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Originally Posted by NewAgeBaller
If you steal the #1 pick, and Beasley is still the consensus #1 pick, is there any real chance you pass up on Beasley?
I don't mean the possibility of trading down, but would you consider drafting any of the guards with the 1st pick ahead of Beasley cause it would mean playing Al at center?
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Most of the season I'd have said yes, I'd take Rose #1. I don't care that history says you don't take a smaller guard at #1, and I don't care about positions of need with the Wolves (that's all we have are needs...). I just thought Rose was the best player. However, Beasley has won me over to a great extent. I'm still not sold on him 100%, but it's getting there.
While it wouldn't play into my decision whether to draft him, if we did draft him, I think he could play alongside Jefferson, too. You could certainly go small and run Jefferson in the middle and Beasley at PF. And if/as Beasley improves his ball-handling and middle game, he could shift to SF. (While he shoots from deep pretty well, I haven't yet been impressed with the other perimeter skills--handling, smart passing, etc.)
A lineup--assuming we re-sign certain players--of Telfair, Foye, Brewer, Beasley and Jefferson, with McCants and Gomes as the first guys off the bench, would be interesting. (I don't think we'll be able to re-sign Smith. We won't want to spend the money on a player who is one-dimensional, with the dimension being one filled by our current best player.)