WRG Mock Draft: #12, Charlotte Bobcats

It's not saying much, but last year was the Bobcats' best season ever. During the season, we felt like we had some real momentum. After all, it took us five long years to get to those 35 wins, and we've always won more games than the year before. When it was over, we were sure we were on the doorstep of the playoffs.

But after the season, when we evaluated our roster, we started feeling a little less optimistic. We have a hard-nosed, versatile wing who we think is an All-Star, and we have some guys who do a great job playing the roles we ask them to play, but what we don't have is a real star player.

Plus, our roster is unbalanced. We have too many small PGs and backup types, not enough size up front, and we have virtually no wing players.

Add that to our very real durability concerns about almost every player on our team and our lack of financial flexibility, and - Hey! What happened to that momentum? Ugh. We aren't better!

Man, why are we so bad at tanking? We keep ending up in the low lottery. We need a potential superstar wing to sell tickets. He needs to be exciting, built for the NBA, a prime-time scorer and elite athlete who can play in our system and make enough of an impact to give our franchise a face.

And you just can't get a player like that picking 12th, unless you are incredibly, unbelievably lucky.

The incredibly, unbelievably lucky Bobcats buck the odds and select DeMar DeRozan. (Who we would have taken much higher if we were one of those cheating tankers up at the top of this draft. We consider this our karmic reward.)

This shot probably didn't go in, or I would have been gone by now.

The Indiana Pacers are on the clock.

WRG Mock Draft #11: New Jersey Nets

After hitting a home run with last year's pick, Brook Lopez, we hope that these types of picks become the norm and not the exception. With no big men falling to us, we don't want to take someone who will be stuck in a rotation with the other youngsters that we have playing the 4, Yi Jianlian and Ryan Anderson.

We need to look at positional needs as well as players who can do certain things. We'd like to have someone who can initiate offense and take some of the pressure off Vince Carter. This screams point guard. With all the top point guards on our board being gobbled up before our pick, we are disappointed one didn't fall to us, but we do have other positions to look for.

We look to the wing positions and see that DeMar Derozan has slipped into our lap, but while we've had a track record of drafting from the Pac-10 (Ryan Anderson, Brook Lopez, Jason Collins, Brian Scalabrine), we see him as a long ways away and may never live up to his potential. There's one option that we like at this pick, someone who can play multiple positions, give us some back court toughness and initiate offense.

With the 11th pick the New Jersey Nets select:

Thumbs up for being a lottery pick.

Terrence Williams, GF, Louisville

Terrence Williams can give us minutes at the 1, 2, AND 3. We love his versatility, athleticism, and rebounding abilities. He's a hard nosed player who we can run an offense with and can take pressure off of Devin Harris and especially Vince Carter. He also can run like a gazelle and will thrive on the fast break with Devin Harris.

The Charlotte Bobcats are on the clock.