NBA Lottery 2012: Ideal Landing Places for Draft's Best Point Guards

This crop of point guards in the 2012 NBA draft is not as good as we've seen in the past, but there are some impressive talents in the pool of players.

Typically, a team is built around a point guard. But sometimes, a point guard can step in and play a dynamic role and spark an entire roster. The latter is the case this year.

Here are the three best point guards in the 2012 NBA draft and where their ideal landing spots are.

Damian Lillard: Toronto Raptors

Lillard is a prolific scorer, but that's not where his talents end. In his final season with Weber State, he averaged 24.5 points, five rebounds and four assists. He's extremely careful with the ball, as he turned the ball over once ever 8.3 possessions.

If he wound up with the Raptors, he would be with a group of players that can shoot the ball pretty well. Jose Calderon is a 48 percent shooter for his career, DeMar DeRozan has a lifetime percentage of just under 46 and Andrea Bargnani can shoot the rock.

Lillard isn't an extremely creative passer, but he is capable of driving to the hoop and kicking the ball out to the perimeter. The Raptors would have to alter their offense a bit, but it's possible for Toronto to become an extremely effective perimeter team, with Lillard in the game as a threat to both drive and kick out.

Kendall Marshall: Utah Jazz

The Utah Jazz scored the fourth-most points per game with Devin Harris running the point. Harris is an adequate point guard, but the ceiling on Marshall is far and away much higher than Harris' ever was.

Marshall is always looking to set up his teammates, and the Jazz already have two talented big men in Paul Millsap and Al Jefferson. They also have Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors on the bench. Gordon Hayward is a young guy too, and he has shown signs of becoming a quality guard.

If Marshall goes to the Jazz, a team that made the playoffs as an eighth seed last year, they will have completed a relatively young, promising core that could insert themselves in the playoff picture for the near future.

Favors and Kanter have yet to develop, but they are just 40 years old combined. You could see Marshall develop great chemistry with the two in the near future.

Marquis Teague: Indiana Pacers

Teague would be perfect for a young Pacers team that just suffered a season-ending loss to the Miami Heat in the Easter Conference semifinals.

The Pacers are fast and talented, but they lack a true point guard. Darren Collison and George Hill aren't slouches, but Teague would be an eventual upgrade over the two.

He's extremely fast and loves to push the pace. He also has good court vision, which would help him find Roy Hibbert down low. His one weakness, his jump shot, plays right into the Pacers' favor, because they already have a couple of guys—Paul George and Danny Granger—who love to shoot the ball.

He does have a tendency to play out of control sometimes, but he'll fit right in with Indiana in that respect. The Pacers don't have any glaring needs that would inhibit them from winning in the future, and Teague would be a good fit for them, seeing as they finished 29th in the league in assists last season.