DavidSomerset

Brandon Crump is the best player in the league for Heaven's sake...There is no way he could EVER make it in the NBA.

Face it, it is an awful, awful league.

So, it's looking like more than likely, we are not going to end up packaging the #3 pick for a big man (Gasol or Aldridge)??

Those teams just don't seem willing to deal.

I think if you change the #12 pick in the Gasol trade to the #3, that trade gets done...eventually.

Then we could take Crit at 11, Thad/Jeff Green/ Julian Wright at 12 and Splitter at 21.

We would have to include Lue, Speedy or AJ in the Philly trade...

Then we'd have:

Miller/Crit

JJ/Salim

Wright/???

Smoove/Splitter

Gasol/Shelden/Solo

Who would back up SF?

But do you really think we could get that much for Marvin?? Particularly when they already have Iggy?

Also, don't you highly doubt that we could get Gasol that easily?

I know he is a 28 year old scrub who will NEVER, EVER see the NBA.

And if someone like that can put up 26 points in less minutes than Yi put up 14 points, then that tells me you really can't look into Yi's stat's against us IN ONE GAME to figure out very much about him.

Like I said, using that logic (his stats in one game), then Lavrinovic would be a star in the NBA.

Yi has potential, but please don't crow about how amazing he's going to be because he scored 14 points against team USA.

And also, as I pointed out, he got absolutely railroaded on defense.

Smoove should and will get the majority of the minutes at PF...He is one of the rising stars of the league, and plays his best at PF.

You are advocating taking minutes away from him???

Yi is a COMPLETE waste of a pick.

No place for him on this team.

Yi is a 4, who is going to get absolutely railroaded on defense for the first 2-3 years.

If Smoove is best at PF (I agree), why the heck do you want Yi?

If Yi's 14 points and 9 rebounds in 30 minutes really impressed you that much, let's look at how some other country's players did against the US.

Puerto Rico- Daniel Santiago, C, had 12 points in 24 minutes

Lithuana- Ksistof Lavrinovic, C, had 26 points in 23 minutes

If Yi had a "spectacular" game, I guess Lavrinovic is the next Shaquille O'Neal isn't he!!?!?!!?

I mean, he had 26 points versus the BEST America has...

Lavrinovic for the #3 pick, woo hoo!!!

How did he do against them in that game defensively?

We already have our PF (Josh Smith), we have absolutely no need whatsoever for another one.

That's why I'm leery of Horford as well, I doubt he can play C...If he can though, I'm all for him.

Yi was the biggest player in China's line-up...They played 3 guards and 2 forwards, therefore he was responsible for covering our big men.

What a GREAT job he did!!! He could definitely play C in the NBA with defense like that!!!

Check out our big men's stat's in this game!!!

Howard: 2 for 3

Brad Miller: 5 for 5

Elton Brand: 5 for 7

Chris Bosh: 4 for 5

Combined FG % of our big men: 16 for 20, or 80%!!!

Yea, Yi can play C RIGHT NOW!!!

If you think keeping a 21 year old at a position where he put up some pretty sick numbers (again...16.5 ppg, 8.5 rpg, 3.0 bpg) is "ridiculous", then I don't really have any desire whatsoever to carry this conversation any farther.

If you can't see Smoove's potential at the 4 after last season, there's no point in discussing this with you.

Are you saying to trade Smoove?

I know you have said Yi is a 4.

So you are either advocating trading Smoove, or moving the 21 year old who just averaged 16.5 ppg, 8.5 rpg, and 3.0 bpg from his position he is beginning to master to SF.

You Yi supporters are BRILLIANT!!!

You don't want to waste the #3 pick, but you advocate taking Yi??!?!!?!?

That'd be the biggest waste of the #3 pick!!

You rode Yi's nuts worse than anyone else on here.

I'm not sold that Horford can play C, but he would be a MUCH better pick than Yi.

I'd still rather have Conley, but Horford is my 2nd choice.

The position that he averaged 16.5 ppg, 8.5 rpg, and 3 bpg AS A 21 YEAR OLD?!?!?!

That is beyond stupid.

We have no need for a 4 in this draft.

We have no need for a 3.

Needs are PG and C.

Taking Yi doesn't solve [censored], unless you're planning on trading Smoove, which would be far dumber than drafting Yi.

Then I'd be all for it.

But he would get eaten up at C in the NBA...I still remember watching the 6'4 Tennessee PF, Dane Bradshaw push him around like a rag doll in the post for the past two years.

It is actually really embarrassing to watch.

I DOUBT Memphis would do it though.

That lowers a players value substantially.

I'll be there...I'm just about the only real Hawks fan out of my friends, but hopefully I can round up a few buddies to make it.

Anyone else planning on going?

Imagine trading 3, chillz and change for Gasol, then taking Conley at 11.

What a great draft that would be.

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I am not convinced either way at the moment...He seemed to struggle against the bigger C's in the NCAA...At least defensively.

Al Jefferson/5 for our #3

What package is it going to take to get Gasol, in your opinion, Sothron?

I don't think we can afford to give up both 3 and 11, given our need for a PG.

Would 3, Chillz, Lue, Lo get it done?

Or would we have to throw in Shelden somewhere in there?