Official 2011 NBA Draft Thread

[KyrieIrving#15]

Vesely is junk, just another poor AK-47 in my opinion that will never be that good in the NBA. I think TT and JJ can easily play on the same team as I think their may be a chance to play TT at the 3 sometimes depending on who we play. On most sites he's was listed at a SF so you never know. Also I think anyone in the second round this year and a few in the late 1st will turn out to be nothings so why waste money on them and use the money we have on trades/players that will contribute for us. I'm a ohio boy too and Diebs would do absolutely nothing for us. Why sign and play a bunch of scrubs instead of trying to throw the money around to land bigger pieces. I definitely think there are a couple trades brewing that brings in SF and Center help. Overall I'm pretty happy how it turned out, only thing I would of liked better is to pick up DWill and Irving but that obviously takes a second party to tango. TT is gonna be a lot better than most think. Plus he's a character guy which the Cavs will be looking for now, we don't need any other d bags like lefraud. Lol

Vesely is a different player than Hickson, though. Thompson is an exact clone, so basically they took him to trade JJ. Doesn't make much sense to me...If they took Knight, Kemba, or Jimmer, they could've easily swung a trade with a number of teams to get more picks/players AND Tristyn Thompson. Instead they reached on Thompson and got nothing for it...

On top of drafting the Power Forwards they did, don't they also have Hickson, Jamison, Samardo Samuels, and Luke Harangody at the four? I'm going to assume Samuels and Gody will be gone after this since even the Cavs wouldn't give six fours.

Finally, they did draft four power forwards, so I'm probably going to continue pointing that out...they traded the solid defender in the mold of a Tayshaun Prince (Harper) for two seconds, so I can't say that I'm a fan of that move. And why take someone they'll likely never see when they could've drafted a number of players (David Lighty and Isaiah Thomas, for example) that showed potential to contribute? Outside of Kyrie, I don't see much in the way of franchise-building trades.

[CavFanatic31]

Well there was more talent out the than Thompson to waste a #4 pick on so we take walker and trade him he has more value than who we got? We just wasted draft picks like we do in every sport.So we take a pf at #32 to trade to get talent later down the road we need it now not later hows that gonna help us now?

they saw nothing out of anyone they would get at #32, which is why they traded. somethings better than nothing.
if we took kemba, we would have kyrie, baron, sessions, boobie, AND kemba. again, we have no idea if they would have been able to trade kemba, or if they were looking to trade thompson. we just dont know and they probably wont tell us.

[CavFanatic31]

Vesely is junk, just another poor AK-47 in my opinion that will never be that good in the NBA. I think TT and JJ can easily play on the same team as I think their may be a chance to play TT at the 3 sometimes depending on who we play. On most sites he's was listed at a SF so you never know. Also I think anyone in the second round this year and a few in the late 1st will turn out to be nothings so why waste money on them and use the money we have on trades/players that will contribute for us. I'm a ohio boy too and Diebs would do absolutely nothing for us. Why sign and play a bunch of scrubs instead of trying to throw the money around to land bigger pieces. I definitely think there are a couple trades brewing that brings in SF and Center help. Overall I'm pretty happy how it turned out, only thing I would of liked better is to pick up DWill and Irving but that obviously takes a second party to tango. TT is gonna be a lot better than most think. Plus he's a character guy which the Cavs will be looking for now, we don't need any other d bags like lefraud. Lol

thats exactly how i feel. i like the thompson pick, simply because no one else was there that could have truly helped the team other than valanciunas (and i would rather have thompson. no issues with his buyout and don't always have to be wondering if he will ever even play in the US). next guy they could have maybe gotten was vesely. i literally see NOTHING out of this guy other then that he's a good dunker. that is all people have to say about him. we picked a guy already with just dunking going for him -- eyenga. and thompson with JJ i think would be sick. i think thompson at PF and JJ at Center would work against at least half the teams in the NBA. then throw in irving (WHICH FOR SOME REASON, ALL THE UPSET CLEVELAND FANS ARE FORGETTING ABOUT) and baron/jamison coming off the bench, i feel good about this team.

[24redsfan]

I would be ECSTATIC! haha if they finally got rid of the dead weight of jamison for 2 guys i already like. okafor could probably get a double double for us and QPON would be good as a role player, but could still start. QPON was a beast at washington.

The question is, would the Hornets do it?

[cavsfan]

they saw nothing out of anyone they would get at #32, which is why they traded. somethings better than nothing.
if we took kemba, we would have kyrie, baron, sessions, boobie, AND kemba. again, we have no idea if they would have been able to trade kemba, or if they were looking to trade thompson. we just dont know and they probably wont tell us.

The fact is that if they would of took kemba more people would of been interested in a trade than they were with TT. Sessions is gonna be gone boobie is a streaky shooter. So we have kemba share minutes with baron/kyrie nothing wrong with that if we couldnt trade him. We could of took lighty with the #32 anything to try and help us now not next yr. when we have a lottery pick again. Tons of possibilities that where there for the #32 pick to just trade it away.

[cavsfan]

Yea that said his favorite team is Miami, favorite player is Lebron, and he even says Lebron is like a brother.LOL

[selby56]

The fact is that if they would of took kemba more people would of been interested in a trade than they were with TT. Sessions is gonna be gone boobie is a streaky shooter. So we have kemba share minutes with baron/kyrie nothing wrong with that if we couldnt trade him. We could of took lighty with the #32 anything to try and help us now not next yr. when we have a lottery pick again. Tons of possibilities that where there for the #32 pick to just trade it away.

We could have, but that would have been a HUGE waste of a pick, considering he wasn't even drafted.

[CavFanatic31]

Yea that said his favorite team is Miami, favorite player is Lebron, and he even says Lebron is like a brother.LOL

where did he say that? i saw in an interview he thought miami would win the championship next year. curious

[CavFanatic31]

We could have, but that would have been a HUGE waste of a pick, considering he wasn't even drafted.

there were still some decent guys at 32 other than lighty. i think lighty should have been drafted but lots of people are giving him too much credit (as cavs/bucks fans)

[cavsfan]

We could have, but that would have been a HUGE waste of a pick, considering he wasn't even drafted.

LOL yea but he could of helped out now instead on whenever we get these other 2nd rd picks from the magic and what are we gonna get with then? I understand what u mean.