**** at these one-sided draft proposals.
Okafor for the #3 pick is fair value for both sides. People need to lay off the crack pipe with the sixers needing to throw in much more. Indeed, they may have enough to get BOTH Simmons and Dunn but time will tell.
Now, that doesn't mean we need to do the trade because maybe we prefer the player we can get at #3. Up to Danny, assuming any of this is true. But so annoyed at ridiculous fans. You can bet that any trade a fan would make is going to be one-sided.
But many experts agree that Philly will have to send out more than Oakafor.
Obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion. But it flies against pretty basic logic. If okafor was in this draft, he'd be in the conversation for the top 2 and I think he'd pretty much be a slam dunk for #3.
Now maybe Danny doesn't like him. Or maybe he doesn't think he fits. In that case don't even consider a trade. But the value is about right for #3. That's all I'm saying.
Many of Okafor's the skills that people thought would project to the NBA (e.g. passing, rebounding) have not, and all the things people worried would hurt him (defense, jump shot) have. The Okafor we saw last season was pretty much the worst case scenario - I don't think anybody projected that Okafor was going to be that much of a liability, or THAT one dimensional.
I was all over the idea of getting Okafor in the draft because I thought that he'd dominate the post, get to the line at will, be a quality playmaker from the post, and rebound the ball at a high level. I figured those things alone would make him a fringe star from day one, and if he improved his defense and jumper then the sky is the limit.
It didn't work out that way. He looks at least a step or two slower then I expected now that he's up against NBA caliber athletes, his playmaking skills were terrible, his defense was far worse then I could have possible imagined, he couldn't get tot he line to save his life, and his rebounding effort was woeful.
At this rate even if he DOES develop a midrange jumper, he still has far too many critical flaws in his game to be of any real use to anybody.
I cannot remember the last time I saw a 19 YO post-up big man with such imposing physical size who draws fouls and rebounds as poorly as Okafor does. To me that indicates a severe lack of physicality and a serious lack of motor - combine those with his questionable conditioning and unspectacular mobility and I just can't stop myself from seeing flashbacks of Jared Sullinger every time the work "Okafor" pops up.
Sullinger was a beast in college, and everybody raved about his post game, his physicality, his toughness, his work ethic, etc - much like Okafor. Then once he got to the NBA he looked fatter, slower, lazier - it's like he got to the league, to his paycheck, and that's all he cared about. I see so much of that in Okafor and it scares the hell out of me.
Then I look at guys like Dunn - high character kid who has such an impressive all round game on both ends of the court. I can't justify giving that up for a guy with as many red flags as Okafor has right now.
Maybe he'll prove me wrong, but right now I am not intersted.
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