I think Kawhi is a lock for top 30 for a long time. The list of players that are the best perimeter defenders for several years with size to guard bigs, shoot 40% from three, score on and off the ball, and win a finals MVP is one player long.
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It’s an improvement from gutting everything you did a couple times over to end up with Steph and MJ, but having kinda nothing (relatively) around them.
Fosto
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Who was around them? I feel like Steph+MJ would be absolutely brutal to play against. Just their gravity would open up so many options for everyone else.
I have tried a bunch of different strategies and it’s been a ton of fun.
A couple players not drafted yet. It was a pretty rough team outside of 4 players and didn’t really work together all that well.
I feel like we have to make some assumptions since we are picking from eras where the 3pt line didn't exist and others where it was barely used.
You really have to nail the end of draft picks because there is just less depth if the guys you hope are there just aren’t. Most of that is not really in your control.
Miggs
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As an example, I wanted Jimmy Butler instead of Middleton. Not sure if that fit is better or worse but Iverson, Harden, Butler, Pippen, Russell seems pretty nasty.
Bawse Dawg
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Nice to be able to just draft whoever now.
Sure, but unless we just ban drafting legends that’s always gonna be a topic of debate.
That being said, it’s one thing to say Pistol Pete’s shooting should translate and another to say that Ewing’s or Robinson’s would’ve (they might’ve, KG and Lamarcus Aldridge just never wanted to shoot 3s for reasons I don’t really understand).
This is the most competitive draft we’ve ever had in these things.
That is a good point. I just looked up KG and was shocked at how few 3's he took even later in his career.