 2013. That is how you create a dynasty.
If Wroten and Quincy Miller declare and they drop that low any team drafting them is getting a steal. I think they both will return though
but its better than what he have been doing making the playoffs this year, would be foolish on a 10 ten different reasons You steal some quality talent this year.. that decided to stay in college because of the lockout. Jeremy Lamb falling to us at 14 would be a gift.. this kid was rated as a top 8 selection last year.... TANK damn it This is where teams with good GM's tank, especially if they lose their pick to another team by making the playoffs, and barely getting the 8th seed. We need to get quality talent. Real Talent from the draft, not other teams BUST players.. and trying to trade them for a superstar
I'm so freakin pumped for this years draft! The fact the we could get Quincy Miller at 21 is rediculas!
Funny how the majority in the GARM is for playoffs while the people here that obviously know something more about the draft prospects are all unanimously for tanking and getting as many picks as possible...
I'm all for making the playoffs, but still getting picks as well. We should get the picks through trades though.
Thabeet was also a beast learning from McHale, right? BTW hasn't Drummond already announced that he will not enter the draft this year?
MKG plays flat-out. Great game or okay game, he's always hustling. Terrence Jones has great talent but if he really does have a bit of an attitude problem, he'll slide as far as Ford says, although I think he'll go higher.
I think regardless this year ...we have to look acquiring as much assets as we can in one of the best drafts. with cap space to sign a max free agent or work a trade where we take a bad contract Martin, Scola, dalembert, lowry, morris all tradeable possibly Dmo and llull tradeable... possibly the 10th, 14th, and 21st pick in this years super deep draft... You would think this is the year (the draft time) where we get that superstar.
Wonder if there are any PG-starved under-the-cap teams with a high draft pick. I love Lowry's game, but Morey's all about maximizing what he has. I would like a top 10 pick. I would not like to let Dragic walk....unless Llull comes over, and I'm not holding my breath on that OR on the top 10 pick.
For some reason...I see us trading with tornoto either to get that pick and give them good leadership type of players... or acquiring barnagni
In the GARM, people are thinking more about the long-term as it concerns the Rockets, whereas here, people are just looking at this draft. Of course if you just look at one draft you would talk about how to get the most picks, best picks, etc. But from a Rockets perspective, making the playoffs would remove a restriction on the types of deals we can make in future years. Also, we don't have room right now for 3 1st round picks + Donuts nor do we necessarily want to pay 3 guaranteed 1st round salaries.
