Following potential 2015 draftees

[The Midnight]

Draft Express is dumb.

They have Kristaps Porzingis going ahead of D Russell now?

They are on crack over there.

Not if they've got information that 76ers are looking hard at Porzingis and just reporting what he had heard.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

DRuss is the highest upside player in the draft. A 6'5", better passing, almost as good shooting(even as a ceiling, I don't think you can say a guy will become the best shooter ever) Steph Curry.

Very limited athletically though.

Porz is huge, skilled, and athletic. He probably has the most potential of anyone outside of KAT.

 

[The Midnight]

Very limited athletically though.

Porz is huge, skilled, and athletic. He probably has the most potential of anyone outside of KAT.

Yeah if you're gonna say DRuss has Curry's potential, then you've also gotta also say Porzingis has Dirk's potential..


MUAHAHAHAHA...

 

[Doublea]

DRuss is the highest upside player in the draft. A 6'5", better passing, almost as good shooting(even as a ceiling, I don't think you can say a guy will become the best shooter ever) Steph Curry.

I think Chad Ford said, with some sort of analytics, that Russell has the highest potential to become a star, but also the highest potential to be a bust.

 

[Elizah Huge]

DX is really good with international players, Givony wouldn't just put Porz at #3 without legitimate basis.

It really doesn't make too much sense though, unless they are trading Noel or Embiid.

I know they can play three bigs at 30 mins a piece, but they are in desperate need of some guards or wings.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Heres two tidbits I've found on Porzingis and Philadelphia:

Kristaps Porzingis made himself eligible for the 2014 NBA Draft last April, but made the unconventional decision to pull out at the Early Entry Withdrawal Deadline (ten days before the draft), despite overtures from two teams (rumored to be Atlanta and Philadelphia) picking in the Top-15 to keep his name in. Porzingis and his family reportedly felt he would benefit from another year of experience playing with Seville in the ACB, and while that move looked risky at the time, he only appears to have helped his draft stock with a very strong season so far in Spain and in the EuroCup.

Derek Bodner @DerekBodnerNBA

Name I've consistently heard tied to #sixers over last few months is Kristaps Porzingis. Told Hinkie has been a frequent visitor of Sevilla.

Derek Bodner writes for DX, fwiw.

 

[slc]

What are Sixers going to do with Saric then?

 

[stitches]

Very limited athletically though.

Do you not buy the 39 inch vertical DRuss supposedly recorded in a workout?

BTW here's Winslow shooting mid-range jumpers in Denver workout:
https://instagram.com/p/3wgJOGkhDb/

That thing is fugly...

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Do you not buy the 39 inch vertical DRuss supposedly recorded in a workout?

Does he play like he has a 39'' vertical?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

At best Russell is an above average athlete for at the SG position and an average athlete with good size at the PG position.

 

[Doublea]

DX is really good with international players, Givony wouldn't just put Porz at #3 without legitimate basis.

It really doesn't make too much sense though, unless they are trading Noel or Embiid.

I know they can play three bigs at 30 mins a piece, but they are in desperate need of some guards or wings.

Their premise is to draft the players with the most potential and figure it out later.

 

[stitches]

Does he play like he has a 39'' vertical?

Nope... :\