Wildcats

Probably..

College seniors.
Landale, Acuil to united.
Cooks to Illawarra.
Naar, Moneke to Sydney.
Pinder, Reath to Perth.

All backups.

There's always room for a seven footer who can finish around the rim, has good hands and can defend pick and roll.

He will go late second round, play summer league and get invites to camps.

He won't go straight into the NBA, but will go in the back door.

Damion Martin is the best defender in the league, has been for years, Naar game is certainly not built on defence, so hardly like for like. Jock not 7ft either.

The only guys who might get drafted in the next few years ard Adel, Makur Maker, Green.
Not many nba level talents are coming through.
Players like simmons, exum and Thon Maker just dont
appear very often.

It's not like Saint Mary's are running a lot of stuff to get him open 3s....

To the anon saying Landale would be a backup in the NBL, clearly you haven't watched him play. Very similar to Omar Samhan who came out and was a decent starter for the Crocs. Would fit in well as a local who can sit inside with a dominant post game and kick out to shooters like he does in college. Then a team who signs him could focus their import spots on the perimeter spots

Colleges often ask bigs to play a certain role.
Bogut's big knock during draft was his defence
'Not a great shot blocker' - jay bilas
Utah couldn't afford him to foul out or get in trouble so couldn't play 100% defensively

Obviously they didn't go head-to-head and this was a few years ago so take it as you will, but my recollection is that Samhan was a bit quicker than Landale usually looks. Despite Landale looking in better shape, his game seems a lot more methodical and I can see that not translating as well to a pro situation where it's not all set up around his strengths. But #299 is right, it's hard to know what he's actually capable of given that St. Mary's only want him to do a fairly limited number of things.

Markkanen made him look very ordinary in the NCAA tournament last year. He's gone on to be effective as a rookie in the NBA so it's not like he didn't have tools, but Landale had a good opportunity in that matchup to show that he should be an NBA consideration eventually, and didn't take advantage. Unless he has a euro passport, I think the chances of him ending up in the NBL next season are pretty good.

Would be good to see some of this senior class in the NBL with the likes of Andersen, Forman , Loughton, Coenraad, Vukona, Penney etc all winding down their careers over the next few years

Well, they never drafted Delly straight out of college either, did they!

"The last few and the current crop to come through St Mary's aren't anywhere near the level of Mills/Delly/Samhan so need to take the rose colored glass of the program a bit as its a NIT/fringe NCAA team at best."

If you think that Delly and Mills were outliers for Saint Mary's, it's almost like they need to look beyond recruiting Australians if they want to make it out of the WCC and into the second round of the WCC tournament. They really need to land some stud athletes from California that would take them to the next level athletically.

Saint Mary's already lost two out of conference games already, against teams that won't be there when it counts. They play in a week division.