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Jazz Decades NBA Fantasy Draft

SalmonHobo said:
Wow. I'm between a couple players here but I'm going to pass up the statistical choice for the guy who makes my team more complete in my opinion.

Jerry West. Mr. Clutch. I'll play him at the 1 defensively since Kidd can guard any two.

In the 70's he averaged about 25ppg, 8apg, and 4.3apg. He also had 2.6 spg in the last year of his career, the first in which they began keeping track of the stat. And he was a dead eye shooter at 47.4% from the floor.

Kidd penetrating and either finding Shaq or kicking it out to Bird or West is deadly. Good luck with that. Way too many strong iq's here and team players who are winners and can do everything, pass, rebound, shoot (not Kidd), get steals.
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What a steal for you. Your team is looking really good now. Sloan or Walt Frazier over Jerry West? You lucky dog.
 
Thank you sir. I still have to get a power forward but in general my current starting four are awesome. All can rebound at great rates for their position. Bird's the greatest rebounding small forward ever I believe. Kidd's one of the greatest rebounding points ever. West grabbed 4.3 a game which isn't too shabby at the 2 and then there's Shaq. They also can all pass very, very well. Probably about 26-28 assists per game between them. Then add in the fact that I have three dominate scorers in West, Bird and Shaq, all of whom I believe were clutch players who wanted the ball in the biggest moment and could execute yet still were selfless and team-oriented enough to defer to someone else great in a big moment when appropriate and I think I've built a very strong team with great chemistry. Kidd would be looked at as the weakness right now but I see his willingness to defer, pass, play lockdown defense, and lead as far more valuable than having five guys who can score 30 on any given night.

Chemistry and leadership matter and I think I have it in spades.
 
SalmonHobo said:
For the Pistons only I believe. Never knew that though. Regardless, my team can rebound and pass like machines.
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I agree Hobo.

I like the chemstry on mine as well. All defensive minded and a good mix of scorers, rebounders, passers, etc.
Dr. J / KG / Havlicek / Pippen / Eaton / Harpring / Thurl

Does kind of suck to be picking in the middle everytime though, as you never have a chance to take a Top 3 guy in that era.
 
PKM said:
I agree Hobo.

I like the chemstry on mine as well. All defensive minded and a good mix of scorers, rebounders, passers, etc.
Dr. J / KG / Havlicek / Pippen / Eaton / Harpring / Thurl

Does kind of suck to be picking in the middle everytime though, as you never have a chance to take a Top 3 guy in that era.
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My problem (and yours) is that I never had a chance to get any Jazz stud. I had a chance at Memo, AK or Harpring and that was it. And Bobby Hansen was probably the best Jazzman left when I picked for the 80's. I mention that because other teams appear better picked or deeper. They have a Stockton or Malone or other Malone or Eaton or Deron or Boozer. I never had a chance and got the leftovers.

Still love my team though.

And I like yours a lot. Your frontline is scary defensively. SCARY. And a Havlicek/FDr. J backcourt is very strong. I would say your biggest weakness would probably be having a go-to guy, that clutch scorer who wills his team to wins in huge games. Maybe that's Havlicek?
 
PKM said:
Does kind of suck to be picking in the middle everytime though, as you never have a chance to take a Top 3 guy in that era.
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I agree - there's definitely a benefit to drafting from the last-two & first-two pick range, although one plus in having a mid-round pick is you can build more depth since you never have to select from the scrap heap - as there's a huge drop-off in the Utah Jazz talent pool from 3-5 (Thurl Bailey, Hornacek, Memo, Eaton, ect) and 6-8 (Dell freakin Curry).
 
I'm absolutely screwed for 70's Jazz. Guess who lucks out again there? That's right, the guy that already has Jordan and Kareem.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I'm absolutely screwed for 70's Jazz. Guess who lucks out again there? That's right, the guy that already has Jordan and Kareem.
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Haha, I definitely can't complain about being at the end of a "snake draft," but the guy who has a frontline of Duncan, Malone and LeBron shouldn't be complaining either.
 
vslice02 said:
Haha, I definitely can't complain about being at the end of a "snake draft," but the guy who has a frontline of Duncan, Malone and LeBron shouldn't be complaining either.
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Probably not, I just wish I would've drafted Stockton. The list of all-time greats at PG are not really available to me anywhere in this draft after pick 1 (if I'm drafting BPA). Hence Frazier. Oh well. I hope you enjoy the beta release of Magic Johnson.
 
let's see if it will let me post w/o timing out :-(...

with my pick I select Elvin Hayes

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1972-73 NBA All-NBA (2nd)
1973-74 NBA All-Defensive (2nd)
1973-74 NBA All-NBA (2nd)
1974-75 NBA All-Defensive (2nd)
1974-75 NBA All-NBA (1st)
1975-76 NBA All-NBA (2nd)
1976-77 NBA All-NBA (1st)
1978-79 NBA All-NBA (1st)

moves Boozer's *** to the bench and gives me a solid starting 4 & 5 in Hayes & Olajuwon
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
the '10 NBA draft has a ton of good PG's to draft, not worried about picking up a PG.
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I wasn't either, until I started dissecting my particular situation. None of those guys will probably be there for me in '10, and certainly not on the Jazz in '10 or the '70's. Devin Harris was probably the best PG I was going to get if I didn't go for Frazier (which I don't think is a bad pickup at all, just a little bit of a reach probably). And that's some yick crap in the scheme of things.
 
NUMBERICA said:
I wasn't either, until I started dissecting my particular situation. None of those guys will probably be there for me in '10, and certainly not on the Jazz in '10 or the '70's. Devin Harris was probably the best PG I was going to get if I didn't go for Frazier (which I don't think is a bad pickup at all, just a little bit of a reach probably). And that's some yick crap in the scheme of things.
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I see what you did, there. That's the same reason I cussed you for taking Walt ... same reason I thought I'd get him.

If I had to do it over, I'd draft BPA and tell everyone to suck it.
 
PKM said:
I see what you did, there. That's the same reason I cussed you for taking Walt ... same reason I thought I'd get him.

If I had to do it over, I'd draft BPA and tell everyone to suck it.
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Paul, Rose, or Westbrook at least should be available for you in '10. So you'll be alright.

Or you could draft your boy, Rondo.
 
With the final pick in the 1970's NBA-round, vslice02 selects: Dave Cowens
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Alot of great players still to choose from (Willis Reed, Tiny Archibald, Wes Unseld, Connie Hawkins, Bill Walton) but Cowens is the best. In his prime he average 20 pts, 16 reb and 5 ast while winning 2 championships along with league MVP.
This is the 6-9 lunch-pail PF/C you need next to Kareem who does the dirty work, plays tough defense (All-Defense 3x) and does things like poke the ball away from the Oscar Robertson and then dive across the floor for it in the NBA Finals.

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1970's Utah Jazz Round

With the first pick in the 1970's Utah Jazz-round, vslice02 selects: "Pistol" Pete Maravich
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A bigtime scorer and superb showman on some absolutely dreadful teams, on this team he's the perfect 6th-man. From 1972-78 Maravich averaged 27 pts, 6 ast and 5 reb (including a 31.1 avg to lead the league in scoring in '77) - and that was without the 3pt line.

Lineup:
PG Deron Williams/Pete Maravich
SG Michael Jordan/Dell Curry
SF Paul Pierce
PF Dave Cowens/Antoine Carr
C Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

OTC: Prodigy.
 
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