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  • If that's the case I could see a team like Utah or Houston grabbing him at the back end of the lotto.

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    • he also said he thinks our top three are:

      1. irving
      2. williams
      3. barnes

      http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/37862

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      • It's official, Derrick Williams will enter the 2011 NBA draft. We are up to a couple solid players coming out, deeper it gets the better in case we slide.

        http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2...ory?id=6347632
        http://twitter.com/m_shantz

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        • im really not sold on Williams being a 3 at all but glad he's declaring, if anything hes a option for a team like sacramento, cleveland or minnesota drafting ahead of us.
          @sweatpantsjer

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          • ceez wrote: View Post
            im really not sold on Williams being a 3 at all but glad he's declaring, if anything hes a option for a team like sacramento, cleveland or minnesota drafting ahead of us.
            I would agree. I'm not sold on his ability to transition from the four in college to the three in the NBA. But it is at least nice that some good options are coming out. If he ends up on the Raptors I am not going to be disappointed, but hopefully this simply means that players who are a more natural fit fall to the Raptors instead.
            http://twitter.com/m_shantz

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            • ceez wrote: View Post
              im really not sold on Williams being a 3 at all but glad he's declaring, if anything hes a option for a team like sacramento, cleveland or minnesota drafting ahead of us.
              +1

              Any player (like Williams) declaring who gets a team who is higher (that is, if we don't draft #1) to think about drafting them over a player that the Raps would want (Irving, possibly Barnes) is a good thing. I hope that previous sentence made sense.

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              • Yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about
                @sweatpantsjer

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                • Apollo wrote: View Post
                  With Perry Jones out and Walker seems like a viable top 5 pick. Outside of Irving and Williams, the rest of the teams in the top ten are probably getting mostly projects. Even as gifted as Walker is, he's going to need a couple years to work on his jumper.
                  This is bang on - this draft is so unpredictable and there really there hasn't been one like this for a decade. Picks 6-20 could end up all being about the same value.

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                  • Shantz wrote: View Post
                    It's official, Derrick Williams will enter the 2011 NBA draft. We are up to a couple solid players coming out, deeper it gets the better in case we slide.

                    http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2...ory?id=6347632
                    Derrick Williams wrote:
                    I dont think anybody thought i would only be here for 2 years... not even me.. i hope i left y'all with memories that will last forever!
                    http://twitter.com/#!/DWilluofA23/st...38227936964609

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                    • does twitter not work for anyone else ?

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                      • Derrick williams follows Ed Davis on twitter, just saying

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                        • Nets to host multi-player draft workout open to all 30 NBA teams

                          Great Idea on New Jersey's part. This should be something BC and the Scouting Staff are ALL over. Will be interesting to see who shows up.

                          The New Jersey Nets will partner with Houston and New York to host a workout for approximately 40 prospects on May 7 and 8 that could significantly impact the draft landscape, two sources told SI.com.

                          The workout, which will take place at the Nets training facility and is open for participation to all 30 NBA teams, will serve as a solution to the problems created by the NCAA's May 8 deadline by which underclassmen must withdraw to retain eligibility. Because the league's early-entrant deadline is April 24, teams are faced with a limited amount of time to evaluate underclassmen that might be available for the June 23 draft.

                          Thus, the group viewing has become necessary.

                          "(Prospects) literally can't go to all 30 places (to work out with teams in that timespan)," said one executive whose team will attend. "At most, four or five workouts could be had (in that time). So by doing the group thing, we lose any potential advantage we would have had if we could've secured the guy (for an exclusive workout), but our chances of not being able to see him are pretty slim from what they were. Before you were one of 30 (vying for a look), and now you're 50-50 whether a guy will come, and if he comes you're there."

                          The approximately 40 prospects will be allowed to compete in five-on-five drills. That caveat is a key factor as far as the teams are concerned, as teams can only host six players in one-team workouts and only see three-on-three action as a result.
                          ADD In hindsight, this may not have been the best place to put this, but I am interested to see what the Raptors do in order to take advantage of such a great opportunity.

                          ADD http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...out/index.html

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                          • Source?

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                            • RaptorsFan4Life wrote: View Post
                              Source?
                              Updated the original thread. Thanks. Good catch.

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                              • How about we draft one of Kanter/Valanuciunas/Montijunas and trade Bargnani for Beasley.

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