Posted by uptowngbv on 11/14/2023 5:39:00 PM (view original):
I’d never tell someone who they should draft. On an unrelated note, one of you should have paired Pippen with your big.

Most of you are higher on the start than me. It's not how I typically draw up the team, some things I like, some things I don't. I think I can make it work but lots of things to figure out. Not feeling super great.

Posted by robusk on 11/14/2023 6:52:00 PM (view original):

Posted by ashamael on 11/14/2023 6:39:00 PM (view original):
Without looking, has Pippen ever won in this league? Even a single league championship? He's good but I've always thought he was drafted too high. Late 2nd/early 3rd seems right to me.

I 'ship, 4 top 6 finishes. Average finish of 15th.

I don't remember the ship. Who was the savage King that season?

Oscar here is beyond absurd. BEYOND.

I contemplated putting Oscar above Simmons on my proxy list. Probably should have.

Posted by robusk on 11/14/2023 6:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by uptowngbv on 11/14/2023 5:39:00 PM (view original):
I’d never tell someone who they should draft. On an unrelated note, one of you should have paired Pippen with your big.

Most of you are higher on the start than me. It's not how I typically draw up the team, some things I like, some things I don't. I think I can make it work but lots of things to figure out. Not feeling super great.

I'd be happy to switch rosters with you, lol

I was inspired by the OKC/Spurs game tonight (I'm a huge Chet fan) to look into some rookie stats. I'm not going to repeat it, but obviously we're working with small sample sizes here. Chet has some sterling numbers like 63.7 efg% and 6.7 blk%, but if sim doesn't let him play SF (and it shouldn't) then he's going to have to improve on his 6.3%/19.9% rebounding. Not as fatal of a flaw on my fantasy team, thankfully.

Wemby isn't having any problems rebounding, but his efficiency is going to have to improve from his 50 efg% and 17.3 to% on 30.9 usg for his 7.2 blk% to be usable. Making 1.7 of 5.7 threes per game is not going to cut it. Hope he works out his offensive kinks. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen tonight, hehe.

Ausar Thompson is off to an interesting start - he can do everything but shoot. If he improves from his 15.4% from 3 on 2.4 attempts a game, he could be one to watch, 14.6%/21.5% rebounding, 15.5 ast%, 1.8 stl%, 4.9 blk% - he is seriously stuffing the stat sheet.

Dereck Lively is going to have gaudy efficiency numbers as a rim runner, though you'd like to see him get above 30% combined rebounding. He's not quite at the level of Kessler 2.0 but if he can improve his stocks a liitle, rebound a bit more, and land a good defensive rating he has a really high ceiling.

Finally, Marcus Sasser has been red hot to open the season. 60.1 efg% and 9 to% on 18 usg, with 22.1 ast%. 3PAr is almost 50% and he's shooting 43.2% from deep. 1 orb% isn't great but you can live with 13.5 drb%. We'll see if he can keep up the shooting.

Honorable mention to Jaime Jaquez Jr and Bilal Coulibaly who are having starts worth keeping an eye on. I'm grateful for the positive glimmer in Washington - catching my first game of the season tomorrow night with the Mavs in town.

My son is a huge Ausar fan, really the Thompson twins in general. He has asked for basketball cards for Christmas, and now that I have a monetary interest, I too am a huge fan of both. Ausar's athleticism really is a spectacle and I like the pairing with Cade. I hope Amen bounces back from his injury and Van Vleet takes him under his wing vs Jalen.

Posted by raggedclaws on 11/14/2023 9:13:00 PM (view original):
I was inspired by the OKC/Spurs game tonight (I'm a huge Chet fan) to look into some rookie stats. I'm not going to repeat it, but obviously we're working with small sample sizes here. Chet has some sterling numbers like 63.7 efg% and 6.7 blk%, but if sim doesn't let him play SF (and it shouldn't) then he's going to have to improve on his 6.3%/19.9% rebounding. Not as fatal of a flaw on my fantasy team, thankfully.

Wemby isn't having any problems rebounding, but his efficiency is going to have to improve from his 50 efg% and 17.3 to% on 30.9 usg for his 7.2 blk% to be usable. Making 1.7 of 5.7 threes per game is not going to cut it. Hope he works out his offensive kinks. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen tonight, hehe.

Ausar Thompson is off to an interesting start - he can do everything but shoot. If he improves from his 15.4% from 3 on 2.4 attempts a game, he could be one to watch, 14.6%/21.5% rebounding, 15.5 ast%, 1.8 stl%, 4.9 blk% - he is seriously stuffing the stat sheet.

Dereck Lively is going to have gaudy efficiency numbers as a rim runner, though you'd like to see him get above 30% combined rebounding. He's not quite at the level of Kessler 2.0 but if he can improve his stocks a liitle, rebound a bit more, and land a good defensive rating he has a really high ceiling.

Finally, Marcus Sasser has been red hot to open the season. 60.1 efg% and 9 to% on 18 usg, with 22.1 ast%. 3PAr is almost 50% and he's shooting 43.2% from deep. 1 orb% isn't great but you can live with 13.5 drb%. We'll see if he can keep up the shooting.

Honorable mention to Jaime Jaquez Jr and Bilal Coulibaly who are having starts worth keeping an eye on. I'm grateful for the positive glimmer in Washington - catching my first game of the season tomorrow night with the Mavs in town.

Love the breakdown, I’m definitely excited for these guys to hit the sim.

Last season I was able to finish 3rd with Harden/Tyson/Horace as my first 3 picks. This season I passed on Tyson and ended up with Harden/Artis/Horace. Tyson is certainly better at certain things than Artis is, but I’m hoping that the things that Artis is good at will help me get a few more wins than last season. Namely minutes played (and being able to carry some offensive load when Harden sits)

Players mentioned:

Rk	Player	Age	From	To	G	GS	MP	PER	TS%	ORB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48	OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Chet Holmgren	21	2023-24	2023-24	10	10	301	21.3	.691	6.3	13.7	12.5	1.4	6.7	14.4	19.9	0.8	0.5	1.2	.199	2.6	1.9	4.6	0.5
2	Victor Wembanyama	20	2023-24	2023-24	10	10	302	17.3	.542	7.3	16.4	12.8	1.7	7.2	17.3	30.9	-0.4	0.3	-0.1	-.016	-1.5	-0.8	-2.4	0.0

Rk	Player	Age	From	To	G	GS	MP	PER	TS%	ORB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48	OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Dereck Lively II	19	2023-24	2023-24	9	8	220	16.0	.699	11.6	14.9	5.5	1.3	3.7	13.7	12.6	0.5	0.2	0.8	.165	-1.6	-0.2	-1.8	0.0
2	Ausar Thompson	21	2023-24	2023-24	11	11	350	14.8	.462	14.6	18.1	15.5	1.8	4.9	15.3	18.7	0.0	0.5	0.5	.071	-1.6	0.8	-0.8	0.1

Rk	Player	Age	From	To	G	GS	MP	PER	TS%	ORB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48	OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Bilal Coulibaly	19	2023-24	2023-24	10	1	255	11.0	.616	2.0	7.7	9.0	2.0	2.6	16.3	13.0	0.1	0.2	0.2	.045	-1.8	-0.1	-1.9	0.0
2	Marcus Sasser	23	2023-24	2023-24	11	0	231	16.3	.614	1.0	7.3	22.1	2.1	0.4	9.0	18.0	0.5	0.2	0.7	.141	1.1	0.5	1.5	0.2

Posted by dBKC on 11/14/2023 9:45:00 PM (view original):
Last season I was able to finish 3rd with Harden/Tyson/Horace as my first 3 picks. This season I passed on Tyson and ended up with Harden/Artis/Horace. Tyson is certainly better at certain things than Artis is, but I’m hoping that the things that Artis is good at will help me get a few more wins than last season. Namely minutes played (and being able to carry some offensive load when Harden sits)

I definitely think Gilmore is better in that context, and in Savage in general. If you have enough frontcourt defense it totally neuters Chandler's only clear area of superiority over Gilmore. It's a scary start.

Posted by raggedclaws on 11/14/2023 9:13:00 PM (view original):
I was inspired by the OKC/Spurs game tonight (I'm a huge Chet fan) to look into some rookie stats. I'm not going to repeat it, but obviously we're working with small sample sizes here. Chet has some sterling numbers like 63.7 efg% and 6.7 blk%, but if sim doesn't let him play SF (and it shouldn't) then he's going to have to improve on his 6.3%/19.9% rebounding. Not as fatal of a flaw on my fantasy team, thankfully.

Wemby isn't having any problems rebounding, but his efficiency is going to have to improve from his 50 efg% and 17.3 to% on 30.9 usg for his 7.2 blk% to be usable. Making 1.7 of 5.7 threes per game is not going to cut it. Hope he works out his offensive kinks. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen tonight, hehe.

Ausar Thompson is off to an interesting start - he can do everything but shoot. If he improves from his 15.4% from 3 on 2.4 attempts a game, he could be one to watch, 14.6%/21.5% rebounding, 15.5 ast%, 1.8 stl%, 4.9 blk% - he is seriously stuffing the stat sheet.

Dereck Lively is going to have gaudy efficiency numbers as a rim runner, though you'd like to see him get above 30% combined rebounding. He's not quite at the level of Kessler 2.0 but if he can improve his stocks a liitle, rebound a bit more, and land a good defensive rating he has a really high ceiling.

Finally, Marcus Sasser has been red hot to open the season. 60.1 efg% and 9 to% on 18 usg, with 22.1 ast%. 3PAr is almost 50% and he's shooting 43.2% from deep. 1 orb% isn't great but you can live with 13.5 drb%. We'll see if he can keep up the shooting.

Honorable mention to Jaime Jaquez Jr and Bilal Coulibaly who are having starts worth keeping an eye on. I'm grateful for the positive glimmer in Washington - catching my first game of the season tomorrow night with the Mavs in town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvGYATHz8_Y

He has single handedly made the change in my local coverage from Portland to Detroit digestible. Such a fun player. Every interview I've seen with him so far has been cool as hell too, he seems like he has a really great head on his shoulders.

I was pretty dubious of the Thompson twins headed into the NBA, thinking we had seen this show before (Stanley Johnson, Justise Winslow, etc) but they almost immediately felt different.

One of the cool things watching the Pistons games is how non-plussed he is about making these amazing plays too. A lot of times the younger players get caught up in the moment of a big play and are a few seconds behind the follow up action. He is immediately onto the next millisecond of game action. Just insanely plugged in at all times.

I used 72-73 Gilmore with 18-19 Harden recently. Deadly combo.

Opinions wanted:

Klay over Clyde. Good or bad idea?

Are you asking Klay Thompson or Walt Frazier?

If that’s the question my answer is it depends on what you want/need. If you want lots of threes and a ripped jersey Klay is your guy. I was happy to get Frazier instead of Klay because I wanted a combo guard with lots of minutes who could get more assists than Klay and play excellent defense.