Chapter 1,118 The Draft Is over and Paul Belongs!

Leafs was not involved in which player the Seattle SuperSonics selected with the 30th pick this year. This was the responsibility of Presti and his scouting team.

However, Yeas also knows some of the candidates Presti has prepared for this draft.

The first pick is Rondo's junior at the University of Kentucky, Eric Bledsoe. With Rondo destined to be traded, although James Harden can be promoted to the starting lineup, Sessions and Ty Lawson can also They can play as backup point guards, but the shortcomings of Sessions and Ty Lawson are still very obvious. It's not that the two are bad players and can't beat strong teams, but that the defense of the two is really bad.

For some specific strong teams, strong teams with All-Star players in every position, the role of the two is very limited.

Sessions basically had no playing time in this year's finals, because the Heat have star players in every position, and stars are on the court all the time. As long as Sessions plays, it will definitely be a defensive vulnerability, and he will definitely be stared at. .

Therefore, the Seattle SuperSonics need to prepare a different backup point guard. They have Ty Lawson for offense, Sessions for organization, and they also need one for defense.

And Bledsoe is a very good addition.

Bledsoe's talent and style of play are called the rich man's version of Lowry. Of course, this is just because he is more talented than Lowry. If he wants to reach Lowry's level, he will need to practice for several seasons. However, he His defense is already at a certain level, and the Sonics don't expect him to have Lowry's offense and passing ability now.

It's just that that's the way the draft is, what you hope to get is not necessarily what you can get.

Although Bledsoe was not invited to the Little Green Room, in the predictions of many draft experts before the game, Bledsoe's draft pick was very high.

ESPN's No. 1 draft expert Chat Ford believes that he will be selected by the Rockets with the 14th pick, and Rockets center player and former University of Kentucky captain Chuck Hayes also expressed his hope that the team will choose his junior. .

However, unexpectedly, Bledsoe was not selected by the Rockets, but was robbed by the Warriors and Jerry West.

Jerry West and the Warriors also need a point guard of this type. Curry and his substitute Barbosa are both good offensive players and need to make up for it defensively. The two teams collided somewhat.

To sum it up, the Seattle SuperSonics intercepted the Leonard that Jerry West wanted, which also makes Jerry West very depressed now.

Because the Warriors' new head coach is Cole, a former assistant coach at the University of Washington, and there are a lot of University of Washington players on the team, the Warriors know Leonard far better than other teams.

Especially Jerry West, Cole suggested to him to select Leonard with the team's 22nd overall pick this year.

I think Leonard is a very good complement to Beasley, who can supplement Beasley's defensive problem.

After studying Leonard, Jerry West discovered that this player is simply a treasure!

He doesn't score a lot, but he can make three-pointers and mid-range shots, and he can hold the ball to a certain level.

He is invisible a lot of the time, but when the University of Washington needs him, he is even more stable than Bradley and Isiah Thomas when he steps up!

His athletic talent is not high, but he has basically never been killed by those strong athletes using his talent!

This is quite incredible.

He wasn't sure what Leonard's situation was.

But based on his experience and eyes, this is a player who can definitely gamble.

Therefore, he spent most of this offseason looking for opportunities to trade lottery picks.

It's for Leonard.

After working hard for more than a month, Jerry West felt much more uncomfortable when he was intercepted by the SuperSonics.

In this draft, Presti prepared a total of four candidates for the 30th pick.

Bledsoe, Lance Stephenson, Hassan Whiteside.

According to Presti,

This time the team is most likely to select Lance Stephenson with the 30th pick, and the least likely to select is Hassan Whiteside.

Bledsoe is 50-50.

I didn't expect such a big surprise to happen in this draft.

Lance Stephenson was selected by the Pacers with the 16th pick in the first round.

According to Presti, Lance Stephenson will likely fall to the early second round.

And Hassan Whiteside is likely to enter the lottery. Although the team is small, the talent is there.

Ye Si looked at the black guy who was celebrating wildly with his relatives and friends next to him excitedly at this time. Ye Si thought of the scouting report that Presti gave him.

Name: Hassan Whiteside

Height: 2.13 meters (7 feet)

Weight: 107kg

Position: Center

Age: 22 years old

Template: Marcus Camby (best), Tyson Chandler (worst)

Draft prospects: Lottery

Advantages: He is 7 feet tall, with a wingspan of 7 feet 6 (2.31 meters), full of strength, and has high speed and agility that are extremely inconsistent with his tall stature. His solid rebounding ability and dominant shot-blocking ability allow him to gain a foothold in the NBA. , has shown good shooting skills, and in time may become a big man with a wide attacking range.

Disadvantages: Entering college at the age of 20 makes him more like an older player. Such problems will make people doubt his IQ and football intelligence, and this is the only reason why we may use the No. 30 pick to select him, which will lead to his There is a discount on value in this year's draft. In addition, his skills and game awareness will make his ability to control the game insufficient. His free throw shooting rate is only 40%, which will affect his time on the court and the team's game rhythm (will be targeted). And his weight is not enough, but he has a good frame and muscle type. He should be able to have a good figure as a center in the future. In addition, he also needs to get rid of his old habit of holding the ball and reduce his turnover rate. He also needs to get rid of his old habit of holding the ball and reduce his turnover rate. Not realizing that he can't be a player like Yao Ming, he has almost no ball-handling ability on the offensive end, but he seems unwilling to be just a Camby.

A player with obvious strengths and weaknesses.

The player who can regard Tyson Chandler as the worst template, his best template is actually Camby, which is very telling.

Are Tyson Chandler and Camby much different?

There is almost no difference.

If that's the case, why does Presti's draft report say this?

That's because there is no possibility for his offense, and of course he can only play defensively.

Now Camby has accomplished a little more than Chandler.

Presti saw Whiteside's obvious advantages and disadvantages, and other NBA team general managers are not fools.

The Rockets' Thabeet lesson is right in front of them.

Such a player needs to be polished, and it’s hard to say whether he can polish it. Player intelligence and awareness cannot be compensated by talent. If you play 10 minutes in a game, all of them will be fouled and there will be a lot of blocks, but all of them will be missed. People, no matter how talented they are, can’t stand it!

And this is why Whiteside was not selected even when he was here.

Of course, for Whiteside, he doesn't think he has any problems now.

"Am I so long and hard? Am I so fucking long and hard!"

"That's right, I was born to go to the Seattle SuperSonics!"

I have to say that Whiteside did hold back his worries too much.

So much so that after he was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics, he became a little dissolute for a while.

"Little Ye Zi, the rookie you chose this time is very interesting."

Originally, Yao Ming wanted to say that this kid looked a lot like Thabeet on their team.

The two of them almost looked cut from the same mold.

But Thabeet was much shyer than this kid.

"Being selected by the Seattle SuperSonics, even if it's only at the end of the first round, you can really celebrate without restraint."

Avery Bradley looked at Whiteside with some envy and said.

Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, just Hedong, now Hexi, being able to enter the Seattle SuperSonics as a first-round pick, even he, the top pick, would envy.

Starting with Rondo in 2006, Durant in 2007, James Harden and Ibaka in 2008, and Ty Lawson in 2009, in addition to Ty Lawson, the Seattle SuperSonics' first-round draft picks in these years have been There was never any water.

Among them, the five first-round picks in the past four years have produced three All-Star players, one super giant and one superstar. No matter what Rondo says, his honor is definitely worthy of the title of superstar. Of course, if his strength can be more Once recognized, he can be worthy of the title of Super Giant.

This success rate is simply unbeatable!

A few days ago, ESPN made statistics based on rookie players at various picks in the past 20 years.

In the past 20 years, except for the top five picks, the star rate has exceeded 60%. For other picks, the sixth pick has a star rate of only 25%, the seventh pick has a star rate of 30%, the eighth pick has a star rate of 35%, and the ninth pick has a star rate of 30%. 30%, 35% at No. 10, and after the tenth pick, the star rate is all lower than 30%, and even the star rate for the 12th pick is only 5%.

You know, ESPN's star standard is not to enter the All-Stars, but according to a formula they formulated, if the average points + rebounds + assists + steals + blocks per game are greater than 25, they are considered stars.

According to this standard, a center who averages 10 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal per game is considered a star, and a guard who averages 15 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals per game is also a star.

Maybe this data is indeed considered an NBA star, but it is definitely impossible to become an All-Star.

According to ESPN statistics, the Seattle SuperSonics' All-Star rate of first-round players has reached 60% in the past four years, except for Yeezy. Even the success rate of the No. 1 pick cannot reach the success rate of the Sonics' starting players.

For a No. 1 pick, it is difficult to say that he has a 60% chance of entering the All-Stars. However, if he is selected by the SuperSonics in the first round and is trained by Ye Si, his probability of entering the All-Stars reaches 60%.

Therefore, the value of a Seattle SuperSonics first-round pick is comparable to, or even more than, the No. 1 pick.

ESPN is showing off Leafs' leadership ability in disguise.

But such bragging has not been refuted by others, which means that most people actually agree with it.

Therefore, seeing Whiteside's arrogance in Hedong and Hexi for thirty years, the other rookies next to him are really only envious in addition to envy, and they don't think there is anything wrong with Whiteside's behavior.

These people may even feel that they would do the same thing if they were Whiteside.

Whiteside is very arrogant. As the last pick in the first round, he was selected by the SuperSonics at the buzzer. It was a combination of ice and fire.

The rookies were looking at Whiteside with envy, but all the stars present were looking at Yes.

Especially James.

"Four years later, I will also let the world recognize that as long as I go to Cleveland in the first round, it also means entering the All-Stars!"

"I will use my own efforts to increase the attractiveness of Cleveland!"

"I definitely don't want to accept the nightmare of constant invitations and rejections!"

"I want to make Cleveland a mecca for young players like Seattle!"

"I want to be the god of this holy place just like Yes!"

James has a lot on his mind now.

After the Seattle SuperSonics completed the last pick of the first round, all the NBA stars present and all the players in the Little Green Room left the draft venue.

It's not just Leafs and these green-room rookies who have left, David Stern has also left.

The person who came to the court to read the second-round draft picks instead of David Stern was actually one of the members of the TNT team who had just been sitting in the commentary box with Barkley, Kenny Smith, Chris Webber and Reggie Miller. Scottie Pippen!

Barkley and the others were stunned to see Scottie Pippen on stage representing David Stern.

The one who was even more shocked was actually Jordan in front of the TV.

NBA Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer…

This is a profile of Scottie Pippen typed out on TV.

David Stern invites Scottie Pippen to become the NBA's sixth vice president.

Damn it, Pi Er is going to go against the grain!

The senior vice president of that joke has been fucked by David Stern. Now everyone knows that the NBA's succession battle has become intense, and many people are eyeing the position of the senior vice president.

Even Jordan himself has ideas.

But in the face of his explicit hints, David Stern was completely indifferent. But how did this guy Pi Er get to his position?

Apart from his mouth that only knows how to say Yes, how can this guy compare to me, Mr. Qiao? !

Watching Pippen calmly point out the world on TV, Jordan was quite dissatisfied!

The Leafs certainly had no idea this was going to happen as they left the draft.

The Seattle SuperSonics also have a second-round pick with the 60th overall pick this year. Because the Sonics have already filled up their roster, this pick was traded to the Dallas Mavericks tonight for $2 million.

Therefore, with the first round selected, the Seattle SuperSonics' draft tonight has ended.

"Brother Yao, have you decided where to go next?"

"I'm still thinking about it."

On the special plane from New York to Seattle, Yao Ming said with a smile.

He is not in a hurry. Perhaps the most important choice in life is very important.

At this moment, Yao Ming's cell phone rang. Yao Ming took it and looked at it. The smile on his face was still frozen, but his eyes had turned into shock.

Ye Si looked at Yao Ming's phone curiously. This was a text message sent by Team Yao.

"The latest news, multi-party trade, Chris Paul goes to the Clippers!"

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