Round 7, Pick 250 - PF/C Antonio Davis
With this pick I'm getting a good frontcourt sub with a long career, very good physical presence/defense, very good rebounding and high efficiency offense - until he was about 32 anyway. Part of this was due to natural decline due to age, part of it was being on a Toronto team which had no other frontcourt threats.
In any event, Davis will be my primary frontcourt reserve since he can sub for either Rasheed or Chandler. When I have both him and Chandler on the court at the same time, offensive spacing will suffer somewhat because his mid-range game is mediocre and Chandler's is non-existant, allowing defenses to clog the lane to much greater effect than when Rasheed is in. With Rasheed and Davis in, my interior defense will suffer because while both Sheed and Davis are good post defenders, neither has elite size.
As to the good that Davis brings: I will be using him in exactly the role he played in Indiana behind Smits and Dale Davis, so I fully expect the type of production that he exhibited in Indiana. I also think that his addition gives me one of the most continuously tough frontlines in the league, experiencing less decline in rebounding and interior D than most when either starting PF or C is on the bench. Finally, his long and productive career (25 to 37) gives me a frontline that should go for a long long time in this league, with Sheed still playing well @ 33 and Chandler exhibiting signs that he will be a very durable center as well.
cowboy2579 team so far:
PG - Gary Payton
SG - Nick Anderson
SF - Larry Johnson
PF - Rasheed Wallace
C - Tyson Chandler
Bench:
SF/PF - Antoine Walker
PF/C - Antonio Davis