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Originally Posted by Franchise 60
Some thoughts catching up:
I really don't like how you have built your team Tbach. I think that each pick that you've made can be considered a strong pick as individual picks, but you've created a team with a huge amount of risk. The correct strategy would be to surround Kemp and Hill with high stability players, and you pretty much went in the opposite direction of that.
Its a lot easier to argue that one high reward high risk player than 4. I don't know how you can expect us to just ignore all the risk on your squad.
See this is funny. We're only 4 picks into this baby. Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by "huge amount of risk" but Hill was very good for awhile, and during this stretch so will be Sabonis and Kemp. So I'll have three guys who can play 4-6 seasons very well, where my team will be elite. At the same time, Durant will be developing into a nice player, where he won't have to shoulder too much risk, will see what it's like to play in a very competitive and winning atmosphere and develop into a player somewhere between 'Melo and Kobe IMO (and Assani's IMO as well). So long as I surround him with other players who have decent careers, I've got pretty good prospects in terms of my team doing well in the future.
Couple this with the fact that he'll be young when your teams are old and I think I'm doing pretty good in this thing.
BTW, I was trying to think of why Durant hasn't been drafted until now, and it makes a lot of sense. Who wants to wait on a great player? That's why he lasted until the 4th round (although Bobbo actually talked me out of drafting him 3rd round). It's not because he doesn't have it, it's because to be competitive right away, he's not going to help you, unless he's your 3rd or 4th player drafted.