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Maybe if we were the Timberwolves, but we have a good shot at playoffs.. why just piss off everybody especially when having the worst record won't necesarily guarantee #1 pick
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Heck no. This won't even average 14ppg in the D-League. He will be getting stuffed in the NBA like he does to others now. Every time he dribbles, he looks like he is going to lose the ball or get it stolen. Unless this kid develops a steady jumper, better handles, and a 3 point shot he isn't even top 20 material.
May be right about your skills review, plus that vid was all offense. However, the kid is getting all the hype & that's what counts. If he comes out, he will be drafted #1. Only time will tell if he's a LBJ or Kwame.
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Hell no we shouldn't tank. We play our hearts out until the end and we trade our 1st round pick and another asset for some other teams 1st round pick who is expected to be god awful, so it would be a high pick and we can pick up Perry Jones! Kid has gobs of potential :grin: http://www.nbadraft.net/players/perry-jones
get john wall off ur wish list cuz we're not gettin him its quite plain and simple.. youll be butt-hurt all offseason if u think we are
After what happened with the Bulls and Derrick Rose, you never know. It's called the draft "lottery" for a reason.
from Draft Express NBA Draft Prospect of the Week: John Wall December 16, 2009 John Wall’s freshman season feels like one big highlight reel thus far, starting with his very first game against Miami Ohio in which he knocked down a terrific pull-up jumper to win the game for Kentucky. That continued with more late-game heroics against Stanford in a tournament in Cancun, keeping his team in the game to force overtime and win a game they probably shouldn’t have. The legend only grew after that as seemingly the entire basketball nation tuned in to CBS on a Sunday afternoon to watch him carve up North Carolina’s defense with some incredibly athletic plays in transition, only to see his value magnified as his team fall apart the moment he was forced to leave the game with a minor injury. As the stage got bigger—this time in Madison Square Garden—Wall’s notoriety continued to grow, as more clutch second half play and a season high 25 points gave his team yet another big win against a very tough UConn squad. Needless to say, Wall has done everything that’s been asked of him and then some, both on and off the court, and is at this point the run-away favorite to be drafted first overall in June, regardless of who is making the pick. The question now becomes, just how good can he become in the future? And what does he need to do to get there? Plenty of words have already been spent on the athletic gifts of John Wall, both here and otherwise. He’s in a class of his own in college basketball as far as his quickness and explosiveness is concerned, as he’s shown on countless occasions with some incredible highlight reel plays. After all, how many NCAA teams have a set play in their offense for a backdoor cut and alleyoop lob intended for their point guard? We called Derrick Rose the “most athletic point guard we’ve ever evaluated at the college level,” and feel strongly about the fact that Wall is every bit his equal in that category, if not better. A place where Wall might still be underrated though is in his passing ability. Not only does he rank 6th amongst all draft prospects in assists per-40 minutes pace adjusted, but more notably he ranks 8th in assists per field goal attempt ratio. This is an interesting stat to evaluate Wall by because it compares the amount of assists he racks up with the number of shots he takes, which could be a good way to rate how unselfish he’s been. Right now he stacks up favorably in that category with the collegiate numbers posted by the likes of Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Rajon Rondo and Ty Lawson, and absolutely blows away what Derrick Rose did as a freshman. More important than the numbers is the fact that Wall is clearly showing excellent instincts as a passer, both with the creativity in which he gets the ball to teammates in different spots on the floor—he’s more than just a vanilla drive and dish point guard—and also with the willingness he displays to get others involved. This is exactly what you want to see from a modern day NBA point guard—the ability to take over as a scorer and shot-creator when needed, to go along with the selflessness to want to make everyone around him better. Another area in which Wall has been better than advertised is with his play on the defensive end. Not only does he have the physical attributes required to be a lockdown defender—with his terrific size, wingspan and lateral quickness—but (unlike Derrick Rose) he also shows the type of aggressiveness and intensity to take advantage of his tools. The huge number of blocks and steals he generates immediately jumps off the page at you, but seeing the way he absolutely smothers his opponents on the perimeter with his length and his ability to cover ground and contest countless shots around the basket each game is far more impressive.
