Minny/OKC To Swap....For Evans???

Thoughts = Evans really caught a bunch of team's eyes with his workouts. Rubio better be all that and a bag of chips, because he and Keivn together are going to be the softest scrawniest backourt in the history of the league and we may regret missing out on the physical guy (Evans).

As an aside, if this opens the door for Thabeet to slip to us, that works for me as well. Still dreaming of that Spencer, JT, Thabeet tri-towers frontcourt. We can nab a PG later. There are only 1400 of them in this draft.
 
Looking at all the different options of who might be available for us #4 shows how much things change in a few weeks perception-wise. The word around here after the lottery was there were a clear top 3 guys in the draft and we were just left out at #4. Does not seem to be the case now. Now the word is there is the clear #1 and then about 8 guys in no particular order.

All of those changes in perception and no b-ball games have been played yet.
 
Bricklayer said:
Thoughts = Evans really caught a bunch of team's eyes with his workouts. Rubio better be all that and a bag of chips, because he and Keivn together are going to be the softest scrawniest backourt in the history of the league and we may regret missing out on the physical guy (Evans).

As an aside, if this opens the door for Thabeet to slip to us, that works for me as well. Still dreaming of that Spencer, JT, Thabeet tri-towers frontcourt. We can nab a PG later. There are only 1400 of them in this draft.
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Brick, do you ever sleep? Keep seeing up at (what should be) the wee hours of the morning over there. :)
 
i read the article.. it said the minnesota T-wolves are convinced that Petrie is THAT high on evans. i guess they were wowed with evans when he dominated that PG work out. man against boys eh...

i really hope this deal pulls through and that the order of the draft

griffin
thabeet
evans
RUBIO
 
Well, my thoughts on this is that if Petrie/ Kings org have been making up this Evans stuff all along then dammit this may be the best switcheroo of all time. If Rubio is our guy, then good lord... were making teams jump ahead of us to grab a guy everyone thinks we want, then the guy we really want slips .. amazing if thats how it turns out.
 
Why would OKC do it? Maybe they figure they can get Harden at #5. I find it hard to believe though that Minn would give up a lot to trade up to that #3 slot for a guy who is not a sure thing. Even though I like Evans, he does have risk, just like everyone else in this draft. If Minn just sits tight, they might get Evans anyway. And if they don't, there will still be somebody pretty good sitting there for them.
 
Kingster said:
Why would OKC do it? Maybe they figure they can get Harden at #5. I find it hard to believe though that Minn would give up a lot to trade up to that #3 slot for a guy who is not a sure thing. Even though I like Evans, he does have risk, just like everyone else in this draft. If Minn just sits tight, they might get Evans anyway. And if they don't, there will still be somebody pretty good sitting there for them.
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OKC would almost certainly get Harden in that scenario. Of course, I'd be surprised if it were at 5...

2 - Thabeet (MEM)
3 - Evans (MIN)
4 - Rubio (SAC)
5 - Curry (MIN)
6 - Harden (OKC)

With MIN picking for OKC with #6 instead of #5 because the salary is cheaper and OKC holds the upper hand. If MIN does this, it's because they like Evans more than either Harden/Rubio and they think Evans will be gone...and all the smoke out of our front office does suggest that.
 
Of all the players in the Kings range, Evans certainly seems an unlikely "Petrie" pick. But if he sees other teams do value Evans, he has played this masterfully. This is my hope.

I'd rather have Harden or Rubio, and I'd be surprised if the Kings pass on either to select Evans.
 
Hallama said:
Of all the players in the Kings range, Evans certainly seems an unlikely "Petrie" pick. But if he sees other teams do value Evans, he has played this masterfully. This is my hope.

I'd rather have Harden or Rubio, and I'd be surprised if the Kings pass on either to select Evans.
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I don't think there is anyway the Kings would select Harden over Evans.
 
Why?

Harden is a great player, and he actually is better at some of the things Evans is being touted for, like his offensive PG abilities. I actually would rather have the ball in Harden's hands than Evans because Harden is a better passer off penetration.

Harden could really be the dark horse.

Doesn't really matter what we think, we'll see what Petrie thinks later today.
 
Hallama said:
Why?

Harden is a great player, and he actually is better at some of the things Evans is being touted for, like his offensive PG abilities. I actually would rather have the ball in Harden's hands than Evans because Harden is a better passer off penetration.

Harden could really be the dark horse.

Doesn't really matter what we think, we'll see what Petrie thinks later today.
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I completely agree I can't believe that Harden is not even being talked about as being the fourth pick. If the top three go Griffin, Thabeet, Rubio, I think we should pick Harden for all of the reasons that you mention.
 
from DX latest blog:

What is Sacramento Thinking?

The situation in the Kings war room appears to be extremely fluid at the moment, with plenty of trade offers on their table for the #4 pick, and four point guards in the lead to be selected should they hold onto it. Ricky Rubio, Jonny Flynn, Tyreke Evans and Stephen Curry are the players they are looking at, even if they continue to say that James Harden is in the picture as well, likely in order to prevent Oklahoma City from feeling comfortable about moving down to #5 in a swap with Minnesota.
 
Yeah, from the looks of it I don't think we'd successfully bluff anyone into thinking we'd actually take Harden. We need to make OKC feel very uncomortable taking Rubio.
 
MassachusettsKingsFan said:
Well, my thoughts on this is that if Petrie/ Kings org have been making up this Evans stuff all along then dammit this may be the best switcheroo of all time. If Rubio is our guy, then good lord... were making teams jump ahead of us to grab a guy everyone thinks we want, then the guy we really want slips .. amazing if thats how it turns out.
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Petrie being sneaky sneaky.

I think Evans has great potential to be a big time player...on a losing team. At the very least a Salmons type me first sorta guard.

Rubio can really turn this team around after he gets a season or two under his belt. Dude is a playmaker. I think Rubio to JT!!!!! Is something we are going to hear several times a game if we pick him up.


...Petrie scouted him in Europe too, so I seriously doubt his one on one workouts really swayed opinion on him. Smokescreens doin their thing.
 
Petrie has got to know what his top three are. Of course, he's not telling anybody, so he's driving the media and these other teams nuts! I bet even his discussions with other GMs that he hasn't even asked OKC or Memphis about moving up from #4, so they have no clue who he wants.
 
NME said:
Of course, because every hour he's awake is a potential billable hour. :D
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So you have known lawyers in the past, eh?


As an aside I sleep less than most and keep odd hours, but the real thing is that I have one computer that is normally never turned off and sometimes I leave a browser window pointed just to our little site here whether I am here or not. Confuses the trolls. Well that and I'm lazy. :p
 
Bricklayer said:
So you have known lawyers in the past, eh?
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Do I hear lawyer jokes in the offing? My favorite: Everybody hates lawyers until you need one - then you hate them even more:D

Getting back to this draft, some memories flood back I remember back in 1998 when GP went with Jason Williams at #7 passing up Dirk Nowitzki (#9) and Paul Pierce (#10). In no time a flood of free agent signings, trades, more draft picks to bring in Vlade, C-Webb, Christie, Peja and it was off to the races. Hopefully, after today the same kind of more good than bad luck will be in the cards.
 
Bricklayer said:
So you have known lawyers in the past, eh?


As an aside I sleep less than most and keep odd hours, but the real thing is that I have one computer that is normally never turned off and sometimes I leave a browser window pointed just to our little site here whether I am here or not. Confuses the trolls. Well that and I'm lazy. :p
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i do the same thing, my computer is always on and the browser is usually here. that and i usually have like 3 or 4 tabs open so im always logged into this site.
 
So Minnesota trades Foye and Miller so they can draft Evans? Isn't he basically the same type of player that Foye was -- a ball dominant SG playing out of position at PG? I think they'd be better off playing Evans at SG and drafting Curry to play PG. Those two guys would compliment each other pretty well in the backcourt.
 
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