2008 CelticsBlog draft board.

[wdleehi]

How has Scali not been taken? Every other Celtic has. I expect little house to go next round.

Pollard, PJ, Scali, and Cassell.

[Roy Hobbs]

How has Scali not been taken? Every other Celtic has. I expect little house to go next round.

I think we're still waiting for Sam "Ubuntu Killer" Cassell to be drafted, too.

(P.J., as well.)

[Gainesville Celtic]

With the 20th pick in the 11th round, the ORLANDO MAGICS reunite SG DEVIN BROWN with Tim Duncan and becomes the 5th member of the Orlando Magics to have an NBA Ring.

[Evantime34]

With the 18th pick in the 12th round, the Atlanta Hawks select Kyrylo Fesenko.

You have 15 players now, and I believe you ahve more picks in this round. You know the limit for players on a team is 15 right?

[Lucky17]

Pritchard says he has a real shot at making this year's roster. He impressed in the summer league.

Gratuitous Wikipedia citation:

On July 14, 2008 Petteri had by far his most exciting performance against NBA competition. In a Las Vegas summer league game against the Washington Wizards Koponen scored 19 points shooting 4 of his 6 three point attempts. The most impressive part was that late in the game with the Blazers down by 6 Koponen put on an offensive show with his shooting, driving and passing abilities to lead the Blazers to a 78-73 victory. Such a glorious display of his late game heroics has resulted in Blazers fans far and wide dubbing him with the nickname "the Finnisher."

Here's a decent all-international squad:

PG: Koponen
SG: Sefolosha
SF: Deng
PF: Songaila
C: Fesenko

[Lucky17]

With the 18th pick in the 12th round, the Atlanta Hawks select Kyrylo Fesenko.

You have 15 players now, and I believe you ahve more picks in this round. You know the limit for players on a team is 15 right?

I'm not done dealing just yet. And it's no guarantee that Koponen or Fesenko will play here next season, so I may need to use all my picks to round out my roster.

[Gainesville Celtic]

he's also taking his sweet time.

agreed roy, Lucky's been a consistently good drafter the whole time.

Maybe i spoke too soon ... the Songaila and Hayes picks are among the best talent/round ratio since very early on... but the McRoberts and Koponen picks are too early IMO, considering some of the guys still on the board and ATL's needs.

Fesenko is a nice flyer pick...

[Gainesville Celtic]

The Cavs select a young swingman that turned it on pretty well for the Knicks at the end of last season:

Wilson Chandler

very nice pick this late, he's a quality prospect == much higher than about 30 or so that have been taken thus far (George HIll, McGee, etc.)

"Much" higher?  Is that why McGee was taken 5 spots higher (albeit in a later... but also deeper draft)?  I am just interested to know how you are confident to say Chandler is a much higher prospect than McGee, when even real life GM's swing and miss on prospects taken outside of the lottery about 40-60% of the time, if not more.

Besides, McGee was drafted for need and because of his great potential. 

c'mon.... so Arenas or Monta Ellis aren't as good as someone else b/c they were taken later?

Chandler's a higher prospect IMO, b/c in 16 games as a starter in the NBA (albeit with the Knicks) he averaged 9.3 pts, 4.7 reb, and  nearly 1 block.... So he's proved he can play.

I believe McGee is generally considered a project --- one with good but not "great" potential... I didn't mean to single you out.  there were many other young folks (Weaver, even Giddens and Walker (though they get a hometown pass i guess)...

[Kwhit10]

I'm shopping the 22nd pick guys I feel there is still lots of value at the end of the 12th round so looking for a starter in return...


j/k I thought we hadn't seen one of these posts in a while  

[crownsy]

uh.. i suppose we take

Croshere, austin

tough to find anyone this late heh.

[Lucky17]

he's also taking his sweet time.

agreed roy, Lucky's been a consistently good drafter the whole time.

Maybe i spoke too soon... the Songaila and Hayes picks are among the best talent/round ratio since very early on... but the McRoberts and Koponen picks are too early IMO, considering some of the guys still on the board and ATL's needs.

Fesenko is a nice flyer pick...

No argument about McRoberts and Koponen.

[Donoghus]

Boston Celtics select:  Stephane Lasme

[Kwhit10]

The Philadelphia 76ers select Earl Barron

His 6 fouls can come in handy.

[Redz]

offering

13 ( 8 ) & 14 (23) to move up into this round.

I want Cassell

Actually I'm just trying to cut down on my picks.

Or some combo of both

[RebusRankin]

The Clippers select Theo Ratliff