Love Rank

[cpfsf]

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/players/rookies/rankings?season=2009&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2fplayers%2frookies%2frankings%3fseason%3d2009

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/dave_mcmenamin/03/18/rookie.rankings.20090318/

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/bryan_armen_graham/03/31/rookie.rankings/index.html

As most of you know they update this stuff every week, but this is just ridiculous

ESPN ranking: 5 (directly after Eric Gordon)
NBA.com ranking: 8 (Beasley is ranked 7th)
SI ranking: 7 (behind Rudy Fernadez who is ranked 5th for some reason)

Even though we are ranked higher in SI than NBA.com, I feel their Fernandez ranking was a slap in the face.

[AQuintus]

1. Rose
2. Westbrook
3. Lopez
4. Mayo
5. Love

Edit: I don't know if it was changed, but ESPN currently has Love 4th and Gordon 5th.

[shrink]

Good thread.

I'd have Rose, Westbrook, and Brook Lopez above.

I haven't seen enough of Marc Gasol .. I'd say he's comparable

I'd have Mayo just behind

I'd have Beasley, Gordon and Oden much behind.

So 4-5 for me. Which is amazing, because if you asked me last year, I'd have said at this point he'd be 10-12. He really proved me wrong.

[Devilzsidewalk]

I'm gonna go by Hollinger's EWA (estimated Wins Added) benchmark since it reflects positively on Love:

1. Lopez 2. Love 3. Gasol 4. Rose 5. Gordon 6. Westbrook 7. Mayo 8. Oden 9. Speights 10. Fernandez 11. Beasley 12. Augustin

[deeney0]

1. Westbrook
2. Rose
3. Love, Mayo, Lopez, and Gordon all very close

[shrink]

Oh and the last time I checked, my "Love Rank" was "Hot Stuff"

[B Calrissian]

I would say 4th. But as others have said alot of guys(3-7) are close.

1-Rose
2-Westbrook
3-Lopez
4-Love
5-Mayo
6-Gasol
7-Gordan
8-Thompson
9-Beasley
10-Augustin

[Krapinsky]

I'm gonna go by Hollinger's EWA (estimated Wins Added) benchmark since it reflects positively on Love:

1. Lopez 2. Love 3. Gasol 4. Rose 5. Gordon 6. Westbrook 7. Mayo 8. Oden 9. Speights 10. Fernandez 11. Beasley 12. Augustin

I agree with this, but I would drop Gasol behind Mayo.

[john2jer]

I'd say 5th...

1. Rose
2. Beasley
3. Mayo
4. Westbrook
5. Love
6. Galinari
7. Gordon
8. Alexander
9. Augistin
10. Lopez

NBA GM's never make mistakes, right?

[jade_hippo]

1 Rose
2 Lopez
3 Westbrook
4 Love
5 Gasol
6 Gordon
7 Mayo
8 Beasley
9 Augustin
10 Speights

everyone here is pretty set of the fact pretty much 2-10 are interchangable. I'm not entirely sure Mayo is even the best rookie on his team muchless better than Gordon/Love. Gasol is a monster and quite consistent in what he does. I'm pleased to see the Gasol for Gasol trade wasn't the one-sided affair everyone thought it would be. Love will likely be 2 in the next year or so as he starts to fill more of a BradMiller/Arvydas Sabonis role (at least thats what i see in my mind, but a 6inch taller Wes Unseld wouldn't be bad)

[AQuintus]

(at least thats what i see in my mind, but a 6inch taller Wes Unseld wouldn't be bad)

Do you expect Love to grow 4 inches?

[jade_hippo]

(at least thats what i see in my mind, but a 6inch taller Wes Unseld wouldn't be bad)

Do you expect Love to grow 4 inches?

huh, how about that, yeah i totally wish love was 7'1" i'd expect him to grow a bit, but not that much. sorry that wasn't my point anyways, jsut a gernerlization.

[Calinks]

It would be a dream come true if Love had a late growth spurt and jumped up to 7'1". Wolves fans would be howling in the streets.

[southern wolf]

1. Rose
2. Westbrook
3. Love
4. Lopez, Mayo

Love and Lopez are very close, I put Love higher because he's got almost 10 more double-doubles this season than any other rookie, and he's performed in a variety of roles (C, PF, 6TH) whereas Lopez has been able to settle into the one starting position all season.

[Rakocevicftw]

If Love was 7'1 he'd be a Bull.

[john2jer]

And we'd be stuck with Beasley. So let's pray for that late growth spurt.

[revprodeji]

I have Rose ranked ahead.
Then Love
Then Lopez and then Westbrook.


I am going entirely off what I would like for the wolves and that is my order.

As far as Love is concerned I think height is overrated. I am more concerned about his conditioning and explosiveness. If he improves those things then his defense should emerge as well.

[Foye]

Probably 4th or 5th

I see him tied with OJ Mayo in 4th behin Rose, Westbrook and Lopez

[cpfsf]

Westbrook and Rose are pretty much leading all rookies so I want them tied for first. Lopez comes third, but just barely ahead of Love at fourth, and Mayo not far behind at fifth.