Friday, May 24, 2013

Big Board- Tiers

This post is an extension of the previous post.  When many teams draft, they brake their respective boards into tiers, where they take the best player available in a given tier.  Here is the caveat though:  Tiers are organized by team needs.  For example, if the Blazers had a center and a small forward as the top two options in the same tier, they would take the center.  Likewise, if the small forward was in a tier higher, he would be taken over the center even though center is a bigger need.  I have not separated this into needs for Portland yet- that will come in due time.   For now, this is the tier breakdown (subject to change) that each team would have to organize.  Each tier is broken down by player ceiling. This is how the board would be broken down at this point:

Tier 1: Future Stars: (Last year had Anthony Davis here)
None
Tier 2: Future All-Stars: (Last year had MKG/Lillard/Beal/Drummond/T-Rob/Barnes here)
None
Tier 3: Good Starters, Fringe All-Stars
Nerlens Noel
Ben McLemore
Victor Oladipo
Otto Porter
Trey Burke
Alex Len
CJ McCollum
Tier 4: Solid Starters:
Cody Zeller
Shabazz Muhammad
Dario Saric
Anthony Bennett
Rudy Gobert
Michael Carter-Williams
Dennis Schroeder
Gorgui Dieng
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Tier 5: Fringe Starters/Solid Contributors:
Giannis Antetokoumpo
Steven Adams
Shane Larkin
Sergey Karasev
Jeff Withey
Allan Crabbe
Kelly Olynyk
Mason Plumlee
Nemanja Nedovic
Reggie Bullock
Tier 6: Spot Starters/Potential to be Solid Contributors
Isaiah Canaan
Tim Hardaway Jr.
Jamaal Franklin
Jackie Carmichael
CJ Leslie
Livio Jean Charles
Erick Green
Archie Goodwin
Pierre Jackson
Glen Rice Jr
Lucas Nogueira
Mouhammadou Jaiteh
Tony Mitchell
Brandon Paul
Tony Snell
Tier 7: Solid Role Players
Alex Abrines
Mike Muscala
James Ennis
Andre Roberson
Ricardo Ledo
Ray McCallum
Nate Wolters
Lorenzo Brown
Deshaun Thomas
Kenny Kadji
Tier 8: Could become solid role players:
Carrick Felix
Bojan Dubljevic
Grant Jerrett
Solomon Hill
Seth Curry
Myck Kabongo
Vander Blue
Tier 9: Draftable Players
At this point 58 players are on the list.  There will be a few players who teams like and will take from this list.  This list goes til #80 on my board:
Marko Todorovic
Erik Murphy
Colton Iverson
Zeke Marshall
Richard Howell
James Southerland
Ryan Kelly
Khalif Wyatt
Jamelle Hagans
Trevor Mbakwe
Phil Pressey
Michael Snaer
Peyton Siva
BJ Young
Norvel Pelle
Adonis Thomas
Brandon Davies
Oleksandr Lypovyy
DJ Stephens
Robert Covington
DeWayne Deadmon
Arsalan Kazemi
Tier 10:  Undraftable Players- Summer League Tryout
Most other college players.  My top 3 intriguing options: CJ Aiken, Matthew Dellavedova, Will Cherry.  BUT I would not draft these players.




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