2015 NBA DRAFT

yeah hard to imagine winslow is underrated considering where he played def a couple goofball pick above him tho

on Hassan Whiteside continuing to be a top 5 center

which is contingent on him managing to not have a full-on rage meltdown on the court, which is aaaaalways in play - i think it's reasonable insurance lol

Heat fans should focus more on Hassan Whiteside continuing to be a top 5 center and less on celebrating drafting a guy who was projected to go almost exactly where they got him.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, June 26, 2015 3:20 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

how do you focus on a player in the offseason? is he doing open workouts?

lol I mean what exactly are you doing other than swallowing Heat PR about Winslow, watching some Whiteside 2015 mixes isn't really different

u can appreciate two players at once it cool

i guess I'm just sick of people falling for the "we had him 4th on our board!" thing

it's more a function of mock draft culture

like the Heat saying that they thought the knicks would take him, give me a fucking break

there isn't any mock drafts that had winslow falling, that's all it is

he only fell a couple few spots tho

dude every mock had him in the 6-10 range and that's where he went xp

anyway it was a good pick up for miami imo he seems like a very low downside guy

mudiay prob a bigger steal tho

he fits Miami's team needs perfectly

Winslow would have been a pretty odd pick for the Hornets really.

The Pistons are the team that rolled the dice. Stanley Johnson and Winslow are very close imo. I was more into Johnson but then I saw those hideous finishing numbers.

this is a really dumb convo but

At their draft-night availability, the Heat handed out a sheet of 20 mock drafts by prominent NBA writers or websites, and 19 had Winslow slotted between fourth and seventh; only one writer had him as low as eighth.

it's not true that winslow was in the 6-10 range. he was in the 4-8 range charitably, but really between denver and detroit. there wasn't a single mock draft, probably since april, that had winslow falling to the heat. every mock draft had the heat taking booker or johnson aka [wing player who isn't justise winslow] or myles turner.

in mock drafts, which is how people who read about the draft get information, winslow was in the tier of wing player above where the heat were drafting. he was too good to fall to the heat. but then he did! it's pretty easy to understand.

There was no way Winslow was going in the top 4 and if there really were mocks out there that had him there they were very bad mocks. Porzingis was a top 5 lock, and the Magic weren't gonna pick Winslow.

I guess Winslow going to the Knicks was just a wild guess based on the fact that the knicks were the only team that basically had no leaks

looking at the mocks you're right, Winslow made a late push at the end to get in the 4-8 range. But throughout much of the process 6-10 was about where he was.

I'm amazed by all the mocks that didn't have Kaminsky to the Hornets, they telegraphed that pretty hard.

im most surprised that the knicks didnt do something stupid

celtics apparently offered 6 picks, including 4 potential firsts, to move up to charlotte's spot for winslow.

yeah, but the hornets don't get frank and don't roll off six straight finals appearances

the second round grades here are a great example of the worst kind of draft analysis. Reflexively insulting whenever a player hasn't been scouted by the writer:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/drafttracker

celtics apparently offered 6 picks, including 4 potential firsts, to move up to charlotte's spot for winslow.

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 26, 2015 7:21 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is literally insane

Frank must gonna be a hall of famer.

if the celtics wanted to be in the lottery so bad they cldve just not made the playoffs

its funny they didnt even want to take the same player, they just both really didnt want all those draft picks

tbf they were prob all terrible picks but still so many

that celtics stuff is unfathomable to me, if any team 6-9 really turned this down....

yeah that story honestly does not scan to me

sportscenter just showed this segment on isaiah austin and it's getting pretty dusty in here, my typical cynicism be damned that was a great moment in last year's draft