POLL: BPA or draft for position?

[csfansince60s]

Assuming that we keep both 21 and 22, which would you do?

What prompts this question are the two most recent mocks by NBAdraft.net of 6/21 and 6/25.
 
The mock of 6/21 has us picking the Jones boys, Perry and Terrence. Since we need athletic bigs and these guys would most likely be the BPAs this seems like a pretty easy decision.

The mock of 6/25 has Kendall Marshall slipping to us at 21:

http://nbadraft.net/2012mock_draft

which prompts the question.

If at 21/22 the BPAs are not bigs (e.g. Marshall/Ross/JLamb), what do we do?

I vote take both BPAs even if neither is a big. Tough decision. What would you do?

[bfrombleacher]

Before, it was players with significant problems that seemed to land on us. Royce White has no position. And the only big available was Fab Melo (who's a bit like Thabeet).

Evan Fournier, Will Barton and Andrew Nicholson were projected to land on us...all projected to go after us now.

Now, we're getting Quincey Miller, Jared Sullinger (he was in the lottery before), Moultrie in one, the Jones boys (as you said), Kendall Marshall in our range.

I'm really curious as to why this happened and how they do these mocks now. Hopefully this happens though.

BPA is the way to go if this really happens, which I hope it does. There isn't even a question when you're comparing the likes of Kendall Marshall to Fab Melo. Even though we need a big desperately, the talent gap is huge.

Edit: but if more than three of the (in my opinion) unusually good talent falls to us, I'd do one of each. Rondo's amazing but imagine having a clone in Kendall Marshall

[csfansince60s]

Before, it was players with significant problems that seemed to land on us. Royce White has no position. And the only big available was Fab Melo (who's a bit like Thabeet).

Evan Fournier, Will Barton and Andrew Nicholson were projected to land on us...all projected to go after us now.

Now, we're getting Quincey Miller, Jared Sullinger (he was in the lottery before), Moultrie in one, the Jones boys (as you said), Kendall Marshall in our range.

I'm really curious as to why this happened and how they do these mocks now. Hopefully this happens though.

 

I know. This year is very volatile in terms of player values, and I think that that is part of it.

Also, everybody and their brother and mother seem to have a mock draft this year. There were 84 the other day on Walter's Football Database.

With talent so plateaued from a certain point in this draf, anyone could seem to go anywhere.

[Celtic#9]

It is ok to draft a positional need if they are in the same tier of players. However, if Kendall Marshal or Perry Jones drop, we should get them no matter what. Those players are on another level (in my opinion) than the other players available. But drafting Fab Melo over Moe Harkelss isn't a big deal to me.

[mctyson]

We don't really need a position.  Doc has shown that he can be flexible and creative and find ways to get our best talents on the floor (AB at the 2, KG at the 5.)

We need to focus on giving Doc talent.  Preferably, this talent will be 6'8" or taller, but we have to grab the best talent available at whatever spot we are at.  Sullinger is the perfect example of this, as is Perry Jones 3.  Drafting Festus Ezeli at #21 is not.

[saltlover]

We have what, 5 players under contract for next season?  6?  I don't see how you could consider anything other than BPA, even if it's a point guard.  I'd rather Rondo not have to play 45 minutes a game for the next several seasons.  (Actually, that's not true.  I'd like Rondo to play every minute of every game, and go play for other teams when the Celtics have days off just to see him play more, because he's so fun to watch, but you get my point.)