Draft Hype 2012

With the 2012 NBA draft winding down, We hope we are not the only ones shocked by the first round. With all the anticipation leading up to this years draft because of all the high caliber players, there was also that excitement of a new beginning in the NBA, a lot of these young men are going to be future Lebron's, Kobe's, and I even heard mention of a Jordan.

Amongst all the talented men that went there was one and has been one that always stuck out to me, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, I watched him all season long knowing he would be big someday and towards the end of their regular season he had mentioned satying with Kentucky, but having the honor of working under The Michael Jordan, I think out weighs anything Coach Cap could have offered him with another year in Kentucky.

Now past my fan-girling there a few things that need to be said, first of all for all the trailblazer fans out there you may think you got a good PG but I would have liked to see Lamb go there, but you fans seem confident in these picks, forgive us non-Blazers fans for being skeptical of the franshices ability to draft picks as they passed up two of the greatest players such as Jordan and Druant. ANOTHER mindblowing thing was Cunningham going so early, yes big deal he played at Oregon State, but as a non-school biased basketball fan there were many good picks before him, the fact the Jones III and many others sat in their seats has he got called too early I think wasa shock to everyone, we certainly couldn't believe, Shay and I look at each other with out jaws dropped and eyes wide, bittersweet to us because we feel that it was a surprising pick but a lot of our favorite draftees still sat getting called lower. However there is talks of a trade deal with Dallas that we are looking into. Shay feels it was quite surprising that so many big names from last season went so late. We could break apart these picks but why? they have been done and we don't run these franchises we just would have chosen differently. Now we get to sit back and watch these young talents unfold.

The day after the draft we decided to watch our favorite men pick apart he draft on ESPN's First Take, we are both quite fond of Stephen A Smith and from time to time Skip Bayless can say a decent, smart thing.... once in a while. They only further reinforced our thoughts on this years draft.

We were both happy to see the UCONN, Kentcuky, and Duke boys get up there.
We will be going to the Blazer games when the Cavs, Heat, Wizards, and now Bobcats and Hornets come to Portland to cheer our college faves on and of course our current favorite NBA players, my King James, and Shay's favorites in John Wall and Kyrie Irving.

Next thing to look forward to is the USA Olympic Basketball team, bring home the gold boys!