2016 Dynasty Draft Official Thread

[AHF]

Ashley and I are still a bit broken up about that Rick Carlisle pick.  Man that was great value.  But don't worry.  We're strong and we'll pull it together.

Just don't think about pulling that **** again, @h4wkfan.

 

Well, with that out of the way.  We are going to triple down on our foreign-born stretch forwards and select a potential stud in:

Dario Saric

Saric is the two-time FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year (2013-14) who is finally coming over the US.  He has exceptional passing and scoring skills and has a great perimeter shot, particularly for a young man standing 6'10'' with some athleticism.  In Europe, he has been a stud winning the Adriatic League MVP, MVP of the Final Four, and becoming the youngest player ever to win the Euroleague Monthly MVP.   Last month he was named the Most Valuable Player at the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Turin (leading everyone in rebounds and putting up strong scoring numbers).  

He'll be putting in minutes for the Sixers this season who look to be seriously upgraded from last year's roster and supposedly he and Ben Simmons will spend a lot of time together as a versatile pair of combo forwards.  We're excited to have this 22 year old join the fold.  Plus, Euroswag..am I right?

Welcome aboard (again) Mr. Saric!

@JayBirdHawk is on the board to either make her pick or to make more fat jokes at Spud's expense (maybe both)

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, AHF said:

Ashley and I are still a bit broken up about that Rick Carlisle pick.  Man that was great value.  But don't worry.  We're strong and we'll pull it together.

Just don't think about pulling that **** again, @h4wkfan.

 

Well, with that out of the way.  We are going to triple down on our foreign-born stretch forwards and select a potential stud in:

Dario Saric

Saric is the two-time FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year (2013-14) who is finally coming over the US.  He has exceptional passing and scoring skills and has a great perimeter shot, particularly for a young man standing 6'10'' with some athleticism.  In Europe, he has been a stud winning the Adriatic League MVP, MVP of the Final Four, and becoming the youngest player ever to win the Euroleague Monthly MVP.   Last month he was named the Most Valuable Player at the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Turin (leading everyone in rebounds and putting up strong scoring numbers).  

 

 

 

He'll be putting in minutes for the Sixers this season who look to be seriously upgraded from last year's roster and supposedly he and Ben Simmons will spend a lot of time together as a versatile pair of combo forwards.  We're excited to have this 22 year old join the fold.  Plus, Euroswag..am I right?

 

Welcome aboard (again) Mr. Saric!

@JayBirdHawk is on the board to either make her pick or to make more fat jokes at Spud's expense (maybe both)

I liked this a bit too soon ...then I saw my name...ZING!!!!

[AHF]

29 minutes ago, Spud2Nique said:

I liked this a bit too soon ...then I saw my name...ZING!!!!

I know she's not taking you up on your swimming challenge.  Maybe a Fat Bastard call back?

[Guest]

The JayBird Lady Squawkers select:

Dwight Powell: PF, 6'-11", 240lbs, 25 years.

My team is in need of a rugged player at PF who will run the floor and crash the boards and doesn't need an offensive  play run for him.

@TheFuzz is up.

[lethalweapon3]

Alert for @LucastheThird... presuming TheFuzz's Draft Clock expires in two hours, Luk3's clock kicks off at 3:19 PM Eastern.
 

~lw3

[AHF]

@TheFuzz is on auto-pick until he shows back up again.  2 hours on the clock and then whenever I can free up and get his next CBS fantasy pick.

[capstone21]

3 minutes ago, AHF said:

@TheFuzz is on auto-pick until he shows back up again.  2 hours on the clock and then whenever I can free up and get his next CBS fantasy pick.

Fuzz's picks should be auto after it is all done ... a couple of autopicks were actually guys I and others had been considering.  I don't think we should reward him with better players for not showing up

[lethalweapon3]

1 minute ago, AHF said:

@TheFuzz is on auto-pick until he shows back up again.  2 hours on the clock and then whenever I can free up and get his next CBS fantasy pick.

Would it be cool if you do it like last round... allow the other active GMs to make their picks (thru JayBird's) and then take his two right before you take yours?

~lw3

[capstone21]

1 minute ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Would it be cool if you do it like last round... allow the other active GMs to make their picks (thru JayBird's) and then take his two right before you take yours?

~lw3

or after it is all finished

[Buzzard]

2 hours ago, AHF said:

Ashley and I are still a bit broken up about that Rick Carlisle pick.  Man that was great value.  But don't worry.  We're strong and we'll pull it together.

Just don't think about pulling that **** again, @h4wkfan.

 

Well, with that out of the way.  We are going to triple down on our foreign-born stretch forwards and select a potential stud in:

Dario Saric

Saric is the two-time FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year (2013-14) who is finally coming over the US.  He has exceptional passing and scoring skills and has a great perimeter shot, particularly for a young man standing 6'10'' with some athleticism.  In Europe, he has been a stud winning the Adriatic League MVP, MVP of the Final Four, and becoming the youngest player ever to win the Euroleague Monthly MVP.   Last month he was named the Most Valuable Player at the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Turin (leading everyone in rebounds and putting up strong scoring numbers).  

 

 

 

He'll be putting in minutes for the Sixers this season who look to be seriously upgraded from last year's roster and supposedly he and Ben Simmons will spend a lot of time together as a versatile pair of combo forwards.  We're excited to have this 22 year old join the fold.  Plus, Euroswag..am I right?

 

Welcome aboard (again) Mr. Saric!

@JayBirdHawk is on the board to either make her pick or to make more fat jokes at Spud's expense (maybe both)

I had Saric in mind to pair up with BoBo. You would not have gotten him on the back side. Nice pick!

[LucastheThird]

Gonna keep things moving and select SHABAZZ MUHAMMAD.

 

Right before 4, just like I said @lethalweapon3. You're up next

[AHF]

2 hours ago, lethalweapon3 said:

Would it be cool if you do it like last round... allow the other active GMs to make their picks (thru JayBird's) and then take his two right before you take yours?

~lw3

I'll do that.  I've mentioned the list that his players are being picked from so plan around that.  If you look at the list you know who he is getting next.  That is actually an advantage to the rest of the drafters not a disadvantage.

[lethalweapon3]

With what oughta be the 171st pick in the 2016 Summer Dynasty Draft, the Lethal Obsession selects…

 

 

 

 

 

Well, glory be... our old friend, Terry Stotts (Head Coach, Age 58, Height and Weight unknown) is growing up (read: gray?) before our very eyes! It’s amazing what one can achieve when given something more than Big Dog and Reef to work with, eh?

“I think Terry Stotts should have been, or could have been, Coach of the Year.”

Before Kevin Durant saw his youthful reflection in Lethal Obsession rookie Brandon Ingram, his fellow perennial All-NBA forward, reigning Finals MVP LeBron James, put in his two cents about Ingram’s new head coach with the L-Obs.

“I can’t remember the last time,” pondered James, “that I’ve seen a team lose four starters and still be in the same position, as far as the postseason success they had.”

Technically, though, they were not in the “same position.” Stotts’ team went one round further than anyone planned when they knocked off Obsession star Chris Paul’s title-contending team in the opening round, then notched a single victory in the ensuing series versus the league’s star-studded, top-seeded (albeit short-handed) team. In the prior season, Stotts’ team was bounced in the first round. But, please proceed, King James.

“I mean, they lost [Nicolas] Batum, they lost [Wesley] Matthews, they lost Robin [Lopez, now an Obsession center] and they lost LaMarcus [Aldridge, the top All-Star in the 2015 free agent class] in the offseason, and the only returning starter was Dame [Lillard].” Aldridge left town last summer to surprisingly join a well-regarded conference rival, but concluded 2016 with just one more postseason victory than the team he abandoned via free agency.

Stotts went into 2015-16 replacing all those lost starters with a young forward/center (a fourth-year lottery pick) who promptly got injured, another developing forward/center (a third-year first-rounder), a free agent forward who wasn’t starting the prior season, and a promising shooting guard who only broke out during the brief 2015 playoff series, after Matthews went out for the season in March and his trade-deadline injury replacement was ineffective.

Coming into 2015-16, none of the aforementioned season-opening starters exceeded the age of 26. Stotts replaced the injured forward/center with, first, an over-the-hill center, then a disappointing 2014 lottery pick, before settling on a longtime-disappointing 2012 first-rounder, the latter youngsters both discarded draftees now in their first year with this new team.

Ultimately, Stotts lost seven more regular season games than in 2015, the season when Aldridge played with one foot out the door, and slipped from 1^st to 2^nd in the Northwest Division. Yet no one would argue that this team, predicted before the season began to drop to the league’s basement, was less successful. Least of all LeBron, who lobbed a cherry atop his rhetorical sundae (Stotts “coached his a** off,” he said) before laying on the hot fudge, thick.

“Dame is an All-Star. Even though he wasn’t on the (2016) team, he’s an All-Star.” James can’t resist expounding on Stotts’ success by noting the star turn by his fellow Cantonite. “C.J. [McCollum] obviously is a stud being from here, the Canton [Ohio] area.” Next, the whipped cream. “I thought Terry Stotts did a great job. They had a great season.” Bear in mind, all of this is coming from a player who fashions himself a savant of what is, and is not, quality head coaching. You can ask his last two coaches about that, if you wish.

After navigating rough seas in his prior two head-coaching locales, the trail-blazing Stotts seems to have come into his own running the sideline. He already proved his mettle as a developer of talent when he oversaw the rise of Lillard, a lottery choice out of small-conference power Weber State, into the Rookie of the Year, a two-time All-Star, a playoff dagger unsheather, a 2^nd-Team All-NBA member (like Aldridge the prior season), and an active Olympian and probable gold medalist.

But for his next magic act, Stotts ushered to the front line McCollum, another lotto pick, straight outta lightly-regarded Lehigh, who responded by winning the 2016 Most Improved Player league award in his third pro season. The guard’s scoring averaged increased by 14.0 PPG, the largest such incline by any player (min. 50 games played) in 26 years, as he built up exemplary rapport with his backcourt mate, Lillard.

 Many will forget that Stotts, a disciple of one of the game’s top offensive coaches, wears a championship ring. But it’s doubtful that LeBron is unaware. Stotts got his hardware while an assistant under Rick Carlisle, the offensive mastermind as Carlisle’s squad upended LBJ’ vaunted star-laden team in the 2011 Finals, leaving the superstar momentarily ringless.

In 2011, Stotts had at his disposal the league’s premier passing guard and a future Hall-of-Famer, another probable Hall-of-Fame-caliber seven-foot forward, and several defensive specialists. All of those contributors were on the other side of their respective athletic peaks. He also had jump shooters, including one past-his-prime player from one of Stotts’ prior locales. That player, who helped get Stotts his very first win as a head coach with a buzzer-beating jumper, was a guy most pundits had given up on until 2008, when Stotts repackaged and cleared him for takeoff as a high-scoring (and award-winning) sixth-man.

That team went into the playoffs without two players who were projected starters at the season’s outset, then lost a critical backup center early during the Finals, yet they still got the ‘chip. A grateful owner Mark Cuban credited Stotts, in part, for helping Carlisle “put together a system that was really tailored to our players.”

Still, the appeal of Stotts’ acumen as a frontman didn’t come to the fore until 2014. Armed with what he learned while working under Carlisle, he helped his team, led by Aldridge and Lillard while anchored by Lopez, blaze to the very top of the league through the first two months of the season. Aldridge’s late-season injury slowed their roll, but he recuperated in time for Stotts’ team to upset a higher-seeded title contender in the opening round. Stotts finished 6^th in COTY voting in 2014, and 2^nd in 2016.

With the Obsession, as he had done six years ago, Stotts will rely upon the current-day, premier-passing, HoF-bound point guard in Paul, who stands to benefit by quarterbacking a team where the ball doesn’t stick as much. Unlike Stotts’ 2011 lead guard, Paul is just now reaching his athletic prime, and his fellow starters are impressionable and nowhere near their professional zeniths. Whereas Lillard has his share of defensive deficiencies, Paul remains the most well-regarded defensive point guard in the game.

While Stotts had 7-foot Finals MVP Dirk Nowitzki in 2010-11, and inherited 6-foot-11 Aldridge in 2013-14, he enters 2016-17 with the task of molding the futuristic big man in 7-foot-3 Kristaps Porzingis into a stalwart franchise player. Even better, Porzingis’ defensive potential surpasses those of the aforementioned frontcourt superstars. Lopez is familiar enough with Stotts’ coaching to provide additional tutelage to Porzingis and starting pivot Jonas Valanciunas.

Similar to McCollum and Al-Farouq Aminu, Stotts will have Kent Bazemore, Ingram, and Josh Richardson poised on the verge of career breakouts at the wing spots, and he’ll have DeMarre Carroll defending where Shawn Marion and DeShawn Stevenson once stood in 2011. Marvin Williams will benefit from coming off the bench the way Ed Davis (2^nd among power forwards for 2016 Most Improved Player voting) did under Stotts last season. Whenever Paul is ready to hand over the keys to the offense, he and Stotts will have poured their collective knowledge into Kris Dunn, the top point guard of the 2016 draft class.

The L-Obs don’t come into 2016-17 with a 20-point scorer, aside from point guard Paul, and likely won’t have another one until Porzingis emerges. That means that, in addition to stifling team defense, this team will rely heavily on role-playing, ball-movement, spacing, multiple-screening, and highly efficient offensive play, the style of play that Stotts has become a master of designing. Next season, it might not be another case of “should have, could have” when it’s time to hand out Coach of the Year hardware.

 

LETHAL OBSESSION

PG: Christopher Emmanuel Paul; Kristofer Michael Dunn

SG: Brandon Xavier Ingram; Joshua Micheal Richardson

SF: Kenneth Lamont Bazemore, Jr.; DeMarre LeEdrick Carroll

PF: Kristaps Porzingis; Marvin Gaye Williams, Jr.

C: Jonas Valanciunas; Robin Byron Lopez

HCIC: Terry Linn Stotts

 

For now, let’s see what the (small-a) august @ATLHawks3 has up his sleeve!

 

~lw3

[AHF]

2016 CBS fantasy keeper list

[Buzzard]

Things are moving along! I doubt we make the turn tonight; but tomorrow is promising!

[pimp]

1 hour ago, AHF said:

2016 CBS fantasy keeper list

Since you pick right before i do , i should check that list out. That way i can avoid another "Bosh" situation

[Buzzard]

10 minutes ago, pimp said:

Since you pick right before i do , i should check that list out. That way i can avoid another "Bosh" situation

One other thing you can do is just make a pick within 8 hours.

[ATLHawks3]

With the next pick in the 2016 Hawksquawk Dynasty Draft, the Atlanta Attack selects...... Trevor Ariza

Trevor Ariza is well known around the league as being one of the better premier perimeter defenders in the league. Along with his defense, Ariza provides a great 3 point stroke as well. His skill set will be very valued on my squad whenever we look to give Carmelo some rest. With that being said, welcome to the Attack, Trevor Ariza!

ATLANTA ATTACK 2016/2017 ROSTER:

PG: Damian Lillard/Deron Williams

SG: J.J. Redick/Dwyane Wade

SF: Carmelo Anthony/Trevor Ariza

PF: Paul Millsap/Zach Randolph

C: Pau Gasol/Ed Davis

Coach: Steve Kerr

@Spud2Nique is on  the clock!

[pimp]

18 minutes ago, ATLHawks3 said:

With the next pick in the 2016 Hawksquawk Dynasty Draft, the Atlanta Attack selects...... Trevor Ariza

Trevor Ariza is well known around the league as being one of the better premier perimeter defenders in the league. Along with his defense, Ariza provides a great 3 point stroke as well. His skill set will be very valued on my squad whenever we look to give Carmelo some rest. With that being said, welcome to the Attack, Trevor Ariza!

ATLANTA ATTACK 2016/2017 ROSTER:

PG: Damian Lillard/Deron Williams

SG: J.J. Redick/Dwyane Wade

SF: Carmelo Anthony/Trevor Ariza

PF: Paul Millsap/Zach Randolph

C: Pau Gasol/Ed Davis

Coach: Steve Kerr

@Spud2Nique is on  the clock!

I thought about taking him, but  didn't  due  his poor playoff  performance  , coupled with my need for a PG . I would have given him another chance next round though.
.. I'm not sure yet , but you  have got to have the oldest team in the league right now. 

Edited August 17, 2016 by pimp

[Guest]

1 hour ago, pimp said:

I thought about taking him, but  didn't  due  his poor playoff  performance  , coupled with my need for a PG . I would have given him another chance next round though.
.. I'm not sure yet , but you  have got to have the oldest team in the league right now. 

He's trying to win it in 2017! :-)