Hey I have a pre-season mock from Bleacher Report that doesn't really matter but I thought it would be fun to see where picks landed compared to pre-season
1. Chet Holmgren - Only fell 1 spot to #2 compared to pre-season. Not too bad
2. Paolo Banchero - Rose 1 spot to #1. These two pretty much held serve after their freshman seasons
3. Jaden Hardy - What a fukking disaster, fell all the way to the 2nd round at #37 after a rough season with G League Ignite.
4. Yannick Nzosa - Had a terrible year and fell way down to the bottom of the second round
5. Jalen Duren - Dropped down to 13th after a somewhat disappointing freshman season
6. AJ Griffin - Dropped outside the lottery possibly due to Duke being so loaded didn't get to shine as much?
7. Jabari Smith - Really shot up boards during the season to where he was considered by many to be the #1 prospect and the favorite to go #1 until just a few days before the draft when Paolo emerged as the favorite. Still wound up going #3 overall
8. Caleb Houstan - Fell to early second round. Not quite as far as Hardy or Nzosa but still not good
9. Patrick Baldwin Jr - Extremely lucky to get drafted by a great team and even going in the first round at all after a horrible freshman season and combine. Still dropped pretty far and I know some others had him even higher pre-season
10. Matthew Cleveland - Stayed in college
11. Kennedy Chandler - Yet another lottery mock pick to fall out of the first round entirely
12. Daimion Collins - Stayed in College
13. Peyton Watson - Fell to the end of the first round after doing nothing in College
14. Jaden Ivey - Shot up all the way to 5th overall pick
15. Jean Montero - Overtime Elite's disaster. I don't think he was even picked?
16. Dyson Daniels - Wound up going 8th overall after impressing in G League Ignite
17. Nikola Jovic - Dropped to 27th which isn't too bad once you consider things get hard to predict outside the lottery
18. Bennedict Mathurin - Wound up going 6th overall after impressing during March Madness
19. Kendall Brown - Dropped to the 2nd round at 48th
20. J.D. Davison - Dropped to the 2nd round at 53rd b
I don't feel like doing anymore past the top 20
Shaedon Sharpe would've 100% been part of this mock but people didn't know he was declaring this year
Keegan Murray wasn't even mocked in this round 1 at all and wound up going 4th overall.
Also no Jeremy Sochan or Johnny Davis at all