What about moving up a few spots to draft Chris Douglas Roberts?

Great idea. Build a team full of free throw chokers, Yao, T-Mac, Scola, and our draft picks.

 

How bout' trading up and picking Chase Budinger or Joe Alexandar

 

Budinger is yet another athletic guy without a mid-range game. He shot 44% FG this year, and 38% 3-pt. Not very impressive for college, in my view.

If you're comparing Budinger to CDR, they are the same size, but I think CDR's got a lot more potential for NBA impact, seriously. How many people with mid-range games do you know in the league right now? Kobe, West, Hamilton... Ray Allen maybe... just very few guys.

While the 40-inch vertical guys who don't shoot that well fill spots 7-10 on most rosters.

Alexander looked good to me the two times I saw him, but he shot 26% 3's this year (?) Looks like he can hit mid-range jumpers all day, and he's rated better than CDR. The two games I watched he had a great energy level.

 

IMHO, this is a good year to trade our pick.

 

Those numbers aren't bad, even for college. In addition he was playing with tremendous amount of pressure, logging in heavy minutes along with JB because of injuries on the Arizona squad. But you also have to take into account that he performed extremely well against good teams: 20 against Memphis (without JB), 29 against USC, 23 against Standford, 30 against Oregon, 24 against UCLA, and 27 against Kansas.

And hardly any scouts think CDR has better potential than Budinger. A decent college player can make a great pro, but a great college player does not necessarily make a great pro-remember that. Most scouts project Budinger to be a better pro than he was in college because of the increased spacing and man to man defense. Same thing with Rudy Gay. He was never a good ball handler or a good mid range shooter but once he got to the pros he made the transition seamlessly.

 

CDR would be a solid player to get at pick #25. He has a nice slashing, mid-range game, is long and can play the 2-3 combo position on a team that has a lot of 1-2 combo players. I don't see Hibbert, though. He's Jake Tsakalidis with less agility.

 

Can anyone say Derick Chevious - that's exactly who CDR is not more, nothing less.

 

we should be drafting a backup centre. Hopefully we'll get Robin Lopez at 25. At least draftexpress says we are to get robin lopez at that pick, which is actually a really good pick for that late in the 1st round.

Swingmen can be acquired thru free agency and big men are always overpriced on the FA market. so drafting is a good place to get a back-up big man.

This years free agency has Pietrus, Maggette(very likely), and Artest(likely)
so plenty of swingmen to choose from.
I only see Desagana Diop as only decent centre for this years FA.

so I'm suggesting:
either get a back-up centre or trade it for maggette(S&T), artest, calderon, or miller...you get the idea

 

Ummmm ????? He is a rookie? He can work on his freethrow's. We don't have many guy's that shoot a high percentage either!

 

Yao can make his free throws

 

That's got'em drooling B. LOL! Has anyone on this board besides you and me, ever even seen an Alex English highlight film?

(film because video tape didn't exist)

 

I know, and you make some very fair points. My preference to take CDR before Chase would be controversial, a potential Chievous-type flop (though Chievous was a very different player).

But if it's a trivial trade up for 2-3 spots, or if he's available at 25, I'd think it's a good pick. Budinger will be long gone by 22, according to most mock drafts.

 

i wouldnt mind getting Budinger at all....i actually would prefer him to CDR, but I think that we would hafta trade up a few more spots to get him than we would for CDR.

Trade our pick and Luther Head for a higher Pick!

 

What team would actually take any of our bench players and move down in the draft? And why?

(it looks like you'd need to move up to around 19 on Draft Express)

 

As a Horn fan, I'm a huge Augustin backer but he'd be another small dude who will have trouble in the West.

Hibbert will be a serviceable backup center, and an upgrade over Loren Woods. Make no mistake, the guy is a stiff. He'd come in there grab some boards, and pick up some fouls. A big body, who is soft.

CDR doesn't have much upside, but he's an interesting pick since he'd replace Luther Head in the rotation. We hurt against Utah since guys like Brewer, Korver, and Harpring all had size. CDR will help out on that front and can be a solid rotation player.

Honestly, when you're picking at the bottom of the 1st round, the best you can hope for are solid rotation guys like Aaron Brooks and Carl Landry. Every now and then you strike gold like San Antonio did with Tony Parker and Golden State did with Gilbert Arenas.