Way-too-early homer mock draft review

Written by Grubby | 13 December 2009

A quick perusal about the various NBA mock draft blogs tonight piqued my interest.  Generally everyone is expecting site homer favorites John Wall, Patrick Patterson, Demarcus Cousins and Tyler Smith to go in the first round somewhere.

My favorite is NBADraft.net, which has Kentucky's Wall and Tennessee's Smith as bedfellows in New Jersey next year (after hopefully 2 epic contests in SEC play this year.)  They also have PatPat going 11 overall to New Orleans, and Cousins wrapping up Round 1 to Memphis.

Some others of interest:

MyNBAdraft.com

Wall 1 overall, New Jersey. Patterson 14, Oklahoma City.  Cousins 23, New Jersey.  Smith 58, Boston.

NBA-draft.com

Wall 1 overall, New Jersey.  Patterson 18, Oklahoma City.  Cousins 19, Miami.  Smith, not listed.

FlagrantFouls.com

Wall 1 overall (seeing a pattern here?) Kings.  Patterson 12, Bobcats.  Cousins 14, Suns.  Smith 40, Bucks.

Bru's colleagues at collegehoops.net

Wall 1 overall, Nets.  Patterson 13, Raptors.  Smith 25, Celtics.  Cousins 26 Lakers (I'd love to see that work).

Also, there's a pretty comprehensive list here at The Hoop Doctors.

Is it SEC season yet? With 'Nova losing today, it's looking more and more realistic for both UK and UT to start conference play in the top 5.  Barring a crazy UT loss to USC next week or on New Year's Eve to Memphis, that is.

Image of the goateed Smith from Summer League play in the Pilot Rocky Top league.