Artsiom Parakhouski

Art Parkahouski

Parakhouski is largely unproven against other bigs, after playing for Radford. It doesn't help that when he did get the chance to compete against legit NBA centres, Cole Aldrich (and a few double teams) made him look pretty ordinary. Art can certainly rebound the ball, and he's certainly big enough. Other than that, we'll wait and see.

Art also suffers from the same problem that Kravtsov does - Semih Erden is signed now, and so the roster spot now looks unavailable.

Artsiom Parakhouski - The big Belarusian is somewhat unproven, despite his huge college numbers, because they mostly came in the Big South Conference. But his size is legitimate, and there is no reason why rebounding numbers would not translate. The heyday of the big clunking backup centres are behind us - for now - yet the league always needs rebounders.