ClutchFans 2014 NBA Draft Thread (6/26/2014)

Morey must be confident that he is about to get a good FA!

 

Miami's 2nd rounders are useless. BS

 

How much $ would a late 20 pick rookie eat up of our cap?

I mean cmon it can be that to much....

 

Capela > *

 

I thought this said 4 years away from playing at Rice. I laughed.

 

Another meaningless Rocket's draft pick; I have seen these for years.

 

Morey sucks in first round picks, amirite?

 

Vipers are gonna be sick this year

 

I actually think he will. He played in Cleveland for 7 years. He's only played in Miami for 4. I think he's in Miami for at least another 2 years. But I'd want to think otherwise... I can't stop thinking about Harden/Dwight/Lebron... sigh.

 

Capela is more of an NBA center than a PF, but we'll find out for sure in 2+ years. Probably comparable to Lucas Nogueira from last year's draft - raw offensively with a lot of defensive potential.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Several teams pursuing Capela with the Rockets, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. Stay tuned.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/482347381170921472">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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We draft a 4 every year and maybe before I die one of these dudes will be someone that can actually play.

 

Clint Capela isn't your average sleeper.

Capela stands 6-foot-11 with a 7-4 1/2 wingspan and a leaping ability that makes him a regular presence around the rim at both ends of the floor. He seems engineered to be a scout's fancy, and yet, folks around the league are generally cool to the Swiss big man's game.

Still, while Capela is expected to be picked somewhere in the second half of the first round of tonight's NBA draft -- long after many fans will have turned off their TV sets -- his stellar production in France, playing for Elan Chalon at just 19 years old, is impossible to ignore.

My WARP projections have Capela as the No. 2 prospect in this year's field. Could he end up being the steal of the draft? I think so.

Here's why you should be happy if your favorite team ends up with Capela.

Three elite skills
Three things stand out from looking at Capela's translated statistics, which are based on his performance in the French Pro A League and the EuroCup international competition and adjusted to its NBA equivalents:

• 2-point percentage: Capela shot 63.8 percent against French competition, third best among players with at least 100 shot attempts. He was even better, at 71.8 percent, in 10 EuroCup games

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http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2014/story/_/id/11138500/clint-capela-steal-2014-draft-nba-draft

 

Ah, Capela!

 

He's a 6'11 project C who is extraordinarily athletic, but needs to eat a cow.
He's committed to his Euro team for the next 2 years, we might see him after that.

Good pick, Eurostash with high upside, allows us to keep chipping away to clear the required $18mill for a Lebron/ Melo pitch.

 

i knew is going to be international player

 

Lol what was that trade. Lost me

 

Or maybe they drafted him because their stating PG stunk it up in the finals and Napier is clearly the best PG on the draft board.

 

So the real draft pick comes in the 2nd round where the contracts aren't guaranteed?

 

Hairston probably thought he was going to the Heat.

Poor guy.