Steven Adams

My Adam's hype meter is slowly increasing.

http://newsok.com/chalk-up-another-one-for-thunders-steven-adams/article/3895919

 

I think Steven Adams is the real deal because of his mobility and athleticism at his size. I don't know what the Suns were smoking drafting a guy who had 8 steals in 38 games last year.(Alex Len) I thought 'motor' had replaced 'upside' as the favorite term for the NBA draft?

However, Rockets fans should thank their lucky stars that Morey did not acquire Andre Drummond(#9 pick) in the draft last year and trade him later on for Harden. You might as well hand the Thunder the championship for the rest of the decade. Toronto Raptors' GM didn't deal the 8th pick for Kyle Lowry on draft night since he was targeting local hero Steve Nash for free agency.

 

Wow...OKC got the best of the Harden trade after all...

 

Now now, J Sizzle. Don't be upset because of:

 

Haha that's some serious digging!

Looks like I might have been way off on those predictions. Not sure how Shabazz is doing, but Burke is hurt so he can't be judged, and Adams and Zeller have looked pretty promising. Also MCW seems to be bricking a bunch, but putting up solid numbers.

Not my best calls :grin:

 

When in doubt - wingspan. I think that's #1 on OKC's draft board.

 

lol, confession - I bookmarked that thread.

 

Or maybe you'll trade us Adams before you have to pay him.

 

They'll need to keep Adams for when Westbrick and Durant leave them.

 

Perk bout to start and play a bunch of minutes ahead of guys more deserving

 

Maybe you should post his pre-season averages, because coming in to this game he shot only 15% from 3 and 32% from the field.

 

I stand corrected. Obviously Presti schooled Morey on the Harden trade.

 

any Jeremy Lamb highlights from tonight? I only caught the 4th quarter

 

I'm impressed with Adams. I (and NBA GMs: http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/celtics/post/_/id/4707568/gm-poll-olynyk-biggest-steal-in-draft) think Olynyk will be the steal of the draft. Every time I see Olynyk, he does something proper.

 

Simple answer: they should have either 1) waited til the end of the year - hardens value would have gone down just a little (teams would have still offered a lot for harden) - ie be patient; and 2) more importantly, amnestied Perkins ($9m) and offered harden the extra $1.5m per year he was asking. They would have paid for Perkins salary but he wouldn't have counted against the cap. That's where Presti screwed up. Westbrook over harden and Ibaka over harden are both defensible but not taking 1 or 2 above was the real mistake.