1 draft pick in the last 17+ hours

I too wish we could draft a bit more quickly, but another perspective is we had a hard time getting this off the ground due to interest. $50 plus the time commitment is a lot and I wish there was more interest. I'm hoping some of the things discussed on the council will result in improvements and more interest. For now I'm happy we have a slow draft rather than no draft.

Hopefully today is better!

Agree with jcred. I know it's frustrating but at least everyone in this group was willing to commit. We should be respectful of others' time but it's not a big deal if the draft drags out a little bit.

Nikola Jokic

I have albiband0's proxy and can take other proxies of people who draft before me to get this thing moving tonight.

sorry for the delay work was hectic --- more bored lords
Andre Drummond

albiband0 takes Hassan Whiteside by proxy

@tarheel1991 and @jcred5: I understand the sentiment you are trying to make and I have immense respect for both of you. But I think you are drawing a false equivalency here. Do we want the league draft to happen? Yes. Does that mean we have to present a nonchalant reception towards people having a cavalier attitude towards the draft? No. You enter into a social contract to actively participate in the draft. Do you have to draft within the minute? No. **** happens. Does the occasional pick sometimes take a while? Sure. Do we need to pretend like it is cool for the same handful of owners to regularly, over the course of many drafts, take several to dozens of hours to make picks? We do not. At our current pace this draft will take just over 24.7 days to complete. That is not acceptable and in my opinion far worse than just letting owners who aren't as poor at managing time/communications manage a second team if they want to... or even waiting longer to start to recruit people who will actually pay attention.

leagues that wait several days to fill multiple spots cannot be, you know, choosers.

end diatribe.

Karl Anthony Towns