2010 Draft Possibilities

I haven’t watched a ton of college hoops (more than last year), but I’m up on Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson (don’t like his age) and Cole Aldrich (I know he’s sucked recently, but he’s a great role-playing type like Kevin Love. DeMarcus Cousins jumps off the page on the stat sheet, but I worry about his baggage.

Haven’t seen Aminu at all, and want to stay away from Derrick Favors.

At the end of the day, hopefully, we’ve begun the rebuilding process. At that point, it shouldn’t matter what position – we just need to take the best guy.

he is a better rose, and arenas is probably gone so we don’t have to worry about that spot.

my issue with this post is assuming the wizards will get a lottery pick. this is the eastern conference, if we go on a seven or eight game win streak we’re talking playoffs not lottery. i know i may be high off these back-to-back wins, but its still early and the team appears to be starting to gel. i also realize everyone on here seems content with the blow-it-up and rebuild philosophy and probably with good reason, but with the kind of lottery luck we’ve had in the past i think a partial rebuild incorporating effective pieces from this year’s team is more logical. unless somehow we land the #1 pick and get john wall.

I see Donatas Motiejunas as being a potential franchise player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37MBYJ-w7k&feature=fvw

My personal board is…(haven’t seen DeMarcus Cousins, Xavier Henry or anyone on Texas play)
1. John Wall
2. Evan Turner
3. Donatas Motiejunas
4. Al-Farouq Aminu
5. Greg Monroe
6. Wesley Johnson

I go to Wake Forest, so I watch Aminu all the time. He is definitely not worthy of a Top-5 pick in my opinion. He scores all his points on put-backs and alley-oops. They run plays for him, and he just fumbles the ball out of bounds, or throws up a bad shot. He has no skill. He is just tall and athletic. There is nothing that he does particularly well. His defensive positioning is terrible, and he has no bulk in his lower body, so he can’t handle someone backing him in. The blocks he gets are blocks that all 6-11 college players should block.

Aminu is like a 5th grader who spent an entire year playing basketball with 1st graders. He dominates by getting all the rebounders, making nothing but layups, and blocking all their shots, but he does not improve at all.

I will say this though, he seems like a great guy. I never read or hear anything bad about him, and I know the coach absolutely loves him.

this is a homer pick, but I would love to end up with Greg Monroe. Don’t get me wrong, I realize he is not the best player in the draft. But, truthfully, I kind of expect us to land around 4-6. What I’d REALLY love is to end up with 2 top 10 picks. Anyway, it’s been a long time since we’ve had a Georgetown player, and never one of their stars. I think Monroe is gonna be an excellent player in the NBA, and it would be nice to have a homegrown superstar. For those of you that say he’s not the best big man out there we, that may be true. But I GUARANTEE he will get the most help in becoming the best, what with the long history of Georgetown big men getting together to help the “next generation.”

Our only young guy who seems like someone you’d want to play a large part in a rebuilding effort is McGee, and he can just as easily slide to power forward if we get Aldrich. Our other young guys – Blatche, McGuire, Young, and to a lesser extent Foye – are all mediocre at best and are maybe good enough to be rotation players on a good team, but not by any means good enough to start.

He should be able to give us a low post scorer and physical presence, and his relative lack of shotblocking could be compensated for by playing Javale at the 4. We could then get a swingman in the 2011 draft and either sign or trade for a point guard.