My thought process every time Pex picks:

”Whoa! What a reach! What idiot picked him this early?!”

*looks at user name*

”oh. He must know something about Toni Kukoc that we don’t....maybe I should’ve drafted Kukoc...”

Posted by dBKC on 11/3/2020 7:41:00 PM (view original):
My thought process every time Pex picks:

”Whoa! What a reach! What idiot picked him this early?!”

*looks at user name*

”oh. He must know something about Toni Kukoc that we don’t....maybe I should’ve drafted Kukoc...”

lol

PG: Oscar
SG/SF: Iguodala, Mullin, Batum, Anderson
PF: Hakeem/Embiid
C: Gobert/Dalembert

From the point I drafted Oscar, this has pretty much gone to plan. Felt like the depth of wings was great, and got guys I thought would be there who shoot efficiently without hurting me on D. Just need short-minute Oscar backup(s), a backup for one season of Hakeem, and then maybe someone with a few spare good minutes on the wing, if I have another pick.

Posted by dBKC on 11/3/2020 7:41:00 PM (view original):
My thought process every time Pex picks:

”Whoa! What a reach! What idiot picked him this early?!”

*looks at user name*

”oh. He must know something about Toni Kukoc that we don’t....maybe I should’ve drafted Kukoc...”

AMEN

Billups
Bird/Hield
AK/Collins/Favors
Towns/Favors
Tree/Eaton

Hield is such a fun pick behind Bird. Lots of positional flexibility here. And blocks. Should lead at least one league in blocks with AK/Tree/Eaton.

I’ve decided that all five teams will be named:

WHITE WALKERS

Posted by tarheel1991 on 11/4/2020 12:52:00 AM (view original):
PG: Oscar
SG/SF: Iguodala, Mullin, Batum, Anderson
PF: Hakeem/Embiid
C: Gobert/Dalembert

From the point I drafted Oscar, this has pretty much gone to plan. Felt like the depth of wings was great, and got guys I thought would be there who shoot efficiently without hurting me on D. Just need short-minute Oscar backup(s), a backup for one season of Hakeem, and then maybe someone with a few spare good minutes on the wing, if I have another pick.

I don't love Anderson but I really, really like you three other SG/SF picks. I love so many seasons of Iggy. Batum is a personal favorite of mine.

I have never been able to get on board with Embiid with all those fouls and turnovers... but you have basically mimicked Hakeem which is cool.

I had Dalembert last season and I was happy with him.

It is a good build man.

Posted by bds9992 on 11/4/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Billups
Bird/Hield
AK/Collins/Favors
Towns/Favors
Tree/Eaton

Hield is such a fun pick behind Bird. Lots of positional flexibility here. And blocks. Should lead at least one league in blocks with AK/Tree/Eaton.

I’ve decided that all five teams will be named:

WHITE WALKERS

I like all of your players individually, great selections. I would have never thought to put them together in this way but I could see it being pretty good. Excited to see it in action.

Posted by tarheel1991 on 11/4/2020 12:52:00 AM (view original):
PG: Oscar
SG/SF: Iguodala, Mullin, Batum, Anderson
PF: Hakeem/Embiid
C: Gobert/Dalembert

From the point I drafted Oscar, this has pretty much gone to plan. Felt like the depth of wings was great, and got guys I thought would be there who shoot efficiently without hurting me on D. Just need short-minute Oscar backup(s), a backup for one season of Hakeem, and then maybe someone with a few spare good minutes on the wing, if I have another pick.

dude Hakeem / Gobert is ******* scary to score against.

I really like most of your squad!

Posted by bds9992 on 11/4/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Billups
Bird/Hield
AK/Collins/Favors
Towns/Favors
Tree/Eaton

Hield is such a fun pick behind Bird. Lots of positional flexibility here. And blocks. Should lead at least one league in blocks with AK/Tree/Eaton.

I’ve decided that all five teams will be named:

WHITE WALKERS

If more people would run Bird at the 2, he'd be ranked higher in my mind. Looking forward to seeing this play out.

Posted by dBKC on 11/3/2020 1:35:00 PM (view original):
I needed more rebounds from my SF position, and I don’t need any usage at all...but Siakam is way too good to be sitting there in the middle of the 8th round

Penny/Deron
Kawhi
Birdman/Siakam
Walton/Dirk
Admiral

talk about a talented bunch. Just need to grab some low usage rebounders and maybe a shooter and I’m set.

Talk about an insane defensive starting lineup... a couple of your teams are going to be so nasty, man.

nah, I've been in Nashville the last few days with friends. add that to WIS brain fry from back-to-back-to-back Savage tournaments and there's definitely a few picks that slipped through the cracks. Kukoc was definitely not the best player available, but he filled a hole on my team. I needed a guy who could play SG and give me more than 15% assists.

C: Dwight Howard / DeMarcus Cousins
PF: Andre Drummond / Anderson Varejao
SF: Gerald Wallace / Richaun Holmes
SG: Kobe Bryant / Goran Dragic
PG: Jose Calderon / Charlie Ward

The Kobe and Cousins picks will make or break this team. I still worry about Calderon getting torched on defense, but I'm hoping to shore up the PG spot a bit more before this draft is done.

Posted by robusk on 11/4/2020 5:52:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tarheel1991 on 11/4/2020 12:52:00 AM (view original):
PG: Oscar
SG/SF: Iguodala, Mullin, Batum, Anderson
PF: Hakeem/Embiid
C: Gobert/Dalembert

From the point I drafted Oscar, this has pretty much gone to plan. Felt like the depth of wings was great, and got guys I thought would be there who shoot efficiently without hurting me on D. Just need short-minute Oscar backup(s), a backup for one season of Hakeem, and then maybe someone with a few spare good minutes on the wing, if I have another pick.

I don't love Anderson but I really, really like you three other SG/SF picks. I love so many seasons of Iggy. Batum is a personal favorite of mine.

I have never been able to get on board with Embiid with all those fouls and turnovers... but you have basically mimicked Hakeem which is cool.

I had Dalembert last season and I was happy with him.

It is a good build man.

I've generally been with you on Embiid, but I couldn't really find anybody else of that caliber who could match Hakeem's usage with reasonable efg% and defense across more than a couple of seasons. He also brings a handful of threes and great rebounds on a team that is relatively weak in those areas.

Anderson has two really good seasons and one pretty good one (93-94, 94-95, 95-96) which is I was was really concerned about. He has one other season that will see minutes behind a higher-usage Mullin on a team using lower-usage Iguodala and Batum. But really I only cared about those three seasons with good efg, threes, and defense between 60-75.

Posted by longtallbrad on 11/5/2020 8:47:00 AM (view original):
C: Dwight Howard / DeMarcus Cousins
PF: Andre Drummond / Anderson Varejao
SF: Gerald Wallace / Richaun Holmes
SG: Kobe Bryant / Goran Dragic
PG: Jose Calderon / Charlie Ward

The Kobe and Cousins picks will make or break this team. I still worry about Calderon getting torched on defense, but I'm hoping to shore up the PG spot a bit more before this draft is done.

On first look I'd be concerned about assists, particularly with a team built around Kobe. But you said you'd be getting more PG help so maybe not an issue.

Posted by tarheel1991 on 11/5/2020 8:51:00 AM (view original):

Posted by longtallbrad on 11/5/2020 8:47:00 AM (view original):
C: Dwight Howard / DeMarcus Cousins
PF: Andre Drummond / Anderson Varejao
SF: Gerald Wallace / Richaun Holmes
SG: Kobe Bryant / Goran Dragic
PG: Jose Calderon / Charlie Ward

The Kobe and Cousins picks will make or break this team. I still worry about Calderon getting torched on defense, but I'm hoping to shore up the PG spot a bit more before this draft is done.

On first look I'd be concerned about assists, particularly with a team built around Kobe. But you said you'd be getting more PG help so maybe not an issue.

Yeah, after the Wallace pick I realized that my starting front line was woefully low on assists, and by the fifth round I desperately needed Calderon to fall to me. I think I'll be okay on the ast% front, but just barely.