If Okafor was in last year's draft...Does he get traded for Love?

[Malta]

Dude Okafor is not unatheltic. Have u even watched okafor?

He's not unathletic but he's overly quick, explosive or fast, athletically he's a strong kid with excellent coordination, good balance and good feet.

 

[Trojan 24]

You can teach defense, you can't teach shotblocking or being an elite interior defender and Okafor isn't going to get much taller, Embiid is 7'0" without shoes Okafor is 6'9.5" without shoes. Here's the thing, you're talking about Embiid's offense as though he was some bum on the low block, as far as moves and counters go he's more advanced there than Okafor, Okafor is better at using his body to create space in addition to having good moves.


NBAdraft.net also said this -

Draftexpress is the site to use.

At the random shot at Kobe

 

[andre patton]

Nah, the Cavs were in love with Embiid, they were not moving him under any circumstance if he was healthy.

I dont know who's the better prospect between the two, although I think its probably Embiid.

I just find it hard to believe if the Cavs were so in love with Embiid, or if teams thought he was really the best Center prospect in the past decade, then why would 2 teams pass up on drafting him? The injury by itself doesnt make sense. A 6 month injury is small in the grand scheme of things. Teams draft based on what they feel the players production will be at least 2-3 years from now. Oden had much greater injury concers than Embiid, and he was still drafted #1 overall because everyone felt like he was the best Center prospect to come along in years. That leads me to believe most teams felt it was essentially a toss up between him, wiggins, and parker. The injury sightly gave the edge to the other 2.

 

[Malta]

I dont know who's the better prospect between the two, although I think its probably Embiid.

I just find it hard to believe if the Cavs were so in love with Embiid, or if teams thought he was really the best Center prospect in the past decade, then why would 2 teams pass up on drafting him? The injury by itself doesnt make sense. A 6 month injury is small in the grand scheme of things. Teams draft based on what they feel the players production will be at least 2-3 years from now. Oden had much greater injury concers than Embiid, and he was still drafted #1 overall because everyone felt like he was the best Center prospect to come along in years. That leads me to believe most teams felt it was essentially a toss up between him, wiggins, and parker. The injury sightly gave the edge to the other 2.

Injury concerns, he had back problems at Kansas and then the broken foot set off red flags. If he were 100% healthy he goes number 10/10 times, the Sixers took a chance on him at 3 even though he has several red flags for his health.

 

[jwinfield]

I dont know who's the better prospect between the two, although I think its probably Embiid.

I just find it hard to believe if the Cavs were so in love with Embiid, or if teams thought he was really the best Center prospect in the past decade, then why would 2 teams pass up on drafting him? The injury by itself doesnt make sense. A 6 month injury is small in the grand scheme of things. Teams draft based on what they feel the players production will be at least 2-3 years from now. Oden had much greater injury concers than Embiid, and he was still drafted #1 overall because everyone felt like he was the best Center prospect to come along in years. That leads me to believe most teams felt it was essentially a toss up between him, wiggins, and parker. The injury sightly gave the edge to the other 2.

And people saw Portland get fukked when they did the to his injury concerns.

And Oden had what, a broken wrist or torn ligament in his wrist?

Big difference between that and the back/broken foot Embiid had.

We saw Noel drop in a weaker draft from 1 to 6 because of the torn ACL

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

I dont know who's the better prospect between the two, although I think its probably Embiid.

I just find it hard to believe if the Cavs were so in love with Embiid, or if teams thought he was really the best Center prospect in the past decade, then why would 2 teams pass up on drafting him? The injury by itself doesnt make sense. A 6 month injury is small in the grand scheme of things. Teams draft based on what they feel the players production will be at least 2-3 years from now. Oden had much greater injury concers than Embiid, and he was still drafted #1 overall because everyone felt like he was the best Center prospect to come along in years. That leads me to believe most teams felt it was essentially a toss up between him, wiggins, and parker. The injury sightly gave the edge to the other 2.

exactly what I'm saying. Injury is bullshyt when it comes to drafting a supposed "can't miss" prospect.

 

[HHR]

You can teach defense; you cannot teach offense, at least offense that's on the level of Okafor's.

Uhhhh......what? So Okafor was just born with good footwork and offensive game?

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Uhhhh......what? So Okafor was just born with good footwork and offensive game?

When players aren't taught proper fundamentals early in their development, it becomes harder and harder to teach offense.