No.2: Kidd-Gilchrist or Drummond

[carolina-chuck]

Safest or Riskiest Player

Yes sir! Right now, I'm down to two players for the no.2 pick if we do keep it. It's either Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (SF), the safest player for the no.2 pick imo, or Andre Drummond the high risk-high reward kid. As all of yall have known I'm the highest Kidd-Gilchrist bandwagoner in this forum. But, as day passes by and trying to watch few game highlights of these prospects when I can, I'm wondering to myself if it's best for us to take a chance on a player like Drummond. MKG is the safest player who plays hard every games and will potentially get better as a shooter in the NBA, but a player like Drummond is too much to not like. A great potential player who has a NBA ready body and amazingly gifted athletic abilities. Only questions about Drummond are, how hard will he go out every night and does he really love the game of basketball.

I have cut my list of potential players for our no.2 spot, which included guys like Thomas Robinson, Harrison Barnes, and Bradley Beal to MKG and Drummond. I believe that these are the two best players we should take as our pick. With a high lottery pick as ours, we should take the "safest" or "the riskiest" prospect. Either you BOOM or you BUST. It's that easy and no questions ask. The safest player is always the one who'll guarantee you that you made the right decision, but may not "wow" you. The riskiest player is the one who you are closing your eyes when picking him, but potentially can become that franchise superstar for your team and you'll look like a genius 10 years from now by picking him. So, to me its down to the safest or the riskiest two players.

This Drummond scenario has been bothering me recently b/c of all the Roy Hibbert's talk in here. I just want to say, I'll be the first guy to come out and say, "there is no way Hibbert is a Bobcats next year!". I don't get where all of you people are coming up with this idea of we picking Hibbert up. That is nothing but a wishful thinking. Go and ask any expert, someone who covers for the Bobcats, or a sports writer and they would be laughing their a** off. It doesn't matter how much $$$bling- bling$$$ we throws at Hibbert. A veteran player of that sort wants to win also. Yes, "WIN". Have we forgot about "winning"? Some of yall may have due to the fact and experience of seeing the Bobcats sucking so much. But, every players would like to have a ring by the end of their career. Veterans players know we're not going to win anytime soon and is in a full major rebuilding mode. Not a place to win now for a player like Hibbert. Indiana knows how important Hibbert is for them and is also one of the few teams to have a good amount of cap space, so they will do all in thier own power to retain him. Teams like Boston will try and make a run for him if KG and Allen are not back. Unless the Bobcats are willing to throw 20 -23 mil. of that possible 26 mil. of cap space that we have, he's not wearing Orange and Blue next season. So quit it.

This comes to play with the Drummond scenario b/c I believe that if we decides to take the big man over MKG. Risking our future for a high-risk player instead of the safe one, we could be better off next year. Drummond will solidfy the "Center" position in a heart beat, which is one of our biggest need on the team and will benefit Biyombo by moving him to the PF position. With that said, with our huge cap space, if MJ wants to at least be a bit competitive to win next season or even try to help build this franchise faster, we could use some of that money to sign a young SF or SG. Guys like OJ Mayo and Eric Gordon are RFA who I think we could get one of them for cheaper than Hibbert. So Drummond with a guy like Mayo or Gordon would really help us for next year than the scenario of MKG and no such thing of a Hibbert. That's me for the day. Thanks.

Examples of possible line ups:

PG: DJ/Kemba

SG: Henderson

SF: OJ Mayo

PF: Biyombo

C : Drummond/Mullens

or

PG: DJ/Kemba

SF: Gordon

SF: Tyrus Thomas

PF: Biyombo

C : Drummond/Mullens

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (SF)

6'8" 228 lbs

Great defender and rebounder and will better his shooting at the next level. Good leader with a great attitude for the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww_qdvVYsLM

Andre Drummond ©

6'10" 270 lbs

High risk-high reward kid who could be the next Bynum or the next Kwame. Very, very athletic big man who if its humble enough and works harder can be something special. Amazingly talented with the ball in his hands in high school. Had some nice games but mostly poor ones at UCONN.

[GotSwag?]

Im starting warm up on the idea of selecting Andre Drummond. If he reaches his potential and Biyombo reaches his potential as well, that would be one heck of a front court. They both can play PF and C as well.

We'll see.