Predicting Michigan Basketball’s depth chart, NBA draft decisions

Michigan basketball’s roster has undergone some changes this offseason and here’s a look at the projected depth chart with NBA draft decisions looming.

This isn’t the first time that we have taken a look at Michigan basketball’s projected depth chart for next season and with more roster moves potentially coming, it might not be the last.

In the final days before the May 1 transfer portal deadline, at least for players to play right away without a waiver, Michigan basketball added a point guard from the transfer portal in Jaelin Llewellyn, who was officially announced by the Wolverines on Friday.

However, Michigan also lost former top-50 recruit, Frankie Collins, to the portal as he ended up at Arizona State after the addition of Llewellyn.

It hurts to lose Collins who has NBA potential. Yet, it’s hard to blame the coaching staff. For as talented and athletic as Collins is, he shot 44 percent from the free throw line last season and 16 percent from 3-point range.

And with Hunter Dickinson back in the fold, having a point guard with shooting as a major liability was a concern. Llewellyn (45th) was also ranked higher in the top-100 transfer portal rankings recently released by 247 sports ahead of Collins (65th).

Phil Martelli told MLive that Llewellyn is a point guard who can play combo, not a combo who can play point guard, so the clear path Frankie wanted to the starting point guard job was no longer there. It’s a bummer he felt, but Llewellyn should be a great fit.

Obviously, big decisions loom from Moussa Diabate and Caleb Houstan, who both declared for the NBA draft. Diabate was invited to the NBA Draft combine too, so there’s a strong chance he’s going to stay in the draft.

With that in mind, we make our depth chart predictions for Michigan basketball in 2022, which reflects what we think will happen with Diabate and Houstan later this month (the NBA draft withdrawal deadline is June 1).

We’ll start with point guard.