NBA Draft Grades: Blazers Get Positive Feedback On Sharpe Selection

ThePortland Trail Blazers昨晚实际使用第七顺位，并将肯塔基州的Shaedon Sharpe犯下，这使许多人感到惊讶。

The pundits have weighed in on fledgling General Manager Joe Cronin’s selection of the inexperienced 19-year-old who carries a number of questions marks.

铃声的凯文·奥康纳（Kevin O’Connorgiving the Blazers an A+, which correlates with the young Canadian’s ceiling.

Sharpe might be risky in the short term, but this is a tremendous get for the Blazers. Portland was rumored to be shopping this pick and could still move Sharpe, but he provides a tremendous upside bet for Portland. He has an extremely high ceiling and could have been in the running to be the top pick if he hadn’t sat out last season at Kentucky. He may not help the Blazers win games in 2022-23, but long term he could be the best scorer in this draft.

CBS Sports的加里·帕里什（Gary Parrish）交付了开拓者B+选择，指向夏普的高度上升。

这个选择很有趣，因为它似乎与Jerami Grant开拓者现在正试图变得良好的交易。从这个角度来看，夏普很有趣。但是，这堂课的球员很少有比他更高的天花板。他是一名爆炸性得分手，对机翼和运动能力，他的身材荒谬，有一天他可以用这些工具成为加后卫。在上个赛季不在肯塔基州比赛之后，他可能只是没有准备好立即做到这一点。

Yahoo Sports’ Krysten Peekmarked Cronin with a B, asking how long it will be until Sharpe can actually contribute.

Sharpe is the biggest question mark of the draft and will need additional time to adjust to the NBA’s pace and spacing after not logging a single minute at Kentucky. If the Trail Blazers are patient, Sharpe might have ended up in the perfect situation playing alongside Damian Lillard and Anfernee Simons in the backcourt.

凯尔·欧文（Kyle Irving）在《体育新闻》上说开拓者的努力值得B+for Sharpe and the drafting of Jabari Walker at pick 57.

The day before the draft, ESPN’s Jonathan Givony reported that All-Star guard Damian Lillard liked Sharpe’s potential. And who did the Blazers take with their lottery pick? Sharpe. The Kentucky guard is a prolific scorer who will receive invaluable mentorship from Lillard. Portland added a player who can provide instant offense off the bench from Day 1.

Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley给波特兰一个B进行选秀, questioning which timeline the Blazers were working to.

Interesting. The Blazers, who need as much win-now talent as anyone as they try to rapidly retool around 31-year-old Damian Lillard, just spent a top-10 pick on someone who hasn’t played a game in a year. Then again, they also just snagged someone with a sky-high ceiling at both ends, so it’s hard to complain. This draft’s mystery man, Sharpe never played a game for the Wildcats. That forced scouts and analysts to fire up footage from his high school days, where he dazzled as a dunker, shot-creator and effortlessly smooth shooter.

Still, he could face a steep learning curve in the league, as his handle and shot selection both need copious amounts of seasoning. If everything breaks right with his development, though, he could become a go-to scorer who keeps teammates involved and holds his own defensively. The boldness from the Blazers here is commendable. If there was a way to spend this pick and not have it lose trade value, this was probably the path, since Sharpe has such enormous potential.

Ricky O’Donnell at SB Nation acknowledged Sharpe’s unknownsbut gave Portland a B+关于他的身体能力。

夏普（Sharpe）在肯塔基州中期（Kentucky Mid）担任明年第一名的新兵并决定不参加比赛后，是这堂课的神秘人。他在6'6英尺6英尺6英尺的翼展上为得分后卫拥有出色的框架。他具有荒谬的跳跃能力，可以在边缘上方发挥作用。他的三分球范围还具有柔和的触感。夏普还做什么？谁知道。自他最近的比赛以来，他的NBA首次亮相将纪念整整一年。关于夏普对比赛的感觉，他如何在防守上翻译以及他是什么样的传球者，将会有重大疑问。肯定，即使那些镜头经常进来，他似乎也经常在高中阶段进行艰难的镜头。尽管如此，由于夏普的工具，我们还是给了这个选择。有了适量的耐心和发展，夏普最终可以成为一个非常好的球员，可以做您无法教的事情。 This is a nice upside swing by the Blazers even if it’s a risky pick.

Now that we’ve heard from everyone else, what grade do you give the Sharpe pick?