[OhCanada-Participant]

01 Cooper Flagg – NOP
02 Dylan Harper – WAS
03 Ace Bailey – CHA
04 Egor Demin – UTA
05 Tre Johnson – TOR
06 Kasparus Jakucionis – POR
07 VJ Edgecombe – BKN
08 Jeremiah Fears – OKC
09 Khaman Maluach – CHI
10 Noa Essengue – SAC
11 Asa Newell – HOU
12 Thomas Sorber – DET
13 Boogie Fland – UTA
14 Ian Jackson – GSW
15 Labaron Philon – IND
16 Nolan Traore – SAS
17 Liam McNeeley – SAS
18 Rasheer Fleming – OKC
19 Derik Queen – BKN
20 Dink Pate – OKC
21 Hugo Gonzalez – DAL
22 Ben Saraf – ORL
23 Mackenzie Mgbako – ORL
24 Kam Jones – ATL
25 Nique Clifford – BKN
26 Kon Knueppel – MEM
27 Will Riley – BKN
28 Miles Byrd – BOS
29 Collin Murray-Boyles – LAC
30 Jamir Watkins – UTA

[NorrinRaddParticipant]

Nice, I can definitely see something like this happening… especially depending on who declares…
It’s crazy, but wow OKC getting Jeremiah Fears would be nuts. Brooklyn won big in this mock too.

[OhCanada-Participant]

Yeah it depends on who declares right. I could throw the Ivisic brothers in there who I’m high on but would they even declare if they are not projected to go top 20? Probably not.

[NorrinRaddParticipant]

I think they would declare if they were top 40. Imo that’s the magic number, especially for international college guys. They are fringe top 40 though imo…

[HitsterParticipant]

Great draft and interesting to see who you had the Raptors taking. I like pretty much all those picks.

[NorrinRaddParticipant]

Just think too guys, this is a very good class in theory assuming these freshmen enter… But a lot of these guys are just scratching the surface of showcasing what they can do. It’s only early January still… For all we know Cooper Flagg can maybe develop a better jumper by the time the draft comes around. Ace Bailey maybe learns some more ball handling… these guys are still far from complete. Somebody could really jump up in mocks/boards between now and the end of the combine…
I wonder how different our mocks will look towards the end of this cycle.

[HitsterParticipant]

The further down the mocks we go the more they will vary, the guys at the top tend to stay the same we don’t suddenly find Steph Mk II lurking in a college somewhere. But the order in the top 10 will shuffle around as the better prospects play against each other and I still feel a deep run into March Madness can help a prospect lets say Philon.

We don’t know who out of the later first rounds/early second round will declare or may look to make NILs money or stay overseas etc so now I tend to hang off mocking until we know who is in or out. No point figuring does Hansen Yang go ahead of Rocco Z if we don’t know if either is in or out.

[NorrinRaddParticipant]

Right, I just consider every prospect eligible until I learn something different. I was more referring to how much these freshmen could improve throughout this process, as the young develop more, and this year… guys like Ian Jackson and Drake Powell for example have finally been cracking some more minutes and making use out of them. OhCanada mentioned Moustapha Thiam the other day who is within that realm too. Donnie Freeman I almost gave up on as a prospect this year… he’s back on the fence though and getting more minutes.

[OhCanada-Participant]

Yeah theres a few players I left out simply because I dont have a read on where they would fall or wanna see more of them.

Zikarsky for sure is on that list. I used to watch NBL games so I had an idea of the competition level but its been years since I watched that league so I just don’t know what I’m watching when I see his highlights. `Eric Dixon is defenitely one of those guys. I think he can play in the NBA. He’s just so strong and he shoots the ball so well but he’s 24 in a few weeks and he gets 1.1 combined blocks/steals a game. Or Danny Wolf in Michigan . He almost dropped a quadruple double but how does he defend in space when they switch him onto a guard and how is he in the post defensively? I just haven’t watched them. As the year goes on well get more film on Youtube to judge this and rank these guys and then we can mock them.

[HitsterParticipant]

Teams will look at the older guys if they think they can fill a need or the player might be drafted by another side and not be available as an undrafted guy. But often they will want the rights to a younger guy who they gamble will have more upside.

Dixon is having a lights out shooting season and offers value on defence so I could see him getting onto a roster either via draft or maybe summer league or training camp. I’d personally think he is worth a punt in the 2nd round.

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