[flamesbball84]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2009 ... AHeadlines

Stephen Curry, Johnny Flynn, and Jrue Holiday are skyrocketing.
meanwhile, Spanish sensation Ricky Rubio is in near free fall mode.

[Th3rd]

teams would be stupid not to pick rubio, rubio has experience professionally and was one of the best players on the spanish national team that came in 2nd in the olympics. most teams would kill to have the 2nd coming of pistol pete to the nba

[dompennix]

What about Maynor from VCU? I think I spelt that right

[ToTheLeft]

8. Eric Maynor (avg.
Maynor is the sleeper of the group. Every GM claims they like him, but don't love him. That might be because Maynor is one of those players who does just about everything well, but doesn't have one particular area in his game that stands out.

Maynor drew some praise and some criticism at the combine. A few GMs said they really liked his poise and demeanor on the court. Others said his game was better suited to game situations than the drills we saw in Chicago.

Maynor was spread out pretty evenly between seventh, eighth and ninth on most boards. Three GMs had him rated as high as sixth, and one GM had him ranked 10th.

Maynor's range should be about the same as Teague's: starting at Indiana (No. 13) and ending at Dallas (No. 22).

[dompennix]

I think Maynor is the most under-rated pick of the draft. I wonder who will have a better rookie year between Jonny Flynn and Steph Curry. Jonny Flynn is just such an exciting player to watch. I hope the Bobcats get Steph

[flames1971]

I think Maynor is the most under-rated pick of the draft. I wonder who will have a better rookie year between Jonny Flynn and Steph Curry. Jonny Flynn is just such an exciting player to watch. I hope the Bobcats get Steph

I was hoping that Steph would finish college because I was looking foward to another Elite 8 run (like that would happen, I know...). It was nice to have someone to cheer for when Duke got knocked out.

[flamesbball84]

teams would be stupid not to pick rubio, rubio has experience professionally and was one of the best players on the spanish national team that came in 2nd in the olympics. most teams would kill to have the 2nd coming of pistol pete to the nba

Well, Rubio has sucked quite a bit this year over in Spain. From what I have heard, he has been absolutely dreadful in the playoffs. That's got to scare away a lot of people. If you can't perform in the playoffs in Europe with the experience he has, how are you going to do it here?

Secondly, doing well in the Olympics in international/Olympic competition isn't the best indicator. Ever heard of Carlos Arroyo and Darko Milicic. They are pretty nasty in international hoops, and yeah that never has translated into much success in the NBA. Hammed Haddai for the Iraw team (I think it's Iraq) did really good in the Olympics this year and he rode the bench with the best of them this year in Memphis, a team that was sorely lacking in the post player department outside of a decent Marc Gasol.

[Th3rd]

Rubio was still the best on a team with Pau and Marc Gasol, cant take that away from him. Rubio also has shown some flashes of brilliance, he will deff make an impact to whatever team he goes to in the draft

[dompennix]

That guard from China was suppose to be the Chinese Pistol Pete, but now he's on the Lakers and has only dressed out like 25 games