Hey Jazz fans, so now -- essentially HOURS from the draft on Thursday night -- there are a bunch of mock drafts running around, being posted, revised, and scrutinized. Last year we had so much fun leading up to the NBA draft. This year, not so much. That doesn't mean we can't still start to have fun. Right? The draft is ALWAYS supposed to be fun. To prove this point I took a good long look at a bunch of the mock drafts and produced a list of players. It is all the players taken at the #47 pick (ours), and then all of the players taken in all of those mock drafts from picks five ahead of our pick to five picks after ours. This makes a range of 11 players for each mock draft. Over all it became a handy list of 25 total players. To see who they are, and their info . . . click on below . . .
The 25 lucky contestants to be in the #47 +/- 5 Range:| Bigmen | Mocks: | Pos | H | W | School | Best case | Worst case | ||
| 1 | Furkan Aldemir | 4 | PF | 6'9 | 220 | Turkey | PF | Jeff Foster | Josh Boone |
| 2 | Henry Sims | 4 | PF/C | 7' | 241 | Georgetown | Sr | Josh McRoberts | Shavlik Randolph |
| 3 | Kevin Jones | 4 | PF | 6'7.5 | 251 | West Virginia | Sr | Udonis Haslem | Chevon Troutman |
| 4 | JaMychal Green | 3 | PF | 6'9 | 217 | Alabama | Sr | Brandon Bass | Brent Wright |
| 5 | Quincy Acy | 3 | PF | 6'7.75 | 224 | Baylor | Sr | Hakim Warrick | Alex Tyus |
| 6 | Bernard James | 2 | C | 6'10 | 230 | Florida State | Sr | Joel Anthony | Brian Skinner |
| 7 | Drew Gordon | 2 | PF | 6'8.5 | 241 | New Mexico | Sr | Kris Humphries | James Singleton |
| 8 | Mike Scott | 2 | PF | 6'8.75 | 241 | Virginia | Sr | Dante Cunningham | Luke Harangody |
| 9 | Eric Griffin | 1 | PF | 6'8 | 201 | Campbell | Sr | Jeremy Evans | Malcolm Thomas |
| 10 | Kyle O'Quinn | 1 | PF/C | 6'10 | 241 | Norfolk State | Sr | Ekpe Udoh | Josh Powell |
| Wings | Mocks: | Pos | H | W | School | Best case | Worst case | ||
| 1 | Darius Johnson-Odom | 4 | SG | 6'2 | 214 | Marquette | Sr | Fred Jones | DeMarcus Nelson |
| 2 | Kevin Murphy | 3 | SG/SF | 6'6 | 194 | Tennessee Tech | Sr | Marshon Brooks | Tarence Kinsey |
| 3 | Hollis Thompson | 2 | SF | 6'8 | 206 | Georgetown | Jr | James Jones | Bostjan Nachbar |
| 4 | Khris Middleton | 2 | SF | 6'8.25 | 216 | Texas A&M | Jr | - | - |
| 5 | Kim English | 2 | SG/SF | 6'6 | 192 | Missouri | Sr | Jodie Meeks | Robert Vaden |
| 6 | Kostas Papanikolaou | 2 | SF | 6'8 | 230 | Greece | Int | Omri Casspi | Walter Hermann |
| 7 | Orlando Johnson | 2 | SG | 6'4.5 | 223 | US Santa Barbara | Sr | Daequan Cook | Shan Foster |
| 8 | Tornike Shengelia | 2 | SF/PF | 6'9.5 | 228 | Georgia (nation) | Int | Andres Nocioni | Awvee Storey |
| 9 | William Buford | 2 | SG | 6'5 | 215 | Ohio State | Sr | Gary Neal | Rashad Anderson |
| 10 | Darius Miller | 1 | SF | 6'7.5 | 233 | Kentucky | Sr | Danny Green | Francisco Garcia |
| 11 | Jae Crowder | 1 | SF/PF | 6'5.5 | 241 | Marquette | Sr | Metta World Peace | Tasmin Mitchell |
| 12 | Kris Joseph | 1 | SF | 6'7 | 215 | Syracuse | Sr | Gary Forbes | Carlos Powell |
| Point Guards | Mocks: | Pos | H | W | School | Best case | Worst case | ||
| 1 | Scott Machado | 3 | PG | 6'1.75 | 205 | Iona | Sr | Earl Watson | Aaron Miles |
| 2 | Tyshawn Taylor | 1 | PG | 6'4 | 177 | Kansas | Sr | Jrue Holiday | Armon Johnson |
| 3 | Tomas Satoransky | 1 | PG/SG | 6'7.5 | 201 | Czech Republic | Int | Sasha Vujacic | Coby Karl |
Clearly I have a bias towards bigmen from Georgetown -- so I'm gravitating to Sims at this point. He is reported to have face up passing skills and is super long. If we are not going for a big, that Thornike dude would be the ultimate 'troll' draft pick for Jazz fans, if we go wing. Please don't pick him though. Similarly the 6'8 PG from the Czech Republic would do the same thing to us. Jokes aside, you can't deny a guy who's best case scenario is Earl Watson.
Who do you like, from these lists?
Special thank you to DraftExpress for the measurements, and other info (like best case / worst case).