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With the age change coming up fast, I figure it's time to take a look at how the new 20 year olds are doing. I've put together some rough rank lists for guards and bigs, to highlight some of the prospects with the best chance of seeing U21 action in the future. There are a few players here that also look like possible NT guys in the future.

For fun, I've put previous rankings (from the age 19 list) in parentheses. Keep in mind that the actual numeric rankings are still very rough.

Guard Rankings (PG, SG, Guard-type SFs)

1. Gerry Stavridis (1); (14641174)
2. Diant Stronks (2); (14640552)
3. Dwain Hadley (5); (14640977)
4. Thomas Simmons (4); (14641072)
5. Lucio Marchi (6); (14641614)
6. Antoine Robichaud (12); (14641705)
7. Davis Mercado (7); (14642202)
8. Taylor Cutler (11); (14640994)
9. Cletus Ryder (NR); (14642588)
10. Christopher Kumar (10); (14640708)
11. Gérard Bérubé (9); (14642258)
12. Ajaikumar Sharma (14); (14642168)
13. Christopher Gunter (NR); (14641946)
14. Junior Otis (13); (14642618)
15. Nadav Srour (3); (14641806)

C/PF Rankings

1. Scott Fitzpatrick (2); (14641357)
2. William Rivas (1); (14641556)
3. Isaac Masicotte (6); (14641292)
4. Paweł Niestępski (10); (14642615)
5. Norm Comartin (4); (14640812)
6. Martin Blackburn (11); (14642115)
7. Thomas Lacroix (12); (14642648)
8. Jimmie Case (NR); (14642463)
9. Han Baiming (NR); (14641146)
10. Kent Kent (NR); (14641680)
11. Giuseppe Lovato (8); (14641084)

Unique Player of Unrankable-ness
- Robert Blake; (14642071)

For the guards, I like how we have some really good high potential guards headlining things for us. At C/PF, it looks like we will probably lack a Moran/Mahmoud/Richards type monster in season 16, and most of the names on the list have question marks. Overall, it looks like a group that will be more outside oriented, but there's a lot of development time left, and we'll see how things go with everyone.

Last edited by The Mogul at 1/15/2011 10:13:10 AM

I added Han Baiming in at #9 in the big man rankings today. I had forgot about him a little bit there, and he's a nice looking prospect for the S16 U21.

Uhm where do you think Castro would be ranked with these 20 year olds, just wondering.

Simon-Pierre Langlais (17511206)
maybe you already know about him, just checking :P

Haha he is low in potential to even be considered for the U21 Team as a C.

That's not really true. Fitzpatrick has allstar potential and is already on the U21 right now as a 20 year old. He won't be a dominant player, but there's a chance he could make the team in a backup role.

but Simon-Pierre Langlais looks unlikely to make it just from a salary stand point...
15k vs a Fitzpatrick that is 33k and both are at 20yo
unless hes got an unusual build or super high secondaries (which is unlikely seeing how he's still tagged as a C and not PF)

and im not convinced his owner knows how to maintain game shape
but then again, our prospected PF/C dont look exactly talented in this draft class

... of course, im no U21 manager lol

Last edited by zmtomako at 2/17/2011 6:15:41 PM

Very true, I'm just pointing out that it isn't impossible to make the team at C with allstar potential as the previous poster stated. Also, Fitzpatrick made this year's team with a starting salary of 33k. It isn't unreasonable to think that Langlais will have at least a 33k salary to start next season, so it isn't unrealistic to think he could make the team. I don't know his skills so I have no idea if he will make the team or not. I'm just saying it isn't impossible.