2023 NBA Draft Megathread

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Here's a mock draft from Bleacher Report that came out today. Jonathan Wasserman has Brandon Miller at #7. Here's their lottery: Wembanyama, Henderson, Amen, Ausur, Nick Smith, Whitmore, Brandon Miller, Walker, George, Howard, Jackson, Lewis, Dick, Clowney.

View: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10061849-2023-nba-mock-draft-updated-full-2-round-projections
Bleacher Report Mock Draft

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Because everyone knows the best players are ordered 1-500 by their athleticism.

No, but when they combine their athleticism with ball skills and high-level scoring, then they are.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

@Ferguson_Mellochill do you think GG will be better in a 3 year redraft than Brandon Miller?

Brandon Miller, to me, looks like a great college player. Statistically, he's right up there with guys like Shane Battier, Keegan Murray and maybe even Michael Beasley. As a floor spacer and off-ball shooter who can create a bit, he'll be good. I'm sure he'll have a long and prosperous career. He's just not the guy I'd want at the top of the lottery. I still have him 7th or so, in part because Nick Smith's knees have me spooked.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

No, but when they combine their athleticism with ball skills and high-level scoring, then they are.

Still not true.

You so badly want to boil this down to these basic thing so you can rank GG highly but that's not the case at all.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

GG Jackson is shooting 29% from the field in SEC play over 5 games and I think it's only going to get worse.

Save me the ******** about his exceptional self-creation and handle.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

The worst thing about GG"s SEC play? Only 1 block over 5 SEC games. He's young, a plus athlete, and has great size/body.

He;s playing himself out the lottery.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Still not true.

You so badly want to boil this down to these basic thing so you can rank GG highly but that's not the case at all.

We can disagree. That's fine.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

GG Jackson's OBPM is .4 for the season. His DBPM is -1.6. South Carolina played an incredibly easy non-conference schedule as well.

In all my years of following the draft these are some of the worst numbers I have ever seen out of someone considered to be a lottery prospect.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Here's a mock draft from Bleacher Report that came out today. Jonathan Wasserman has Brandon Miller at #7. Here's their lottery: Wembanyama, Henderson, Amen, Ausur, Nick Smith, Whitmore, Brandon Miller, Walker, George, Howard, Jackson, Lewis, Dick, Clowney.

View: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10061849-2023-nba-mock-draft-updated-full-2-round-projections
Bleacher Report Mock Draft

Dude on crack.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

GG Jackson is shooting 29% from the field in SEC play over 5 games and I think it's only going to get worse.

Save me the ******** about his exceptional self-creation and handle.

Two of those games were 40-pt blowouts that were over in less than 7 minutes of game time. Teams can press up on him and have defenders waiting for him in the paint, because no one else on the team can create and only two other guys can shoot.

Once teams do pre-draft workouts, he'll put himself back in the lottery. If GG falls to the later lottery, that's great news for the Jazz, as it means they can get him.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Dude on crack.

We share the same pipe. I wouldn't put Clowney that high though. He must've gotten a couple more hits than I did.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

We share the same pipe. I wouldn't put Clowney that high though. He must've gotten a couple more hits than I did

Black and Wallace both falling out of the lotto. Max Lewis is too high... Miller slipping that far. Those are my main concerns there.