counting on Batum to be more dominant in the 5

does this mean Nate wants Batum to play more minutes with the starting 5?

That’s actually really funny. He seems to have quite the sense of humor

Should have been the pick over Babbit, I wanted him since I saw him play at Hoop Summit, hopefully we can pick him up for Rudy from Chicago.

My favorite line

in Philly, they have a guard problem, no 2 or 3

The draft was animated enough, especially in Portland. With a large decision of catch before the beginning. It is there that I learned that the General Manager, Kevin Pritchard, was returned. I was sad because it is nevertheless him which made me come here. It is with him that I must be there. It always helped me, it always relied on me. Thus inevitably that shows sorrow to me it to leave and I wish him really the best. But I am sure that it easily will find job behind.

I followed the draft with the intendant, the trainers, those which deal with the video and other people of the club. In a room right beside the office where the leaders met for the draft. This year, I had followed the university championship a little and it is not badly this draft, nevertheless, quite homogeneous. Good, I know that there is not much of my opinion of it, but I would have taken Evan Turner in 1st choice. I really do not know why, but I prefer Turner with John Wall, it is a question of feeling, I prefer to see it playing, I adore his play. It is clean, it puts 20 pts but also made 6 master keys whereas it is one 2. It finishes better marker of its conference, better frontier runner.

And then I wonder what they will do of Arenas with John Wall. They want to transfer it? I do not see both playing together. I would have put Wall at Philadelphia. Washington could have given again a second chance… good, one fifteenth chance with Arenas, which remains a very large player, and have put Turner into 2. And in Philly, they have a problem of leader, not 2 or 3. That would have appeared more logical to me. But good, it is only my opinion. Nobody includes/understands me when I speak about that:)

When I followed the draft, they said to me that, not, John Wall was to be number 1, that, as they had heard on TV, it was Magic Johnson in the body of Gary Payton… Good, on the other hand, it is true that it is hyper strong, I do not criticize it. Besides its advertizing. If you did not see the advertizing Reebok, look at-there… T

here are some choices which have surprised me. For example Hayward, I did not see it not taken into 9. I would have seen it taken more starting from the 15th choice. If not, I wondered why New Jersey took Favors if they want to really make come Boozer or another 4. Good, to certainly prepare the future. I thought that they would take Wesley Johnson. That would have made them Devin Harris, Courtney Lee, Johnson, it was not badly.

Thus here are, my mock draft perso, it was Turner, Wall and Johnson for the three first. I did not even have Favors in my 6 first. It has a true body, it is hyper interesting and has a large potential, but I did not see it so high. I hope that it will make me lie, and in any event it owes foutre of my opinion, and it is right well! Perso, I also did not await badly, like all the French, the selection of Kévin. I met it when I returned of the adidas Eurocamp. He it left there, therefore one ate unit Sunday evening. I told a little him how that occurred and one discussed.

I think that it of mentality to arrive there. And then it has the body to arrive there. Apparently, it was weighed with 280 pounds with 9% of lubricating mass. The large ones with these figures, there is not much of it. You changes above when there is one of them. After Kévin, I stopped looking at the draft. When I left, it was taught me that Webster was exchanged against Ryan Gomes. In fact, as I had spoken you, McMillan had said to me that it counted on me to impose to me even more in the 5 the next year.

Blow, I think that the trade is in this optics. If not, one took two backs and one recovered Babbitt. Good, him, normal, I will make him the translation of his name, you do not worry for him:) Good, they is ashamed, but it is normal, hein. Already with Alexis (Ajinça), one had done one is delirious on Hasheem Thabeet. It is in the line of the contests of rotted word games about which one spoke to you with Ali last summer. One asked him "for You assumes Thabeet? ". One did not explain to him. But on the other hand, I translated that with O.J. Mayo. It had to explain to him, from the blow the next time, I will be caught 15 counter by match when I will go in the racket against him. You will see in the stats Memphis-Portland cement: Hasheem Thabeet 8 counter for, Batum 8 counter boxed…

But good, Babbitt will be entitled to some jokes. Moreover, it is a rookie. When I saw Babbitt with Portland cement, I said myself "Not but is not necessary to do that to me. Fortunately that Alexis is not with me. " I hoped that Kevin would come on our premises. Everyone in Portland was hot ebullient on him. But there were only the 22nd choice.

Babbitt: “Coach…I don’t want to play against Batum any more”
Nate: “Why? Is it because he shuts you down?”
Babbitt: “No. It’s because he keeps grabbing my crotch and saying my name.”