IT2 going to force a trade somewhere he can be the man.

Pretty coherent team. IT was great value. Bit too much ball handling imo. Feel like Blake needs to get freed

Phone posting my final pick

Ill take the RPM darling Amir Johnson - $11,000,000

Final Salary - $79.7M

I'll get a final team post up later

I'm on the phone. Has ZBo been picked? If not I'll take him for a season

The best ~min salary guard remaining imo.





Spencer Dinwiddie
$1,524,305

6'6 point guard
4th season at 24 (started 18 games last year)
.376 from 3 last year
.581 ts%

Can I pick for mcbeef? He's picking a 19million dollar player.

Wall
Barton
Hayward
Ersan
Gortat

AGordon
Capela
Dinwiddie

~79.5M spent

Love spencer Ldo (Colorado). Methinks you could start him and play Thrill off the bench as well. Either way I like how you have lots of guys who can handle the ball but also play off it.

Good team, but yea I'd have liked it a lot more if you could have just gone cheap instead of Marvin/Fultz and wound up with someone like one of the 2-3 legit BH options remaining.

I actually don't hate dinwiddie for a gamble but man it really shows how bad some of these late min guys are. He's never, ever done anything interesting in the league during the regular season, so you have to imagine it's pretty unlikely you get anything real from him... which means you're probably relying just a bit too much on Barton, who I still like and think was good value, to play pretty real starting SG minutes. Still like the team, just shows how awesome it is to have your last round pick be a 20m guy. My arm hurts from patting myself on the back too much

Again, I really do like the guy, really. But starting Spencer Dinwiddie in a 23 team league where he's got no real sample as a rotation guy in a 30 team league... woof

Amir Johnson pick-- WOOF

SKAL

this is a good gamble, really like pegging random second or third year guys over first year guys as i think they're way more likely to break out and be real rotation players

$1,242,240. Sorry for lack of content, @ splash pad with kids.

He was the guy I was hoping would get back to me, though.

I'm not starting him.

He was a rotation player and started 18 games, he averaged 22+ mpg last year at 23 years old.

This is also an 8 man bench and he's 6'6 as a point guard (meaning vastly superior flexibility to other guys).

Also the difference between him and someone else wasn't worth the tradeoff in gap between not affording Gortat.

Look at my picks. Outside of the first two rounds I've drafted cheap every round. I chose Wall over Paul to have 8M more in flexibility R1 too.

Dinwiddie is more likely to be a positive player than most--he was a top 10 pick pre-injury and is now like 22-23.

McBeef takes Victor Oladipo - 21,000,000

can someone double-check the salaries?

I can fill in the blanks from my last post tho...

I think that is good, with $79.95 MM spent

Round 8

PF/C- Mike Muscala 5,000,000

Decided I wanted to keep my size advantage going and go with a big for my last bench slot. I needed 3pt shooting and the Moose shows some signs he could be a threat. Last season he shot 41.8% on 1.6 (110 total, lowish but promising) in only 18 minutes per game. I think we will see MM gain minutes left over from losing Milsap. Coaching staff apparently really likes him. He's 6'10 240 and played 75% at C and 25% PF.

Team MAGNUM
G- Kemba Walker
G- Danny Green
F- Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
F/C- Anthony Davis
C- Kelly Olynyk
Bench
G- Dejounte Murray
F- Luc Richard Mbah a Moute
C/F- Mike Muscala

Muscala is a fine pick and was going to be a B if I went a diff A.

I think that team is seriously weak at 5 against post play tho. A lot of Olynyk's D #'s are like Amir's where they're a beneficiary of the system/teammates.

victor oladipo is my hard-won reward for saving my money, an ok starter in rnd 8

he's a guy who's basically solid at most things you want an sg to be decent at, and prior to a major change of scenery this last yr, was progressing on a pretty promising upward trajectory as a good secondary creator, competent offball shooter, and reasonably versatile defender of 1s and 2s. he'll probably get a bit of a reputational boost this year as he puts up bulk stats on a crap team

final team

Jimmy Butler	$19,300,894
Jusuf Nurkic	$2,947,305
Serge Ibaka	$20,061,728
Tyler Johnson	$5,881,260
Dirk Nowitzki	$5,000,000
Justin Anderson	$1,579,440
Lance Stephenson	$4,180,000
Victor Oladipo	$21,000,000
Cap Used	$79,950,627
Cap Left	$49,373

pg: johnson
sg: oladipo
sf: butler
pf: ibaka
c: nurkic

dirk/anderson/stephenson

i think this is fine. i don't see any particular 'stack' that makes this any more effective than the sum of it's parts, but i have legit players that runs deeper than most teams, heaps of lineup versatility, and enough ballhandling/creating to make up for my lack of a pure pg


when you look at the chance to take oladipo i'm basically contrasting it with the opportunity cost of picking dirk and johnson rounds 4/5. tbh i'm happy with that decision - imo the talent curve was getting pretty flat at that point and in a no-salary draft oladipo probs starts getting picked around then. so maybe i bought myself a 4-5th rounder with that strat, go me

Lol Oladipo. Maybe worst value pick of the draft.

of course he's lol value, that's why he's available in rnd 8


wilson chandler strikes me as good value for charder

This was in round two, I think this has largely been proven to be true imo.

Soothsayer itt.

Agreed, I think he's better than Snell but neither of them fit my team. They're both good/proper value this round tho, (self-involved disclaimer) I think Gortat is value previous to this round.