2023 NBA Draft Megathread

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This keeps being said but tell me specifics of this track record. Outside of Kuzma I genuinely can’t recall him being above and beyond other real good draft related posters.

Help refresh me.

Homer list for Cy:
2013: Otto Porter
2014: Aaron Gordon
2015: Sam 'Next Hayward' Dekker
2016: Dragan 'Dragon' Bender
2017: Kyle "Flintstones" Kuzma
2018: Troy 'Brown Mamba' Jnr
2019: Quinndary "The Weatherman" Weatherspoon
2020: Jalen Harris
2021: Josh Christopher

Mine:
2014: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Dante :S
2015: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Myles Turner
2016: Jalen Brown
2017: Dennis Smith Jr
2018: Elie Okobo
2019: NAW
2020: Aleksej Pokuševski
2021: didn't pick one...

You guys are welcome to post your own (links of the threads are above). The reality is... none of us is some wizard of a draft evaluator and we don't need to be. This is a message board where we share in our emotions and excitement over our favorite team. For me a respectful discussion with real arguments about the strengths and weaknesses and projection of prospects is much more valuable than whether someone was right or wrong for this or that player. Even NBA teams, who invest millions in scouting and workouts and psychological evaluations and private detectives are horrible at this thing. I don't expect any of us to be amazing at it either....

Just... engage with fellow fans in good faith ... and have fun. After all that's what sports is for... entertainment.

Cheers

 

[Elizah Huge]

Also was in on Paolo being the clear #1 while people were getting too worried about him being comped to Julius Randle.

Lol nah bro that was me.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Homer list for Cy:
2013: Otto Porter
2014: Aaron Gordon
2015: Sam 'Next Hayward' Dekker
2016: Dragan 'Dragon' Bender
2017: Kyle "Flintstones" Kuzma
2018: Troy 'Brown Mamba' Jnr
2019: Quinndary "The Weatherman" Weatherspoon
2020: Jalen Harris
2021: Josh Christopher

Mine:
2014: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Dante :S
2015: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Myles Turner
2016: Jalen Brown
2017: Dennis Smith Jr
2018: Elie Okobo
2019: NAW
2020: Aleksej Pokuševski
2021: didn't pick one...

You guys are welcome to post your own (links of the threads are above). The reality is... none of us are some wizards of draft evaluators and we don't need to be. This is a message board where we share in our emotions and excitement over our favorite team. For me a respectful discussion with real arguments about the strengths and weaknesses and projection of prospects is much more valuable than whether someone was right or wrong for this or that player. Even NBA teams, who invest millions in scouting and workouts and psychological evaluations and private detectives are horrible at this thing. I don't expect any of us to be amazing at it either....

Just... engage with fellow fans in good faith ... and have fun. After all that's what sports is for... entertainment.

Cheers

I have been exposed lmao


But I will say I dont think the "homers" list is a good measure of these things vs big boards.

 

[Elizah Huge]

I was a huge Noah Vonleh stan. It is what it is. Crucify me.

I tried telling people. I loved Gordon that draft.

I was WAY higher on Dejounte than consensus.

I have some bad misses as well.

 

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I have been exposed lmao


But I will say I dont think the "homers" list is a good measure of these things vs big boards.

I didn't mean it to be "exposing Cy" type of post. More of a... exposing how bad all of us are, including myself. All of us will have some hits and some misses... and that's alright.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Homer list for Cy:
2013: Otto Porter
2014: Aaron Gordon
2015: Sam 'Next Hayward' Dekker
2016: Dragan 'Dragon' Bender
2017: Kyle "Flintstones" Kuzma
2018: Troy 'Brown Mamba' Jnr
2019: Quinndary "The Weatherman" Weatherspoon
2020: Jalen Harris
2021: Josh Christopher

Mine:
2014: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Dante :S
2015: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Myles Turner
2016: Jalen Brown
2017: Dennis Smith Jr
2018: Elie Okobo
2019: NAW
2020: Aleksej Pokuševski
2021: didn't pick one...

You guys are welcome to post your own (links of the threads are above). The reality is... none of us is some wizard of a draft evaluator and we don't need to be. This is a message board where we share in our emotions and excitement over our favorite team. For me a respectful discussion with real arguments about the strengths and weaknesses and projection of prospects is much more valuable than whether someone was right or wrong for this or that player. Even NBA teams, who invest millions in scouting and workouts and psychological evaluations and private detectives are horrible at this thing. I don't expect any of us to be amazing at it either....

Just... engage with fellow fans in good faith ... and have fun. After all that's what sports is for... entertainment.

Cheers

How dare you bring the consequences of our actions...

I had some good... OG, Bane

I had some bad... Okobo, Frank the Tank (though... he had a long career)

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

If Jalen Harris didnt do all those drugs my list would have been respectable lmao

 

[Bawse Dawg]

This is why the Dok pick is all time awful. Every single one of us idiots knew that Bane or McDaniels was the far superior pick. Your FO can’t go out on such a limb that no one else on earth would have done and be so historically wrong. Unforgivable.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Homer list for Cy:
2013: Otto Porter
2014: Aaron Gordon
2015: Sam 'Next Hayward' Dekker
2016: Dragan 'Dragon' Bender
2017: Kyle "Flintstones" Kuzma
2018: Troy 'Brown Mamba' Jnr
2019: Quinndary "The Weatherman" Weatherspoon
2020: Jalen Harris
2021: Josh Christopher

Mine:
2014: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Dante :S
2015: Didn't officially pick one but I loved Myles Turner
2016: Jalen Brown
2017: Dennis Smith Jr
2018: Elie Okobo
2019: NAW
2020: Aleksej Pokuševski
2021: didn't pick one...

You guys are welcome to post your own (links of the threads are above). The reality is... none of us is some wizard of a draft evaluator and we don't need to be. This is a message board where we share in our emotions and excitement over our favorite team. For me a respectful discussion with real arguments about the strengths and weaknesses and projection of prospects is much more valuable than whether someone was right or wrong for this or that player. Even NBA teams, who invest millions in scouting and workouts and psychological evaluations and private detectives are horrible at this thing. I don't expect any of us to be amazing at it either....

Just... engage with fellow fans in good faith ... and have fun. After all that's what sports is for... entertainment.

Cheers

In 2016, you and I were willing to take a swing on Skal Labissiere.

 

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I tried telling people. I loved Gordon that draft.

I was WAY higher on Dejounte than consensus.

I have some bad misses as well.

Yep! I remember that... He was so intriguing...

I remember in 2017 you took Bam from me and I decided to go with my other favorite that year in DSJ... you won that one.

 

[Bodhi]

Its all love and fun.

Most of the dudes in here who follow this year after year are arguably better at this than the average GM though, and I mean that.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

With regard to the cold water Locke was slinging this AM. I get it... the numbers are what they are. But when you land a starter or fringe all-star in the draft it changes your organizational trajectory... and there is the slight chance you nail a homerun and it changes everything. So you take the bites at the apple... this is not quite lotto odds or investing in VC backed startups... but it is something where 1 hit makes up for a bunch of misses. So its okay to have hope that with 3 firsts and a plethora of assets to move around that we can hit a home run.

I get that some like Tony are overly optimistic... but I think most understand the risks and that if we draft 3 guys its unlikely they are all starters... we don't need all three to hit though.