leidout

I said it in another thread, and i'll say it in this one: We've got SIX SMALL FORWARDS now.

Maggette has to get traded, Qross has to get benched, Thomas has to get hurt, Singleton & Korolev have to walk... Then this pick will start to make sense.

Whereas we've still got two guards looking at retirement and are already "playing thru injury" for about 80 games a year. With only a single scrub (Ewing) and whatever 10-day veteran scrub Dunleavy chooses. Diaz & Jordan might not make the team, and even if they do, are backups at best.

A Center or Guard would've made a world of sense.

yamaneko

But again, why draft a guy at your deepest position. Instead how about draft a guy that can go 1/2 (stuckey). A guy who can play center/PF. Was an uncessary pick even for injury since we have davis, thomas, singleton (had), maggette, mobley, korolev (?), brand, Ross, williams, who can all play PF/SF. The list of those who can do PG/SG or SG/SF is a lot less.

The only thing that can justify this pick for me (already the letting go of singleton makes it that much worse), is if we plan on trading maggette and someone else for a good center or guard.

For example, if we had traded maggette and change to charlotte for brandon wright to come in and be the main backup at PF, moving thomas to SF, i would have been "ok" (still would have taken young first), with thornton, because then he could have minutes at SF.

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Showtime87

He does fit on this team, he's a physical presence who can play at either the SF or PF position. He'll be a valuable component off the bench and with his 4 years of college experience he's an NBA ready talent. This pick also does not mean that Maggette will be automatically be traded, Thornton was drafted in order to provide additional scoring off the bench and that will be his role for the foreseeable future.

leidout

What're you? His agent or something?

yamaneko

So what if he can play SF or PF. Taureen green is a championship winning PG, yet probably what the 5th PG on portlands team right now? We already had an athletic PF/SF in singleton who we had to cut for nothing just to get these guy the 5 minutes a game he had. Sure hes a physical precence, but he just doesnt fit into this team. If we wanted a good rebounder, leaper guy we already had a minimum wage singleton, not a 2 million dollar lottery guy about the same age.

Like i said its about team need. I bet he could have started on charlotte this year...that doesnt make it the right pick for us.

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leidout

Hopefully we'll trade him for a position we need help at, call up Charlotte for a Breven Knight S&T.

Showtime87

I just like this guy's ability. Bottom line. Yes, there are a lot of SF's on the team right now, but you have to know that this pick means Singleton and Korolev are automatically gone. Ross is verstatile and can play either the 2 or 3 spot, so I really don't see much of a problem there. So they'll have Maggette, Thomas, Ross & Thornton - three of whom are capable of playing multiple positions. In reality, Korolev and Singleton were coming off the books anyway, so this team will actually have one less SF going into next season. Thornton was a smart pick, nearly every analyst I heard concurred that the Clipps were lucky to land him where they did. He's not going to be another Chris Wilcox either, Wilcox was an unpolished project coming out after his freshmen year, Thornton played four full college seasons and continually improved. I don't understand why you guys feel like this is the end of the world.

bootstrenf

good points, and i agree with you...the only thing i personally didn't like about thornton was his age...but then i thought about how josh howard fell in the draft because of his age and a lot of the things people are saying about al right now, were also said about josh...like i said before, maybe thornton could be our josh howard...6'8" 220...they're very close in size also...

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bootstrenf

anyone notice that the clippers as a team don't dunk that much??? maggette has the ability, but just always seems to do layups...

thornton is a strong finisher and that's just what we need...

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****ing ridiculous...that's a 7 footer by the way...vince carter part 2???

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Showtime87

Yeah, I love that clip. Reminds me a little of a young Shawn Kemp.

yamaneko

James singleton can do that for 1/3 the salary.

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Showtime87

Thornton does that, plus a lot more though.

MR. VADA

yep,that's part of the 4-minuet clip i was trying to post yesterday but yam and weasle kept it off the board...the site is full of threads. if you don't like someone or their threads just dont post on it. you two are really immature...i like to have fun and i know what i'm talking about...vada

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