Comments on: Team Preview: Toronto Raptors

By: HP

HP — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:28:11 +0000

Any thoughts on Garbojosa? he might put up very good number in a running offense. He might be a boris diaw with threes if the PT is good

By: bv

bv — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:07:49 +0000

needing to draft points early? i’m not sure that that’s mutually exclusive from having good centers. in fact, some of the first-taken centers, like bosh and yao, are huge plusses in points specifically because the mid-low tier centers are such poor points producers.

i don’t think it’s okay to have a bad _anything_ if you’re planning on competing in your league. teams with significant weaknesses will struggle to break away from the middle of the pack.

By: DM

DM — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:10:24 +0000

Generally, I don’t like drafting strategies. I don’t like focusing on position early or punting a category or anything like that. Take the best player available in at least the first four rounds, maybe even first six. Obviously don’t take four straight PGs, but you get my drift. Position/category need can come into play in the middle rounds — I took Rasheed Wallace in the 6th last year because he qualified at center, for example. But sometimes we have the tendency to outthink ourselves.

And drafting for points is sort of the same as drafting minutes, unless you specifically focus on guys like Carmelo or Rip Hamilton who are strongest in points.

By: Nels

Nels — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:00:09 +0000

Just wanted to point out that it was actually Fantasy Basketball guy who said it's okay to have bad centers and that you need to draft points early. I'd tend to disagree with that, but I'd certainly like to hear some other opinions on this as well.

By: Rook

Rook — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:29:56 +0000

Would love to see your thoughts sometime on the counterintuitive ideas in the Oct. 4 posting on Give Me the Rock: that it’s okay to have bad centers and that you need to draft points early.