everybody is so high on warrick, but what do y’all think about rudy gay?

would you drop someone established, but in a limited system like Luol Deng, for him?

imo, id take deng. limited system, but still the safer play. deng should see 25 min/game, enough time for him to get his #’s.

heres how i look at it, if deng was in the FA, id be arrested for molestation. warrick is in the FA. i cant even bring myself to drop earl watson for him. so that should give you an idea of where i stand, even though the question was for PR

is eddie curry a good pickup over perkins.

hey guys with kirilenko game a bit lacklustre, i was hopin to swing a trade for him.

PGs
Mike Bibby
Baron Davis
Jameer Nelson
Deron Williams
Kirk Hinrich
Pierce
Hill
Prince
Radman
Murphy
Ming
Dalembert
Mohammed

I’ve got all the above guys on my current roster (love PGs), wat would i need to be willing to givve up for ak-47? i was hoping maybe Davis would go on a hot streak and try to swing for a trade then? more realistically i’d prob have to give up someone else as well

i’m in need of a PF (need boards and blocks), only got Murphy and Radman there atm, but in pretty big need of one that’s eligible at SF as well, if hill goes down i’m pretty thin. Odom’s too hot right now to target.

Can you guys think of any others i could target? Only really have Yao and Dalembert for blocks. The guy with Okafor definitely won’t budge, he only has 2 centres. Even though he doesnt block i’m high on boozer - Baron Davis or Mike Bibby be enough for him?

I was wondering what you guys think of the way Mickael Pietrus has been playing lately? Is he going to keep it up?

I drafted today and I think I came out with a pretty nice team for h2h, but I’m having a little trouble deciding what to do. Here was my draft in order:
1. Garnett - I took him second overall, so sue me. I’m a minny fanboy.
2. Kidd - Pairing him with Garnett’s rebounds and assists was a no-brainer.
3. AK47 - No way I could pass him up again.
4. Jamison - With AK47’s blocks, I felt I could take a PF who was slightly lacking in blocks, and Jamison fit the bill. Gives me some 3s which I could use since I only have one guard so far.
5. Nelson - I wanted Felton here, but maybe this was better.
6. D. Williams - I couldn’t risk it anymore, and I think he’ll give me 8 APG.
7. Dalembert - I had to take a C sooner or later, but my excess of great forwards made me wait a bit.. and I’m not too disappointed with this potential beast.
8. Randolph - I couldn’t pass him in the 8th round.. yeah I had no SG, but man, pairing him with KG, AK47, and Jamison, and getting him this late? Had to do it.
9. Knight - He’s getting PT, and for a 9th round pick love his assists/steals.. if he gets SG eligiblity I’ll love him even more. I’m still lacking in 3s though. I was hoping for Kevin Martin here, but he got taken.
10. Q. Richardson - I had to take a SG sooner or later, and I love his upside… I think he helps out with my 3s problem.
11. Frye - I immediately regretted this pick as I saw who was still available..
12. Mohammed - This is the man I speak of. I was very happy he fell to me at the end of the 12th.
13. Jack - Yeah… I need another SG, but I can’t pass Jack up in the last round. Gives me another PG to play around with.

Right now, I feel like my most logical players to trade are Knight and Randolph. Knight is a specialist, and I didn’t really need him on this team, but he was the best player available. The fact he helps negate the rebounding advantage I gained with drafting Kidd and all these great forwards makes me want him less. I feel like Randolph is moveable just because I have a lot of people who will get me 8+ boards a game. I’m thinking my biggest need will be 3s, which should be fillable by a SG.. any recommendations?

Arpit, I may be wrong, but pick up curry now! i was too late in my league to get him, and ive regretted it ever since. i also had perkins, hes had a pretty slow start so i cant see anyone picking him up after you drop him

i have bonzi, smush, foye . shoul i drop one of them for say anthony parker, derek fisher, petro, marcus williams, luke walton, or pietrus or someone else.

although i don’t want to drop wells or foye yet, cause they havent been given a chance yet. foye could be productive later this year and wells could be a beast if t-mac injured himself, which is good possibility with his back and everything.

yeah, i wouldnt drop bonzi, he still has to get acclamated to the rockets system. before i say this, im not big on rookies, so i would drop foye for curry. smush has alot of value.

youre in a roto right?

other than a parker (who was on my sleeper list), i think the others you mentioned will cool off. but i wouldnt drop anything substantial for parker right now. but id grab curry and drop foye, foye isnt getting any minutes, no reason to have him. all rookies have upside, they just cant find minutes and foye is no different right now. imo

Chris Bosh PF,C
2. (16) Paul Pierce SG,SF
3. (33) Mike Bibby PG
4. (40) Richard Jefferson SF
5. (57) Manu Ginobili SG
6. (64) Jermaine O’Neal PF,C
7. (81) Chris Kaman C
8. (88) David West PF
9. (105) Tony Parker PG
10. (112) Raymond Felton PG
11. (129) Chris Wilcox PF,C
12. (136) T.J. Ford PG
13. (153) Corey Maggette

mike james in the FA pool, who do you drop? i need two C so dont say wilcox. i was thinking maggette. do i drop anyone?

ray, im not sure about pietrus. he had steady but boring # at hte end of last season. hes the best perimiter defender on GS team, but that doesnt mean much in fantasy terms other than he may see more minutes. however, GS has alot more options than pietrus so i wouldnt pick him up for my team.

reminds me of what DM said about F Elson, Pietrus will help his team more than he will help your fantasy team. leave him.

Danny Granger was dropped in my league. i have 3 centers

-m blount
-n krstic
-nene

not very strong, but i have d. howard, heres my question. should i drop m blount and pick up granger and run with two centers until and hopefully d howard picks up C eligibility?

please disregard post # 10.

OK! Lot’s of questions here, to be expected during week 1. let’s see if i can hit ‘em all:

ic: I like deng over gay, but both have consistency issues. still, deng was fine last year and should be fine agian.

arpit: I’d pick up curry over perkins, yes.

alex: I’d say your best move is to let baron’s value go up a bit and then move him before he hurts himself, but I don’t think you’re going to get an AK-caliber player for him. I’m not sure you’re as poor in blocks as you think but a shot-swatting SF (i.e. j-smoove) wouldn’t be a bad target.

rich: will your 12th and 13th rounders were guys i took in the 7th and 8th, so obviously i think you did fine. i think you should be OK in threes and really your best move now is to hang out for a few weeks and see what develops with your question marks - jack, nazr, frye, etc -before deciding your next move.

ray: i agree with terrance on pietrus, plus there’s going to be major cinsistency issues on the warriors if your name isn’t Richardson or Murphy.

arpit #2 - i would drop foye. he won’t be productive any time soon and if you like him that much you’ll be able to get him a few weeks down the line. walton has so far been the best of the bunch that you mentioned.

Terrance - I think i’d hold on to blount for now, if anything i’d drop nene for granger!

i am in a h2h league, and walton got picked up like 5 min before i was going to get him. The thing about foye is, if he will have value later in the year then i want to keep him. even if that means he gets no stats for like a month or two. I like his upside if he gets time. So the main question is will he get his chance. what do u guys think. My team is strong and it wouldn’t hurt it to keep him on it. most of the people in my league didn’t know who to draft after the 15th round ( total of 19 rounds.)

i’m pretty sure someone in my league will pick him up if i drop him cause they all know he will do good later in the year and be willing to risk it. It also doesn’t hurt that they have players who aren’t doing anything on their teams.

What do you think of the long term outlook for Lamar Odom is?

The guy in my league who has Odom really wants Okur, who I’ve got. Right now, that seems like a really lopsided deal in my favor. But making that trade would leave me with Ilgauskas as the only C on my roster (in a one center league)

If I was confident that Odom would continue putting up similar numbers once Kobe is completely healthy, I’d do the deal and pick up someone like Biedrins from the wire. But a healthy Bryant, along with Walton’s continued emergence in the point forward role, makes me somewhat leery about Odom’s long-term prospects.

How ’bout it; what do you all think?

arpit - if you want to hold on to him, it basically comes down to if you have room on your bench. if you’ve got the space, then by all means hold on to him. but if you run into some injuries you m ight have to let him go.

bublitchki - think about it this way. before the year started we had odom as an early third round pick. we had okur as a mid-fourth rounder, maybe even later. so obviously we feel that odom is a better value even without his awesome start. if you only start one C, i’d swing the deal (although i question if the other guy would really make that move), and go get biedrins, an FBB fave.

wow you guys are up early for questions… i’m impressed with your dedication!

what do you think about dropping boris diaw for kurt thomas? and do you think that marbury is going to continue is .111 FG% nights?? i can’t handle that anymore

kevin martin is still available in our league and i’m considering dropping marbury for him

I slept in, screw getting up early! I’m going to write about both Boris Diaw and Stephon Marbury more in depth for Monday’s column, but I cannot recommend dropping either of them at this point. That said, grab Kevin Martin right now, for somebody. He’s going to score and play big minutes all year for the Kings. Kurt Thomas has looked pretty good so far, too. He’s a nice pickup, but I wouldn’t get rid of Diaw yet.

ic-no way id drop diaw or marbury right now!!! Its 3-4 games into the season! If you drop them now you’re only making another team in yr league better. have patience, lots of game to be played.

grab kevin martin now!

Q: Biedrins or Blount?

two statlines

51.7 FG% - 11.0 PTS - 8.3 REB - 27 min/gm
52.3 FG% - 15.5 PTS - 11.4 REB -34 miutes/gm

now some of you wont like what i have to say here, but its something to read .

the first stat is sean may this season. the second is carlos boozers sophmore year with the cavaleirs back in 03-04. these two have very similar games and i think if may can get 5 more minutes of run each game (even when brezec comes back) he will be a great addition to a team needing rebs and great FG% while getting a few points.

look at boozers stats in his rookie year:

25 min. –10 pts — 7.5 reb

now that is pretty much what may is putting up now, i think may can make the jump if he is given a few more minutes on a weak frontcourt that uncludes nobody other than okafor and may.

brezec is hurt right now, so i know he’ll cut into minutes when he comes back, but if may proves his worth while brezec is out, brezec may become the next wally pipp.

please keep in mind that im bored and doing this for fun. im not trying to say that sean may is carlos boozer now, but rather boozer in his sophmore year. i just wanted to point out a possible trend . opinions?

thanks for reading

t outlaw? will he get minutes

Okay, so here is my fantasy team that I drafted. I ended up with the 1st pick, which I didn’t want, because I wanted to follow a strict PG/C strategy for the first six picks. Unfortunately, some players dropped and I couldn’t let them slide:

1. (1) LeBron James F
2. (20) Paul Pierce G,F
3. (21) Joe Johnson PG
4. (40) Marcus Camby C
5. (41) Mike Bibby PG
6. (60) Chris Kaman C
7. (61) Jameer Nelson PG
8. (80) Larry Hughes G
9. (81) Darko Milicic PF,C
10. (100) Zaza Pachulia PF,C
11. (101) Andre Miller PG
12. (120) Kevin Martin G
13. (121) Nenad Krstic PF,C
14. (140) Deron Williams PG
15. (141) Chris Wilcox PF,C

Just so you’re aware, this league is in a 10-team, 12-cat H2H league. So, as you can see, my draft strategy was shot. I was hoping I could get Jermaine at 20 but he went too early, and then Pierce was still there so that was a no-brainer. T-Mac was also available, but I’m scared away by his comments about his back pain, so I went for J.Johnson instead. The next time around, I knew that I had to get a center, as Boozer/Okur and others were already off the board. I went with Camby because he’s a monster when healthy, and then Bibby becuase he slid.

I swear, that in the “SF tier” where there was Caron Butler, Mo Petterson..etc. they ALL went between 41-61…rediculous. Overall, the only picks I’m mad about is that (1) I took Zaza….whom we’ll see how that turns out. (2) Jameer seems to get his time eaten by Arroyo, which will piss me off to no end, (3) I didn’t grab Nazr Mohommed in the last round when I had the opportunity. I think he’ll end up with much better stats than Wilcox, and I’m definately frustrated that I didn’t take a guy who’ll be averaging 10/10 with a block that late.

Other than that, my team seems pretty good, though every team in our league seems pretty stacked this year, with everyone having lots of sleepers (like Baron Davis going in like the 8th round I think).

Anyways, let me know what you think..

ALSO: These are the guys currently on my “watch” list. Would you drop any of my current players for them?:

Bobby Simmons.
Cuttino Mobley.
Sebastian Telfair
Jarret Jack
Anthony Parker.
Martell Webster.

I guess one more important aspect is that my league goes PG,G,G,F,F,PF,C,C,Util,Util, so there isn’t a big crunch on the swingmen (I can use a PG or a PF/C for my entire lineup).

Anyways, any advice is always appreciated.

it’s easier said than done to get kevin martin…

here are the list of people on my team:
billups
arenas
allen
r. wallace
diaw
barbosa
marbury
larry hughes
vince carter
luol deng
channing frye
jason terry
pau gasol

i’m in a h2h league with the following categories:
fgm, fg%, ftm, ft%, 3pm, pts, oreb, dreb, ast, st, blk, to, a/t

i’m trying to win everything but oreb, dreb, and blks

so should i drop deng or frye or barbosa for kevin martin? gasol even? but i’m trying to use him as trade bait… i can’t decide who to drop!

jeremy - i wouldn’t drop any of your current players for players on your watch list

about what round is gasol being drafted? I’m tempted to trade for him to help my h2h playoffs run

funny thing about that, i thought my draft time was at 5:30 but it was at 5… and yahoo drafted him for me at round 10 out of 13 rounds

i originally thought that this team was screwed, but now i’m having a little hope, although i’m getting beat this week rather badly because of “starbury”s performance and billups deciding that he forgot how to shoot as well