THE $52 Million Draft LXXI Commentary Topic

Well here's what I'm working with:

PG: Rondo/Tinsley
SG: Covington/undrafted/Tinsley
SF: Erving/undrafted
PF: Davis/West/undrafted
C: Wallace/undrafted

Starting lineup goes 100/100/100/90/90 on D. Covington's backup at SG is the only rotation player with a D under 78 (and he's still over 60). Question is will the offense be good enough? I'm not sure. I'm going to have some usage issues if/when Erving and Davis both sit together (though I could try playing Erving some at PF behind Davis to offset that).
1/11/2021 5:36 PM
Posted by zora4preside on 1/10/2021 1:48:00 PM (view original):
Going with a 6-man lineup
  1. 02-03 Kevin Garnett
  2. 94-95 Scottie Pippen
  3. 68-69 Bill Russell
  4. 88-89 Mark Price
  5. 99-00 Gary Payton
  6. 96-97 Anthony Mason
Total: 18,992 minutes... Will use scrubs to mop up the few remaining minutes, but I'll only be giving minutes to these 6 guys under regular circumstances.

PG: Gary Payton / Mark Price
SG: Scottie Pippen / Gary Payton
SF: Kevin Garnett / Scottie Pippen
PF: Anthony Mason / Bill Russell
C: Bill Russell / Kevin Garnett

I've done the math on my six lineups...
Player Min Usg eFG OReb% DReb% Ast% FTM/PF A/TO TO% AvgD
No Price 13 108.6 0.504 36.0 105.7 92.8 1.5 2.2 0.138 89.2
No Pippen 10 103.3 0.512 31.5 94.6 102.2 1.6 2.5 0.138 80.2
No Mason 8 112.0 0.512 31.0 89.7 101.6 1.6 2.3 0.140 83.4
No Russell 6 118.2 0.522 26.5 86.1 106.5 1.7 2.4 0.132 81.4
No KG 6 103.1 0.515 30.0 85.7 100.5 1.5 2.4 0.146 81.4
No GP 5 102.8 0.517 35.0 99.2 91.9 1.5 2.1 0.150 81.4
W8'd Avg 48 108.0 0.512 32.2 95.1 98.8 1.6 2.3 0.140 83.6

Big weakness: Not a lot of 3's -- 403 3PM.. EFG% is not elite, but I'm hoping the AST% bumps it up considerably... Is the rebounding strong enough to contend? Defense, passing look to be very strong. Thoughts?
This looks pretty fun to me. Only question is whether you'll get enough of a bump from the assists to make up for the poor efg%. You're also going to be riding those guys pretty hard if they're going to cover all those minutes with six guys; not to mention you might have some foul trouble issues.
1/11/2021 5:47 PM
Who’s in charge of evals?
1/12/2021 10:45 AM
Posted by hoopsdude on 1/12/2021 10:45:00 AM (view original):
Who’s in charge of evals?
I think it's ben.
1/12/2021 10:46 AM
Posted by longtallbrad on 1/12/2021 10:46:00 AM (view original):
Posted by hoopsdude on 1/12/2021 10:45:00 AM (view original):
Who’s in charge of evals?
I think it's ben.
Yeah it’s me. I’m going to wait until I can see all the teams and then write something up. Won’t be as extensive as I normally do (super busy right now), but they’ll still be alright. I’m not as good at evaluating in this format as I am in the ODL, but I’ll do my best.
1/12/2021 11:02 AM
Players Position Usage% eFG% OReb% DReb% Ast% Tov% Def MPG
93-94 Nate McMillan PG 12.4 51.3 2.9 13.8 24.2 23.1 95 23
90-91 Michael Jordan SG 32.9 54.7 4.4 13.5 16.2 8.7 94 37
91-92 Horace Grant SF 15.5 57.8 13.5 17.1 8.3 9.5 78 35
92-93 Hakeem Olajuwon PF 28.8 52.5 10.0 24.8 11.0 12.4 100 40
10-11 Pau Gasol C/PF 21.9 53.0 9.6 19.1 11.4 9.8 71 37
16-17 Patrick Beverley PG 14.1 52.1 4.7 14.6 16.3 14.6 90 25
85-86 Jeff Ruland C 22.2 55.4 9.9 19.3 17.1 20.4 50 14

What I don't show on here is my distinct lack of threes. Could be a concern. Efficiency could be better. Love me defense and rebounding is pretty even across the board. I am interested to see how this team turns out!
1/12/2021 3:59 PM
Last season I thought surrounding Harden with efficient offensive rebounders was going to be a winning formula, and I think it almost was.
As of now, I have no idea if this Wade/Duncan team will be over .500 or not, and I am thinking that my uncertainty is a more positive sign than usual.
1/15/2021 9:15 AM
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