Hmm pretty generous rankings when I look at it that way. I think those players are all below the league average for end of the bench. Freeland was ranked much higher than he should've been. Claver is a guy that provides value in some areas on the court. Freeland has been horrific. I expect our second unit to rank well, much higher than league 6-10 man average. That would be 151-300th place.
List currently at 356 363 Marcus Camby 370 Earl Watson 371 Travis Outlaw 372 Hedo Turkoglu 374 Jared Jeffries 379 Will Barton 387 Jeff Withey 393 Joel Pryzbilla 412 Allen Crabbe 422 Victor Claver 433 Ronnie Price 434 Sasha Pavlovic 441 Joel Freeland 487 Terrel Harris Gosh its a boring day at the office.
379 Will Barton 374/30= 12.5th man should be 379 Will Barton 379/30= 12.6th man and 370 Earl Watson 370/30= 12.3rd man No surprises in our 3rd team. There will be a couple of surprising rankings in our 2nd team--Leonard, Robinson, Wright, McCollum, and Williams.
15th man Freeland (441) is ranked as a 14.7th man 14th man Claver (422) is ranked as a 14.1st man 13th man Crabbe (412) is ranked as a 13.7th man 12th man Barton (379) is ranked as a 12.6th man 11th man Watson (370) is ranked as a 12.3rd man thanks, jlprk for catching the error, it's fixed and Watson has been added. The overall conclusion here is that ESPN thinks our 3rd stringers are just that, 3rd stringers. We'll get more details in the next couple of weeks, but so far none of the remaining blazers are 300 or worse. This means that our players 6 through 10 are better than 10th men.
I expect our bench players to be ranked in this order: Mo Williams CJ McCollum Dorrell Wright Meyers Leonard Thomas Robinson
What list did I see last night where LMA was #18 and Lillard was 40 something? Was that a different one? Edit: Never mind I see that was SI http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...zers_links_sicom_ranks_lamarcus_aldridge.html
The ESPN Rankings have gone down to 276 and no new Blazers have apperared. Here's a better way to look at the data: Blazer's 15th man: 14.7, Average 15th man: 14.5 >>>>> Net: -0.2 Blazer's 14th man: 14.1, Average 14th man: 13.5 >>>>> Net: -0.6 Blazer's 13th man: 13.7, Average 13th man: 12.5 >>>>> Net: -1.2 Blazer's 12th man: 12.6, Average 12th man: 11.5 >>>>> Net: -1.1 Blazer's 11th man: 12.3, Average 11th man: 10.5 >>>>> Net: -1.8 So, ESPN actually thinks our 3rd stringers are an average of 1.0 positions worse than average. For our 10th man to be a league average 10th man in ESPNs eyes, he must not show up in the rankings until 9.5*30=285. We're already below that, so things are starting out looking better for our 2nd string than our 3rd. Fortunately, the 2nd string is much more important than the 3rd string. note: I know that the average 14th man is actually 13.55 and the same applies to all the others, I'm trying to keep it simple especially since the error bars on these data are humongous.
#292 Channing Frye #291 Damn, the supposed future superstar Shabazz Muhammad #284 Greg Oden #282 Dante Cunningham Currently at #270
Update ("Down" to 254): Blazer's 10th man: 8.5, Average 10th man: 9.5 >>>>> Net: +1.0 ------- Blazer's 11th man: 12.3, Average 11th man: 10.5 >>>>> Net: -1.8 Blazer's 12th man: 12.6, Average 12th man: 11.5 >>>>> Net: -1.1 Blazer's 13th man: 13.7, Average 13th man: 12.5 >>>>> Net: -1.2 Blazer's 14th man: 14.1, Average 14th man: 13.5 >>>>> Net: -0.6 Blazer's 15th man: 14.7, Average 15th man: 14.5 >>>>> Net: -0.2 Already, our bench is looking better than their peers. ESPN slates our 10th man as better than the average 10th man, and our 9th man better than the average 9th man (whose not been chosen yet.) 10th man Leonard (255) is ranked as 8.5th man ------- 11th man Watson (370) is ranked as a 12.3rd man 12th man Barton (379) is ranked as a 12.6th man 13th man Crabbe (412) is ranked as a 13.7th man 14th man Claver (422) is ranked as a 14.1st man 15th man Freeland (441) is ranked as a 14.7th man It looks like they have a higher opinion of TRob than you and Eastoff do (or maybe they have a lower opinion of Leonard).
Sometimes, I love when I'm wrong! I didn't know much about TRob, but I didn't think he got as much exposure as Meylee
