heh, i'll give it to McBeef....aaron, epi, and bobbo are usually online often, so you should prepare to pick pretty soon.

Can someone change C Viggity to McBeef on spreadsheet please

estimation of when we'll get to me (7 picks)? Don't know how Friday night is for you folks. I myself have a 9 year old sleeping and poker going LOL. Likely to be tonight , or rather sometime tomorrow?

Boot him.

Bobbo: Moses can play PF. He did it plenty on the 76ers title team and is shorter than Pau. It wouldn't be too big of a deal to switch them depending on who we're playing.

probably tomorrow

im here

looking forward to it.

2nd round pick:

Like Durant pick

def like durant pick.

Blake def shouldn't of gone before Durant.

I think Durant gets hurt pretty badly by this format. His game suffers more than most from having to play against elite players/defenders every night. I had him slotted as a 3rd/4th rounder and think it's too early.

Had wet dreams about Bowens and I pairing Durant with Shaq. Looks like that def wasn't happening though. Def should have went ahead of Blake.

ygos?

you never really know...just check in when you can, and if you see you're up soon then try to send someone a list





I was deciding between Durant/Pippen/CP3 when I decided to trade down. Thoughts on deciding to go with Pippen out of those 3 to pair with Jerry West?




this.

I think a lot of the modern players are going much much to early.

Durant is much like Jerry West. Still think he went too high but to add another jumpshotting/slashing scorer would be redundant. I like Pippen so much better in every way.

I made a list of 12 anticipating my upcoming pick and Durant was 3 on that list. Love him, and I think he is a guy that would learn to pair well with a guy like Oscar.

Seriously this. Of all the NBA players EVER and Blake and Durant have already been picked? Wat? Blake has played what, 40 games?

I think it helps more that his usage goes from 32% to 25% than he is hurt by the good defenders he'll face.

I think this is backwards...Stockton is the best PG in the draft (with these rules, he's better than Magic) so everyone else is going to be behind me on the pg matchup

If I had taken a big instead, I'd still be behind kareem/wilt/shaq anyway at center

As it is, I got Parish so I'm still up there in the Center discussion and I've got top pg....basically i win pg matchup practically every time and win center matchup against all but 10 or so teams, draw with 5 or so and lose with 5 or so

I don't really understand why this matters. We're predicting how he does in the future, and if we predict that hes a 2nd round value then he should go then no matter if hes only played 1 game. Since I can't name undrafteds, heres a comparison between Blake and the last PF taken: http://www.basketball-reference.com/...ffbl01&y2=2011


I think Blake is clearly better when looking at that comparison. With the other player you get proven production in his prime years, whereas Blake is unknown. And thats why Blake went after him. However, from a prediction standpoint, Blake's rookie year is better than all these other PFs, so if he stays healthy its quite reasonable that he'll end up being better.

winning positional matchups isn't how basketball is decided. Stockton simply isn't a game changer like those who were taken before him.

I think most of us would agree that Stockton was a slight reach and that he should've gone around maybe 20 or so. That doesn't at all mean its a horrible pick. However, you need to realize that a big part of his value is longevity, so when just speaking about his peak hes probably closer to #30 or so.

If i were you, I'd absolutely continue your strategy and I'd center my argument around being the best team in years 13 through 20 in our league. I don't think you're going to convince anyone that your team is a realistic title contender in the early/mid years of this league.

Regardless I was just using Stockton as an example in the Rodman debate...wasn't trying to knock the pick or anything.

Some of the younger guys went too early, but I don't think Durant did. When you are elite at one NBA skill (shooting in this case) you really can't complain TOO much about it.

i considered durant at my pick. he has a pristine injury history and is nice favorite to go down as an all time great scorer. i see him having a dirk like career statistically, but at the 3, so his lack of rebounding is a positive rather than negative.