Note - this was done before Luke Ridnour’s injury and competition from Earl Watson, he probably get bumped down a couple of rounds until that shakes out.

Team L: David West (Iverson, Bosh, Marbury, Stojakovic, Bogut)
Team K: Mike Miller (Allen, Duncan, G. Wallace, Hinrich, S. O’Neal)
Team J: Adam Morrison (Pierce, Nash, R. Wallace, Camby, A Harrington)
Team I: Chris Kaman (Ming, Paul, Lewis, Jefferson, J. Nelson)
Team H: Luke Ridnour (Arenas, Kirilenko, Artest, D. Howard, Battier)
Team G: Rafer Alston (Brand, V. Carter, Diaw, Felton, C. Butler)
Team F: Mike James (Wade, J. O’Neal, B. Miller, Terry, Iguodala)
Team E: Charlie Villanueva (Nowitzki, McGrady, Redd, Okur, B. Davis)
Team D: Larry Hughes (Garnett, Kidd, Anthony, Boozer, Jamison)
Team C: Troy Murphy (Stoudemire, Bryant, Bibby, Webber, A. Miller)
Team B: Ricky Davis (Marion, Joe Johnson, J. Richardson, Josh Smith, Okafor)
Team A: Richard Hamilton (LeBron, Billups, Odom, Ilgauskas, B. Wallace)

So here we are, six rounds into the draft, which is where we’ll stop.  I’ll do a little team by team analysis and see what we can learn:

Team A, honestly, looks great.  They might be the best team in the leaue right now.  Every statistical category has at least 2 studs in it, there’s not much injury risk, and they’ve got strength at both of the scarcity positions.

Team B went with three question marks in a row - Richardson (injury risk), Smith (can he do it at a 4th round value?) and Okafor (can he do it at all?).  They’ve got no depth at C and Joe Johnson is the only guy who qualifies at PG and the only source of assists.  You’ve got to pair Marion with some strong assist guys - in retrospect he probably should have gone with Bibby in the third over Richardson.

Team C will be looking for size the next few rounds, in fact they already started here with Murphy, and that’s fine.  They’ve got as solid a backcourt as you’ll find, so depth up front will be the focus moving forward.  That way Amare and Webber being healthy is more of a bonus than a necessity.

Team D is also pretty strong right now.  They’ve got some nice balance and they didn’t take a big risk until the 6th round, playing it conservatively and generally taking the best player available.  That strategy seemed to work out pretty well for them.

Team E is not looking too great.  They took high-risk players in the 2nd and 5th rounds, and maybe pulled the trigger too early on Villanueva.  Redd and Okur are good complimentary players but they look a lot better surrounded by sure things, and that’s not the case here.

Team F did a fantastic job of matching up his third and fourth round picks with his top two picks.  Miller is a great value at center if you can make up for his blocks, which Wade and O’Neal do.  Then, with almost no threes out of his first three picks he took a few players who all contribute there with his next three picks.  He, too, didn’t do much risk-taking and came out with a nice team.

Team G did a great job of matching some risks with some safe bets.  You’ve got three sure things in Brand, Carter and Butler, and both Diaw and Felton could perform better than where they were drafted, and if they don’t, it won’t be a disaster.  I think he could have gone with Hamilton in the sixth as another sure thing, but that’s just me.

Team H, like Team G, matched some risks with some sure things, his risks just came a round earlier, in 2 and 3.  I still love the Battier pick even with Bonzi Wells around, and I’m assuming that Ridnour would be replaced by either James or Alston at this point.

Team I might be my second favorite team behind Team A as long as Yao is healthy.  2 good centers, 2 great point guards (with Nelson potentially being a breakout), and two solid-as-they-come guys in the middle of the lineup.

Team J could fall in to the trap of having to deal with some pretty awful centers if they don’t take some mid-level ones pretty quickly.  I like the Morrison pick here as far as value but I think Kaman would have been a much better pickup for this team.

Team K, well, I’ve said my piece about Ray Allen and the FT%.  He’s also got three injury risks in Wallace, Duncan and O’Neal and will really need to find some gems in the late rounds to really compete.

Team L, taking into account that Bogut probably wouldn’t be picked now, is my other favorite team, up there right next to Team I but slightly behind Team A.  I guess there’s just something to be said for picking at the end of the snake, as Teams L and A both are looking great.  Bosh and Marbury are two of my favorite picks in this whole mock, considering where they were picked, Iverson is a stud and David West should be solid this year again. 

So there you have it, the 2006 FBB mock draft.  Can’t wait till next year.