4/12 First Round Mock

[Villanova1L]

Order was selected by doing a random lottery on ESPN.

1. Miami - Michael Beasley
2. Seattle - Derrick Rose
3. Minnesota - Jerryd Bayless
4. Memphis - Brook Lopez
5. New York - OJ Mayo
6. Los Angeles - Eric Gordon
7. Milwaukee - Danilo Gallinari
8. Charlotte - DJ Augustine
9. Chicago - DeAndre Jordan
10. New Jersey - Anthony Randolph
11. Indiana - Donte Green
12. Sacramento - JaVale McGee
13. Portland - Nicholas Batam
14. Golden State - Hasheem Thabeet
15. Phoenix - Chase Budinger
16. Toronto - Russell Westbrook
17. Philadelphia - Darell Arthur
18. Washington - Kevin Love
19. Cleveland - Marreese Speights
20. Denver - Robin Lopez
21. New Jersey - Roy Hibbert
22. Orlando - Jason Thompson
23. Seattle - Serge Ibaka
24. Utah - Brandon Rush
25. Houston - Darren Collison
26. Memphis - DJ White
27. San Antonio - Tyler Smith
28. New Orleans - JJ Hickson
29. Detroit - Earl Clark
30. Boston - Taj Gibson

[DanTown8587]

Good effort, but a few questions?
Why does Charlotte take a pure PG when they have Felton? Westbrook makes 10X more sense because he can play either position. They also need size. Why does Indiana take a SF who floats around the three point line? They need interior scoring (especially in JO leaves). I definitely do not believe Ibaka is a first rounder. And Boston already has Perkins, Powe, Garnett, and Davis in the post.

EDIT: Do like the rest of the top 10, especially Randolph to NJ because I think they are looking to deal Jefferson (mainly to get LBJ in there in 2010)

[ponder276]

That's some pretty serious talent going in the 16 to 20 range, especially when you consider how raw the players you have going from 9 to 14 are. Also, if Sacto are going for a PF, I don't see them taking a project big like McGee over a safer, more polished pick like Arthur or Love. Part of the reason people are high on McGee is because of his potential to be a force at the 5 (though he has a long, long way to go if he wants to realize that potential), but Sacto has Hawes at the 5 already, so McGee would definitely play the 4.

[NBAMAN2006]

I am not a raging Westbrook fan, but the Blazers dont pass him up IMO.

[SactownHrtBrks8]

I think Arthur or Speights over McGee... Hawes is the Kings Center for a long while, i doubt they draft a project center

[corwin]

Philly would love to have that choice of bigs. I personally think Speights, Arthur & Love will be gone when they select. I think Thabeet might actually be there though.

[BigSlam]

Good effort, but a few questions?
Why does Charlotte take a pure PG when they have Felton? Westbrook makes 10X more sense because he can play either position. They also need size.

So can Felton, so why duplicate what we already have?

And I agree - we need size.

[gswhoops]

Warriors don't want or need a defensive oriented project C...Biedrins brings pretty much the same skill set as Thabeet with better offense anyway. We'd take any of Love, Arthur, Speights or Ibaka (who I don't think is declaring) over him.