I like Porter. Ages 24-29 were his peak, averaging like 17/8, so you dont miss out on any of his best years. Great shooter, deadly from 3. Solid D from what I remember too.

That would be Rodman, the actual play is a 1:38.

Also, there is a line in my writeup that says Wages of Wins think's Laimbeer's better than McHale. I'm not sure I agree, but here's the link.

[edit] OMG I found the whole play with the melee that ensured. It's at 4:26.. Check out Bird chucking the ball at Laimbeer, that is so freaking awesome!

And wow what a pairing of AlJeff with Kobe. The thought of that completely slipped my mind.

I like the Porter pick as well, very versatile. And even in his decline the efficiency numbers were there.

OMG Seadood, quiet! You're going to wake up Epi and his raging wood for McHale.

KFBC had me thinking about this. Ideally he'd be better for someone like Timmay or Shaq, but I think having a real shooter down low will hopefully encourage KG to try and get closer to the basket. In the end, I felt that the combo of a great passer with the ball and great "without the ball" big man was too much to pass up.

Funny how all the comments on the article are arguing exactly what I was about McHale's rebounding.

"Pacifist Viking // June 5, 2007 at 5:32 pm

If Bill Laimbeer had played on a front court with Larry Bird and Robert Parrish for the bulk of his career, would he still still statistically be a superior rebounder to McHale? I’ve always figured Bird, McHale, and Parrish were better rebounders than their numbers looked, since there are only so many rebounds to go around. "

"Jason // June 5, 2007 at 5:55 pm

I have to second that. If there’s really such a thing as diminished returns for rebounding, playing alongside two other guys who averaged more than 10 boards a game for the decade likely cost McHale a board or two a game. In Laimbeer’s top days, he was getting roughly twice as many as the next best rebounder on the team. "

etc

You do realize that the entire point of my post was to compare Boozer to Brand OFFENSIVELY since you made the statement that Boozer needed a great playmaker to be successful but you loved the Brand pick.

In a later post, I go on to say that Boozer on his best day is an average low post defender.

And you totally misunderstood my statement. I said that the main difference between the two of the them was that Brand could block shots, not that blocking shots was the only difference(which you implied is what I said when you said "Its more than 'Brand has more blocks'.")

Love the Laimbeer pick. I was thinking about pairing him with Duncan, so obviously I like pairing him with KG. You can't watch this video and not like the pick imo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGrQ38-pp0

im going to be on lifetilt if my next 2 guys go

it'd be sweet if BigChips made a decision while Assani is around so I can googgogogo

Sometimes I don't know if you're leveling me or not. Here were the two statements that I was "bashing" you for(I guess you include posting to be bashing):


I wasn't "bashing" you for liking a player you havn't seen play. If you do research then its very possible to know a lot about a player you havn't seen play. I was"bashing" you for the contradictory nature of these two statements.

Hey Assani, I just edited this into a previous post. At 4:26, it shows the whole aftermath of the Bird-mugging, complete with Larry beaming Bill with the ball... then getting ejected. so awesome...

+1

If you guys don't want me to name players at all then I'll repsect those wishes. However, I've said things this way from the very beginning especially to Clark in round 1 when he was ignoring my wishes multiple times.

I do only for the fact that hes a weak post defender and that hurts you a lot in winning basketball games(although everyone constantly underrates its impact).

I don't think many people "benefit" from this system. I tried to make this system similar to real life and I think its accomplished that as much as possible(although as I said, looking back I wish I would've made the rule that you could get the player at any age you wished)

Oh and they are not sarcastic hearts. I'm being honest when I say that I love having you, HSP, and a few others in this draft. I love the off the wall opinions.....they make things interesting.

Can you comment more on this. HSP claims that he only "became insane" at a later age and that if he "got to him" at age 24 that he could stop the insanity.

Obv I used stats/logic into my thinking as well. McHale's ridiculously high fg percentage at his peak (short lived peak due to injury), McHale's underrated rebounding by stats because he was playing with 2 other great rebounders, his drtg being very low because he was guarding a ton of wing players and always guarding the best offensive player etc.

yea great response to my points about KG, I will take it as u agree to them, because if you didn't u would have actually responded like u have with almost all ur other posts.

I don't think many people "benefit" from this sytem either. But McHale is one of the guys who clearly does, and benefits the most in this system than anyone else who has been drafted already.

Do you agree with this? If not, who benefits more?

really like the Porter pick btw

I can think of three off the top of my head.

ok I haven't tried, I just wanted to have you rummaging up and down the draft to tilt you

I have absolutely no clue who I want and am going to be thinking it over for a bit fwiw. Sorry, if Laimbeer had dropped he would've been my pick.