Posted by mullycj on 10/26/2016 4:26:00 PM (view original):
budd - you are trying to explain this to a guy who's never even had a wet dream about an EE. As Benis said, leave the Spudtroll and his "background noise" alone and hopefully some day he may go away.
#nospudnovember is going awesome so far. Really enjoying it.
Btw budd- I think your posts are really insightful and you seem to have a really good grasp of the game and how it works. You see the big picture really well in my opinion. I noticed this during Beta. I agree with what you're saying regarding EEs. I've never had an EE so I can't say how exactly it does or doesn't work but what you say makes a lot of sense.
Here's my thing. It's hard to get a lot of really good players, right? Now with all the changes in the system, all of D1 is battling like crazy (or should be and I believe will be once we learn the system). So if you get several really good players it's not because you were gifted them or someone handed you candy, it's because you are a good recruiter. If you also then make deep tourney runs then you're a very good coach. Why should these things add up to being put at a disadvantage? Why should you be not be encouraged to make the best team you can possibly make?
Like you say, if you knew that the guy was a very high probability of leaving then yeah, you know what you're signing up for. Everyone KNEW Ben Simmons was a one and done. Not even a question about it. So yeah, taking him would be pretty transparent about the risk/reward. But if the big board is really that wonky, then it's a pretty silly system.