I've never shared an analysis of my drafting before, but here goes:
Round 1 - Kareem: Originally had pick 7, with the best options being Shaq & Howard, who I've used before, so I traded to pick 13. At 13, the 2 best choices were Robinson (whom I've used before), and Gobert (whom I would have taken if I kept the pick). Was offered a trade for Kareem, so jumped over that. Don't think I've ever used any season of his before.
Round 2 - Shawn Marion: Used him once before in savage, and he performed good not great - just a solid innings eater type of player - and like the time I used him previously, picked him earlier than he typically goes. Marion is versatile and adds so much. Like before, I'll primarily use him as a SF. Brings 5 good seasons, and low TOs.
Round 3 - Ben Simmons: No brainer, despite the weirdness - only 4 seasons, no 3s, high fouls/TOs, and surprisingly bad position versatility.
Round 4 - Kyle Lowery: Again, don't think I've ever used him before. Good with Simmons since he has a lot of 3s, and my assists are mostly taken care of. Despite that, made a mistake here, should have gone for a PF.
Round 5 - Nic Batum: Was hoping to get my PF here - Unseld, who I've never used. Despite Unseld's D being gross, everything else fit. No one else jumped out at me, so I took Batum pretty early. My justifications were a) Batum has done well in recent Savages (won a title last year, finished second with me the year before), I needed players with really low fouls with Lowery and Simmons both being high fouling guards, needed rebounding from guards with the lack of a board lord. Also, his assists don't hurt. Looks like I am going to have an interesting back court. Still need a PF - 5 picks in, only one 4/5 player.
Round 6 - JaVale McGee: There were some higher minute PFs out there, but McGee is such a unique player. Looking back, I probably should have picked someone else to get those minutes, but thought the value + need worked. The next 2 people drafting shared they'd have likely drafted him, so no chance I would have seen him again. JaVale will be playing a lot of PF, despite the positional penalty, so get your DTs ready.
Round 7 - Tyrese Halliburton: Still need a PF - and a low foul PF at that - but those 2 seasons of Halliburton are so good. Got him in the 6th last year, and was certain Midge would have drafted him if I passed on him, so pulled the trigger pretty easily (so far Halliburton and Simmons were the easiest picks for me). So through 7 rounds, I have picked 4 guards....last year's draft, I picked 4 guards the entire draft. ****. I still need more guards too.
Round 8 - Marcin Gortat: Yay, finally got a PF. And for what I consider a low foul PF, he fit the bill. 5 solid seasons. Average rebounder, great EFG% actually and really really bad defense (not that different from Unseld). Best what I can do here. Should have taken a PF many many spots ago. Team is going to suck, with Gortat getting 8 to 10k minutes.
Round 9 - Thad Young: Another guard. Well, let's count him as a .5 guard, .5 forward. Definitely the biggest reason he was drafted were a few seasons for his guard minutes, but some other seasons might be a mediocre backup SF, so there's that. Ugh.
Round 10 - Roy Tarpley: Started some builds, and realized McGee only had 3 seasons that I was interested in using that had 4 usage points for Kareem's backup. Needed some backup center minutes, more PF minutes, and more quality PF minutes. Thought this was a savy pick for me - his short minute season is great as a back center for one of Kareem's seasons, his 2300 minute season would be a better starting PF than Gortat for another season (although crazy high in fouls), and if I couldn't make it work with a 2 usage point back for Kareem for one season or draft someone else, I could use his low FG% but decent rebounding and defense season a few minutes a game for Kareem's nearly 3600 minute season.
Round 11 - Ron Harper: Okay, tried some builds, and I need one good guard season, preferably with good defense. Tried using a Batum season with low usage / low assists, but gold everywhere else, and it hasn't gone well. So now we are at 5.5 guards, almost 1/2 my roster. Look, I think my guards are going to be pretty good with how many I have taken, but the reason I'll struggle is I likely have the worse forwards in the league.
Round 12 - Clarence Weatherspoon: Looks like I'll need a few minutes here or there at SF and PF for 2-3 seasons. Didn't want a foul machine and wanted some defense - sadly, he'll be useful. Plus I love the name Clarence. I usually like to use my 12th rounder on shoring up one team with a good single season player, but needed more.
As mentioned, I spent way too much draft capital on guards, my forwards (beyond Marion) are going to be a challenge. I think the strength of this team will be FG%, and probably finishing in 12 - 16 range - this team has better eFG%, assists, lower turnovers, about the same fouls, but less rebounding and defense than last year's team.