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By: Rammer

Rammer — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:32:16 +0000

If the Spurs could get Thaddeus Young with the 28th pick, it would be a steal; rather many other teams making a mistake.

By: juantamon

juantamon — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:17:17 +0000

i like your blog. but, in this particular instance, i don’t think its necessary to put some of these players in the same sentence as former greats. c’mon, mike conley as the next “tiny” archibald? acie law as the next “doc” rivers? i’m not denying that these players could be great. but i think the comparisons are a bit much at this point.

By: Glen Ruggles

Glen Ruggles — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:48:51 +0000

Man I hope Mario Boggan of Oklahoma ST. gets drafted he’s an energy player that ripped up Kevin Durrant twice this year.

By: Eric G. Satterwhite

Eric G. Satterwhite — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:41:03 +0000

Greetings Jeff W,

Marcus Williams is without question a player that can be a late first round pick with his smooth offensive game and a penchant to play sound defense. Williams is versatile and had a yo-yo kind of season last year and typically appeared bored with the collegiate game. Williams having played at NBA prepatory school the University of Arizona is just one of many dual position players like Arron Afflalo, Derrick Byars, “Big Baby” Davis, JamesOn Curry and Sean Williams etc. that can be late first rounders or gems in round two.

I agree with you that the Raptor playing style synchronizes with Williams talents.

By: Jeff W

Jeff W — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:20:47 +0000

Eric, what is your opinion of Marcus Williams? He’s ranked as a lower first-round pick on both Draft Express and NBADraft.net and sounds to me like a Raptors-type player.

By: Jeff W

Jeff W — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:22:21 +0000

RE: Marc Gasol - I was thinking also that today’s NBA is really favoring the versatile, fleet-footed power forward/centers rather than the lumbering-giant variety. Since Marc Gasol is in the latter category, perhaps that’s why Draft Express have him slotted in the 2nd round.

By: wtb

wtb — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:09:52 +0000

“Great to see that you have Pau’s little bro in the first round. Any explanation why NBADraft.net have them in the middle of the first round while Draft Express fail to even have him in their first round?”

Because he’s not good. He’s not Pau, and he’s not a first round talent. He’s riding his brother’s name. He doesn’t have the passion or skills that Pau has.

By: UtesFan89

UtesFan89 — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:08:35 +0000

As a Jazz fan, I have to ask… how good is Nick Young’s defense? The Jazz already have enough guys that can score (Deron, Booze, Okur, AK, ‘Sap, Harp), but are severely lacking in perimeter defense. Just wondering if Young (if the Jazz were to take him) would help in that area.
Nice mock though.

By: Ryan McNeill

Ryan McNeill — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:28:29 +0000

Great to see that you have Pau’s little bro in the first round. Any explanation why NBADraft.net have them in the middle of the first round while Draft Express fail to even have him in their first round? It seems like there’s a lot of different opinions on that kid.

Another aspect of the draft that I liked is that you have Conley ranked higher than Acie Law. Even thought Law won an award as the top collegiate PG this past season while watching the Tourney I didn’t really see what the hype over him was about - Conley appeared to have a lot more potential.

One final note - remember during the 2003 Draft how everyone thought the main three prospects were LeBron, Darko and Melo? Well it’s clear that D-Wade and CB4 deserved to be mentioned among the top players in that draft. I think that in 10 years when hoop heads look back on this draft they’ll be talking about Horford the same way that people now talk about CB4 and Wade. Not sure why people are sleeping on him and only Oden and Durant are being hyped up as the elite prospects by most writers…