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Per ESPN: Bjelica, Prince and Payne all among NBA worst heading into the season.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13710146/nba-nbarank-players-ranked-nos-301-400

So there you have it.

Bjelica at 301 is laughable and completely disrespectful to a guy that just won Euro MVP and balled out against a very good Spain team just under a month ago. I expect these ESPN panelists, or whoever, that came up with this list will look back at this ranking and go, "Well, we were wrong last year. Here Bjelica ranks in the top-150."

Camden wrote:Bjelica at 301 is laughable and completely disrespectful to a guy that just won Euro MVP and balled out against a very good Spain team just under a month ago. I expect these ESPN panelists, or whoever, that came up with this list will look back at this ranking and go, "Well, we were wrong last year. Here Bjelica ranks in the top-150."

Cam - I hope you are right. I like him, but am not trying to get to opTimistic.

I do think Payne is rated way to high though.

AB ranked 263

So top 150 would be 5 players per team if they were evenly divided. When looking at it from that perspective you have to be pretty damn good to even make that list, not great, but damn good. I can understand not ranking him that high given he has zero minutes of NBA tape to judge, but I think it would be safe to see him in the lower 200's and still be fair.

The idea that Bennet is at 260 something makes the case even stronger IMO.

TheSP wrote:So top 150 would be 5 players per team if they were evenly divided. When looking at it from that perspective you have to be pretty damn good to even make that list, not great, but damn good. I can understand not ranking him that high given he has zero minutes of NBA tape to judge, but I think it would be safe to see him in the lower 200's and still be fair.

The idea that Bennet is at 260 something makes the case even stronger IMO.

Bennett's ranking means this thing should be taken with a grain of...no wait a block of salt. Lol

monsterpile wrote:

TheSP wrote:So top 150 would be 5 players per team if they were evenly divided. When looking at it from that perspective you have to be pretty damn good to even make that list, not great, but damn good. I can understand not ranking him that high given he has zero minutes of NBA tape to judge, but I think it would be safe to see him in the lower 200's and still be fair.

The idea that Bennet is at 260 something makes the case even stronger IMO.

Bennett's ranking means this thing should be taken with a grain of...no wait a block of salt. Lol

Ha, I'm a Bennett apologist, and even I don't understand him being ranked that high! I'm not spending any more time on this list.

Oh look, another ESPN arbitrary rankings list (yawns)

I have no issue with bjelica being ranked that low. He hasn't stepped on an NBA court yet. Let's see him prove something here before we go crown him a good player.

Wow Kevin Martin at 156 seems low. Dieng at 154 seems high compared to Martin. Meyer Leonard is my choice to have a breakout season for Blazers.

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13731109/nba-nbarank-players-ranked-nos-141-160