2023 NBA Draft Megathread

[Handlogten's Heros]

the breadcrumb is Bilal is a prospect and Ainge is watching him play. of course the jazz are interested in him.

I mean that trip could have primarily been about Wemby but I'm sure they were checking him out too.

 

[default]

I am hoping for #9 and the 2025 Cavs pick get us #5 or #6 and the we get Cam or a Thompson. Then take the best remaining point guard at #16. #28 either take a gamble on someone like Sasser (unless a surprise player falls) or just trade it for a protected first next year when we might not even have a pick.

Maybe I should just go "sit at the kid's table", but it's not like Detroit is going to be completive for a while and they don't have many future firsts. Also I think Orlando can find what they are looking for at 9 and 11 and pick up a nice future asset too.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I am hoping for #9 and the 2025 Cavs pick get us #5 or #6 and the we get Cam or a Thompson. Then take the best remaining point guard at #16. #28 either take a gamble on someone like Sasser (unless a surprise player falls) or just trade it for a protected first next year when we might not even have a pick.

I could see Detroit doing that maybe? They don't have a ton of future draft capital like the other super ****** teams. But Hendricks is also a great fit for their team, so why pass on him? Same with Whitmore.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

the breadcrumb is Bilal is a prospect and Ainge is watching him play. of course the jazz are interested in him.

Danny Ainge flew to Greece to watch Giannis play when Ainge was GM for the Celtics in 2013. However, he traded up with Dallas to draft Olynyk. It showed that Giannis was at least in that draft range. The Celtics were at #16.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Danny Ainge flew to Greece to watch Giannis play when Ainge was GM for the Celtics in 2013. However, he traded up with Dallas to draft Olynyk. It showed that Giannis was at least in that draft range. The Celtics were at #16.

Huh? I do not follow the logic here at all. All it seems to say is that Ainge liked Olynyk more than Giannis? How does this tell us anything about what he thought of Giannis except that he visited him and didn't draft him?

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Also, regarding Bilal, I've mentioned this before, but he has the same agent as Rudy Gobert. So obviously, there's a relationship there, given that the Jazz, you know, made Rudy the highest paid athlete in the history of France.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Huh? I do not follow the logic here at all. All it seems to say is that Ainge liked Olynyk more than Giannis? How does this tell us anything about what he thought of Giannis except that he visited him and didn't draft him?

It means that Ainge was considering Giannis at #16, which turned out to be his real draft range.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

I am hoping for #9 and the 2025 Cavs pick get us #5 or #6 and the we get Cam or a Thompson. Then take the best remaining point guard at #16. #28 either take a gamble on someone like Sasser (unless a surprise player falls) or just trade it for a protected first next year when we might not even have a pick.

Maybe I should just go "sit at the kid's table", but it's not like Detroit is going to be completive for a while and they don't have many future firsts. Also I think Orlando can find what they are looking for at 9 and 11 and pick up a nice future asset too.

As far as trading up goes I think Portland and Houston are the most willing partners… Orlando and Detroit are in the “maybe if you knock our socks off” group. Indiana likely not looking to move as they can grab one of Walker/Hendricks/Ausar… unless something wild happens with Amen and he slides. I just think they are in a great spot.

Wiz don’t have a GM so not sure they will swap places with us. Maybe without a GM they are like “eff it… we get another pick for one stupid spot”.

I think they place for a trade up is from 28… i think there are several teams - Heat, Warriors, and Hawks all looking to dump salary and all could be very interested in moving back for some cap relief. I think those are the deals I’m most inclined to do.

 

[KqWIN]

Maybe the more important breadcrumb is that the Jazz sent scouts to follow the Twins on their Euro tour before the OTE season.

 

[Bodhi]

I mean other than the Sensabaugh to Utah thing, they were pretty in line with what the board concensus is. I think they feel like Sensabaugh has a Hardin-like ceiling and the Jazz need to reach for something like that here. It is like the guys considering GG at that spot.

I kinda feel like you could have gotten Walker there and Sensabaugh at 16 if you wanted a player like that though.

Walker isn’t falling to 11, NSJ isn’t going in the 2nd round, Brice isn’t going 9…..that’s just top of the head man

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Walker isn’t falling to 11, NSJ isn’t going in the 2nd round, Brice isn’t going 9…..that’s just top of the head man

They seem like okay people and I like the look and feel of their website but they just do some seriously dumb **** in these exercises and it kinda ruins it. I get their are GMs that do dumb **** but still.

 

[framer]

They seem like okay people and I like the look and feel of their website but they just do some seriously dumb **** in these exercises and it kinda ruins it. I get their are GMs that do dumb **** but still.

Walker isn’t falling to 11, NSJ isn’t going in the 2nd round, Brice isn’t going 9…..that’s just top of the head man

The weird thing is that their actual draft board didn't have it that way. They just assumed that the team that was going to do the moronic thing was the Utah Jazz led by Danny Ainge. I feel like some of these people do this because they want to send the players they actually like to different teams that are NOT the Jazz.