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The Victor Oladipo Thread

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Meh Id rather have Vucevic then anybody else on the Orlando roster. I wonder if they would have traded him for our the number 1 this year.

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Goldin Brown said:
Yeah, Oladipo is looking pretty damn good right now. Bennett better get his shit together soon or people are going to be coming for Chris Grant's head.
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::sigh:: In Grant we trust...
 
Playoffs God said:
I saw the full play on that. Oladipo took a full four steps before doing that. I know that refs give a little more leeway than normal for finishes especially wide-open ones, but four steps is pretty ridiculous and definitely a travel.
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Looks like he had a live dribble immediately before the start of the gif. It's not how many steps you take since your last dribble, it's how many steps you take once you give up the ability to reliable again....big difference...
 
Oladipo would have looked so damn good in a Cavs uniform, doing 360 and windmill dunks while playing great D for us. Orlando got themselves a franchise player......
 
The Dion pick set us up not to draft him or BMac, imo.
 
I thought the Tristan Thompson pick set us up not to take Bennett.... Ah well, hope Dion gets more consistent because Oladipo looks like a superstar in the making.....
 
mAo_mAo said:
The Dion pick set us up not to draft him or BMac, imo.
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Problem I have is that Thompson is looking great this year, did we really not know he had improved so much until preseason? Seems like Grant and Co. were surprised, because if not, why draft Bennett? And if we're drafting strictly BPA, then does anybody here really think Bennett will be BPA, or even Top 3?
 
mAo_mAo said:
The Dion pick set us up not to draft him or BMac, imo.
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Which makes passing on Drummond even worst now.
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qaws23 said:
Which makes passing on Drummond even worst now.
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Yeap. Oladipo and Drummond would set us up to be one of the better young defensive teams in the league. Mike Brown would make those two legit all defensive team candidates. We will have defensive anchors on both the perimeter and in the paint.
 
then does anybody here really think Bennett will be BPA, or even Top 3?
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Doesn't matter what we think here.

The only person who's opinion counts is Chris Grant's, and he apparently thinks Bennett is going to be the BPA long term otherwise he wouldn't have taken him.

Going to take more than 5 games to determine whether he was correct or not.
 
Birdy89 said:
Doesn't matter what we think here.
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Maybe we should stop posting then?

Birdy89 said:
The only person who's opinion counts is Chris Grant's, and he apparently thinks Bennett is going to be the BPA long term otherwise he wouldn't have taken him.

Going to take more than 5 games to determine whether he was correct or not.
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He's not doing himself any favors.
 
mAo_mAo said:
Yeap. Oladipo and Drummond would set us up to be one of the better young defensive teams in the league. Mike Brown would make those two legit all defensive team candidates. We will have defensive anchors on both the perimeter and in the paint.
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If we draft Drummond, how would we have known we'd be in position to also draft Oladipo, or even that we'd want to? Oladipo wasn't considered a top ten pick (I'm not sure he was even top thirty...I'm having trouble finding actual rankings for the 2013 draft from that early) at the time of the 2012 draft. In an article from November 2012, Chad Ford didn't even have him listed as one of the top five players to watch from the Big Ten.

Further, how do we know that, if we had drafted Drummond, we'd have ended up with the same pick. Maybe our record is better or worse. Maybe we pick fourth instead of first. Regardless, you just can't assume drafting a different player one year nets us the same pick the following year. Oladipo may well have been off the board when we drafted had we selected someone else in the 2012 draft, and as mentioned above there was no way of knowing we may have even wanted him when we selected Waiters, as he wasn't even remotely considered a contender for the top pick in the following year's draft.
 
gourimoko said:
Problem I have is that Thompson is looking great this year, did we really not know he had improved so much until preseason? Seems like Grant and Co. were surprised, because if not, why draft Bennett? And if we're drafting strictly BPA, then does anybody here really think Bennett will be BPA, or even Top 3?
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If Grant didn't think he was bpa, the pick makes no sense at all.
 
Jack Brickman said:
If we draft Drummond, how would we have known we'd be in position to also draft Oladipo, or even that we'd want to? Oladipo wasn't considered a top ten pick (I'm not sure he was even top thirty...I'm having trouble finding actual rankings for the 2013 draft from that early) at the time of the 2012 draft. In an article from November 2012, Chad Ford didn't even have him listed as one of the top five players to watch from the Big Ten.

Further, how do we know that, if we had drafted Drummond, we'd have ended up with the same pick. Maybe our record is better or worse. Maybe we pick fourth instead of first. Regardless, you just can't assume drafting a different player one year nets us the same pick the following year. Oladipo may well have been off the board when we drafted had we selected someone else in the 2012 draft, and as mentioned above there was no way of knowing we may have even wanted him when we selected Waiters, as he wasn't even remotely considered a contender for the top pick in the following year's draft.
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It's amazing how many people can't grasp this.
 
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