Let's package the pick for a player that can help us right now. As far as young guys, two projects (Jordan and Taylor) and a future star (Gordon) are enough.

Let's package the pick for a player that can help us right now. As far as young guys, two projects (Jordan and Taylor) and a future star (Gordon) are enough.

We have bad luck so I am assuming we'll get the 7th pick again. If that is the case, this is what I do:

Trade Baron for a true PG the likes of Kirk Hinrich or Jose Calderon, then get an athletic slasher to back up Thornton off the bench, my money is on DeMar Derozan out of USC, he is ridiculously athletic.

I'd rather wait another year and get Minny's pick when it becomes unprotected. Especially with this draft being weak compared to last year's.

ditto...

ditto as well.

But I'm pretty sure the pick is top ten protected in 2010 also. Unprotected in 2011. So best case: Minny stays in the bottom ten this season and next, then REALLY tanks in 2010-11 so LAC gets a huge pick.

The players that have caught my eye for the 09 draft are
Guards
Jeff Teauge
James Harden
Darren Collison (senior top defender and team player)
Eric Maynor

Forwards
Patrick Patterson (Could be a steal)
Al-Farouq Aminu
Blake Griffin

Either we land the top pick and take Blake Griffin or we trade our pick to move down ( like from 3 to 11 ) to take Jennings or Curry. Rubio at best will be a mixture of Beno Udrih and Jamaal Tinsley AT BEST. Thats not very good for a top 3 pick.

Get with the program people, its griffin or bust.

I am not sold on Jennings anymore than I am sold on Rubio. But like you said, we just gotta wait and see where our pick ends up being. Gordon and Griffin= success for us. Two hard workers who can step into the league with a very professional attitude will mean good things for this franchise, no matter who is around them (well it might be a good idea to tweak the roster a little)

Either we land the top pick and take Blake Griffin or we trade our pick to move down ( like from 3 to 11 ) to take Jennings or Curry. Rubio at best will be a mixture of Beno Udrih and Jamaal Tinsley AT BEST. Thats not very good for a top 3 pick.

so if griffin is off the board and we had the #2 pick, who would you guys select if we had the current roster we have right now???

a PG?
a Swingman that can play SG/SF?
a Post player- and what type- defensive bigman or one who can score?

If I had the number 2 pick i think i would have to take rubio in this draft. with no rubio, im not sure who a clear #2 guy in this draft is. i like harden, but we have gordon and thornton, and harden is undersized. no need for 2 undersized SG's. My pick would probably have to be Jordan Hill from Arizona. He hustles and works hard each game. I would like his energy off the bench, he reminds me somewhat of a milsapp type of player. But man, please let us get the #1 pick! Please!

What would you guys do?

how can you be so quick to want to draft jennings (who hasnt proven anything) and yet predict rubio (who has 10x the IQ, maturity, and experience all the while being YOUNGER than jennings) as being a lottery bust.

rubio rubio rubio.
no way his ceiling is beno freaking udrih.

i think mike smith made a great point last night. if harden was in last year's draft class he wouldnt have been picked in the lottery. other than griffin (who would probably go top 10 last year), this class is thin.

that's if rubio doesnt declare.

if rubio's not there, id have to think about jennings. he's obviously not ready to contribute any time soon and could very well end up being a gerald green-type bust. much too raw at the moment.

i wouldnt mind jordan hill, but wouldnt feel comfortable drafting him at 2. instead id package the pick with a player or two for some other pieces.

I like Rubio but I don't see him a top three pick. I would never pick him that high. We need to get the best available player on our first pick. The international game is way different than an 82 game nba season. Way stiffer competition.

Rubio won't be around by pick 11, unless some BS happens hence why I said take Jennings or Curry.

Jennings knows United States style of ball and has a lot of talent. Hes being highly scrutinized by the media because he jumped ship to play in Europe and is basically the star of his team, for an 18 year old kid thats a big task on the professional level. Stephen Curry would be great for this team too. He can steal the ball and shoot well, however he would have to learn that its Gordons ball first, then his turn to shoot. We could actually use both players to take the ball up off and on.

Everyone seriously needs to lay off Rubio and look at the talent that is elsewhere on the board. I'm all for drafting players from anywhere but its not a safe bet to take an international player. Rubio's stats aren't highly impressive But go ahead and wish to draft him. If he turns out to be a bust like Yaroslav or Nikoloz Tshikizitis or w/e his name was don't go crying on the forums or at your local bar.

I'd rather MISS on a draft pick HERE so we don't have to pay extra money to buy out his contract overseas.

Let's package the pick for a player that can help us right now. As far as young guys, two projects (Jordan and Taylor) and a future star (Gordon) are enough.

Side-Note: Has anyone been watching Josh Powell the man is playing hard basketball and has become a strong rotation player for the Lakers. Seems every team takes one of our players and makes them fit better in their system.

You need only check the buzz on Rubio to know that he's no Korolev. Please. Rubio has been a phenom for years, plus he gotten the nod from no less than CP3 and Deron... that's good enough for me. And don't give me that "weak draft" bs. Like the draft is such an exact science! Griffin is a stud in any year! That combination of strength and athleticism just doesn't happen that often. I don't care what Mike Smith said about Harden either. Harden can play, that fantasy about where he would or wouldn't have gone in last year's draft is just that... fantasy. If we added Harden, so what if we've already got Gordon and Al, he could spell either, or allow Eric to play a little point (which he says he can do) and have three bonafide scorers on the perimeter at once! Or go small, let Al play 4 and run some teams to death. Harden is my pre-season pick for ROY. I like Terrence Williams a lot too. He's a multi-talented guy, and Gerald Henderson is strong. The conference tournaments and March Madness will highlight almost all of these players over the next few weeks. It should be fun to watch.

Does he have a YouTube compilation?