Posted by robusk on 12/7/2020 2:14:00 PM (view original):
Love the Davis, Sanders and Smart picks.
Thanks. I would give myself like a B on the effort overall. The toughest thing was figuring out who I wanted to carry the usage load with Lebron. There turned out to be a lot more options than I thought. I had always planned, if doing this, to use Brandon Roy next to Lebron. But I didn't expect to be able to choose among guys like Kobe, Dirk, and (now) Doncic, among several others.
I ended up landing on Doncic and Dirk because the minutes fit together pretty well in a 3-man platoon for the two high usage spots in the lineup (Lebron/Luka at PG, Dirk/Lebron at PF). Plus I think both are good ODL players that I'm surprised went undrafted. But I'm overpaying a bit for usage with Luka, because he's like 6% higher than Dirk and Lebron; my lineups with him are going to often be over 110% usage. And he may shoot me out of some games.
In the end I think I got a little too much tunnel vision on the Lebron/Luka/Dirk triumvirate, though, and didn't spend enough time considering other options. We'll see how it goes.