JustBBall 2007 Mock Draft v1.0

So is OJ Mayo class of '08? I thought he was 17 already so he should be in this draft or does he have to go to high school for an extra year or something?

 

shape i think you're wrong.... the actual rule is that you have to be 19, OR 1 year removed from your graduating class. he'd be 1 year removed from his class when the draf rolls around... i think...

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post"><div align="center">JBB 2007 Mock Draft</div>

<u>Round 1</u>

1) - Greg Oden - Ohio State
2) - Josh McRoberts - Duke
3) - Yi Jianlian - China
4) - Thaddeus Young - Ohio State
5) - Kevin Durant - Texas
6) - Julian Wright - Kansas
7) - Shannon Brown - Michigan State
8) - Tim Ohlbrecht - Germany
9) - Spencer Hawes - High School
10) - Daniel Gibson - Texas
11) - Darius Washington, Jr. - Memphis
12) - Malik Hairston - Oregon
13) - C.J. Giles - Kansas
14) - Roman Gumenyuk - Ukraine
15) - Rajon Rondo - Kentucky
16) - Daequan Cook - Ohio State
17) - Paul Harris - High School
18) - Al Horford - Florida
19) - Derrick Caracter - High School
20) - Leon Powe - California Berkeley
21) - Mustafa Shakur - Arizona
22) - Magnum Rolle - Florida State
23) - Marcus Williams - UCONN
24) - Damjan Rudez - Croatia
25) - Paul Millsap - Louisiana Tech
26) - J.R. Giddens - New Mexico
27) - Marco Belinelli - Italy
28) - Shagari Alleyne - Kentucky
29) - Courtney Sims - Michigan
30) - Shawne Williams - Memphis</div>
Yi Jianlian was born in 1984. He'll be automaticly eligible in 2006. However, he won't go that high in any draft.

Are you sure about ranking Tim Ohlbrecht at #8?

Where is Ludovic Vaty?

 

Who is that guy from China? Is he like the next Yao or something.

 

Yi Jianlian is projected to be around 7'2" when he stops growing but the next Yao, I don't think so. Because of Yi's athletic ability, he will actually be able to play either the three or the four in the league (think Dirk). I must say he is rail thin though, and he will probably need to put on the pounds if he wants to be a top five pick.

 

Yi Jianlian stopped growing about two years ago. He's 20 now. He won't be the next Yao or anything.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Of course, since the age limit comes into effect, the high school players who would have declared for 2006, now get pushed back a year and become eligible in 2007.</div>

this is true, but it's also the players like shannon brown and rondo that make that draft look very nice. Had the rule not taken effect I believe quite a few of these players would still have gone to college, such as Oden who says he would like to play more than a year or two at OSU.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">9) - Spencer Hawes - High School</div>

I thought High Schoolers couldn't declare anymore?

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting bender:</div><div class="quote_post">Yi Jianlian stopped growing about two years ago. He's 20 now. He won't be the next Yao or anything.</div>

You don't stop growing till your 25

and Yi is a prospect because of his atheleism and skill. He has good size, he doesnt have to be 7"5.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting j0se:</div><div class="quote_post">You don't stop growing till your 25</div>


Since when?

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting playmaker31:</div><div class="quote_post">Who is that guy from China? Is he like the next Yao or something.</div>

Think of a more frail Dirk Nowitzki with Freakish athleticsm

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I thought High Schoolers couldn't declare anymore?</div>

He's in HS currently and is going into his senior year.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Banks:</div><div class="quote_post">Think of a more frail Dirk Nowitzki with Freakish athleticsm



He's in HS currently and is going into his senior year.</div>

He's more of a C than Dirk
http://www.elitedraft.net/yijianlian.html

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting j0se:</div><div class="quote_post">You don't stop growing till your 25

and Yi is a prospect because of his atheleism and skill. He has good size, he doesnt have to be 7"5.</div>

Iv'e never heard of someone growing at that age.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting j0se:</div><div class="quote_post">He's more of a C than Dirk
http://www.elitedraft.net/yijianlian.html</div>

Yeah I know who he is...I didn't say he was Dirk, obviously their games are different, it's just the closest comparasion.

 

Are you kidding? A guy went to france when he was 8, didn't get the right foods, moved back when he was 19, he was 5'4", He grew to 6'4" when he was 25 years old.

 

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting bender:</div><div class="quote_post">Yi Jianlian was born in 1984. He'll be automaticly eligible in 2006. However, he won't go that high in any draft.</div>

Jianlian's age was actually something we discussed when making the mock drafts, and the most recent source on the topic that we could find was the following article -

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The inevitable question: What?s Yi?s real age? 17 or 19? When the Chinese NT team published their roster a month ago. Yi was list as born at 1984. This news made a lot of noise even in the US media. When questioned by reporters, the director of the NT team, Gong Lumin was quoted ?It may be a typo.? and offered no further explanation. It was reported that the NT team has already changed the official roster info and Yi?s 1987 again. Rumors swirl around China that Yi?s birth year can be anywhere from 84 to 86. Some sources claimed that Yi?s parents got married in 1985. Considering having children before marriage was extremely rare in China at the 80?s, Yi must be born at 1985 or later.

The biggest complication is how the NBA will deal with his age. If they determine he is born in 1984, he is then eligible to enter the next (2005) draft, and he will automatically become eligible for the 2006 draft due to turning 22 in that year.

If the NBA determines he's born in 1987, he will have an additional 3 years to decide when to enter the draft, and would not be automatically eligible until the 2009 draft.

Whether or not Yi is actually born in 1984 or 1987, he will likely be a top 5 pick in the draft, and has a legitimate shot to go first whenever he enters the draft.</div>

Link

With no other knowledge on Yi Jianlian's true age, we assumed that Jianlian's age would be changed to whatever was the most convenient for him at the time (just like Ilyasova did), and with the new CBA in place, the 2007 draft is very convenient for him. If you have any additional information on his official age, please pass it on, because we're aiming to become more accurate in predicting the stocks of international players. As for his draft stock, we have him projected in a deep draft, so I can understand why you feel he wouldn't go that high, but other than that, I see no reason to doubt his abilities. He's weak, but as a smooth 7-0 athletic freak that can play both Forward positions as well as Center, he's bound to get interest as a top pick.

I'm fine with where we have Ohlbrecht for now simply because I feel the top seven players are just more talented. He's a great prospect, and I acknowledge that he could be a top pick in the future, but right now I don't see any reason that we should put him over Julian Wright and Kevin Durant. As for Vaty, we excluded him because he was born in 1988, so he has the option of declaring as late as 2010. We could have put him in there, but it would be cheating our readers, because there are many international players like him that we just don't have the resources to scout yet. We've seen all of the college and all of the High School players play, we've seen a select few of these international players play, and we like to think of ourselves as very knowledgable about these prospects, but at the end of the day, this is just a mock draft by the fans for the fans, and we won't be getting paid nor offered the resources to scout these international players.

 

I like that one
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Whether or not Yi is actually born in 1984 or 1987, he will likely be a top 5 pick in the draft, and has a legitimate shot to go first whenever he enters the draft.</div>
Kinda reminds me of
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">(3) NAME OF THE WEEK

Samba Gueye

There's a player in Africa who could spur wide-spread popularity of the NBA there--6-9 Senegalese forward Samba Gueye, who is 16 but already is wowing scouts with his athleticism and his 7-5 wingspan. Gueye has committed to Southern California. "He's unbelievable," says one international scout. "I'd be shocked if he is not top three in the draft (in 2005). I'd be blown away if he actually winds up (at USC)."--Sean Deveney, TSN Sep. 22, 2003</div>


Yi is 20+, book it. And that reduces his upside enormously.

 

here is how ji looks like.