Predicting Michigan Basketball’s depth chart, NBA draft decisions

Point guard: Jaelin Llewellyn, Dug McDaniel

There is good reason to believe Llewellyn will be the starting point guard. He was a former top-100 recruit and averaged more than 15 a game in each of the past two seasons for Princeton, as well as shooting over 31 percent from 3-point range (38 percent last season).

Llewellyn wasn’t a great distributor at Princeton, but he’ll have more options around him at Michigan, instead of being the top scoring threat. He’s effective in ball-screen situations and is a really good passer too.

Llewellyn can also score in a bunch of different ways and his shooting ability at the point guard position is a definite plus. That being said, don’t expect Dug McDaniel to give it up without a fight.

If McDaniel was a little taller, he’d easily be ranked higher than 70th overall in the 247 sports composite rankings. But Mike Smith excelled for Michigan and he was 5-foot-nothing so I’m not worried about McDaniel at all.

He’s an electric athlete and a big-time high school quarterback too. The guy is a winner and a true facilitator who can also shoot the ball and attack the basket.

Obviously, he’ll have to learn to score around college size, especially in the Big Ten, but hopefully, he can gain some valuable experience this season and finally put an end to the transfer cycle of point guards in 2023-24.