DHam Draft Projection

[Jerry1714]

Some would say referencing a site that ranks sites that ranks players is a lazy declaration but do you...

Is that your way of saying thanks? If so, no worries.

 

[B1GEast]

Late 1st. early second, will get a good look, has the tools

 

[nomar]

This is actually completely wrong, and I feel we do this every year. Look at the rankings, just do it please. This way you are not making lazy declarations.

But in case you are lazy here is just last year: NBA Mock Draft Site Rankings: The Best NBA Mock Drafts

Nbadraftnet is pretty terrible until the draft is close. At that point everybody is copying each other. And I don't know if 2015 was an outlier or, as you're implying, par for the course. Even if their final mocks are good, that's meaningless.

I don't know why anyone would bother reading it when Draft Express is available. They actually analyze players. Here's nbadraft.net's awesome analysis of DHam:

"Notes: Younger brother of Gary (University of Miami), Jordan (University of Texas/NBA) and Isaac Hamilton (2013) ... Measured 6'8.5 (with shoes) 178 lbs with a 6'8 wingspan at the 2013 Kevin Durant Skills Academy ... Measured 6’8’’ in shoes, with a 6’8’’ wingspan and 198 lbs at the 2015 Nike Basketball Academy"

You seem to get exceedingly irritated by people who have an opinion that you believe is disproven by statistics. (In this case, you happen to be making an unwarranted assumption leading to a faulty conclusion. Nobody cares about that site's final mocks. It's a second rate site and that's why most people view it as such.) You seem to think that everyone is privy to conversations you had with other people. Just $0.02 from a long-time poster.

 

[Hankster]

Unless he just plain hated school, only desires to play ball and is rolling the dice - I really think he got a real honest opinion from someone/people that he will be drafted somewhere in the two rounds.
Besides a few sure blue chippers, this draft is weak
Next year it will be loaded
Where will he be picked? - unless he has developed tremendously over the last 45 days, my guess is round two which makes his quest a battle to get some guaranteed cash.
I am in the camp that he should come back another year for development but I am not an NBA insider
I just wish him the best

I concur. I said before. 75% of the season he was awful, droughts, something on his mind. He showed signs of breaking out. However the last few games, the AAC tournament and a game in the dance he was fantastic. Would you draft a player from a few games? Maybe your on to something. School? Hopefully he didn't say he would play better away from the team. That's rough to say. He does need another year. My opinion only. It may be loaded next year but he could be a big part of that. Who knows, it's over and done.

 

[7774]

I concur. I said before. 75% of the season he was awful, droughts, something on his mind. He showed signs of breaking out. However the last few games, the AAC tournament and a game in the dance he was fantastic. Would you draft a player from a few games? Maybe your on to something. School? Hopefully he didn't say he would play better away from the team. That's rough to say. He does need another year. My opinion only. It may be loaded next year but he could be a big part of that. Who knows, it's over and done.

I think you have an odd definition of awful if you believe he was awful 3 out of every 4 games this year.

 

[Jerry1714]

Nbadraftnet is pretty terrible until the draft is close. At that point everybody is copying each other. And I don't know if 2015 was an outlier or, as you're implying, par for the course. Even if their final mocks are good, that's meaningless.

I don't know why anyone would bother reading it when Draft Express is available. They actually analyze players. Here's nbadraft.net's awesome analysis of DHam:

"Notes: Younger brother of Gary (University of Miami), Jordan (University of Texas/NBA) and Isaac Hamilton (2013) ... Measured 6'8.5 (with shoes) 178 lbs with a 6'8 wingspan at the 2013 Kevin Durant Skills Academy ... Measured 6’8’’ in shoes, with a 6’8’’ wingspan and 198 lbs at the 2015 Nike Basketball Academy"

You seem to get exceedingly irritated by people who have an opinion that you believe is disproven by statistics. (In this case, you happen to be making an unwarranted assumption leading to a faulty conclusion. Nobody cares about that site's final mocks. It's a second rate site and that's why most people view it as such.) You seem to think that everyone is privy to conversations you had with other people. Just $0.02 from a long-time poster.

Sure if you say so, and last year was not an outlier, they ranked ahead of draft express in 2013 for instance.

And yes I get irritated by people who make statements as facts which are completely unsupported and made up. You should too unless you are proponent of ignorance.

 

[nomar]

Sure if you say so, and last year was not an outlier, they ranked ahead of draft express in 2013 for instance.

And yes I get irritated by people who make statements as facts which are completely unsupported and made up. You should too unless you are proponent of ignorance.

No, their final draft did not beat DX's. They got lucky with an earlier mock. I was curious, so I looked. The point is that the website sucks, not whether you can make some kind of statistical defense of something nobody criticized. That website sucks, compared to DX.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

The ChaseinManhattan thread is cool off the University of Southern Cal hoops site. The 1 where he lists the odds of being drafted for those of us into those type of things...

http://uschoops.com/

 

[SteelCT]

Hamiltion a rebounder ... and a project

Connecticut sophomore Daniel Hamilton was a second-team all-American Athletic Conference selection, and was MVP of the AAC Tournament. He is also skinny, at 6-foot-7, 195 pounds. But he displayed a knack for getting on the glass, finishing sixth in the country in defensive rebounding (303 total), averaging 8.9 boards per game for the Huskies.

Daniel Hamilton's basketball IQ draws praise from NBA scouts.
And, he has a pretty strong pedigree. He has three brothers who have all played or are playing Division I ball: Gary, the oldest, a 6-foot-10 forward who played at the University of Miami from 2002-06 and has played in Japan and Uruguay. Jordan, who played at Texas and was a first-round pick of the Mavs in 2011 and is now with the Pelicans, and Isaac, a junior guard at UCLA who was a second-team all-Pac 12 selection this season.

Hamilton will surely be a long-range project if he's drafted, or even if he isn't. But he's an intriguing prospect with his smarts -- "elite IQ," a Western Conference scout said -- and his rebounding prowess, though he has a habit of bending at the waist defensively rather than bending his legs, according to one scout.

"I think he's got a real good intellect," another scout said. "He's got a mature game. Obviously, his family is pretty competitive. I think that has to be taken into the judgment. I was up there in October watching practice...he's not a wower, I guess. But what he really can do is rebound. I think he rebounds well for his position. He's not a super athlete, but I think he's a glue guy you can put in there. I don't think he's going to be a star by any stretch, but I think he's going to be a guy who's going to be in the league and help you."
-From NBA.com