Hawksquawk Official Top 20 Draft Board

[MrMeltdown]

We don't know what number we are picking at but its most likely 15. For the sake of covering all angles let's make an official top 20 board.

Here is how it will work rank your top 20 from 1 to 20 and we will add them up and average them out to come up with the board.

Wednesday night 12:00 EST is going to be the deadline.

[MrMeltdown]

I will start this out.

1. Joel Embiid

2. Jabari Parker

3. Andrew Wiggins

4. Julius Randle

5. Marcus Smart

6. Dante Exum

7. TJ Warren

8. Doug McDermott

9. Nik Stauskas

10.Mitch McGary

11. Rodney Hood

12. James Young

13. CJ Wilcox

14. Glenn Robinson III

15. Jordan Adams

16. Tyler Ennis

17. Gary Harris

18. Cleanthony Early

19. Kyle Anderson

20. Deonte Burton

[ATLien_]

For clarification are we ranking where we think they will be drafted, or are we ranking how good we think they will ultimately be?

[coachx]

Pretty sure he wants you to rank your personal top 20.

Here is mine:

1. Parker - Will be the best rookie in year #1. Love his IQ. I'll take his IQ over Wiggin's athletic ability.
2. Embiid - Would be #1 without the back and foot issues.
3. Wiggins - As physically gifted as Vince Carter or Dominique Wilkins. Will he reach potential ?
4. Smart - Baller.......body of a LB but with elite hops. Is he a more athletic Chauncey Billups ?
5. Exum- know nothing about him...........going off hear-say
5. Vonleh - Great length. Can protect the rim and hit the mid range jumper. Complete game.
6. Randle - The next Zach Randolph ?
7. Gordon - Tons of room for growth, More upside then PF in the draft. Could play some SF.

8. Payne - Perfect fit for our system.

9. Warren - I think he could role out of bed and average 12 - 14 ppg as a rookie.
10. McDermott - SHOOTER in the house with some size !
11. Stauskus - SHOOTER in the house with good size for a SG !

12. Ennis - Pure PG with a killer perimeter shot.
13. Young - A lot of upside.
14. McDaniels - Elite defensive potential. Great athlete.
15. Capela - elite rim protector potential. Big men come at a premium.
16. Saric - Elite skill level, short arms, improving jumper. Interesting transition.
17. Anderson - Elite skill level, with great measureables, but with little athletic ability. His transition will be interesting.
18. McGary - too much skill to leave off even if he likes to toke some Mary Jane
19. Hood - safe role player...wish I could see him play some defense so he could be a 3 & D possibility but don't see the defense.
20. Grant - big potential. Wingspan and length of a Center in the body of a SF.

[Guest]

1. Parker

2. Wiggins

3. Vonleh

4. Exum

5. Smart

6. Randle

7. Embiid

8. Gordon

9. Stauskas

10. Young

11. Hood

12. McDermott

13. Harris

14. Warren

15. LaVine

16. Nurkic

17. Payton

18. Payne

19. Ennis

20. Anderson

Edited June 23, 2014 by Spud2Nique

[MrMeltdown]

It's your personal top 20 if you were drafting for the Hawks.

[MrNique]

Real Quick I'll go With:

1. Wiggins

2. Exum

3. Vonleh

4. Parker

5. Smart

6. Embiid <-- Although I don't think anyone with only 1 pick should draft this guy. makes sense for phily/orl, etc

7. Randle

8. Gordon
9. Stauskas

10. Hood

11. Saric <-- Though I'd only draft him if we got a 2nd pick. Hate the two years thing.

12. Young

13. Lavine
14. Payne

15. Harris

16. McDermott
17. Payton <-- The high riser I haven't done enough research on yet.
18. Nurkic

19. Ennis

20. Anderson

[MrMeltdown]

Thanks for the feedback so far. I really think we will stay at 15 and just take a player there. Hopefully Danny does not screw us by taking a player to stash overseas

[coachx]

It's your personal top 20 if you were drafting for the Hawks.

That would change my post. I was just going with my overall top 20.

[TheFuzz]

For the Hawks? This isn't my top 20 best players, then, it's the 20 I want us to add to our team based on fit+talent relative to the players we already have for their position. For example, I think Randle will be a fine NBA player, better than James Young probably, but he won't be any better than Millsap or Horford (ever, IMO), so he's not on this list. Embiid's talent level makes him high on the list, though. Some will disagree with these, but this is my opinion, I don't put a ton of stock into the mock drafts posted by dudes like Chad Ford.

1. Parker - 3/4

2. Embiid - 5

3. Smart - 1/2

4. Exum - 2

5. Saric - 3/4

6. Wiggins - 2/3

7. Vonleh - 4/5

8. McDermott - 3

9. Gordon - 3/4

10. Stauskas - 2

11. Lavine - 2

12. Anderson - 3/4

13. Nurkic - 5

14. Inglis - 3

15. Young - 2/3

16. Payton - 1

17. Early - 3/4

18. Hood - 3

19. Warren - 3

20. Bogdanovic - 2

Edited June 24, 2014 by TheFuzz

[MrMeltdown]

That would change my post. I was just going with my overall top 20.

You are free to change it up until Thursday morning at 12:01 AM

[MrMeltdown]

Quit dreaming of Melo and Bron and post your board people. We only have one full day left

[Guest]

Quit dreaming of Melo and Bron and post your board people. We only have one full day left

Thread post bully/pusher!!!!

[Admin]

Dolfan23's Big Board for 15

• Jabari Parker
• Aaron Gordon
• Marcus Smart
• Andrew Wiggins
• Dante Exum
• Noah Vonleh
• James Young
• Rodney Hood
• Zach LaVine
• Jusuf Nurkic
• Gary Harris
• TJ Warren
• Adreian Payne
• Julius Randle
• Nick Stauskas
• KJ McDaniels
• Tyler Ennis
• Shabazz Napier
• Kyle Anderson
• Doug McDermott

[MrMeltdown]

Come on guys get those picks in

[Guest]

Come on guys get those picks in

Dang it Melt I'm in already ;-)

[Guest]

Although I'd like to replace Payne with Napier

[MrMeltdown]

Although I'd like to replace Payne with Napier

 

That is fine. I was hoping to get 15 to 20 posters to participate. I guess I am asking too much

[Guest]

That is fine. I was hoping to get 15 to 20 posters to participate. I guess I am asking too much

Lol I was just kidding. I hope more posters do so we can compare.

[capstone21]

• Andrew Wiggins
• Jabari Parker
• Dante Exum
• Noah Vonleh
• Marcus Smart
• Joel Embiid
• Julius Randle
• Aaron Gordon 
• Rodney Hood
• James Young
• Tyler Ennis
• Elfrid Payton
• Jusuf Nurkic
• Zach LaVine
• Kyle Anderson
• PJ Hariston
• Nick Stauskas
• Doug McDermott
• Gary Harris
• TJ Warren