Staff Fantasy Basketball Draft Recap: Analysis of Our 12-Team Head-to-Head League
Round 10
| Pick | Overall | Player | Position | Writer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 109 | Jusuf Nurkic | C | Bryan Mears |
| 2 | 110 | Julius Randle | PF | Brett Oswalt |
| 3 | 111 | Meyers Leonard | PF/C | Dale Redman |
| 4 | 112 | Ersan Ilyasova | SF/PF | Russell Peddle |
| 5 | 113 | D'Angelo Russell | PG | Brandon Gdula |
| 6 | 114 | Arron Afflalo | SG/SF | Brett Weisband |
| 7 | 115 | Jarrett Jack | PG/SG | Shae Cronin |
| 8 | 116 | Rodney Hood | SG/SF | Mike Comerford |
| 9 | 117 | Derrick Rose | PG | Jay Kim |
| 10 | 118 | Gerald Henderson | SG/SF | Jacob Kent |
| 11 | 119 | John Henson | PF/C | Derek Lynch |
| 12 | 120 | Andrew Bogut | C | Sam Hauss |
We're officially in dart-throwing territory!
Jusuf Nurkic has great upside in rebounds, steals, and blocks and is a great late-round flier if he can get healthy. Meyers Leonard is a big sleeper target this year, as he seems to have a starting job in Portland, and that could bring his owners solid threes, rebounds, percentages, and low turnovers. Jarrett Jack is the de facto starting point guard in Brooklyn with Deron Williams gone and is projected as our 82nd-ranked player this year. John Henson should be in for a bigger role and he and Andrew Bogut are good block specialists to target late.
Just how valuable is Derrick Rose at this point? From a fantasy perspective, he hasn't been a standard-league asset since 2011-12, but we're projecting him 114th overall this year. We hope we're right.
My pick: Ersan Ilyasova, SF/PF - Ilyasova seems like the perfect stretch four for Stan Van Gundy's system, so his landing on the Detroit Pistons could mean an excellent chance to revitalize his career. Prior to the last two down years as a borderline standard-league value, Ersan spent two years in a row as a top-50 fantasy asset, putting up big numbers in threes, rebounds, both percentages, and low turnovers. Can he recapture that in Detroit? I sure hope so.
