Players you like projected between 10 and 30 in 2014 draft

[JBcat]

There has been plenty or threads about the projected top picks of next years draft and rightfully so.   I'd like to see who people like projected to be in the range from 10 to 30 next year.  Say the Celtics do better than expected we could potentially have 2 picks in that range.

I'll start off, and I won't pretend to know much about the incoming freshman or returning college players.   

Doug McDermott -  I remember a couple threads about him during this past March Madness.   I watched a few of his games and I really liked him.  I was somewhat surprised he returned for another year.  Another coach's son I believe, and that seems to be the pattern lately with the C's. 

Dante Exum - It's only one game but I watched the Nike Hoop Summit, and he impressed me just as much as Parker and Wiggins.  He is someone I want to keep my eye on.

Dario Saric_ Never seen him play but I guess some teams in the top 15 of this past draft were disappointed he pulled out. 

Glenn Robinson III-  Am I wrong I didn't see anything special about him in the few games I watched?   It looks like a couple mock drafts arleady have him in the top 10.    I don't see him going that high but maybe I'm wrong.

James McAdoo- He was supposed to be a potential lottery pick after his freshman year I believe.  Wonder if he'll have a bounce back year. 

Spencer Dinwiddle- Don't know anything about him but NBADraft.net has us picking him at number 16.   I do like the name.   

I'll let the experts take over now. 

[syfy9]

Mitch McGary, Isaiah Austin, and AJ Hammons all come in mind.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

I want us to stesl LeBryan Nash.

Ultra athletic guy with loads of potential and a few red flags. He cam be fixed.

[rondoallaturca]

I want us to stesl LeBryan Nash.

Ultra athletic guy with loads of potential and a few red flags. He cam be fixed.

I'd want him just for the sake of his name combining Lebron, Bryant, and Nash.

[saltlover]

To the OP, regarding Glenn Robinson III --

The biggest critique about him is that he would disappear from games and play too passive at times.  However, he's a very efficient scorer and very athletic.  Also, he played on the team that went to the NCAA finals, had two upper classmen first rounders on it, and was playing out of position at the 4.  He's definitely someone to watch this year, because if he takes a larger role on the team with Burke and Hardaway gone, he very well could be a top 10 pick.  If he continues to defer, he still has the game to be a solid pro, but probably not an impact top 10 guy. He actually reminds me a lot of Jeff Green minus two inches.

[CFAN38]

outside of Wiggins or Parker Exum is the guy I want in a Cs jersey next year. He looks to have the making of an all-star SG.

[caron5]

I love seeing that Dante Exum has already been mentioned a couple times. This guy put up some very solid numbers playing against a team full of some of the best high school players in the USA.

He's definitely near the top of the list of players I'll keep my eye on over the years.

[Galeto]

To the OP, regarding Glenn Robinson III --

The biggest critique about him is that he would disappear from games and play too passive at times.  However, he's a very efficient scorer and very athletic.  Also, he played on the team that went to the NCAA finals, had two upper classmen first rounders on it, and was playing out of position at the 4.  He's definitely someone to watch this year, because if he takes a larger role on the team with Burke and Hardaway gone, he very well could be a top 10 pick.  If he continues to defer, he still has the game to be a solid pro, but probably not an impact top 10 guy. He actually reminds me a lot of Jeff Green minus two inches.

I think a reason for his passivity was because of a low skill level.  He has a long way to go in terms of ballhandling and creating his own shot.  If you're not a ballhandler, by default you're going to do a lot of standing around.  And if you're not a ballhandler and you're also not a shooter off multiple screens like Ray and Richard Hamilton, you're most likely a role player, hopefully a 3-and-D role player.  Those guys usually come off the board somewhere in the 20s.  His athleticism isn't a huge draw unless his skill level improves because there are a lot of athletic role players around. 

Everything I've read has Exum wanting to go to college, which would obviously take him out of the 2014 draft but if he chooses differently, I don't think there is any way right now he'll be available at 10 and beyond.

Two local guys, Noah Vonleh and Wayne Selden, might be in play around 10 or so.  It'd be nice for a local kid to play for the Celtics.   

[indeedproceed]

One thing about this draft that troubles me is that the picks 10-30 don't seem especially great. Sometimes, you get your high-ceiling/high risk players that pan out. Saric is one of those guys. But mostly, you're looking at hopeful rotation players.

This draft seems short on rotstion players. The anti-2013.

[saltlover]

To the OP, regarding Glenn Robinson III --

The biggest critique about him is that he would disappear from games and play too passive at times.  However, he's a very efficient scorer and very athletic.  Also, he played on the team that went to the NCAA finals, had two upper classmen first rounders on it, and was playing out of position at the 4.  He's definitely someone to watch this year, because if he takes a larger role on the team with Burke and Hardaway gone, he very well could be a top 10 pick.  If he continues to defer, he still has the game to be a solid pro, but probably not an impact top 10 guy. He actually reminds me a lot of Jeff Green minus two inches.

I think a reason for his passivity was because of a low skill level.  He has a long way to go in terms of ballhandling and creating his own shot.  If you're not a ballhandler, by default you're going to do a lot of standing around.  And if you're not a ballhandler and you're also not a shooter off multiple screens like Ray and Richard Hamilton, you're most likely a role player, hopefully a 3-and-D role player.  Those guys usually come off the board somewhere in the 20s.  His athleticism isn't a huge draw unless his skill level improves because there are a lot of athletic role players around. 

Yeah, I don't see his ballhandling as a problem. He wasn't a ballhandler last year because Michigan's primary ballhandlers were Burke and Hardaway, who both went in the first round last year.  His role in the offense was as someone who ran from corner to corner for the perimeter shot, and occasionally getting the alley-oop.  Sometimes defenders would close too hard and he'd drive right past them for a highlight dunk -- probably once a game.  The problem was this play was there many more times than he took advantage of it, but ballhandling wasn't the issue.  Also, physical defenses would bother him off the ball, and he did a bad job of getting free which disrupted his rhythm.

But the kid was one of the most efficient offensive players in the country, for a ncaa finals team in a defensive-oriented conference, as a freshman.  Playing out of position at the stretch 4 (he's 6'6" in shoes).  And his max vert is 12'3", which would be the best at pretty much any draft combine.  He's got the offensive skills to go with the freak athleticism.  The only question is whether or not he can be physically pushed around, and if he can lead a team.  If he successfully takes over now that Burke and Hardaway are gone, and now that he's playing the 3 instead of the 4, there's no reason he couldn't be a top 10 pick.  He definitely has the game to be way more than a 3-and-D role player.

[green147]

Saric, Isaiah Austin, and Kyle Anderson are the players I would love to see us grab with the Nets pick. Anderson and Saric are really unique players who could find a nice niche on a contending team (with Saric, think Turkoglu when he was good). Mcadoo will be a good role player, not a star. Exum will be in the top 10 from what I've read, probably the second PG taken behind Smart.

[chambers]

Exum ain't going anywhere past the top 5.

I'd like the big African 7 footer who's only been playing for a year or two. Joel Embid. Or the big 7 footer from Kentucky. Willie Cauley Stein, or Isiah Austin. All looooong, tall and athletic bigs with rim protecting skills.

[saltlover]

Exum ain't going anywhere past the top 5.

I'd like the big African 7 footer who's only been playing for a year or two. Joel Embid. Or the big 7 footer from Kentucky. Willie Cauley Stein, or Isiah Austin. All looooong, tall and athletic bigs with rim protecting skills.

I think that's a pretty strong guarantee.  Wiggins, Parker, Randle, and Smart are likely to go ahead of him, and all it takes is one other player to knock him out of the top 5.  Top 10, probable, but top 5 is far from a lock.  I could easily see Cauley-Stein going #5, for instance, if he puts it together a bit this year.  Teams will always take a risk on size, and a top 5 with no centers seems pretty unlikely.  In fact, I'm not sure there's ever been one of those.

That said, this is why this is a deep draft.  When you can talk about a top 5 with no centers as even a possibility, when most drafts have 2-3 4/5s or pure 5s, who are taken so high sometimes because you can't teach size, that means other value is going to get pushed down.  Exum and smart both could have gone #2 to Orlando this year, and one or both are probably getting picked in the 6-10 range next year.  The drop off from the top 3 isn't steep this year, except for the fact that probably those top 3 guys are each better than most #1 overall picks most years.  But that just means at #4 you're getting someone who is #1 overall quality in a normal year, and that extra talent keeps getting pushed down as well.  Saric could be available in the early 20s, when this year he probably would have gone about where we picked.  And next year his game will have one extra year of development.  We could easily get two NBA starters in this draft, and depending how high we pick, one of them could have the ability for a few all-star seasons to boot.

[BleedGreen1989]

Isiah Austin and Big Willey

[Eja117]

I think the 2014 draft was already the most overrated draft ever two years before 2014