scares me a bit. If we’re taking a big man at #12 I would think we want rebounding and physicality. Arthur is way too skinny to play up front in the NBA, and I don’t know if the rest of his game will suffer if and when he bulks up.

As for Draft Express, yeah I’d say they’re enigmatic alright. Eric Gordon to the Kings? That’s one of those mocks where the guy doing it says, “well I made Player X fall this far, and that doesn’t look quite right, but somebody has to take him, guess it might as well be Team Z”

Makes no sense that Gordon would slip to 12 and even less that the Kings would select him. The Two Guard is pretty much the ONLY position we’ve got secured right now.

scares me a bit, as they will all have levels of risk. Last year almost half of the lottery class did not have “NBA bodies” at the time that they were selected – Durant, Yi, Corey Brewer, B.Wright, Noah and Hawes.

I like Arthur, but he does concern me as it pertain to what kind of shot blocker and rebounder he might be at the NBA level.

it’s always a roll of the dice, especially once you get past the first three or four picks.

However, Bird isn’t just talking hype in the above quote. There’s an unusual amount of talent and upside deep into this draft, and Brian Westbrook, Joe Alexander, Alexis Ajinca, Marresse Speights, Ryan Anderson (for example) are all guys who I think could be the kind of player that people look back four years later and say “wow… they drafted him THAT late!?”.

I get a little pumped up thinking about them potentially playing in the ol’ purple and black next year.

Darrell Arthur, not so much.