When you trade up every round of course you'll team will be better. Also, I don't think you traded up every time for great value. Your overall team of course won't be as strong as others but your starting lineup should be.

In a way I see your point but I feel that there isn't much difference at all between the 6th round and the 10th round like there would be in a yahoo fantasy sports draft for example. I also think Deng/Butler were 2 of the last borderline possible stars to go, there are only very few left.

David West. Interesting team.

JoA gogogogo I know who you're picking so doing my writeup now

My team does not blow and the only mistake I made was taking bynum over Larry nance. Other than that I like every selection

Do the search, sucka!

Now that BigChips has taken David West, it's going to take me like 2-3 hours to get my pick up.

nah, I know who it is

I can't think of one thing I made up, please enlighten me since you made the claim that I did.

edit: infact you should have to name multiple things I made up, since you implied that it was a common occurance.

JoA,

Congrats

Clark

PS. Vote AGAINST coaches.

K.

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And I did. I told you, 7% chance of injury.

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Players improve at shooting once they get to the NBA. It's because of a number of things: 1) they take THOUSANDS of shots during practices. Muscle memory baby. 2) They get used to seeing different looks from teams. Experience baby. That's mostly it. But there's a reason that pretty much every player improves their shooting percentages throughout their career.

You think I can't look up stats? Look, anyone who has watched Cassell play this season, knows he's a joke at this point. Durant shoots more at a higher TS%, gets to the line more often, rebounds the ball better, and absolutely plays better defense. I don't think you could play worse defense than Cassell at this point. Also, Durant only averaged 1.8 fouls per game, pretty sick number.

WTF? Cassell plays PG, he should have more assists. KD plays on (IMO) the least talented team in the league. He needs to shoot a lot. The only players on Durant's team that had higher TS% were big men, and big men have higher TS%'s than guards. And there is NO WAY that Cassell plays better defense than Durant

And Bobbo, what qualifies you say that I don't know about player development and that you do? Was it the 1 year of basketball you followed? Is it the fact that a year ago you had never heard of Al Jefferson? Is it the fact that you became obsessed with basketball, but merely the statistical portion of the game?

You act like you have this great dearth of knowledge about basketball, but you merely study stats. It's not that hard to do that.

"Get off me, son."

David West is a good pick, another one of those last few borderline stars to go.

David west is a great player and great value at this point, but fits horribly with this team.

Youve already got The dream whos gonna get a ton of touches in the post, then you got odom who also likes to post and play around the elbow, and now west who hangs around the same areas ? The court is gonna be clogged up and your defense is gonna be super slow on the perimeter.

I think you should have gone with a smaller shooting guard type small forward similar to rice but better defender. Although I think by taking west you can trade him later on for more of your needs.


Also I hate the rodney mcray pick assani. You went way to concervative with that pick.

I think the West/Odom front court would be really intriguing, but like NPP, I don't like that they're with the Dream. If they were with Dikembe/Chandler/etc., that'd be hot. If you could get Odom to agree to never shoot, that'd be another story.

great value at this point imo

This is actually a really good point, I didn't even look at his team when he made the pick, but I def agree with what you said, very good pick in terms of value but very bad fit.

Really?

This is why this forum gets on my nerves, everyone uses stats to back up arguments about comparable players.

THE AUDACITY!!!!

Ya really

As I said in the writeup....great defense, highly efficient offense, and solid assist/rebounding for your position aren't always the sexy things. But imo thats what wins basketball games. I'm absolutely stacked defensively now. I needed a premier wing defender in order to have a completely dominating defense imo, so I targetted one. I had my eyes on others, but they weren't nearly as efficient on offense, nor did they have the ability to create on offense like McCray does.

I wouldn't be surprised if nobody considers my team a contender at first glance. But when you sit down and look at the numbers and watch these guys play, you realize that they're the type of players that win games imo.

I could be wrong, but thats my viewpoint and strategy.

David West is not an under the basket post player that's exactly why I picked him. You can run the pick N Roll with him and he can spot up from the 15-20 foot range and hit it with consistency. David West and Hakeem will work fine together.

probably not but we'll see how your other 6 picks shape up.

JOA are you picking ACG or was that a joke?

great value but sort of a weird fit. But I also can see it working. West is more of an iso-jump shooter, not a low-block operator like Dream. Odom is now a 3rd-4th banana which is just fine for his high ass. Defensively though I can see some tough mismatches, but also some very favorable one.

Alex, Shark, HSP anyone want to trade?

capone,

nice detective work. You win.