The-Power wrote:Duke4life831 wrote:Is anyone else finding it hard to find any late 1st round guys or 2nd round guys to really fall in love with? Usually there are a few guys in every draft that I think are just legit steals and great value, but I'm just having a hard time finding that value in this class. The to closest guys for me is Tyus Battle, I like his size and athleticism, just needs to get a consistent jumper. The other guy is Svi from Kansas. Good size and solid athleticism and the dude is a sharpshooter. Right now those are the only guys that I get excited about later in this draft. I'm just so meh on this draft's depth for some reason.
I'd probably name Aaron Holiday, De'Anthony Melton, Grayson Allen, Josh Okogie and Sagaba Konate as guys I would really take a good look at when drafting in that range. Possibly Ajdin Penava but he's just too tough to evaluate for me.
Not sure if they have what it takes for the next level, but Sam Hauser and Kevin Huerter could potentially develop into valuable rotational pieces because of their shooting and I love me some great shooting in the NBA. Still hope for someone to educate me on them given that I haven't really seen much of them this year. Same for Killian Tillie if he can get stronger.
Do you have a list of players you consider ‘locks‘ to be drafted before the end of the first round? This might help to see which players outside of those locks are available – I'm sure there are two or three players I really like that I just happen to rank too high to name now.
I get those guys, especially my bias towards Grayson. I think Grayson has a chance to really shock people with his ability to move off the ball and his ability to shoot coming off curls and on the move in general. But even then Im not seeing a guy with tremendous value, I see him as a borderline 1st round pick so I think his value is solid.
Compared to last year and I know last year's draft was really really deep, but I mean you had guys like OG, Jarrett Allen and Hart go mid to late 20s. To me all those guys were tremendous value and thats not including guys like Semi, Bell and Brooks who all went in the 2nd round and myself and many others knew those guys values were tremendous and they had steals written all over them. Even the weak 2016 draft I liked that 20-45 group much better than this year's.
This year I just feel like picks 20-30 feel like they should be 30-40 if you get what I mean. For instance I just pulled up a random mock draft
http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nba-daily-a-full-60-pick-nba-mock-draft/and most mock drafts look similar towards the end of the 1st and the start of the 2nd, the names just tend to be arranged differently. Again Grayson Allen at 27 is okay, I think his value looks a lot better at 37. Trent at 30, again value feels more like 40. Basically what Im saying is I just feel like this draft is missing that good solid mid 1st round talent and that has bumped all these later guys 10 or so picks higher than what their value feels like.
