Fields looks like a true sleeper. There's nothing negative I can find on the guy. I was gonna say maybe he's not athletic, but turns out he's got a 39" vert, so he's a stud physically on top of solid fundamentals.

Second rounders are a guessing game. Maybe we got some ballers. Who knows? It's impossible to tell at this point.

scoshin wrote:
Phoenix was rumored to be very interested in Landry with the #46 pick:

Steve Kerr had this to say about Fields when he talked to us last week while Landry was in town for a pre-draft workout, “Landry’s a good player. Versatile. Does a lot of things out on the floor, always seems to be in the mix. Got a little bit of Jared Dudley in him in terms of taking charges and making plays and creating extra possessions and he’s a pretty talented offensive player too.”

His senior year was light years ahead of what he did as a junior. He may have hit a maturity spurt between his junior and senior years, or maybe he finally hit the weights. He seems fairly well built to me, yet many analysts in the draft sites commented on his lack of strength- you wonder if they even saw him play as a senior. After a rather pedestrian junior year, I expect that he was off the radar of the basketball world, and that is why there was so little known about him.

Intelligent kid- you can read his blog on DraftExpress: http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Landry-Fields-5803/

I am willing to give this kid a chance.

Also on DraftExpress- rather funny- from Givony's Tweet:

Landry Fields' agent Chris Emens busted my balls for the past two months about not having his client in our mock. Dammit he was right.

I don't quite understand our picks but will wait and see if Donnie has something else in mind. No PG, no center selected so maybe we are thinking of Earl Barron as better than anyone else available? Both our picks are upper classman, so have a lot of college playing experience and more maturity.

Andy Rautins - Another Syracuse "shooter". Hope he pans out better than Demetius Nichols, another Syracuse "shooter" we selected. I think Rautins can handle the ball pretty well, and is a very good catch and shoot guard.

Landry Fields - I don't know much about him but since he was the PAC-10 leading scorer , he is worth a shot.

BRIGGS wrote:Maybe I am wrong--but I would have bought that 25 pick from Memphis--even if I had to give up one of my 30 picks as well and taken Whiteside. I think the effort to make this team more defensively balanced has been atrocious. We had all the capability to do it and we did not.I think when you are drafting late its all about the guy with the highest upside potential. I think there are many of us who haev been beggiung the Knicks to bite the F bullet and bring in a nice C prospect--look at this team how it is composed--we have 5 wing players and a combo guard. We put 0 emphasis on important aspects of the game and if the excuse is over 1mm in salary cap--that is insane. The draft was not a good statement nor was it a direction. I really don't like what we are doing with MDA and I would rather we hire KP today and start all over with the cap space

BRIGGS wrote:Maybe I am wrong--but I would have bought that 25 pick from Memphis--even if I had to give up one of my 30 picks as well and taken Whiteside. I think the effort to make this team more defensively balanced has been atrocious. We had all the capability to do it and we did not.I think when you are drafting late its all about the guy with the highest upside potential. I think there are many of us who haev been beggiung the Knicks to bite the F bullet and bring in a nice C prospect--look at this team how it is composed--we have 5 wing players and a combo guard. We put 0 emphasis on important aspects of the game and if the excuse is over 1mm in salary cap--that is insane. The draft was not a good statement nor was it a direction. I really don't like what we are doing with MDA and I would rather we hire KP today and start all over with the cap space

Jerome Jordan?

BRIGGS wrote:Maybe I am wrong--but I would have bought that 25 pick from Memphis--even if I had to give up one of my 30 picks as well and taken Whiteside. I think the effort to make this team more defensively balanced has been atrocious. We had all the capability to do it and we did not.I think when you are drafting late its all about the guy with the highest upside potential. I think there are many of us who haev been beggiung the Knicks to bite the F bullet and bring in a nice C prospect--look at this team how it is composed--we have 5 wing players and a combo guard. We put 0 emphasis on important aspects of the game and if the excuse is over 1mm in salary cap--that is insane. The draft was not a good statement nor was it a direction. I really don't like what we are doing with MDA and I would rather we hire KP today and start all over with the cap space

Nah -- not possible.