DDL (Decade Draft League) 34--The 80'sON da clock! Topic

love the debate about the Dawkins pick. I'm excited about where my roster is heading, but at the same time savoy is right in his criticisms of Dawkins - he is a foul and turnover machine. At the same time, it's the end of round 4, seems like a high upside spot to take him.
8/24/2022 10:46 PM
Jerome Kersey
8/24/2022 10:54 PM
Wedman was my other choice when I took Blackman. It came down to Wedman playing a lot fewer minutes per game so I took Blackman.

8/24/2022 11:40 PM (edited)
Posted by deer454 on 8/24/2022 10:46:00 PM (view original):
love the debate about the Dawkins pick. I'm excited about where my roster is heading, but at the same time savoy is right in his criticisms of Dawkins - he is a foul and turnover machine. At the same time, it's the end of round 4, seems like a high upside spot to take him.
Dawkins was the right pick. He may be a foul and TO machine, but to Savoy's point @ him only playing @ 2000 minutes, that works in your favor as you will have many more games where his FG% will really help vs games where his Fouls and TO's will hurt. Besides, looks to me like a lot of the big men in this decade had a lot of fouls and to's per 48 min--(and they don't shoot no 60% from the field.) And furthermore, guess who the winner of this theme last time picked in the 4th Round?

Plus, Darryl Dawkins can dunk and Danny Schayes can't. :) lol
8/24/2022 11:11 PM (edited)
How do you figure that Dawkins with fewer minutes helps? He's just as likely to have fouls and turnovers hurt no matter how many minutes he plays. And his FG% is not gonna get better or worse with fewer minutes. It's likely that the dropoff from Dawkins to whoever deer gets backing him up will be big, so the more minutes Dawkins can play rather than the bench can only help.
8/24/2022 11:28 PM
It’s fairly simple with Dawkins, just play him during the minutes when he is dunking and set him down when he is fouling and committing turnovers.
8/24/2022 11:36 PM
Posted by Midge on 8/24/2022 11:36:00 PM (view original):
It’s fairly simple with Dawkins, just play him during the minutes when he is dunking and set him down when he is fouling and committing turnovers.
LOL, why of course. Speaking of Dawkins dunking, deer better have a few extra backboards around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1J86HLTyiM



8/24/2022 11:39 PM

Darrell Walker

8/24/2022 11:48 PM
Posted by PirateSteve on 8/24/2022 11:48:00 PM (view original):

Darrell Walker

89-90 I presume?

8/25/2022 12:01 AM (edited)
Posted by PirateSteve on 8/24/2022 11:48:00 PM (view original):

Darrell Walker

89-90 I presume?

Indeed
8/24/2022 11:55 PM
Posted by PirateSteve on 8/24/2022 11:48:00 PM (view original):

Darrell Walker

I had a feeling you were gonna pick him. Great fit for your team.
8/24/2022 11:56 PM
Posted by beloud on 8/24/2022 11:56:00 PM (view original):
Posted by PirateSteve on 8/24/2022 11:48:00 PM (view original):

Darrell Walker

I had a feeling you were gonna pick him. Great fit for your team.
Thank You! Yeah he has become a favorite of mine as of late.
8/24/2022 11:58 PM
Posted by PirateSteve on 8/24/2022 11:58:00 PM (view original):
Posted by beloud on 8/24/2022 11:56:00 PM (view original):
Posted by PirateSteve on 8/24/2022 11:48:00 PM (view original):

Darrell Walker

I had a feeling you were gonna pick him. Great fit for your team.
Thank You! Yeah he has become a favorite of mine as of late.
He was my favorite player on those Bullets' teams in the late 80s. I was living in the DC area at the time. They probably had the most un-basketball-looking basketball roster of all time. redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted. Just a mess of a team. But they did dominate at the buffet lines.

*oops forgot to refrain from mentioning names of players that haven't been drafted yet.
8/25/2022 12:25 AM (edited)
Posted by dontburnearl on 8/24/2022 8:45:00 PM (view original):
Mark "Action" Jackson
"Mama, there goes that man!"

Anyone know what the reference is for Jackson's oft quoted saying as a color analyst? I actually googled it once but couldn't find a decent answer. Anyone know for sure?
8/25/2022 12:17 AM
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8/25/2022 12:35 AM
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