2011 NBA Draft Wants

[Ampsportsduo]

A guy that people might want to check out is Alec Burks. 6'6" SG out of Colorado. I really feel a DJ/Hendo backcourt would be too small to compete. Eseentially we fall into the Warriors dilemma and I think we'd all agree we'd trade 2 for 2 straight up. Burks may be at the end of the lottery or a little later and could fit well in Silas's up and down system.

[BRNC]

Luke Byrnes is a senior writer at Hoopsworld...a good hedge between NCAA and NBA...I posed this one to him today about Keith Benson (who I like)...

Larry in Blowing Rock, NC:
Good morning Luke...what kind of NBA player do you think Keith Benson (Oakland Center) will be...bench, rotation, eventual starter? Thanks for the time...

Luke Byrnes:
Bench early on with the potential to be a rotation player. He'll really need to get stronger to play meaningful minutes in the NBA and he'll have change the way he plays the game. At Oakland, Benson is the guy. They run their offense through him. That will not be the case in the NBA. He is going to have to bang with the big boys and do the dirty work. Benson is a shot-blocker and a solid rebounder, which gives him a chance at the NBA level. Can you imagine him trying to stop Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum on the block? Benson would get abused physically in one on one situations right now. He needs to get stronger, but he's an NBA-caliber player.

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[TheGayKid]

Preferably someone who won't soil the team's name with idiotic comments...I.E. Shavlik Randolph

[TheGayKid]

Jared Sullinger:

[frontpager]

Alec Burks is the truth! I agree with dude uptop, he is 6'6 and will go in the 15-25 area. He can do everything and we need depth at the 2. Also, with the lottery pick we get for our own pick we could get Harrison Barnes to play backup 3 to Jax for a year before Jax gets traded. Harrison Barnes just needed to get adjusted to college and will be the truth in the league!

[dav7z]

H Barnes , with our first pick is all star talent. N Smith with our second first round pick. Dude can play both guard spots , score and defend . Curry could be got second round. If we could land just two of those three . It would be a great draft .
Henson is another thought late first round . But we have no need at all for another PF

[SWedd523]

Harrison Barnes
Terrence Jones
Marcus Morris
Jordan Hamilton
Kawhi Leonard


Work those 5 out HARD predraft and take the one we think is best. One of them can be a nice young replacement for Crash. With the second pick, we absolutely have to go big. The only big is JaJuan Johnson (and maybe Keith Benson) so we have to pray to God that he's available for us

[BRNC]

Johnson would be a solid addition...I like Benson but I think he ends up (at best) a rotation player 3 years from now...but still hard to coach height and he has some skills...

[Pepperz]

Lucas Nogueira has captured my attention. He is very raw but with the right polishing (aka Oak Tree) he can become a real STUD.

[WFU4LIFE]

H Barnes , with our first pick is all star talent. N Smith with our second first round pick. Dude can play both guard spots , score and defend . Curry could be got second round. If we could land just two of those three . It would be a great draft .
Henson is another thought late first round . But we have no need at all for another PF

So you just named all UNC and Duke guys. DO NOT WANT! There should be a rule for this team to never draft another player from UNC. Henson is never going to be anything in the league. Brandan Wright redux. I wouldn't be as upset with Barnes. As for N Smith, why in the world would we draft him? Our biggest needs are at SF and C. Smith doesn't help us at all. My top targets for around the 10th pick, which is where we are projected (Barnes and Terrence Jones will already be taken by then):

Jordan Hamilton
Jan Vesely
Kawhi Leonard
Tyler Honeycutt
Donatas Motejunas (if available)
Marcus Morris

For around the 20th pick I would go with:

Trey Thompkins
Lucas Nogueira
Jonas Valanciunas
Chris Singleton