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Ultimate Showdown: Jabari Parker Vs Aaron Gordon

Jabari Parker or Aaron Gordon

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Yep... it's the Ultimate Showdown. Because that's what we could be looking at draft night... do we trade up to grab Jabari? Or do we stand pat and grab Aaron Gordon?

Jabari

- Ultimate scorer
- Great shooter
- Clutch
- Is he athletic enough?
- Endurance issues? Why does coach K keep sitting him at the end of games?
- Tongan 'fat genes' issue?


Gordon

- Ultimate defender
- Great athleticism
- Potential ultimate 2-way player
- Can he improve his shooting?
- Can he improve his scoring?
 
A month ago I say Jabari hands down run away if you could get into a position to take him. Now I'm not so sure. I'm starting to see Gordon potentially as a tier 1 guy and if you can grab him while staying put that's even better.
 
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Gordon seems to have made real progress last month or so shooting the ball. Seems to me his shot is fixable and we only really need him to be able to hit occasional corner 3's and some put back dunks to be serviceable.


A freak athlete, who likes to defend and has an improving 3pt shot..... does that sound familiar to anyone????






(Paul George).
 
I voted Parker just cuz it would be too hard to pass up on that polished of an offensive player.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I voted Parker just cuz it would be too hard to pass up on that polished of an offensive player.
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LOL.. wow.. really??? If Gordon can improve his shot he is easily the 3rd best talent in this draft:


1. Embiid
2. Wiggins
3. Gordon


I always feel like you get 2 players for the price of 1 when he/she can defend & score.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
LOL.. wow.. really??? If Gordon can improve his shot he is easily the 3rd best talent in this draft:


1. Embiid
2. Wiggins
3. Gordon


I always feel like you get 2 players for the price of 1 when he/she can defend & score.
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You keep saying stuff like, "Aaron Gordon with a jumpshot is the 2nd best player in the draft" - or something along those lines. The fact is, he doesn't have that currently, so that's why he's positioned where he's positioned. Andrew Wiggins with better shooting and ball-handling would be the unanimous number one pick, but again, no one can currently have a potential skill.

Can Gordon develop that? Sure, but Parker is way beyond him in the skills department and would have potential too.

You should attempt to put a semi-realistic trade-up scenario for the Jabari pick. Otherwise your poll is gonna read like 'Parker or Gordon', and it probably will not be very close.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
LOL.. wow.. really??? If Gordon can improve his shot he is easily the 3rd best talent in this draft:


1. Embiid
2. Wiggins
3. Gordon


I always feel like you get 2 players for the price of 1 when he/she can defend & score.
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Define "score". 17 ppg?
Jabari has a Carmelo offensive ceiling, that's 28 ppg.
 
LazyD said:
You keep saying stuff like, "Aaron Gordon with a jumpshot is the 2nd best player in the draft" - or something along those lines. The fact is, he doesn't have that currently, so that's why he's positioned where he's positioned. Andrew Wiggins with better shooting and ball-handling would be the unanimous number one pick, but again, no one can currently have a potential skill.

Can Gordon develop that? Sure, but Parker is way beyond him in the skills department and would have potential too.

You should attempt to put a semi-realistic trade-up scenario for the Jabari pick. Otherwise your poll is gonna read like 'Parker or Gordon', and it probably will not be very close.
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3rd, not 2nd.


You do need a top 5 defender to win in this league, but you don't necessarily need a top 5 scorer to win (Spurs). On that basis I'm gonna take Gordon over Jabari (if I'm confident I can improve his shooting/scoring ala Paul George).
 
Lol at the guys on this site who say they don't want Carmelo (which is the vast majority), but want Jabari.


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LazyD said:
You keep saying stuff like, "Aaron Gordon with a jumpshot is the 2nd best player in the draft" - or something along those lines. The fact is, he doesn't have that currently, so that's why he's positioned where he's positioned. Andrew Wiggins with better shooting and ball-handling would be the unanimous number one pick, but again, no one can currently have a potential skill.

Can Gordon develop that? Sure, but Parker is way beyond him in the skills department and would have potential too.

You should attempt to put a semi-realistic trade-up scenario for the Jabari pick. Otherwise your poll is gonna read like 'Parker or Gordon', and it probably will not be very close.
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Nobody is drafted in the top 5 as a finished product anymore. Teams draft for the long haul or potential. So yes while Gordon shot poorly as a franchise you have to project if that's something that's correctable or not. If they all selected finished products there would be a lot less bust. Which is why the league is pushing to make college kids stay longer.

Parker is a rare position because his skill-set is seen as NBA ready while still being a young enough prospect to still improve. However because he is limited athletically at this stage it's a huge question mark just how much better he can get.

This is not to say that Parker is an inferior prospect to Gordon or that Arron has a great chance to be drafted ahead of Jabari. Just saying that when you have a player with the physical gifts as Gordon with all the IQ, hustle, and intagibles I wouldn't be shocked if he turns out to be the better player 5 years from now.
 
da ThRONe said:
Nobody is drafted in the top 5 as a finished product anymore. Teams draft for the long haul or potential. So yes while Gordon shot poorly as a franchise you have to project if that's something that's correctable or not. If they all selected finished products there would be a lot less bust. Which is why the league is pushing to make college kids stay longer.

Parker is a rare position because his skill-set is seen as NBA ready while still being a young enough prospect to still improve. However because he is limited athletically at this stage it's a huge question mark just how much better he can get.

This is not to say that Parker is an inferior prospect to Gordon or that Arron has a great chance to be drafted ahead of Jabari. Just saying that when you have a player with the physical gifts as Gordon with all the IQ, hustle, and intagibles I wouldn't be shocked if he turns out to be the better player 5 years from now.
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I am well aware of all this and would not be shocked if Gordon was better eventually. But I don't think that will happen, so I'll take Parker.
 
LazyD said:
I am well aware of all this and would not be shocked if Gordon was better eventually. But I don't think that will happen, so I'll take Parker.
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Perfectly fine and I think you are in the majority with that opinion.

What I disagreed with is your stance that it's somehow bad drafting policy to take a player with the assumption that he'll get better. When that's practically what the draft has become.
 
da ThRONe said:
Perfectly fine and I think you are in the majority with that opinion.

What I disagreed with is your stance that it's somehow bad drafting policy to take a player with the assumption that he'll get better. When that's practically what the draft has become.
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I don't disagree with that strategy at all. I just think some are underestimating how unpolished of a player he is and are underrating Jabari's potential. If I disagreed with this strategy, I would not have Wiggins and Embiid as my two favorites, and would probably not prefer Exum over Gordon, which I might (I'm not sure yet)
 
But for the record, total minutes of basketball LazyD has seen Aaron Gordon play: 0
 
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