I agree with the comment about Durant, as I immediately questioned that pick myself and was thinking I should have gone with either Brandon Roy or Jason Richardson. However, I don’t consider Josh Smith a huge risk. He really performed great last year, with AK47 defensive numbers despite poor shooting. I would have easily taken Duncan over him if he hadn’t gone only a few picks before, and there are no other big men in that Tier I could justify taking that early.

“Well, he could, but then he’d end up in a similar situation as Terrance, who went with the best overall player in each three rounds, and now is the only team with no PG or C - you know he’ll be drafting the scarcity positions over the next few rounds.”

True, but if you’ve gone into the draft thinking that you can effectively target certain bigs on the middle rounds (i.e., take them a round or two before their average draft position) and believe they’re undervalued, staying with best player available in the early rounds is the way to go. It depends on what players/positions you think will be in the middle rounds, right?

Rook’s theory works until your 6th round pick is coming up, you don’t have a center yet, and very little in the way of shot blocking, and the guys in front of you take Aldridge and Dalembert. Now you’re desperate — do you take a Biedrins or a Ben Wallace in the 6th round? If you don’t, and they go before you expect, too, can you win with guys like Chris Kaman and Zydrunas Ilgauskas compiling your big-man stats? And because you’ll almost certainly be hedging your weakness at C when it comes to the latest rounds of the draft, you’re gonna end up with guys like Nenad Krstic and Chris Wilcox on your bench, rather than guys with bigger fantasy upside like Jeff Green and Charlie Villanueva.

my favorite teams to this point in order:

1. DM: Ron Artest, KG, Anthony, Billups
2. Joel: Lamar Odom, Bryant, Iverson, Boozer
3. Ruyun: Michael Redd, Paul, Bosh, Butler

I like DMs variety and team cohesion, one of every position except C.

Joel has two all around scorers, an all around SF and finally a banger with a high FG%. No blocks, so he may be ditching that catagory.

Ruyun has some nice cohesion as well. None of his picks play the same position. All are top 5 at their positions except for redd, who is definitely top 10 at sg and possibly top 5.

At the moment I dont think anyone has a ’standout’ team. However there are teams that are definately going to find it hard to win.

I agree with Terrance that Joel has a good team so far with a great mix of shooters, good PF and Odom. However with no ‘true center’ in a 2 center league, i think he will struggle. I definately know the pain having to have to use someone like a Dalembert as your No 1 center.

Likewise with ALex but the other way around. He has no PG and WILL finish last in assists.

Raymond,Terrance, DM and Joel have quite strong teams.

Looking at my team again, it’s possible I end up with horrible FG%. Sure, Nash is great at PG, but honestly, I think it’s really important you get a Tier 1/2 big man who will shoot a high percentage and many, many times a game. Thus, it’s great to grab Amare, Yao, Bosh, Pau, Duncan, Boozer, etc.

Unfortunately for me, I had about the worst draft position, and missed out on most of those players.

Good eye, Terrance - not to spoil the surprise, but I was ditching blocks. I’m not completely happy with how that worked out, but it could certainly have been worse. I felt Boozer was a bit of a reach there, but I needed someone to fill that C spot, and once I took him the die was kind of cast.

Near the tail end of a 12 round draft, which pick should i go after - Claxton or Jwill?

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