Friday Notes: Redd staying? All about RJ, Alexander and draft reaction
Brew Hoop —
... guard, because Mo Williams cannot stay in the same backcourt with Redd.
Dave Heller at the JS collects league reaction to the Alexander pick.
Ted Bauer at ESPN The Mag is feeling good about the Bucks.
Trevor Smith at Hoops Addict chronicles the long journey that brought Alexander to Milwaukee.
Tom Enlund writes Alexander is excited to be a Buck. What a novel change of pace from 2007, eh?
Bill Simmons isn't sounding bitter about being passed over for the Bucks' GM gig.
5:18: ...
What They're Saying: Marreese Speights
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae —
... If
Speights is the power forward, Young the small forward, and Mystery
Acquisition the shooting guard of the future, where does Iguodala play?
He's not a point guard. As demonstrated painfully during the brief
playoff appearance against Detroit, he's not a shooting guard. And,
honestly, are you going to pay him $12 million a year to split time
with Young at small forward?
Draft Diaries
Bill Simmons, espn.com
6:02: Mareesse Speights goes No. 16 (to Philly) and gets the dreaded ...
ESPN Actually Lets Bill Simmons Get Away With Some Draft Broadcast Digs
AwfulAnnouncing —
... takes French center Alexis Ajinca, quickly followed by Fran Fraschilla getting yanked away from the men's room to give his thoughts. You're not gonna believe this, but Fran likes Ajinca's 7-foot-8 wingspan. That leads to the new best e-mail of the night, from Jon in Maine: "Since when did Nathan Lane become an expert on international basketball?"Well that was fun wasn't it? I fully expect all of those digs to be taken down by 1:30pm so enjoy them while you can!
Introducing the comedic stylings of the Lopez twins! (Page 2)
The "Smokescreen" Draft
Rip City Project | A Portland Trailblazers blog —
... hard not to feel a little bad, until you remember the Dale Davis/Jermaine O'Neal trade. There were many more bombastic reactions, but my favorite was the fan who just said, "wtf, no Larry....no."
NBA.com's initial Rookie Rankings. Oden is a "cautious" fourth. Meanwhile, ESPN and Scout Inc's David Thorpe has four Blazers in his Top-20 Rookies.
Blazersedge has some good analysis of our picks and how they fit in.
Bill Simmons' Draft Diary is up. Not one of his best efforts, but the Blazer-related email is top-notch. ...
Daily Links 6/28
CelticsBlog —
... picks Trading Markets Lenovo says its stat predicted Boston Celtics would win NBA finals Bennington Banner Feeling a draft in Celtics' logic ABS-CBN Boston coach offers to train RP cagers for NBA Star Tribune As hard as it is to admit, McHale probably got this one right Telfair not given offer but is still in picture SI.com Post NBA draft awards Draft grades ESPN Chad Ford's draft grades Chad Ford's draft board Bill Simmons draft diary Asylum Take a shot at Kevin Garnett's subtle preppy style The Big ...
Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 6/28
LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog —
... Post NBA draft awards
Draft grades
ESPN Chad Ford's draft grades
FL's Take: All the draft grades are made on Gidden's being a knucklehead and Walker's knees. But, Giddens seems to have matured in his senior season and we all see how Leon Powe came back from 3 knee surgeries. Danny could have the steals of the draft here. In any case, taking a chance is worth it.
Chad Ford's draft board
Bill Simmons draft diary
Asylum Take a shot at Kevin Garnett's ...
Morning Coffee Is Principled, Damnit
Burnt Orange Nation —
... Bill Simmons takes on DJ. I received a couple post-draft emails asking me to take on Bill Simmons following his less-than-glowing take on Charlotte's selection of DJ Augustin at #9 in the NBA Draft. From Simmons' 'Draft Diary': ...
Kurz Watch 2008: Rob Doesn't Go, But 60 Players Do
Rakes Of Mallow —
... the best player on the best team for most of the season.
The Nuggets, who desperately needed a point guard, must have thought Mario Chalmers would be off the board when they picked at twenty, so they traded it to the Bobcats. Woops. Hopefully they're just putting pieces together for a blockbuster, but since they already passed on one such trade (Billups and Prince for Anthony), I doubt they'd do it again.
As far as post-draft stuff not to miss, Simmons' running diary is an annual tradition and FreeDarko's summary also has some great lines ( ...
Some Grizzlies guards won’t find this amusing
Randball —
... can improve on his 20.1 point scoring average from a year ago. Along those same lines, did anyone else catch the line about Kevin Love and Rudy Gay in the midst of Bill Simmons’ draft diary ? (5:23). We’re a little surprised it made it past the ESPN censors. This entry was posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 12:07 pm and is filed under ...
Jay Bilas, ESPN Attempt To Combat Binge Drinking During NBA Draft
FanIQ Blog —
... We'll give him credit for coming up with every possible synonym, but I won't excuse him for telling us that Michael Beasley had "second-jumpability" and noting Kevin Love's "pick and popability." If we ever run into Jay, we're getting our drinks back. ...
Simmons at the Draft
Canis Hoopus —
With all of the talk about Bill Simmons and the Wolves GM job, I thought it would be an interesting idea to take a trip back to his Draft Diary column series to see what he had to say about the Wolves and Wolves-related draft picks:
2008:
4:48: Minnesota takes Ovinton J'Anthony Mayo at No. 3 as Bilas tells us Mayo is "NBA-ready." You mean, from a fertility standpoint? Nope, he means "ready to step in and play right away." Got it. Maybe Mayo was the most talented prospect available (note: I argued Mayo's strengths in ...
