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tzara wrote: No, non confondi. Hibbert era dato fra i cinque-sei, l'anno scorso. Quest'anno ha fatto una stagione per certi versi deludente, oltre al fatto che non ce lo vedo affatto tanto in alto come draft.

Oh, che ci volete fà, è più forte di me, a me Hibbert non piace.

Small Ticket wrote: qualche esperto potrebbe dirmi qualcosa su Blake Griffin PF da Oklahoma?

Goppas wrote: Classica persona che rimane impressionata dai gesti atletici...ok, Rose salta, diventerà anche un grande, ma non prendere Beasley alla uno sarebbe pura follia! E' un tweener, ma le potenzialità sono enormi! Un piccolo alla uno è tanto che non si sceglie, poichè la legge dice che si vince con i lunghi! Detto questo, a lui preferico Lawson from NC; legggendo i mocks rimango allibito da quanto potrebbero sceglierlo in basso.Comunque, il numero uno del prossimo draft essenzialmente dipenderà da chi avrà la pallina numero uno

Small Ticket wrote: Hibbert ha fatto una scelta discutibile rinunciando al draft 2007,l'anno in più passato al college non ha  portato miglioramenti sostanziali e la partenza del compagno Jeff Green è stata piuttosto pesante e ora è impossibile che il C da georgetown porti i suoi in finale come l'anno scorso.Doveva andare al draft l'anno scorso e sfruttare la fama che si era creato per sia per la partita contro Oden sia per il raggiungimento di un traguardo tanto alto come quello di vice campione NCAA,Atlanta era anche disposta a sceglierlo alla 3(poi è andata su Big Al Horford)e comunque c'era qualcuno tra i primi 10 che lo avrebbe chiamato,invece quest'anno alcuni lo mettono anche fuori dalla lotteria(però dubito che vada fuori dai primi 14)

Luca10 wrote: Ma vuoi mettere tutte le ragazze che si è steso quest'anno nel campus di Georgetown da stella assoluta ed acclarata dell'ateneo?

Luca10 wrote: Ma vuoi mettere tutte le ragazze che si è steso quest'anno nel campus di Georgetown da stella assoluta ed acclarata dell'ateneo?

Da Brawl wrote: Secondo me più che la ricerca di prendere a tutti i costi un lungo, il vero cancro del draft è la caccia al potenziale.
Solitamente si cercava il giocatore che più poteva essere l'utile nell'immediato, mentre negli ultimi anni (mi sembra, non vorrei dire una cazzata) si va alla ricerca di quello che in futuro potrà spaccare. E così si ha Marvin Williams preferito a Paul e Deron, TTime a Roy e Gay, Swift e Miles a Mike Miller e così via...

Luca10 wrote: Nel frattempo io segnalo come, diversamente da come molti prospettavano ad inizio anno, sta venendo fuori un draft piuttosto profondo.

eliawiz wrote: Ci provo. Griffin, ex Mr Basketball dell'Oklahoma, è un 6-9, 6-10 ala forte di grandissima forza fisica e atletismo, una vera "bestia". E' un ottimo rimbalzista, un intimidatore di buon livello ed ha una buona mano nei pressi del canestro. Corpo di alto livello per l' Nba, attacca il canestro spostando tutto e tutti. Una sorta di piccolo Malone o un Al J.

Luca10 wrote: Ma vuoi mettere tutte le ragazze che si è steso quest'anno nel campus di Georgetown da stella assoluta ed acclarata dell'ateneo?

eliawiz wrote: CONVOCAZIONI HOOP SUMMIT
2008 USA Junior National Select Team Roster

Bill Simmons, ESPN - Page2 wrote: So what do we make of Mayo as a prospect? Drop the LeBron comparison and think of him more like Andre Iguodala, only if Iguodala was a first-class passer ... and if he isn't one of the top-five picks in June, I will be flabbergasted. He's too good. More importantly, thanks to Mayo's growth at USC over the past two months, Vince Carter remains safe as my least-favorite player of this generation.

3. Speaking of the draft, did anyone else find it interesting that Texas A&M's DeAndre Jordan was ranked 10-15 spots ahead of Love on every draft board for most of this season, but when they crossed on Saturday night Love dominated on both ends down the stretch while Jordan looked like the illegitimate son of Kwame Brown and Darko Milicic? You're telling me that Love isn't one of the best 10 prospects in this draft? Really? What else needs to happen?

While we're here, Davidson's Stephen Curry couldn't crack the first round of anyone's board because he's an undersized shooting guard, even though he's probably the closest thing we've seen to a one-man team in the tournament, and even though we've seen him win two (and counting) March Madness games by himself. Hey, here's an idea -- if you have a taller point guard, just draft Curry in the middle of the first round (the right spot for him), play him at 2-guard on offense and have him defend point guards on the other end. That wouldn't work? Offensively, Curry reminds me of a smaller Brandon Roy because of his patience and his Iversonian ability to find little seams and get his mid-range shots off, only if Roy shot 3-pointers like Jason Kapono. There's no way Curry wouldn't score in the NBA. It's impossible. Stick him on a team like the Clippers or Nets (who have two first-rounders), team him up with a taller point guard (like Devin Harris or Shaun Livingston) and watch him turn into a mini-Monta Ellis. I love him. Even if it's unclear whether he has any body hair yet.

4. Most common question from the past four days: Does Texas qualify for the Ewing Theory? Of course it does. I may be drinking the Kevin Durant Kool-Aid, but he's never won anything and Texas is doing better without him. These are the facts. While we're here, of any potential first-round pick remaining in this tournament, I think D.J. Augustin is the one who can help or hurt his stock the most over these next two games. Right now, he's either the second- or third-best point guard in this draft -- depending on how you feel about Darren Collison, who's been coming on like a freight train lately -- but he hasn't had one of those "In case you didn't know, I'm REALLY good" games along the lines of the way he demolished K-State earlier in the season. At some point, you need to play well in the Big Dance if you're a fringe lottery pick and he hasn't done it yet. Meanwhile, Collison played out of his mind in the Pac-10 tournament and rose his game when it mattered against Texas A&M (as did Love and Russell Westbrook). Either way, "Collison vs. Augustin" is going to be an interesting draft debate when we get there.

(Important note: I'm still sorting out my "Favorite Players In the Draft" list, but many of them are playing in the Sweet 16, including Derrick Rose -- the guy I'd take first over Beasley -- Augustin, Curry, Joe Alexander, Kyle Weaver, Brandon Rush, Scottie Reynolds, the three UCLA stars and ... um ... well, let's give this its own section.)

5. All right, I have to come clean on something ...

After watching them multiple times this season and seeing them in person last Thursday, I've become a fan of ... (gulp) ... the Lopez brothers. (I know, I know. It's like you don't even know me anymore.) I'd be the first to admit that everything about them cries "bust" -- the twins gimmick, the Stanford pedigree, the androgynous first names, the Jose/Ozzie Canseco talent differential between them -- and yet, if you watch them closely and ignore all the fringe stuff, you'll realize pretty quickly that these guys are not the next coming of the Collins twins.

What's weird is that Brook has been ranked too high (top-three) and Robin has been ranked too low (second round) by the draftniks; Brook might be a better scorer at the college level, but Robin projects well as an energy rebounder/defender in the pros, like a cross between Joakim Noah and Anderson Varejao (right down to his hair). I actually think Robin is a safer pick than Brook, even if he'll go 20-25 picks later. Can Brook score down low in the pros? Could he guard bigger centers? I don't know for sure ... but I definitely know Robin could do the Noah/Varejao routine. Ideally, they'd land on the same team because they complement each other so well.

Now, the reason that we're inherently prejudiced against the Lopez twins is simple: They're charter members of the Lindsay Hunter All-Stars for "Athletes with names that make them sound like hot girls." In other words, because their names make them sound like two smoking-hot juniors at an all-girls prep school, it's impossible to take them seriously as NBA prospects. If their names were Dwight Lopez and Isaac Lopez, you'd feel much better about them in the first round. You would. On the flip side, you could argue that O.J. Mayo received so much hype over the past two seasons simply because he had such a fantastic name. Anyway, watch the Lopez twins this week and pretend their names are Dwight and Isaac. You'll feel much better about them.

eliawiz wrote: SG Demar DeRozan 6-6 210 Compton (Compton, CA)  USC