Yease was not involved in which player the Seattle SuperSonics selected with the 30th pick this year. This was the responsibility of Presti and his scouting team.

However, Yeas also knows some of the candidates Presti has prepared for this draft.

The first pick is Rondo's junior at the University of Kentucky, Eric Bledsoe. With Rondo destined to be traded, although James Harden can be put into the starting lineup, Sessions and Ty Lawson can also be mentioned as starters.

They can play as backup point guards, but the shortcomings of Sessions and Ty Lawson are still very obvious. It's not that they are bad players and can't beat strong teams, but that their defense is really bad.

For some specific strong teams, where there are All-Star players in every position, the role of the two of them is very limited.

Sessions basically had no playing time in this year's finals, because the Heat have star players in every position, and stars are on the court all the time. As long as Sessions plays, it will definitely be a defensive vulnerability, and he will definitely be stared at.

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Therefore, the Seattle SuperSonics need to prepare a different backup point guard. They have Ty Lawson for offense, Sessions for organization, and they also need one for defense.

And Bledsoe is a very good addition.

Bledsoe's talent and style of play are called the rich man's version of Lowry. Of course, this is just because he is more talented than Lowry. If he wants to reach Lowry's level, he will need to practice for several seasons. However, he

His defense is already at a certain level, and the Sonics don't expect him to have Lowry's offense and passing ability now.

It's just that the draft is like this, what you hope to get is not necessarily what you can get.

Although Bledsoe was not invited to the Little Green Room, in the predictions of many draft experts before the game, Bledsoe's draft pick was very high.

ESPN's first draft expert Chat Ford believes that he will be selected by the Rockets with the 14th overall pick, and Rockets center player and former University of Kentucky captain Chuck Hayes also expressed his hope that the team will choose him as a junior.

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However, unexpectedly, Bledsoe was not selected by the Rockets, but was robbed by the Warriors and Jerry West.

Jerry West and the Warriors also need a point guard of this type. Curry and his substitute Barbosa are both good offensive players and need to make up for it defensively. The two teams are somewhat at odds.

To sum it up, the fact that the Seattle SuperSonics intercepted the Leonard that Jerry West wanted also makes Jerry West very depressed now.

Because the Warriors' new head coach is Kerr, a former assistant coach at the University of Washington, and there are a lot of University of Washington players on the team, the Warriors know Leonard far better than other teams.

Especially Jerry West. Cole suggested to him that he choose Leonard and use the team's 22nd overall pick this year.

I think Leonard is a very good complement to Beasley, and can supplement Beasley's defense, which is not very good.

After studying Leonard, Jerry West discovered that this player is simply a treasure!

He doesn't score a lot, but he can make three-pointers and mid-range shots, and he can hold the ball to a certain level.

He is invisible a lot of the time, but when the University of Washington needs him, he is even more stable than Bradley and Isiah Thomas when he steps up!

His athletic talent is not high, but he has basically never been killed by those strong athletes using his talent!

This is quite incredible.

He wasn't sure what Leonard's situation was.

But based on his experience and eyes, this is a player who can definitely gamble.

Therefore, this offseason, he spent most of his time looking for opportunities to trade lottery picks.

It's for Leonard.

After working hard for more than a month, Jerry West felt very uncomfortable when he was intercepted by the SuperSonics.

In this draft, Presti has prepared a total of four candidates for the 30th pick.

Bledsoe, Lance Stephenson, Hassan Whiteside.

According to Presti, the team is most likely to select Lance Stephenson with the 30th overall pick this time, and the least likely to be selected is Hassan Whiteside.

Bledsoe is 50-50.

I didn't expect such a big surprise to happen in this draft.

Lance Stephenson was selected by the Pacers with the 16th pick in the first round.

According to Presti, Lance Stephenson is likely to fall to the early second round.

And Hassan Whiteside is likely to enter the lottery. Although the team is small, the talent is there.

Ye Si looked at the black guy who was celebrating wildly with his relatives and friends next to him excitedly. Ye Si thought of the scouting report that Presti gave him.

Name: Hassan Whiteside

Height: 2.13 meters (7 feet)

Weight: 107kg

Position: Center

Age: 22 years old

Template: Marcus Camby (best), Tyson Chandler (worst)

Draft Prospects: Lottery

Advantages: He is 7 feet tall, has a wingspan of 7 feet 6 (2.31 meters), is full of strength, and has high speed and agility that are extremely inconsistent with his tall stature. His solid rebounding ability and dominant shot-blocking ability allow him to gain a foothold in the NBA.

, has shown good shooting skills, and in time may become a big player with a wide attacking range.

Disadvantages: Entering college at the age of 20 makes him more like an older player. Such problems will make people doubt his IQ and football intelligence, and this is the only reason why we may use the No. 30 pick to select him, which will lead to his failure in the future.

The value of this year's draft has been discounted. In addition, his skills and game awareness will make him insufficient in controlling the game. His free throw shooting rate is only 40%, which will affect his time on the court and the team's game.

Rhythm (will be targeted). And his weight is not enough, but he has a good frame and muscle type. He should be able to have a good figure as a center in the future. In addition, he also needs to get rid of his old habit of liking to hold the ball.

And to reduce the turnover rate, he has not yet realized that he cannot become a player like Yao Ming. He has almost no ability to handle the ball on the offensive end, but he seems unwilling to be just a Camby.

A player with very obvious strengths and weaknesses.

Tyson Chandler can be regarded as the worst model player, but his best model is actually Camby, which is very telling.

Are Tyson Chandler and Camby much different?

There is almost no difference.

If that's the case, why does Presti's draft report say this?

That's because he has no chance of attacking, and of course he can only rely on defense.

Now Camby has achieved a little more than Chandler.

Presti saw Whiteside's obvious advantages and disadvantages, and other NBA team general managers are not fools.

The Rockets' Thabit's lesson is right in front of them.

Such a player needs to be polished, and it’s hard to say whether he can polish it. Player intelligence and awareness cannot be compensated by talent. If you play 10 minutes in a game, all of them will be fouled and there will be a lot of blocks, but all of them will be missed.

People, no matter how talented they are, can’t stand it!

And this is also the reason why Whiteside was not selected even though he was here.

Of course, for Whiteside, he doesn't think he has any problems now.

"Am I long and hard? Am I so long and hard?"

"That's right, I was born to go to the Seattle SuperSonics!"

It has to be said that Whiteside did hold back his worries a bit too much.

So much so that after he was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics, he became somewhat dissolute for a while.

"Little Ye Zi, the rookie you chose this time is very interesting."

Originally, Yao Ming wanted to say that this kid looked a lot like Thabeet on their team.

The two of them almost looked cut from the same mold.

But Thabeet is much shyer than this kid.

"Being selected by the Seattle SuperSonics, even if it's only at the end of the first round, you can really celebrate without restraint."

Avery Bradley looked at Whiteside with some envy and said.

Thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, just Hedong, now Hexi, being able to enter the Seattle SuperSonics as a first-round pick, even he, the No. 1 pick, would be envious.

Starting with Rondo in 2006, Durant in 2007, James Harden and Ibaka in 2008, and Ty Lawson in 2009, in addition to Ty Lawson, the Seattle SuperSonics' first-round draft picks in these years are all

There has never been water.

Among the five first-round picks in the past four years, there have been three All-Star players, one super giant and one superstar. No matter what Rondo says, his honor is definitely worthy of the title of superstar. Of course, if his strength can be more

Once recognized, you can be worthy of the title of Super Giant.

This success rate is simply unbeatable!

A few days ago, ESPN made statistics based on the rookie players at each pick in the past 20 years.

In the past 20 years, except for the top five picks, the star rate has exceeded 60%. For other picks, the sixth pick has a star rate of only 25%, the seventh pick has a star rate of 30%, the eighth pick has a star rate of 35%, and the ninth pick has a star rate of 30%.

30%, 35% at No. 10, and after the tenth pick, the star rate is all lower than 30%, and even the star rate for the 12th pick is only 5%.

You know, ESPN's star standard is not to enter the All-Stars, but according to a formula they have formulated, if the average points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks per game are greater than 25, they are considered stars.

According to this standard, a center who averages 10 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal per game is considered a star, and a guard who averages 15 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals per game is also a star.

Maybe this data does make him an NBA star, but he definitely cannot become an All-Star.
To be continued...