My guess is that his drop has everything to do with medical concerns.
Or they see a 217lb guy with limited offensive game.
Why did Noel slip so far? Was the knee more of a concern than we all initially thought?
Chad Ford
(1:05 PM)
Doesn't sound like from all the intel I can gather. I've talked to a number of teams that passed on him and none mentioned long-term concerns with the knee. I think they WERE worried about drafting a guy who might not play for them next year. Even the GMs that WANT to be bad next year were worried that their jobs might be in jeopardy if they didn't have their top draft pick for the year. That's the sort of short term thinking that put a lot of these teams in the lottery to begin with.
Not what a lot of people want to hear...
Not what a lot of people want to hear...
If Noel reinjures the knee in the 2nd half of the season it's a good decision to have stayed away. If he comes back healthy, and out plays Bennett we are going to have another Valanciunas Thompson gripe on our hands.
What's going to be worse is if Valanciunas also breaks out this year. Then we're going to have the complaints about how good of a fit Valanciunas would be with nerlens given V has a jump shot, and both are mobile defenders.
It would be fitting to have Nerlens reinjure the leg, and Valanciunas take a dump with Thompson having the break out year, and Bennett surprising with near 20-10 his rookie season fulfilling the larry johnson hype with Varejao holding down the center position for 35 minutes a night playing all 82 games negating the worries of having no center on the roster. /end blue sky
If Noel reinjures the knee in the 2nd half of the season it's a good decision to have stayed away. If he comes back healthy, and out plays Bennett we are going to have another Valanciunas Thompson gripe on our hands.
What's going to be worse is if Valanciunas also breaks out this year. Then we're going to have the complaints about how good of a fit Valanciunas would be with nerlens given V has a jump shot, and both are mobile defenders.
It would be fitting to have Nerlens reinjure the leg, and Valanciunas take a dump with Thompson having the break out year, and Bennett surprising with near 20-10 his rookie season fulfilling the larry johnson hype with Varejao holding down the center position for 35 minutes a night playing all 82 games negating the worries of having no center on the roster. /end blue sky