Poeltl & Pascal - The 2016 Draft

[007]

Sabonis is a man amongst boys in the NCAA. Nobody can handle his physical play.

He's also only 19 (turning 20 shortly before the draft). Plus if his dad had anything to do with his development he should have a very good basketball IQ.

[DogeLover1234]

Sabonis is a man amongst boys in the NCAA. Nobody can handle his physical play.

Yeah he handled Poeltl, who is one of the best bigs in college. I'm really warming up to him.Saw him play live earlier this year and he really impressed there as well. He gets hyped.

[Just Is]

He's also only 19 (turning 20 shortly before the draft). Plus if his dad had anything to do with his development he should have a very good basketball IQ.

I was hoping he'd fall to our pick due to worry...damn, sounds like he won't. I liked him and it had nothing to do with his father.

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[The Great One]

I like Sabonis a lot. He's like a young Luis Scola.

Rabb is still my #1 choice though.

[Miekenstien]

sabonis has a beautiful post game. smooth operator down there

[Apollo]

Like I was saying a few weeks ago, Sabonis doesn't have flash and this mystery upside(hype) of some of these freshman options but he has all the right things a pro needs to stick in the league for a long time in an important role. Personally I like a Marc Gasol comparison more than anything.

[3inthekeon]

Is there any big in our draft range with passing skills? At some point in our future, we've got to become much more of a ball movement team.

[saints91]

I'm hoping Korkmaz can fall to our spot. I love his swagger, and his style of play. He just seems to have that natural feel for the game. He really needs to improve on D though.

An ideal draft for me is Rabb with the Knicks pick and Korkmaz with ours. If Korkmaz can fill out he could be a great point forward.

[tenforthewin]

I say we move up the draft by packaging JV, Delon Wright, plus our pick to Phoenix and grab Chandler, Tucker, and their pick. We acquire Jamal Murry. Then we package Ross plus Patterson and our future pick for an allstar PF, possibly Horford. Resign Biyombo and draft either Brice Johnson or Diamond Stone or Damian Jones with our late pick. Reason we acquire Murry is to establish him as our future PG. Lowry will become a FA after next season and he will be looking for a max. Personally I don't see Lowry as our future, next season could be his last. Murry can learn a lot from Lowry and take his mantle in his sophomore year and become our Mighty Mouse 2.0. We sign Dwight Powell if we have remaining money left.

Lineups next year
Lowry, Joseph, Murry
Derozan,Murry, Powell
DMC, Tucker, Bruno
Horford, DPowell, Draft
Biyombo, Chandler, Noguiera

[KHD]

I say we move up the draft by packaging JV, Delon Wright, plus our pick to Phoenix and grab Chandler, Tucker, and their pick. We acquire Jamal Murry. Then we package Ross plus Patterson and our future pick for an allstar PF, possibly Horford. Resign Biyombo and draft either Brice Johnson or Diamond Stone or Damian Jones with our late pick. Reason we acquire Murry is to establish him as our future PG. Lowry will become a FA after next season and he will be looking for a max. Personally I don't see Lowry as our future, next season could be his last. Murry can learn a lot from Lowry and take his mantle in his sophomore year and become our Mighty Mouse 2.0. We sign Dwight Powell if we have remaining money left.

Lineups next year
Lowry, Joseph, Murry
Derozan,Murry, Powell
DMC, Tucker, Bruno
Horford, DPowell, Draft
Biyombo, Chandler, Noguiera

oh hey it's a 10FTW special!

[octothorp]

Is there any big in our draft range with passing skills? At some point in our future, we've got to become much more of a ball movement team.

Both Ellenson and Rabb were expected to have decent passing skills. Rabb didn't really get a chance to show much of that this season (0.9 assists), while Ellenson was used more as a passing big out of the post more for Marquette (1.8).

Looking at our own pick, Nigel Hayes might be the best passing big in the draft, IF you consider him a big at all. But if you want that undersized, defense/shooting/passing Draymond Green type big, he's probably the closest you're going to get in this draft. (Of course, if he was actually anywhere close to Green, he wouldn't be in the 30s in most mocks).

[MACK11]

Is there any big in our draft range with passing skills? At some point in our future, we've got to become much more of a ball movement team.

Rabb was known as a good passing big but he doesn't get that many touches on Cal to show it.

[rightsideup]

oh hey it's a 10FTW special!

Yikes!!!

[tDotted]

Is there any big in our draft range with passing skills? At some point in our future, we've got to become much more of a ball movement team.

Among that clump of PFs, the only ones who stand out for their passing are Ellenson and Skal.

For different reasons of course.

[Apollo]

Among that clump of PFs, the only ones who stand out for their passing are Ellenson and Skal.

For different reasons of course.

Skal is a long term project and he's lacking in so many big men skills. He's going to come with the frustrations of a Bargnani. It doesn't matter if he can pass if he can't guard anyone and isn't able to rebound.