Sixers-Pelicans Lottery Thread

[ice grillin you]

i mean i could be way off but i just dont see the lakers doing it....he doesnt hold any value for a team like that

the lakers arent doing shtein unless they get love and lebron and thads contract hurts those chances

i think to get the most value out of him you either need to find a team that is overly desperate for the playoffs and not very smart (sacramento) or a team that is desperate for and close to a championship (thunder)

my hope for thad is something like thad for perk and 21 or thad for a 2015 one

what id like to do is mcw to sacramento for 8....then take exum at 3 and youll have 8 & 10 to work with

[Eagles_Legendz]

That's an interesting idea.   I'm not sure if I'd do that but I don't mind the idea if wiggins is gone at 3.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Heard Bilas on the radio a bit earlier and he seems to think Parker is the top guy and says he sees him stepping in and averaging 17-18 a night. I didn't hear which player he compared his skill set to but he said he thinks Randle will be good and compared him to Z-Bo

[Eagles_Legendz]

Most people and scouts seem to compare Parker to Carmelo.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah I'm reading Simmons' column now and he made that comparison...

What do you think of this?

Prediction No. 1: Utah tries like hell to trade up for Jabari Parker.

I'm almost positive that Jabari is the first Mormon who can be described like this: "A little bit of Paul Pierce and a little Carmelo offensively, only if they were more fun to play with, and they were trapped in Rudy Gay's body if Rudy needed to go gluten-free and hire a personal trainer." Hey, Sam Hinkie, you love collecting assets like Leo DiCaprio collects models. And you're not crazy about taking Jabari, anyway — what if Utah flipped you no. 5 for no. 3 and no. 23 and threw in Alec Burks plus a first-round pick-swap in any of the next three years? Would that do it? Any interest? Any?

[phattymatty]

farg it why not if andrew is not there at 3. still gonna get a great player at 5. i love adrien payne's game other than his tendency to throw up the 3s so much. not worth the 10 but late first, yes. 5, 10 and 23 would be nice. plus the 900 2nd rounders which they are obviously going to use in some kind of package at some point. maybe snag some of them 7 foot international dudes and hide them overseas for a bit.

[phattymatty]

only guy that i've seen in the top 5 that i want no piece of is marcus smart because he ugly.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I like Payne too.

If they landed Payne and Harris how many Nica ladies would you go celebrate with?

[ice grillin you]

farg it why not if andrew is not there at 3. still gonna get a great player at 5. i love adrien payne's game other than his tendency to throw up the 3s so much. not worth the 10 but late first, yes.

payne is a great shooter tho...thats his game....and stretch fours are so important in the nba now....shooters in general....this draft is filled with them too...they gotta come out of this draft with no less than three shooters....but yeah 10 is to early for payne as hes really going to be a role player albeit an important one

carmelo comparison is apt but i think parker is more paul pierce...not now obviously but coming out of school

[PhillyPhreak54]

I hate Paul Pierce so much that I hate when people are even compared to him.

Biggest farging Hoyda in NBA history

[Eagles_Legendz]

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ryen-russillos-nba-draft-confidential-real-scouts-on-wiggins-randle-embiid-and-parker/

[ice grillin you]

what ive been saying about jabari forever...

he seems like the kind of guy who will put the work in...so his conditioning wouldnt bother me right now....one thing that will dictate his career imo is his shooting...if he becomes a knock down shooter then he has paul pierce potential

what scout says...

A giant Paul Pierce. Don't completely trust his shot. I think he's really selfish, took some really tough contested shots, but probably because he looked at the [Duke] team around him and just said, "farg it."

He can score in different ways, rebounds, pass. I worry about him as a small forward. If he was an elite athlete you could get by with him being a below-average shooter. If he was an elite shooter you could get by with him being a below-average athlete. Unfortunately, he's below average in both. I'm a fan, but he can't be your best player.

[Eagles_Legendz]

The one somewhat surprising take I came away with is all three seem uniformed in believing Embiid's upside is higher than Wiggins'.

[ice grillin you]

The one somewhat surprising take I came away with is all three seem uniformed in believing Embiid's upside is higher than Wiggins'.

i dont have major beef with that opinion but imo  upside for a sg/wing is more important than upside for a big....id rather have my superstar be the guy with the ball in his hand all the time

[BigEd76]

People at the LA workouts today said Embiid looked great and his back is 100%, and Parker lost weight and looks fit