Willie Cauley-Stein C Kentucky

[celticmania]

He is a 3rd tier prospect
1st tier:
Andrew Wiggins
Jabari Parker
Joel Embiid
Dante Exum
Julius Randle
Marcus Smart

2nd tier:
Zach Lavine
Aaron Gordon
Noah Vonleh

 
3rd tier:
Mario Hezonja
Willie Cauley-Stein
James Young
Rodney Hood
Gary Harris
Dario Saric
Jerami Grant
Chris Walker

4th tier:
Montrezl Harrell
 Wayne Selden
Adrien Payne
Semaj Christon
Andrew Harrison

5th tier:
Doug Mcdermott
Aaron Harrison
Kyle Anderson
Jordan Adams
Sam Dekker
Spencer Dinwiddie

Tier 6:
Isaih Austin
James Mcadoo
Jahii Carson

This is going to be a great draft .. I can see everyone  from tier 1 to tier 4 becoming  an all star. I hope we get lucky and win a top 3 pick in the lottery and select Jabari Parker, then take Cauley-Stein with the Nets pick probably around 10-14

[PhoSita]

Seems like he could be a Tyson Chandler / Larry Sanders type.  I would be okay with getting a guy like that in this draft, all things considered.

Would be disappointing to miss out on the guys with superstar potential, but I think that's probably a foregone conclusion at this point.

[Smitty77]

I'm liking this 19yo in Europe:

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Jusuf-Nurkic-7118/

And how about this dude, a young 18yo who's already rebounding everything and over 70% on his FTs at Indiana:

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Noah-Vonleh-6471/

Vonleh will be a PF in the NBA.  We have enough of them.

Smitty77

Drafting for need is what got us 3J and Fab.

You do realize that we have these guys that are PF's or could play a LOT of PF, right?:

Bass, Fav (more a natural PF than a C due to his soft game), Green (played PF in OKC), Humphries, Sully, and GWall(as he ages, he is slowing down and will likely play more and more PF).

That is six PF and you want us to draft another one Clover?  Come on buddy.  Enough PF's!!  Let's get a center that can defend, block shots, and rebound!!!  Pretty please Danny:-)))

Smitty77

[Smitty77]

I think he is a mediocre rebounder.   I see almost all UK games.   This kid vanishes a lot.  I would not pick him in the lottery maybe a late teen pick though.

Nbadraft.net gives him an 8 out of 10 on rebounding and has this quote:

"Has a good "nose for the ball"; due to his size gets himself many opportunities for put back dunks and tip ins..."

http://nbadraft.net/players/willie-cauley-stein

We could use a nice offensive rebounder and a rim protector in Beantown!!!

Smitty77

[Yenohb]

I'm a Willie Cauley-Stein Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct7J5sVoB68

[Celtics4ever]

Nbadraft.net gives him an 8 out of 10 on rebounding and has this quote:

Well we all know that NBA draft is the end of all matters.

Here is a stat line these are facts not opinion like NBA draft.

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/61842/willie-cauley-stein

Here are logs of games

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/gamelog/_/id/61842/willie-cauley-stein

Seems to get up for big games and take off some other ones.   His nose for the ball netted 3 rebounds against Baylor. 4 against CLE State too.   However notched 10 against NC and Louisville.   

8 RPG in the NCAAs is not future hall of fame material.  It isn't horrible either but it is not stellar.  He'd probably have more without Randle there.  Randle is a far superior rebounder of the two.  He averages 2 RPG more than Cauley-Stein.

His first year at UK he averaged 6 RPG  playing 27 MPG.  This was playing aside Noel before he got hurt.  I think he would be a solid pick for us but Moses Malone he is not.   

[Tr1boy]

Steins number 1 concern imo is that he not a good rebounder for his height. Better than fab melo but still avg about 8

[Celtics4ever]

If lucky he could be like the Lopez guy but that is a huge if.