BCP Mock Draft Pick #1 (LA Clippers)

[SWedd523]

Vote for who you think the Clippers will take with their first overall selection and give explanation for your pick please
Assume there are no pick trades and all teams stay as is in the draft

Pick #2 to follow on Thursday!

[ALong13]

I think with the extreme depth they have at PF/C, they'll shock everyone and select PG Ricky Rubio and try to move Baron Davis...

That's a nice young line-up

Rubio
Gordon
Thorton
Randolph
Kaman

[Dead_Real]

Rubio will be the first pick.

[coordinator0]

I think with the extreme depth they have at PF/C, they'll shock everyone and select PG Ricky Rubio and try to move Baron Davis...

That's a nice young line-up

Rubio
Gordon
Maggette
Randolph
Kaman

Replace Maggette with Al Thorton and you'll have a beastly (and probably better) young team (he's on GS now).

BTW, I think they will go with Rubio or Griffin, depending on who they are able to move off of their roster this summer (Davis or one of the PF/C). For now I think they go with Rubio though.

[SWedd523]

I also see them taking Rubio with the pick. Both are going to be great, but they simply have too much depth at the PF/C spots to pick Griffin.


(I know I said assume no trade downs, but if any team will trade their pick.. its the Clippers)

[ohara831]

They may just take Rubio. But regardless of their other players, passing on Griffin would be very foolish. Take him and build depth. But passing on Griffin, even for Rubio, I think would be a mistake.

[coordinator0]

They may just take Rubio. But regardless of their other players, passing on Griffin would be very foolish. Take him and build depth. But passing on Griffin, even for Rubio, I think would be a mistake.

Many thought the same about last year with CHI's situation, especially in the beginning. In the end they took the PG and i would say it worked out for them, and Rubio is probably a better pure PG than Rose (but Rose is easily the better athlete).

[Dead_Real]

Many thought the same about last year with CHI's situation, especially in the beginning. In the end they took the PG and i would say it worked out for them, and Rubio is probably a better pure PG than Rose (but Rose is easily the better athlete).
It's kind of different though I think Rubio will be very good PG in the future but as far as prospects that would be able to step in from day 1 and contribute it wasn't that much of a drop off between Beasley & Rose compared to Blake/Rubio.

I'm thinking they take Rubio based on big man depth they already have and the Baron Davis factor.

[docend24]

I think they will trade down - so I voted Griffin. No matter what Griffin will be gone after No.1. and maybe traded later.

[ohara831]

I think they will trade down - so I voted Griffin. No matter what Griffin will be gone after No.1. and maybe traded later.


Maybe we can trade them Bob Johnson for the pick. Their owner can use his influx of cash!

[ALong13]

Replace Maggette with Al Thorton and you'll have a beastly (and probably better) young team (he's on GS now).

BTW, I think they will go with Rubio or Griffin, depending on who they are able to move off of their roster this summer (Davis or one of the PF/C). For now I think they go with Rubio though.

Oh sorry..that's what I meant...forgot Maggette is in GS now...

[ohara831]

Well, they came out and said they are taking Griffin. No brainer really.

[coordinator0]

Well, they came out and said they are taking Griffin. No brainer really.

I find it really strange for Dunleavy to do that, but i guess it doesn't really surprise me knowing who it's coming from :D.

[davcbow]

Id say Rubio because very good PG's are hard to come by.... :cool:

[SWedd523]

Well, they came out and said they are taking Griffin. No brainer really.
source please?

[bing!]

source please?

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nba-lottery20-2009may20,0,5679790.story

[SWedd523]

Thanks bing :)


Okay guys, one down! I'll have a thread up for the #2 pick shortly

EDIT: Zig, please close?

[teej]

I feel bad for Blake...

EDIT: Poll closed

[teej]

From The BS Mailbag

[quote]
Q: Did your Clippers just win the draft lottery or did Blake Griffin lose it?
--Chris, Brooklyn


SG: Both
Q: Does God hate Blake Griffin?
--Bill, Danville


SG: Possibly.


Q: As a Longhorn fan, I was rooting for the Clippers to get the No. 1 pick just so I could see them destroy Oklahoma's Blake Griffin. What a franchise!
--Ray, Austin


SG: Yup.


Q: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
--Blake Griffin's Knee Ligaments, Oklahoma


SG: (Shaking my head.)
Q: Now that the Clips have secured the No. 1 pick and proclaimed their intentions, we have been arguing about which one of us will go first. I, Left ACL, think it will be me because I'm his dominant leg, but Right ACL thinks it will be him because Blake jumps off him more than he does me. Blake's Will to Live walked by and overheard our argument. He said he and Blake's All-Star Potential had been lamenting the fact that they're both screwed as well. I guess we're all in pretty bad shape. Come to think of it, I haven't seen Blake's Work Ethic all day, though I heard he was trying to look up a phone number for Josh Childress' 'Fro. Something about dollar-to-Euro exchange rates.
-- Blake Griffin's Left ACL, Oklahoma

SG: You know what's really frightening? At least 15 readers thought of the "Blake Griffin is so screwed by going to the Clippers that I'm going to send Simmons a fake e-mail from Griffin's knees" idea independently of one another. Ladies and gentlemen, your Los Angeles Clippers!!!!