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One thing I've noticed about NBA (sports) fans is that they like to declare certain outcomes as inevitable while at the same time seem horrible at actually predicting outcomes before they happen, or change their minds on inevitable outcomes continously. Because we all love to go back a couple years in the archives to see our bad opinions I figured I'd make it easy for 2018! The idea is to post your opinions, no matter how ill-informed, on how the recently drafted class will pan out. I decided to wait until after the draft as team and fit will likely make a difference. Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? ROY Prediction? Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Lockback fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 15:54
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) 1. Luka Doncic 2. Jaren jackson Jr. 3. Deandre Ayton 4. Mo Bamba 5. Zhaire Smith 6. Collin Sexton 7. Mikal Bridges 8. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Marvin Bagley Kevin Knox Jerome Robinson Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Zhaire Smith Khyri Thomas Grayson Allen ROY Prediction? Luka! Luka! Luka! Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Trae Young Paul Zuvella fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 16:02
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Mo Bamba will have a great career once he leaves Orlando for the Lakers.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:03
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) Rough Order 1. Ayton 2. Jackson Jr 3. Doncic 4. Bagley 5. Sexton 6. SGA 7. Carter Jr. 8. Mo Bamba Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Trae Young Miles Bridges Porter Jr Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? White Donte Lonnie Walker Zhaire Smith ROY Prediction? DeAndre Ayton Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Kevin Knox
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Jun 22, 2018 16:05
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) In order: 1. JJJ 2. Ayton 3. Bamba 4. Luka 5. Lonnie Walker 6. SGA 7. Carter 8. Bagley Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Sexton Trae Knox (hope not!) Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Lonnie Donte Spellman ROY Prediction? Luka. I think he will be superseded in a few years once the bigs mature. Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Bagley Boosh! fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 16:05
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FYI, I made an edit to ask for 3 guys outside the lottery who'll succeed, I messed up making the question.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:05
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) This is gonna be ordered: 1. Luka Doncic 2. Jaren Jackson Jr 3. Deandre Ayton 4. Lonnie Walker 5. Trae Young 6. Mikal Bridges 7. Zhaire Smith 8. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? 1. Michael Porter Jr. Don't think he'll get to 100 games. 2. Jerome Robinson He's on the Clippers and doesn't have a horde of Canadian fans to gas him up. 3. Mo Bamba Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? 1. Lonnie Walker 2. Zhaire Smith 3. Josh Okogie I have a feeling he'll end up as the 4th best player on a handful of contending teams at some point ROY Prediction? Luka for sure Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? It's gotta be Kevin Knox. Unless the Knicks sign another power forward, I can see them starting Knox until Porzingas is back and just let him throw up anything.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:27
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Bob Billiams for every answer. Thank you
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Jun 22, 2018 16:33
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I'm going to post here for posterity so it can be quoted to show my brilliance or my stupid opposition but I don't think Doncic is anywhere near a slam-dunk and while I think he'll be good I'll be surprised if he becomes a star-level player.
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Jun 22, 2018 16:45
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Ayton's clearly the best player in the draft and will develop just fine Doncic turns into a decent but not world beating ball handler JJJ will be compared to Serge Ibaka after every weakside block People are completely wrong about the late round sleepers this year and Zhaire Smith, Landry Shamet, and Aaron Holiday are all cut/irrelevant in a year or two Mo Bamba is actually good and the Magic will have a renaissance in the front court with him and Isaac Trae Young is completely legitimate and turns into Atlanta's version of Gilbert Arenas Wendell Carter low key becomes the most reliable starter out of everyone but Ayton for the next 10 years Marvin Bagley is Derrick Williams 2.0 and the Kings become even more lost Jerome Robinson is the next Donovan Mitchell and also for the next 5 or so years every SG taken in the 11-15ish range will be referred to as the next Donovan Mitchell
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Jun 22, 2018 16:48
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Lockback posted:I'm going to post here for posterity so it can be quoted to show my brilliance or my stupid opposition but I don't think Doncic is anywhere near a slam-dunk and while I think he'll be good I'll be surprised if he becomes a star-level player. I think believing he tops out at good but not great is reasonable but your trutherism on the average level of play at the highest levels of Europe relative to the NCAA remains pretty silly
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Jun 22, 2018 16:52
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I waffled a lot between "Bagley is an athletic Kevin Love" and this take. I decided to have faith in Sacramento. MourningView posted:I think believing he tops out at good but not great is reasonable but your trutherism on the average level of play at the highest levels of Europe relative to the NCAA remains pretty silly I don't think doing really well in that league automatically translates to NBA success. There are guys who played worse as veterans than I'd want top-5 picks to play who were also MVP candidates in Euro League. I don't think playing in the Euro-league makes you bad or anything, but I don't think it translates to the NBA the way its being made out. Lockback fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 16:52
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Lockback posted:I decided to have faith in Sacramento. You should be euthanized for this. Meet me out back
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Jun 22, 2018 16:55
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Lockback posted:I waffled a lot between "Bagley is an athletic Kevin Love" and this take. I decided to have faith in Sacramento. Vlade thinks he can play SF. Please revise that statement now
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Jun 22, 2018 16:56
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Lockback posted:I waffled a lot between "Bagley is an athletic Kevin Love" and this take. I decided to have faith in Sacramento. No one is saying it's a guaranteed translation, just that it's more impressive than doing well in college, and that being as good as he was there is basically unprecedented at that age. MourningView fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 16:57
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Lockback posted:I don't think doing really well in that league automatically translates to NBA success. There are guys who played worse as veterans than I'd want top-5 picks to play who were also MVP candidates in Euro League. I don't think playing in the Euro-league makes you bad or anything, but I don't think it translates to the NBA the way its being made out. I agree with you too and I think that the separation between NBA and overseas talent is evident when America has been running teams out of the building for years in the Olympics. While the Europe can produce stars, I think that the majority of players overseas are trash compared to G-Leaguers, much less NBA stars. It's like if you sent any top prospect overseas they're expected to dominate. I mean half the people who play in those euro league teams are washed out former college players or G-Leaguers. MourningView posted:No one is saying it's a guaranteed translation, just that it's more impressive than doing well in college, and that being as good as he was there is basically unprecedented at them age. I think that's more because training young talent has taken a gigantic leap in the last decade than it being impossible to dominate the euro league as a gigantic 18 year old. Expect a few more Doncics coming down the pipe because Europeans aren't stupid anymore when it comes to top tier sports training.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:23
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No one thinks Euroleagues are better than the NBA, just much better than college on average. It's way better than the G-League though, that's insane. You can't make a living wage in the G League unless you're on a two way which is a fraction of the league's players, almost everyone with the ability to go make real money in Europe leaves and does that instead. They aren't leaving because they can't play with the G Leaguers they're leaving because it pays better to do so. Almost all the American guys in the ACB were like all conference type players in college. Anyway this isn't the point of this thread so we can take this the regular thread if you want MourningView fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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Jun 22, 2018 17:31
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I guess? I mean you're not a moderator or the OP of the thread but I'll argue this somewhere else if you need it.
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Jun 22, 2018 17:49
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) Ayton Doncic W. Carter Mikal Bridges Bagley III JJJ Gilgeous-Alexander T. Young Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Bamba Robinson Sexton Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Z. Smith L. Walker A. Holiday ROY Prediction? Ayton Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Bagley III
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Jun 22, 2018 18:27
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) Jackson Doncic Ayton Carter Trae Young Miles Bridges Kevin Huerter Okobo Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Sexton Porter (I like this pick for Denver just betting on the back being hosed up) Knox Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Huerter Okobo Walker ROY Prediction? Trae Young Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Sexton or Bagley
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Jun 22, 2018 19:06
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) 1. Ayton 2. JJJ 3. Doncic 4. Bamba 5. Carter Jr 6. Mikal Bridges 7. Zhaire Smith 8. Gilgeous-Alexander Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Porter Jr Robinson Young Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Divincenzo Robert Williams Zhaire Smith ROY Prediction? Doncic Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Trae Young Khagan fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jun 23, 2018 |
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Jun 23, 2018 15:09
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Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) No order Luka, Ayton, JJJ, Carter, Both Bridges, Knox, Bamba Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Porter, Robinson, Shai Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Huerter, Javon Carter, Holiday ROY Prediction?Luka Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad?Bagley
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Not the draft I'm most confident in doing this since it's the least I've been able to prep for in a few years but all right. E: I don't think this forum is going to be around in 10 years or even 5 for us to really judge this but here we go Which 8 players will have the best career (regardless of draft position)(note if you are ordering or not) Unordered 1. Ayton 2. Doncic 3. Jaren Jackson 4. Trae Young 5. Wendell Carter 6. Porter 7. Lonnie Walker 8. Bamba Which 3 guys taken in the lottery (top 14) will bust? Bagley, Sexton, Knox Which 3 players outside the lottery (top 14) will have the best career? Walker, Wagner, Anfernee Simons E2: I really want to have Shamet mentioned in this post somewhere too. ROY Prediction? Ayton Who will win the MCW award for best rookie numbers despite being bad? Bagley Rick fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jun 24, 2018 |
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Jun 24, 2018 08:47
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