If we trade up?

[walker834]

 Who should it be for?  This draft is deep and sitting at 16 I don't see a huge difference outside of the top 2 in the draft.  Outside of that it's a pretty solid typical draft that gets worse as it goes but there isn't a huge dropoff till when we are picking if not later on as well.  A lot of youth. A good amount to be excited about.

nbadraft.net has a nice breakdown.

Kristaps
Winslow
Hezonja
Stanley Johnson
Stein
Turner
Portis
Kaminsky
Booker and Dekker

Have aall received some attention on this site. I'm seeing a lot of good players and depth but not  a lot of game changers. 

Celticsblog also did a breakdown of players here but I'm more concerned with how players fit on this team.

Kristaps is 19 years old and s imilar to KO.  We'd have to have a plan surrounding him.

Winslow and SJ are solid players and should make good pros

WCS is a beast of a big man but he isn't without his question marks.  Same with Turner.

Hezonja should prove to be a very versatile scorer but players like him can be had later.

I'm not seeing a whole lot to be honests.     I think I'd take a flier on a guy like SJ and roll the dice but who knows.    Maybe we really are getting DMC.

[walker834]

Just to expound on my thought process, I could see Karl getting enamored with a guy like Hezonja. The issue is Sac is already in position to draft  him.  If we trade up and swap 2 for one if they are out of range. Plus additiional picks.  Sac gets Stein or Turner and Hezonja.  We get Cousins.   Not sure why Sac wouldn't just keep Cousins in that instance but if we can load them with future picks and a young nucleus.  Do we want to do that though because that's where we are at.  We need a star though. Sac needs to rebuild.

We have James young and Crowder right now who would fit well with Cousins.  Young is a slasher and Shooter where we might not need a wing.  Sac does.

Maybe Hezonja will be off the board at 6.  We swap with the knicks.  Draft Hezonja for sac then they draft WCS or Turner.

[djbilly33]

I don't think Boston will make any moves.

Outside the top 3 picks which we will not be getting, I don't see the worth in trading up. If we are going to try and trade up, instead of Smart, get rid of AB. DMC will not be traded to Boston. If we go after Noel, we are stupid.

Imagine the Lakers getting Wade and DMC?