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Your top 7 draft prospects?
« on: April 24, 2016, 06:36:10 PM »

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Mine:
1. Ben Simmons - He's a starter on any team.
2. Brandon Ingram - Great scorer inside and out.  So skinny he'll need some above average toughness to play effectively in the NBA, but his overall potential is too much to ignore
3.  Buddy Hield - James Harden, and Kobe Bryant were both looking for parts of their game this season- apparently Buddy Hield found them.
4.  Jamal Murray - You can't really go wrong selecting a combo guard with a ready made nba game and a sweet three point stroke.
4.  Ivan Rabb - Dominant post game in college combined with Kawhi Leonard's combination of length and athleticism.
5. Jacob Poeltl - The best known seven foot Euro prospect in the draft.  Did nothing but produce in his matchups against other future NBA lottery picks in college. Hard to knock that kind of production.
6. Kriss Dunn-  The draft's best point guard is falling all the way to number 6?? Ben Bentil is laughing at us!
7.  Dragan Bender - All the analysts can't be wrong, can they?  Seriously I'm asking... can they?

Re: Your top 7 draft prospects?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2016, 06:52:56 PM »

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Simmons
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Ingram
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Bender
Murray
Hield

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Dunn
Poeltl

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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2016, 07:19:18 PM »

Offline CFAN38

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Simmons

Ingram

Bender

Murray
Poeltl
Brown

Hield
Dunn
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2016, 07:25:01 PM »

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Simmons

Ingram

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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2016, 10:56:11 PM »

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1. Simmons - he will benefit greatly from NBA spacing. He can be dominant from the mid post even without a decent jumpshot, with the ability to punish double-teams with his awesome court vision. If he switches hands on his jumpshot and becomes solid, he has MVP potential.
2. Ingram - I love Ingram, but he isn't Durant. His mediocre FT% worries me, and he isn't that quick and explosive. However, he can be a pretty dominant shooter with his infinite length, and maybe he'll improve unexpectedly well with an NBA strength program.
3. Bender - I've waffled on Bender, but all the hate he's gotten on this forum has made me like him more. In the new NBA, versatile two-way bigs can make a superstar impact even if they only put up an efficient 15ppg.
4. Murray - here it gets really close. Murray is a really good shooter/scorer with enough size+athleticism to translate his game to the NBA, but I don't think he'll ever be a good defender. I do like that he can score equally well on and off the ball.
5. Dunn - he has really awesome tools and he's done a lot of good things in college, but he's somewhat old, possibly injury-prone, not a good decision maker for his age, and his shooting percentages might overstate his true shooting ability. Plenty of upside as a two-way PG, but plenty of question marks, too.
6. Brown - Freak athlete who can probably be a small-ball PF, but will he be a competent half-court scorer? He has two-way upside, but he also scares me.
7. Poeltl - I think he'll be a two way player in the NBA. Very good man defender, solid help defender. Good finisher under the rim, solid rebounder, sets good picks, does the dirty work. But he doesn't have the upside that some of these other guys do, on either end.

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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2016, 11:43:39 PM »

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1. Simmons
2. Ingram
3. Murray
4. Hield
5. Dunn
6. Brown
7. rather not hurt my brain over it

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« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2016, 01:08:48 AM »

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« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2016, 01:27:39 AM »

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Simmons
Ingram
Murray?
Hield
Dunn
Brown
Bender

Honestly, havent watched much of any of them outside of Hield and Ingram. Everything else is primarily based on reading other mock drafts and other peoples evaluations of the players.

I think realistically its
Ingram Simmons
Murray Hield Dunn Brown Bender

I hope we get one of the bigs in this draft tho
Davis, Skal, Maker, Sabonis, Poeltl, Zimmerman etc seems like a lot of intriguing bigs around outside the top 10.
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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2016, 01:28:16 AM »

Offline alldaboston

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1. Simmons
2. Ingram
3. Murray
4. Bender
5. Hield
6. Dunn
7. Brown
I could very well see the Hawks... starting Taurean Prince at the 3, who is already better than Crowder, imo.

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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2016, 01:30:43 AM »

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Simmons
Ingram
Murray?
Hield
Dunn
Brown
Bender

Honestly, havent watched much of any of them outside of Hield and Ingram. Everything else is primarily based on reading other mock drafts and other peoples evaluations of the players.

I think realistically its
Ingram Simmons
Murray Hield Dunn Brown Bender

I hope we get one of the bigs in this draft tho
Davis, Skal, Maker, Sabonis, Poeltl, Zimmerman etc seems like a lot of intriguing bigs around outside the top 10.

I'd be happy taking a swing with Maker with the Dallas pick.
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« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2016, 01:57:26 AM »

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If I were to list them in tiers, I'd list the top prospects as follows:

Tier 1:
Simmons

Tier 2:
Ingram

Tier 3:
Brown
Hield
Dunn

Tier 4:
Murray
Labissiere
Jackson

Tier 5:
Poeltyl
Bender
Sabonis

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« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2016, 02:50:20 AM »

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Simmons, Ingram, Lab, Heild, Korkmaz, Zubac, Beasley.

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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2016, 03:18:23 AM »

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Simmons, Ingram, Lab, Heild, Korkmaz, Zubac, Beasley.

Well, this list is certainly interesting.
I could very well see the Hawks... starting Taurean Prince at the 3, who is already better than Crowder, imo.

you vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about