I'm taking a slightly different approach to this years draft. In the past as fantasy football ends I find myself diving into the NBA draft and taking it all in at once. This year I have decided to break down the draft in three (maybe be 4) positional groupings then in a few months pull them together in 1 big board. The first group I am looking at are the Bigs, this is the position that I think makes the most sense for the Cs to take a shot at with the hope of developing a future rotational piece.
The hope is that the Rockets 2nd round pick misses its 31/32 protection and/or the Blazers struggle and their pick ends up in the 31-40 range. Best case scenario the Cs could have two picks in the 30s. While star or even starters are hard to find looking back over the last 8 drafts every year yielded at least one solid 2nd round post prospect. To name a few 22 Koloko, 21 Robinson-Earl, 20 Tillman, 19 Gafford, 18 Vanderbilt, 17 Bryant, 16 Zubac, 15 Harrell. These 20 bigs are my initial prediction for who gets drafted, I have an additional 15 who I view as currently outside the draft. A few of these guy namely Brazile may eventually get moved to my wing/swing ranking.
1 Vicotor Wembanyama, generational talent
10-18 Kel'el Ware, lacks consistency but modern big who can rim protect and shoot
15-20 Adem Bona, Clint Capela 2.0 type athletic rim runner
20-30 Kyle Filipowski, needs the right team to hide him on D
20-30 Dereck Lively, raw project who needs shots created for him
20-30 Mouhamed Gueye, needs weight/strength but elite athlete
25-35 Azuolas Tubelis, skilled 7' who could work his way into a solid well rounded starting 5. Will be more of a team defender then a true rim protector
25-35 DaRon Holmes, stat sheet filler
25-35 Coleman Hawkins, could thrive passing and play D on a good team
30-40 Noah Clowney, young skilled big whose shot is a swing skill
2nd round
31-45 Trevon Brazile, was a guard early in HS then shot up to 6'10 out with ACL but a lot of potential may be more wing then big
31-45 S James Nnaji, raw physically gifted draft and stash candidate
31-45 Hunter Dickinson, great old school college big who has show ability to shoot
31-45 Armando Bacot, limited skill set but should be solid backup 5
31-45 Trayce Jackson-Davis, skilled undersized 5 if he projected as shooter would be in 1st
45-58 Drew Timme, just to good a college player not to carve out some type of role. Great screen setter and elite post scorer
45-58 Oscare Tshiebwe, elite rebounded who will produce if he can get minutes
45-58 Zach Edey, giant skilled big man who could surprise if drafted into the right situation
45-58 S Tistan Vukcevic, raw but skilled draft and stash face up 5. 20 years ago he would be a top 10 pick/bust
45-58 S Ousmane Ndiaye, lean ultra athletic deep stash prospect