Fear the Beard goes blogger mock drafting.

06.25.2008 | 5:54 pm | Game-Time Decisions, The Warriors, Zee Blog Juice

And with the 14th pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, the Golden State Warriors select forward Donté Greene from Syracuse. This was our choice in the NBA blogger mock draft being conducted by the fine folks over at What Would Oakley Do? They got bloggers representing each team in the NBA to draft according to their team’s presumed interest. Full results can be seen over there sometime soon. Theirs is a New York Knickerbockers-centric organization, so stop by with some sympathy. Now that we got our guy, and we all actually really do hope this is who we get, I can confess another secret. We passed on a deal that would have sent a 26-year-old Zach Randolph to the Dubs. I will not reveal any more about the deal than that. Here’s the info that I passed along to WWOD?

Our Pick. Donté Greene

Why? The Dubs need somebody who can get the job done in the paint on both ends of the floor. Greene is a tremendous athlete with nice upside, especially given the peculiar demands of Nellieball. He’s developing a tough inside game and he has the athleticism and length to be a difference maker on defense. He’s only 6′9″, but he’s got a standing reach of 9′0″; that helps a lot in a league where leaving your feet means a foul and some of Nelson’s well-charted rookie pine. Plus, he can run. And he’s got a nice stroke.

Who we don’t want? The other reason we want Greene is because we don’t want to draft another guy named Kosta to play for the Bakersfield Jam next season. Although we would love to hear Jim Barnett’s first “Kosta to Kosta” joke sometime in the middle of the third quarter of the first pre-season game, having two dudes named Kosta on the squad would feel kinda strange. Like bathing in borscht.

Who am I? I am Daniel Turman. I wrote this on the subway. Guthrie Dolin and Matthew Meschery also contributed to this logic and our decision.