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[QUOTE="dyedorange, post: 1245993, member: 3729"]
Yeah, I completely agree that Ford is operating on whatever partial info. his sources are giving him, and that ultimately he can't know each team's exact plans.  What I don't get is if NBA teams are looking at all these foreign players leading up to the draft, and Ford is presumably getting the pulse of which players are being scouted, why are so many of these foreign players not showing up in the mock drafts?  It'd be one thing if he had all these foreign guys listed in his mocks, but just got the eventual draft order wrong.  But these are significant numbers of players that just aren't showing up on his lists at all.

Also, Ford himself may not be totally up to speed on foreign talent, but aren't his mocks supposed to be some sort of aggregate opinion of actual NBA types that he gets his info. from?  Obviously these NBA guys are going to be pretty sly about whatever info. they give out, but there's a different kind of say/do disconnect happening with regard to how teams deal with foreign players.  Maybe, given that the foreign players are less likely to be on everyone's radars, team regard them more like trade secrets are less willing to talk about plans to draft them?

Don't really know why I care, but it's just odd and sort of irritating that the mocks don't line up with the actual drafts, yet college players/agents put so much stock in them.  College players are relying on this information to make a very important life decision, and they're kind of getting screwed.  It's like giving a kid the wrong textbook to study before an exam.
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