Cavs Draft

OKC chose Serge over Harden when the season begun, I can’t see them trade him after the season he made, for a guy, Noel, that will come off injury and is not the offensive player that Ibaka already became.

I just don’t understand why OKC would do that. If it’s because of the cap room, justhave to amnesty perkins, don’t re-sign K.Martin and that’s it

OKC will be under the cap without amnestying Perk…

You also said it will give them cap room to be able to amnesty guys? Why would you need to have cap room to amnesty guys? I think you have missed the point…

At this point Serge Ibaka is untouchable… Unless you can find another proven big man, aged 23 or under, that plays both ends of the floor to an extremely high level and is locked up for the next 4 seasons (under $50m)
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I’m really not sure what made you think that he would be, the fact that OKC have 3 picks out of the first 31 in this years draft? This is a team in a win now mode, and Serge is the key to them winning championships from this point forward…

The Cavs will probably look to consolidate their late first rounder with their two early 2nd rounders like they did last year unless they take some stashers or look to move further up the draft by packaging some of them with their main pick.

Despite Irving averaging over 22ppg and becoming an all star, Waiters having a good debut season and Thompson becoming a double double guy, the Cavs are only 4 wins off the worse NBA record and only 5 wins on from where they were 2 years ago. The injury to Varejao and without Jamison’s scoring this year may have set them back this year but results do need to improve.

Looking at the team stats this year – 19th out of 30 in ppg, 22nd in rebounds, 26th in assists and 25th in points allowed shows that there is a need for improvement on both defence and offence.

As regards the draft, if they can get McLemore for which I’d guess they would need to be in the top 2 in the lottery they should take him. There are 96 backcourt minutes and he can play with Waiters around Irving plus his off the ball movement helps spread the play.

Noel would be seriously looked out and they could then see what they could get for Varejao perhaps.

Ideally if they draft from their current position, Otto Porter seems a perfect fit, he’d perhaps be the glue guy and the missing part in the current roster, his wingspan would give perimeter defence and he’d fill the big SF need.

I agree with the above. Cavs have two first rounders, and two earlysecond rounders, so they will be looking to package the picks, as they did last year. Grant has said that he doesn;t intend to come out of the draft with 4 or 3 rookies. Does anyone know what the go with the Cavs maimi pick? Are they able or going to swap it for the Lakers pick?

This should be the final year of the OKC style rebuild. Irving, Waiters , TT.

I think Cavs are going to hold onto Wildthing, if they didn’t trade him when his stock was at its peak no way they are going to deal him now.

I woud like Cavs to trade down and grab GR3, I ama big fan, and one of the only prospects I can get excited about. With them looking to trade down they should look to aquire a already made player, either at the Centre or SG spot.

I am not sold on T. Zeller. Watching hi all year I just think he doesn;t have the will to be a sarter in the league and is way to soft to be a starter on a good team, so i think he is just a bench player. Due to this i wouldn;t mind if Cavs went Noel here. They need defense but let’s not forget where theyneed it is at the PG spot. Gee has to guard Irvings man because he sucks so much at D. and always get lite up. One player i hope they aviod is Cody Zeller.

Regarding the Miami pick, Cavs can swap any of their 1st round picks for Lakers’ 1st round pick as long as Lakers are not in the lottery.

It’s obvious Cavs need more help in SF spot and C. My dream situation would be Cavs land top 2 pick and get Noel, then package the rest of their picks (16~17th pick from Lakers and two 2nd rounders) to get a late lottery pick and get GRIII or Shabazz. I highly doubt Cavs stay put with all their picks and get like 4 rooks, so it’ll be interesting to see what Cavs front office does in June.

The way I would view Chris Grant’s draft mentality would be that the Cavs would only look to move up, so if the lottery went against them they may reach for someone or look to get back inside the top 3. I don’t personally see them trading down to take on additional picks although it goes against the old Red Auerbach manta ” You can never have too many draft picks”.

If they did chase say GR3 then I feel it would be alongside Poter, Noel, Mclemore etc but they would really need the Lakers pick to get him as 30th pick and two early 2nd rounders don’t translate into the 10 to 14 range where most mocks see GR3’s draft stock. If he fell on draft night then that combo could maybe used to trade up and get him. But I feel that Cleveland might have to part with an asset from the roster or more likely the 2015 draft pick due from Miami and/or the one due from Memphis.

I’d guess that Chris Grant would want to keep hold of the Kings pick due as that could translate into a nice late lottery/mid first rounder in the next few years.

If Chris Grant did decide to throw a curveball and maybe trade down this year the the old Auerbach mantra could come into play next year if he decided to see if he could accumulate as many 2014 draft options as possible to give him major flexability in the potential loaded draft then.