Ten Best Pro Careers (Not a Mock Draft)

 Smoking that GANJA!

 I def dont see the Meyers Leonard comparison at all…i think the site has it closer by saying Robin Lopez

i think you’re drastically underappreciating the quality of center andrew bogut was in college… not only is he a very good NBA center, but he was the 1st pick in the draft and was the NCAA player of the year at Utah. Leonard is nowhere near the caliber of player Bogut was/is and the fact that you think he’ll be better than both he and Noah is shocking and insulting.

He means he will be better than Davis and Drummond,. However, when healthy I think Bogut can be ranked as high as 3rd best center in the NBA.  Meyers Leonard is not close to Bogut.

I love that the comparisons are two random NBA dudes that play a similar position.

I am pretty sure you are right, and every NBA GM is wrong. I feel like I should send you some money if Kendall Marshall ends up as the third best player out of this draft, or if Tyler Zeller has a better pro career than Anthony Davis. 

 I get it, take out Marshal and Zeller just make it a top 8 and we have very similar lists but on here everyone loves Davis and you will get nothing for moving him down the list.

I was willing to give you some credit for thinking outside the box until you put Zeller that high and left Drummond off entirely.

Zeller is not going to be a good player in the NBA, he really struggles against players of a similar size, and Drummond will almost certainly outperform Zeller at the very least.

I’m not saying that early picks are always better, nobody can tell that, but I’ve seen Zeller play plenty of times, and he’s going to struggle in the NBA.

 Your lists are a little misleading because almost of of the guys you listed as early picks were big men, reason: because size is premium in the league and you have to take risks when it comes to unpolished bigs so they are gonna let the undersized PGs Nelson, Brooks, Lowry Collison and the guys with out true positions Barbosa, Dudley, Anderson, Crawford, Jack and Delfino slip to later in the round if it means getting a franchise big man.

 I like how you conveniantly left out the rest of the lottery of those drafts.  There’s about an average of 2 or 3 guys from them lotteries that didn’t pan out and in ever draft there are going to be guys drafted late that are good but they still are rarely better then the players picked in the top ten.

Nobody drafted was better then Pau in that draft and Griffin was a stud if he didn’t park his truck infront of a train.

Wagner was worth the pick and was a stud also he would be an All Star had he not gotten ill with colonitis.

Beasley isn’t a bust and with his college production you would of probably been championing him over Rose same goes with Morrison you probably thought he should of been the first pick because of what he did in college.

Marshall is nothing like Kidd or Miller, Miller is a way better scorer and a deadly midrange shooter plus he use to be a great defender.  Kidd was super fast and also a great defender and rebounder who racked up steals and rebounds.

Marshall isn’t the defender or playmaker Paul Pierce he racks up steals and assists.  Glen Rice is a interesting one tho that’s not too far fetched.

You compared MKG to Ron Artest and the Matrix who have two totally different games so which one is it?

Andrew Bogut and Noah couldn’t play any different from each other althought in best case scenario I guess you could say Leonard develops into a Noah type.  

You compared Beal to Brandon Roy…I dun even know what to say about that.

You compared Tyler Zeller to Pau Gasol….WTF?  And Zeller is way more athletic then Hawes and will get more buckets running the floor.  Zeller is more like a weaker version of Marcin Gortat at best case.

And Kenyon Martin and Juwan Howard, again, 2 totally different type of players are we creating hybrids here or what?

And did you know that Meyers Leonard is a sophomore who only weighed 220 at most as a freshman and only averaged 2 ppg?  Davis is obviously way ahead of his projection.

 JonOats are you forgetting that Davis dominated Tennesse twice and Louisville once?  Like complete domination.

 B Free makes a good point…

and @JonOates…i know what you are trying to say, but in the draft teams are really shooting for all-star to superstar capability…the players you seem to like all seem to be role players, which is fine, but when you are drafting top 5, teams usually go based off potential and physical abilities…sometimes they miss but when they dont they end up with guys like Dwight Howard and Dwayne Wade

 hahaha Mr.19134 goes H.A.M. 

"smoking that ganja" pretty much sums it up

"smoking that ganja" pretty much sums it up

Very true…every draft has some busts, and some surprises.

It is a risk/reward proposition. Sometimes you take a major risk on a player because of his obvious physical talents, and hope to get rewarded with an All-Star career. Sometimes you get Kwame Brown, sometimes you get Dwight Howard.

You have to calculate the odds that each player is going to succeed, and take your chances based on those odds. So, if you see a player like Anthony Davis, an athletic kid with a good basketball IQ, a 9’2" wingspan, that can handle the ball and be a game-changer on defense, the odds that he is going to find NBA success are exponentially higher than someone like Kendall Marshall, a passing point guard that can’t score and has defensive limitations.

 Also the S Williams drafted at 5 you have listed is Sheldon Williams, a big man not  SF Shawne Williams 

OMG maniac… Does davis really have a 9"2 wingspan?

H. Barnes, A. Davis, A. Drummond, J. Lamb, K. Marshall, A. Rivers, R. White, T. Wroten, C. Zeller, and T. Zeller.

By the way, I do feel like Wroten is just sucking me in just to throw out a 10 turnover and 10 horrible shot game in the NCAA tournament where they lose by 2.