(i think i might manage to change my opinion of him while i write the fanpost. this might read more like a personal odyssey than a scouting report.)

Which could be a good thing. I had you penciled in for Harden, but now I don’t know. We’ll see what the other lists look like first.

I don’t think many people will offer a unique analysis, I just meant it should be an analysis of how the guy would fit here and include information form more than one or two scouting reports.

if you think I’m cool enough to be in your "regulars" country club

Anyone willing to spend time on a project like this gets automatic entry into the lamest country club on the internet. Well, as long as you have at least 500 posts. ; )

sounds good. i’ll do a bit more research and get that out in the next couple days. if there’s not enough people who want to do this, i’d probably be up for writing a second one too. mostly because i’m developing a mancrush on terrance williams (not at the 7, i repeat not at the 7) and would be up for talking about him. though there was a good discussion of him in an earlier post.

It might take me a while because I haven’t done too much homework on the guy yet, but I’ll get started.

you wanna take a stab at scouting Harden or are you gonna sit this one out? I understand that most information any of us gather will be from scouting reports and box scores…..I don’t really expect anyone (other than jae, who I’m sure has a library of UNC game tapes) to find game film and spend hours working on this. I just meant maybe a little analysis of why the guy might be a good fit here.

Dibs on Andris. This year I started to do some pretty in depth analysis (for me anyway, nothing too impressive), comparing him to the other primary centers focussing on whatever defensive stats were available (Dreb, blk, stl, eFG%against, offReb against, PER allowed…). It fizzled out when he got injured but I had a lot of fun doing it. I was planning on following through with that next year anyway.

would it be the worst idea ever if i claimed crawford?

either way, i totally want in on this at the start of the season. we should probably wait to claim our guys until the roster is set. if this were our final roster, i’d probably want ronny or jack. i dunno, i can’t decide this far ahead.

I’m gonna grab Jordan Hill, so take your pick of Teague, Maynor, Flynn, Johnson or whoever else you think might be a potential pick. ok so how does this look? Anyone else who wants to join in just post who you’re gonna “scout.”

Jrue Holiday-gsw.raider
James Harden-Sleepy
Stephen Curry-antihero
Ty Lawson-jae
Jordan Hill-sam23
DeMar DeRozan-gogoldenbears
Tyreke Evans-O.M.
Brandon Jennings-cap’n
Earl Clark-ffgolden
Jonny Flynn-
Terrence Williams-cap’n
Jeff Teague-
Eric Maynor-
James Johnson-
Wayne Ellington-maybe jae

or are you just saying who you would like to see us take?

yea go for it, thanks. Only Flynn and Maynor left

I just started workin on the one for Hill. I’m guessing cap, ffgolden, gogolden and some of the others who seem to know a lot more about the draft than me are probably way ahead. Hill’s should be done in a couple days, but I’d expect one or two to pop up before then.

a standardized title sounds like a good idea. I just started reading some stuff about Hill yesterday, I’ll try to get it done that one done in the next couple days, but if anyone else gets done first go for it. A schedule would be cool, but I think it could be too difficult to make. Just get ‘em up whenever you can, I guess. And thanks for doubling up on Maynor, I don’t know much at all about him or Flynn so I was hoping somebody would pick those guys up.

I think in terms of process, the way this might work best is for you to ask all of the participants to email you their reports and then to consolidate them into one mega-diary, with bolded headers for the various players, that then gets recc’ed to the top. Otherwise, it will be hard to distinguish the “GSoM scouting project” diaries from the regular ones (there have already been a couple of “draft player X” diaries since you floated your idea) and nearly impossible to compare and contrast reports in a satisfying way.

Only possible drawback is that you’d have to give out your email to us weirdoes… ;-)

i definitely plan on linking to your write up on jennings and will try to avoid stepping on your toes to the extent to which that is possible. at this point, my jennings “report” doesn’t read like a traditional scouting report, precisely because you already covered him in detail. that was also the reason i wanted to do two players; we’ve already heard all the “he can do this, but can’t do that” talk about him.

totally didn’t mean to step on your toes, I was just gonna say I’m sure cap will link your analysis of Jennings which was very thorough. And please do take Maynor.

actually I already told ffgolden to double up and take Maynor….. maybe you can work it out with him, hopefully one of you will do Flynn instead

1. pick, Crawford, and Belinelli probably won’t get you much

Dubs should trade down in the draft and take best role player available

Once again, the lack of depth in this draft is not our little secret. We won’t get much, if anything, by trading back.

A Randolph would be the number 1 pick in this draft

No he wouldn’t.

all tops prospects come with warts

actually, all top players come with warts. lebron isn’t a lights out 3 point shooter. kobe’s an aging petulant whiner, that can’t get to the basket like he used to. dwight howard has one post move: dunk. looking for a perfect player in the draft is a ridiculous idea. if it comes down to taking a player that should be great, but has flaws versus a “role player” with flaws, how do you not take the better player? griffin might not be able to shoot, but his game is more impressive than any of the role players in this draft.

and you can’t call out griffin because he can’t shoot and then say that anthony randolph would be the number one pick in this draft. it just so happens that shooting is one of randolph’s “warts” too and that he likes to shoot his bad jumper a lot more than griffin does, so it’s a bigger problem.

that might be easier, considering that most of us will be on different fanpost writing schedules. maybe begin each title with “GSoM Group Project” for the sake of grouping them?