Justin Jaudon

You're certainly welcome to your opinion. I loved that finals run too, but it doesn't make up for what happened after. Not to me, anyway. Dwight didn't just leave. Cavs fans know what it's like to have a player rip their hearts out (relatively speaking in sports-fandom terms, anyway). But at least LeBron's DECISION was a one-off for them. Dwight played with our sports hearts for 3 years before finally stomping on them and spitting on them. It being the organization that frustrated him more than the city didn't help. Orlando fired a good coach because he didn't like the guy. Dwight did everything he could to gut this team before he left. If Rob weren't such a *****ing ninja, getting Vuc and Hark and Harris through trades, we'd all be in basketball hell right now. So no, for me, it wasn't worth it.

Oh. My. God. PF are not supposed to be able to handle like that. God I hope this kid can fix his FT issues!

For what its worth, Harkless still can't shoot FT. It's actually way easier, or so it seems, to vastly improve 3-pt% than FT%. I cannot for the life of me understand why.

No thanks. I don't want to relive the final Dwight years again. Not worth the good ones, in my opinion.

Oladipo and Harris both project to score pretty well next year. Dipo is a second-year kid with talent and a relentless work ethic to make himself better, and his per-36 numbers were solid year-one. Harris' trajectory has shown that he improves every year. If he develops even a 30% outside shot, he's close to a 20-a-night scorer with decent minutes. Vucevic is a solid interior scorer, comparable to Marc Gasol (not as good a passer, but a MUCH better ORBer). In my opinion, this team already has as much or more scoring than Memphis.

I think this team reminds me a lot more of 2011 or so Indiana Pacers. We don't have the veterans they did/do (yet, I'm still expecting a signing of some kind this summer that would compare to West for Indiana), but we have a similar makeup of defensive-minded guys who want to win games TOGETHER. If that's the kind of team we end up being, I'll be happy. I don't think we need a CENTERPIECE so much as a CENTRAL IDENTITY. I see that happening soon.

Holy hell! That looks so much like my grandmother! Run! Undead old people! They want to eat your brains!

"If thou drafteth for defense and intelligence, athleticism and unselfishness, thy scoring shall be like the desert. Dry and barren, thy players shall never improve, and thy wins shall be scarce like the refreshing waters. So sayeth the Lord of Assumptions!" Draft Analysis 4:27

This might be the wrong place for this, but I thought it was relevant. I was looking at some of Dwyane (what kinda spelling is that? we gotta stop letting women all doped up on pain killers set up these kids' birth certificates before they're right again!) Wade's stats his rookie year. All of the advanced stats (discounting win shares, of course, seeing as Wade was on a borderline playoff team) are freakishly similar to Oladipo's, except that Dipo showed some ability to hit three's with a modicum of regularity. I think maybe Rob went for great role players in this draft because he feels he already has his star. Dipo's numbers project really well for a rookie. I'm excited to see how far he'll progress next year in his natural position without competition for minutes. Like, really optimistic!

MCW: I'm the reigning ROY, son. You better respect that. Easy E (shyly bobbing his head): I got picked a spot earlier than you did in a much better draft, from ULL when you went to Syracuse. I don't have to respect ****. I just hope you can play the 2. (sits down and doesn't give Michael Carter Williams another thought)

I hope you're right, but I think your man crush is showing too much. 15-8 would be his ceiling in my opinion.

Loove Parsons. He's a beast on D. Good leadership skills, too.

I would never! O'Quinn's beard is a thing of beauty. But as a proud beard-wearer myself, beards cannot compare to the sheer manliness of the mustache. Even Chuck Norris cannot deny that.

In all seriousness, I do see some of what you're talking about. Dumars-Oladipo, Agguire-Harris, Laimbeer-Vucevic, Rodman-Gordon, Vinnie Johnson-Jameer, Salley-O'Quinn. Not bad.

In what way does Elfrid Payton remind you of Isaiah Thomas? Turnover-prone? I got nothing else. And who's James Edwards for the current Orlando team? We have no such impressive mustache here.

Youuuuuu sonofa*****!

Payton is adorable. It's like he's never had that many people looking at him before. He's like a frightened kitten.

I don't think Exum and Burke are that bad a fit together. Burke can play off the ball a bit. Exum was never a pure point guard that I heard. They'll share duties.

I just want an excuse to play the Flash Gordon Soundtrack during games. Queen is awesome.

lmfao

Elfrid - Fred - Fred Sanford - Redd Fox - Redd. Done.

Flash! ha ah! He's the greatest in the universe!

I agree with you there. Definitely seems like one of the nicer guys in the draft. At least he didn't drop his head and curse when we drafted him, anyway.

Georgia State is ELITE? I gotta tell my friend who went there about that. He'll get a kick out of it. And that Baylor game is not very good. 6-19 is ugly.

getting to the FT line doesn't help much when you shoot 60% from there. There's a reason Rondo doesn't often score much. He can get into the lane at will, too, but teams just foul him unless it's one of those odd days where's he's not missing every time at the line.