Running 2014-15 NBA Thread

Meh. Maybe. I still think a first rounder is pretty valuable.

 

This is a pretty good analysis of what you can reasonably expect from each draft pick in the NBA:

http://www.82games.com/nbadraftpicks.htm

tl;dr version: After the top 5 picks, your chances of getting anything more than, at best, a solid role player, are pretty small.

Mozgov is at least a known quantity, who already produces like a run-of-the-mill lottery pick.

 

Weird anomaly, the #11 pick has a 15% chance of being a star, the 13th and 14th pick have 20% and 25%. The 12th pick has a 5% chance. 20 year sample size is not small.

The 8th pick has an equal chance of being either a star or the 12th man.

Is college basketball less like the NBA than college football is like the NF

 

In the NBA you have 12 (-15) roster spots, of which 8 or 9 are significant and the best teams have 2 or 3 stars. Compare that to the NFL.

 

I meant in translating a player's game from college to the pros. Heisman Trophy winners do not predict NFL success. All American status in college doesnt make you a star in the NFL. in basketball the best player on each team in a power conference means nothing to becoming an NBA player who is in the regular rotation of players on a team. The best player on the best team in each power conference might mean something, but often not.

If being a college stud was the prerequisite of being a Pro stud, teams would just draft the 1st team All Americans then the 2nd team and be down with it.

 

They're both different, but to me at least, the games of college and pro basketball bear little resemblance other than the size of the court.

 

Heat is 15-20. Would the Heat be 20-15 with James? 25-10? Looks like he evaluated the Heat correctly to leave, but does he have the patience to make Clevelnad work or will keep his passive aggressive pouting going indefinitely?

 

The times I've seen Mozgov in person I was impressed with not only his size, but that he seems to play well to his size. I think there's more to be gotten out of him and on a team with LeBron, Irving and Love, all he really has to do is defend and rebound. He should get 10 points a game just off being 7-1 and near the basket while the defense has to focus on the Big Three. He's a half-year short of 29. Also, picks that aren't in the top 15 just don't end up all that special but you have to give them guaranteed contracts. If I have a team that's supposedly a contender, I'd rather have an early second-round pick than a late first-round pick.

 

Bart Hubbuch ‏@BartHubbuch 2m2 minutes ago
Marcin Gortat's action figure that the Wizards are giving away soon is amazing. pic.twitter.com/5MDF1gbaMU

 

If I read the tweet correctly, the Knicks outscored the Hornets by 17 in the 4th quarter. And lost by 28.

 

No one spiked my drink last night, as I didn't wake up with a hangover. In fact I didn't even have a drink.

But Pau Gasol did score 46.

Yesterday's Twitter stream was steady with Pats-Ravens, Je Suis Charlie'isms, hashtag games, Boko Haramian this and that, a lot more this, that, this, that, inanity of the highest order, this, that, this, that ...

... and oh, by the way, Pau Gasol scores 46 points.

 

1, scoring 46 doesn't preclude you from the poster: Vucevic humps Pau

2, Friend put this card under my bagel this morning. Good ol' days. Could've put a gun to my head and I wouldn't have been able to say that Duckworth went to Eastern Illinois though the more I start to think about it right now I'm starting to remember he went to an obscure school. He had his moments against the Lakers. This was a 92-93 card. Through 6 full seasons he averaged 13.9 points (32 high) and 6.6 boards with a 46.1 from the field and 69.0 at the line. He was 7'2 270.



Also forgot that he died in 2008.