>BRO. For real?
>
>Stop acting like all first round picks are gold. Its quite the
>opposite actually.
>
>Our draft pick next year cannot be considered a "blue
>chipper." It will be a middling first rounder.
>
my dude, you ain't making the playoffs & next year is the most well-regarded first-round in five to ten years.

We will have a Top 3 & your pick, which will likely fall somewhere in the 7 to 13 range, then be plugging in a healthy Noel with that while seeing if a big-athletic-defender/pass-first-PG like MCW can shake where he went to school.

>Is MCW a blue chipper? Well on that generous scale that makes
>Jrue a bonafide STAR.
>
Actually MCW was a higher-regarded draft pick than Jrue was.

I don't like him all that much since he did go to Syracuse but his upside could be higher.

>I get it, you are clinging to POTENTIAL. Its all Philly has
>now. We traded potential for established production.

LOL, like Tyreke Evans.

Congrats.

We added
>an All Star point guard and a recent historic (20, 5 & 5)
>rookie of the year. And that's a shitty off season? Ok.
>
Yes, because the small chance it makes you a bit better coupled with the picks you gave away (and the fact that you're doing it partly because you whiffed on that Rivers pick) will only improve you by a small increment while that's not a nucleus for the future that will ever be capable of winning anything.
>
>Honest question...what is your projection for Noel? What can
>he be? A smaller Tyson Chandler at best?

Please. He'll be much better than Chandler & will develop quicker.

Ok, fine. In what,
>3-5 years? Great. Have fun with that. He's not some super
>prospect. He's an athletic, SKINNY AS FUCK shot blocker with a
>busted knee and no offense.

Chandler has no offense.

It's funny you knock Noel while pumping up Brow tho.

He would've been the 10th pick
>last year.
uh, no.

>Drummond is a way better prospect and he went 9th.

Nah.

>Harping on his pre-injury draft stock in the worst draft in a
>decade is just weird.
>
>Jrue is an established All Star.

LOL @ 'established All-Star'.

He crept into the game this season on the Eastern side by putting up 17/8 on a bad team & because Rondo was hurt while Deron was playing like shit.

He would have no shot of making it out West or with a healthy East.

Dude is what he is, a borderline-All-Star replacement reserve while putting up respectable numbers on a bad team & maybe a borderline Top 10 PG for a stretch of his career (with last year being the first).

Whoopty-damn-do(c)D.C.

He will never be truly elite & we're in a league where even having a great PG doesn't really lead to winning anything anyway.

I would have traded him for Noel straight-up let alone with another lotto pick thrown in & unlike you I've actually watched him play since he got in the league.......strike that, actually since UCLA really.

>He's 23. He's improving. No
>question marks. No "hope he develops." He's already what you
>hope Noel turns into.

No, he's not. What you hope Noel turns into is a big-man who can actually affect the games.

Clinging to potential will turn you
>quickly into Charlotte or Sacramento.
>
>Lets say you luck out and get Wiggins next year. Super. You've
>got a core of Wiggins (hope), Noel (hope), MCW (a TON of
>hope), and the 15th pick (lulz). Fun, young team to root for
>that won't be any good for at least 3-5 years. That's not OKC
>bro, that's just another team hoping young guys blossom into
>stars.
>
LOL, you keep quoting the 15th pick which would make you a playoff team & yet sidestepping any offer to bet on y'all actually making the playoffs.....which you won't.

We will have four cracks at grabbing hopefully two impact young players, all of our cap room & every contract that we will have in addition to that will be movable.

This is how you actually get better, not dick around & overpay for bullshit that keeps you mediocre like the Sixers did for a decade and y'all are doing right now.

>Its not the worst place to be, but acting like we fucked up by
>getting ESTABLISHED TALENT is some bizarro shit.
>
You gave two lottery picks for a barely top-half-of-the-league-starting-PG & paid Tyreke Evans 44 million dollars.

Bill Duke is talking to you.