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Originally Posted by sergsz
Love the Roy pick. Injuries are a concern, but he has a very good chance to become a special player. A question about his D - his stats on D look pretty poor, but I remember liking his D in the few Portland games that I've watched, and I even remember an analyst praising it.
Just for the record, I disagree with just about everybody about Al Horford. He may have been a minor reach, but not Bynum or Marbury-level bad. I think 15/10 is about the floor for him when he hits his peak, barring injury. He doesn't have a high chance of becoming a superstar, but I will be very very surprised if he isn't a very solid player for many years.
I think Alex's team is my favorite so far. Sick offense, and with Haitian Sam and potential improvements from Big Al, the potential is there for a good defense as well.
I will be out of town this weekend, with sporadic internet access. I will try to get my pick in if it comes up, but it may take longer than usual for me.
I'm pretty sure Bynum has a much higher ceiling than Horford, - and I thought the Bynum pick was really bad. The point is that we're talking about players who have played basically one season, and there is so much uncertainty there because a lot of players have played over their heads for short stretches and even a full season. Look at guys like Terrell Brandon and Kemp Coleman and Petrovic, they're all different positions obviously but perfect exaxmples why you can't just assume that someone is going to have a long career and a long peak based one year, plus at one they were all far higher rated than Horford has ever been.
Marbury is someone who has had a mostly full career of solid productivity despite dealing with unfathomably pathetic Knick teams the last four years, with coaches and GMs who didn't give two ****s about trying to win any games. I think it's pretty much impossible to argue that he wouldn't have been a better player on my team with Barkley, Willis, and Kukoc, than on the Knicks teams that everyone is judging him on. The only people on any of those teams that have been drafted so far besides him are a washed up Houston, a washed up Deke, and a really washed up Penny, and all of them were gone after Marbury's second year there.
Last edited by HighStakesPro; 05-30-2008 at 01:40 AM.