Tenth Pick Tournament Round One: The Results are In!

Anybody think that we may be involved in a trade to earn another pick in this draft? This would possibly send Jack or Ariza to another team for their picks but we may add another piece to the young core of the future! I would especially be interested in Portland's and Houston's picks! Remember, Portland(6-11), Cleveland(4-24), Houston(14-16) and Boston(21-22) have multiple picks in the first round. Portland might be interested in Jack. Houston and Boston might be interested in Okafor. Spurs traded Hill to Pacers for their picks and got Kawhi Leonard!

surprised that lamb didn't make it, he seems like a really versatile dude on offence.

we should stop dis....austin rivers is our 10th pick!i have read it in yahoo.espn.si and foxsport

@Michael McNamara: I started a thread on HR in response to the trade scenario (with TRob and Drummond) you bought up earlier. If you are as interested in people's reactions to that proposal as I am, check it out. http://www.hornetsreport.com/HRForums/showthread.php?70710-If-we-trade-up-to-7-(What-If-Scenario)&p=931092#post931092

Interesting to note that pretty much every winner that came down to production vs potential was won by production (Sullinger, Henson, Zeller most notably.) The notable exceptions being PJIII and Trade for vet. However, as a lot of people see TJ as being draft for potential almost as much as PJIII i suppose its moot. Trade for Vet is also strongly mitigated by the assumption you'd then be paying 6-7 mil a season over 2 years min compared to the 8 mil over 4 yrs alotted to a 10th pick. My point being that their are strongly mitigating circumstances in both cases potential was chosen over production. Anywho, I think that's very interesting to note. Personally I went for potential in pretty much every case as I think the gamble has more of a chance to pay off a) because we don't need solid production from our second pick for a couple years (think Westbrook/Harden) and b) we already have as close to a sure thing as possible in Davis (Durant) I hate to drop OKC names here as a comparison but seeing as them and the Spurs are really the only teams in recent memory who have done this I kind of have to. Incidentally, Spurs almost identical. The key difference being that their potential over production guys came much later in the draft and were therefore more reasonable picks. Also, they should never have been bad enough to get Duncan in the first place. I think of us as a hybrid Spurs/OKC as we would have picked around 10th if we'd had a fit lineup for the full season and we got lucky getting Davis. Looks like Ryan's 'Take the numbers' articles/comments are winning out!

Glad about how everything everybody I liked went to the next round. But. In the end Iwould want either Sullinger or Marshall. Its to bad we can't get both during the draft,but in the end I would jus love to get rid the Oak tree. We could've gave that much money to a superstar. Or split between role players & a 6th Man type.Or we should Okafor for a draft pick.main players we can trade R Okafor, J.Jack, Maybe Ariza and J.Smith.but the bottom line is we need overall better players.

Yeah my boy Sully kills it!!! Sully to the Final Four BABY!

What about Ariza + #10 + future first rounder to move up to 7? We get to dump Ariza and move up 3 spots to get the best player available. Would GSW consider this?

Reading about Leonard a bit more today following his performance yesterday, I wish I could have changed my vote for him. Royce White was getting rave reviews as well, but that free throw shooting is abysmal, especially for his "position" so my vote probably wouldn't have changed there. I like Austin Rivers, but Dion Waiters is better, so I'm shocked at the big win for Rivers... people love a good basketball name/family. Only a little surprised about Lamb losing out. Now I think Lillard, Henson, Rivers and Sullinger go through, but Henson and Sullinger will have a fight on their hands, and Marshall is one of my favorites in this draft... so we'll see.

It would be interesting to see royce white vs. terrance jones. They both have obvious nba talent but I think they would need the right system to be productive at the next level.

Ross over Lamb was going to be a close one. I knew that. But I'm a little surprised at how easily Zeller beat Leonard. Rivers over Waiters was also a bit more one-sided than I thought, but I still assumed Rivers would win it. All the other rounds basically went the way I expected them to go. Now to the Elite Eight!