This seems like a slam-dunk pick for me, there are some questions about his defense, but for my team this seems like a top flite lotto ticket

daro's team could get real smacking if ayton pans out

I took a STAR that fell to me through mishaps and chicanery. Haven't you followed what the elite GM's are doing? They acquire STARS.

Harden and CP3 didn't fit.

My team does fit tho, Lonzo is just miscast as a point. He plays like a 2. Pop would've loved him. BRAD plays a guy (who he's ldo likely to be better than) similarly.

Lonzo is miscast as a player on an decent NBA team

He's going to have a ton of dimes and defend the other team's best guard. Grab boards.

Again, you need guys like that on winning teams.

Harden and cp3 don’t fit, since when?

lol, before they were paired.

They were both ball dominant. I'm not expecting to convince you of anything other than present day tho.

Maybe they’re not ideal, most teammates aren’t perfect foils but two ultra talented players can figure it out especially guys with high bball iq.

Agreed, that was my point.

All these guys labeling players as "guard" but god forbid I have two guards.

You can't have it both ways.

I was high on KCP on my board.

Nice selection.

Pairing Juan Stockton with Kuz seems like a perfect fit.

Guard both pg and sg as well as wings and bigs are all pretty much blending together at this point. Curry is much more of a scoring pg or sg than someone like mark Jackson of the past.

Two point guards? youre lucky you dont get thrown out of the draft

Lonzo is definitely big enough to guard sgs. Much like Simmons can guard 4 different spots already.

He's big enough to guard 3s, especially as he fills out. He's a legit 6'6.

You can guard 1-3 at 6'4 nowadays.

I mostly think Lonzo just sucks, it has nothing to do with having 2 guards

I've been a hater, but he combines a lot of the skills of the guys who played on the elite Spurs teams.

gotta say the BRAD team really came together with ayton and murray falling there. unfortunately i think the real-life defensive output is going to suck a lot, but id say theres maybe a 10% chance that team is the best team in the league in years 4/5, which aint bad.

Like shooting sub 40% from the field?

10% of 2 years would be a disappointing outcome in this.

There are 5 titles and 23 teams so each team has 5/23 equity or about 21% of one title so getting 20 percent is slightly below average based on random chance. If you have 30% or more it means you’re better than most.

depends on how you're grading.

there's a few teams that have a very good chance of being top half most years, maybe even getting mostly top 8 finishes, but almost no chance of winning a 7 game series against the top 1-3 teams in any given year:

cousins / derozan / lowry
jokic / jrue / barnes
gobert / westbrook / jjr
capela / beal / rubio
dipo / wall / horford

are a few that jump out to me. (just my opinion of course, im sure owners would argue various upside).

the teams with top 7 players (top 9 picks, excluding luka and KAT) are guaranteed to be super good by virtue of having the best player on the court against any of the above teams.

if you're in that 10-20 range (which definitely seems like the worst draft slots), you gotta be be willing to take some risks if you want a chance of winning, because you aren't going to necessarily get a ton more value in the 1st round than the last few, and you're constantly picking behind them later on.

having a fighters chance from the 19th slot aint bad.

kanman/tarheeljks up

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...h6s/edit#gid=0

Not a single person whose opinion I respect thought that Harden and CP3 would not fit together. And it's because of shooting.

Lonzo, as a PG, can demand a little more attention. As a SG, he'll get left.

OK but why waste someone who can use his length bothering PGs and get on a big switching team by downsizing him.

I thought positions didn't matter? He'll be playing with Kemba, the guy who's a better scorer than almost all 2s, along with one of the few elite scoring 5s.

I was the guy who selected Capela and AGordon way ahead of these rounds last year, I'm good on my opinion. I'll pick up more value in subsequent rounds.

Draymond Green was still being teased about being fat in TZ after his rookie year.