Bargnani coming back, good or bad for draft position?

[Justin Bonin]

Substitue 5 for 8 and trade piece with "not the best we could have done in the draft".

Explanation: If you ask me, the only game changer in the draft is Anthony Davis, then Barnes and Drummond are the next closest players to game changer, yet they're not quite there, but are noticeable better than the others who come after them.

Then you have, in no particular order, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Jeremy Lamb, Bradley Beal, Jared Sullinger and Thomas Robinson who are not as good as the top three, but I would still consider them to be a win for the Raptors in the draft, just not as big of a win as Davis, Drummond or Barnes would be, as I think those three have the potential to be the star of our team, whereas MKG, Lamb, Beal, Sullinger and Robinson would all be decent second or third options, which is nothing to scoff at.

So basically what I'm saying is you can write the draft off after the 8th pick, which is when you see a noticeable drop in talent, but even after that I wouldn't say trade the pick unless you get an established player who would come in and start for our team (ideally at SF or PG.

[saints91]

I think we will win 10 or 11 more games. There are 11 games left with teams that are below our record or around our record. I think if we count on winning all those games, which we won't, it should make up for the team that we upset. I think the Raptors end up 23-43 we will be drafting from 5-7.

Games left:

at Detriot ... Loss
Bucks.... Loss
at Cleveland... Won
at Nets ... Loss
at Memphis...Won
at Bobcats ....Loss
at NY...Lose
Chicago...Lose
NY...Lose
at Bulls...Lose
Orlando...Lose
Denver....Lose
Heat...Lose
Wizards...Win
Bobcats...Win
atPhilly... Lose
Cavs...Win
at Thunder...lose
at Indy...lose
Philly...lose
Boston...lose
at Hawks...lose
Hawks...lose
at Heat...lose
at Detroit...win
at Bucks...win
Nets...win

Well I guess we lost two winnable games! I still think we end up with 11 more wins.