3 Degrees of Frustration - Draft Thread

[Laimbeer]

1. You can draft any player from the 1969-70 season to the 2016-17 season, choosing a NBA or ABA season.

2. You have to draft 8 players, maximum amount of 90.0 total FGA. There will be a .85 multiplier for any season before the NBA/ABA merger.

3. Each of your picks must have played for the same franchise in at least one regular season or playoff game as the pick immediately preceding yours.

4. You can use any season of your players from 1969-70 and forward to 2016-17.

5. You may only select one player who has ever won a ABA or NBA MVP award.

6. The randomized draft order and assigned windows are below.

7. Picks must be made within your window. You cannot pick early or late. If your window starts at 10:00, your post must be time stamped at 10:00 to 10:14. A post stamped 9:59 or 10:15 would be invalid. If you miss your window, you cannot make up your pick until the end of the draft. Posts outside of your window will be completely disregarded, even for franchise matching purposes. For the purposes of this game, they do not exist.

8. In the case of a missed window, the following coach will match the franchise of the previous pick. For example, if the coach picking 7th misses his window, the coach picking 8th will simply match a franchise with the 6th pick.

9. Never change a posted pick, even if you become aware it is not a valid pick. You will make up for this pick at the end of the draft. The coach immediately following you must match a franchise with your pick, even though it isn't a legal pick for you. EDIT TO ADD - Players picked illegally are still eligible to be picked later.

10. The draft will begin when I give Dame his player to match with his first pick just before 10am eastern Saturday morning. Likewise Timmay will be given a player to kick off Sunday.

Have fun! Please PM me with questions or post them in the discussion thread.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j-hloeEctaztq4b1FjtCxrl7vI5pXyqvZTJVsT5x3vQ/edit?usp=sharing

Here are the starting times for your windows. For example, Dame has the first window Saturday morning from 10:00 am to 10:14 am, Dantley from 10:15 to 10:29, etc.

All times are Eastern

Sat, Apr 30

1. damecurry 10:00 - Chris Paul
2. dantley4prez 10:15 - Alonzo Mourning Ineligible pick
3. MadNESS 10:30 - Shaquille O'Neal
4. Hooplah 10:45 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
5. wackbone 11:00 - Giannis Antetokounmpo
6. Laimbeer 11:15 - Sidney Moncrief
7. Timmaytime 11:30 - Dwight Howard
8. Fadeaway_J 11:45 - Hakeem Olajuwon

1. MadNESS 12:00 - Tracy McGrady
2. wackbone 12:15 - James Harden
3. Hooplah 12:30 - Clyde Drexler
4. Laimbeer 12:45 - Scottie Pippen
5. Fadeaway_J 1:00 - Jimmy Butler
6. damecurry 1:15 - Michael Jordan
7. Timmaytime 1:30 - Dwayne Wade
8. dantley4prez 1:45 - LeBron James

1. wackbone 2:00 - Ben Wallace
2. MadNESS 2:15 - Chauncey Billups
3. dantley4prez 2:30 - Paul Pierce
4. Timmaytime 2:45 - Kevin Garnett
5. Fadeaway_J 3:00 - Jason Kidd
6. Hooplah 3:15 - Walt Frazier
7. damecurry 3:30 - Patrick Ewing
8. Laimbeer 3:45 - Ray Allen

1. damecurry 4:00 - Horace Grant
2. Fadeaway_J 4:15 - Jerry West
3. Hooplah 4:30 - Dennis Rodman
4. Laimbeer 4:45 - Wilt Chamberlain
5. Timmaytime 5:00 - Michael Cooper
6. wackbone 5:15 - Karl Malone
7. dantley4prez 5:30 - John Stockton
8. MadNESS 5:45 - Andrei Kirilenko


Sun, May 1

1. Timmaytime 10:00 - (Clock expired)
2. Hooplah 10:15 - Doug Christie
3. damecurry 10:30 - Eddie Jones
4. Laimbeer 10:45 - Anfernee Hardaway
5. dantley4prez 11:00 - Alonzo Mourning
6. MadNESS 11:15 - Bruce Bowen
7. Fadeaway_J 11:30 - Bobby Jones
8. wackbone 11:45 - Kyle Korver

1. Fadeaway_J 12:00 - Rasheed Wallace
2. MadNESS 12:15 - Al Horford
3. dantley4prez 12:30 - Paul Millsap
4. wackbone 12:45 - Rudy Gobert
5. damecurry 1:00 - Richard Jefferson
6. Hooplah 1:15 - Andre Iguodala
7. Laimbeer 1:30 - Draymond Green
8. Timmaytime 1:45 - Chris Mullin

1. Laimbeer 2:00 - Paul George
2. dantley4prez 2:15 Detlef Schrempf
3. MadNESS 2:30 - George Hill
4. damecurry 2:45 - Boris Diaw
5. Hooplah 3:00 - Kawhi Leonard
6. wackbone 3:15 - Manu Ginobili
7. Timmaytime 3:30 - Terry Porter
8. Fadeaway_J 3:45 - James Posey

1. Laimbeer 4:00 - Bo Outlaw
2. Timmaytime 4:15 - Robert Horry
3. Hooplah 4:30 - Tyson Chandler
4. Fadeaway_J 4:45 - Steve Kerr
5. wackbone 5:00 - Kirk Hinrich
6. dantley4prez 5:15 - Tree Rollins
7. MadNESS 5:30 - (Clock expired)
8. damecurry 5:45 - (Clock expired)

Make up picks
1. dantley4prez 6:00 - Brent Barry
2. Timmaytime 6:15 - George Johnson
3. MadNESS 6:30 - (Declines pick)
4. damecurry 6:45 - (Declines pick)

[Laimbeer]

OK here we go.

A reminder -please pick within your window - DO NOT PICK EARLY OR LATE.

Dame, your random player is DeAndre Jordan.

Good luck everybody!

[damecurry]

Okay, here we go, let's do this thing!



Chris Paul. Given the clippers restriction plus the MVP limitation this is an obvious choice. Considered one other guy but he's won an MVP and I'd rather save my MVP ticket for later. CP3 is about as good as it gets outside of MVPs and while I don't like taking a PG this early usually, it's the right choice given the circumstances.

[8on]

Alonzooooooooooooooo Mourning

[MadNESS]

I'll happily select Shaquille O'Neal aka the Diesel, the most dominate force ever, and now this game is blown wide open with possibilities. Boom.

[Hooplah]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[wackbone]

Eh, why not. Let's make this interesting.

I'll choose the Greek Freak and will obviously be using this season. Fun Fact, I went to Greece this past summer, and bought a Giannis Greek Olympic Jersey while there, so this feels like the right pick. Plus, I get to limit the next guy to only Bucks Sorry Laimbeer.

[Laimbeer]

I'm going the Dame route and am going to pass on the MVPs available to me.


Sidney Moncrief

[Timmaytime]

also going to pass on some mvps...



Dwight Howard

[Fadeaway_J]

Let's see if I can make a better stab at building around this guy:


Hakeem Olajuwon

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You're up next.

[MadNESS]

I think this is the right pick:



Tracy McGrady

Shaq never won anything with out a dominate shooting guard.... so.....

[wackbone]

I'll take the Beard to match with the Greek Freak. Will also be using this season. Thankfully the MVP hasn't been announced yet this season so he is still eligible for the Non-MVP category

James Harden



http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/antetokounmpo-says-james-harden-is-the-best-player-in-the-nba/

[Hooplah]

Clyde Drexler

[Laimbeer]

What the hell, we'll be able to play defense. Plus he and Squid give me flexibility going forward.

Scottie Pippen

[Fadeaway_J]

Jimmy Butler

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You're next.

[damecurry]

I thought very very seriously about going another way but I've gotta take the GOAT while I have the chance:



MJ and CP3, Watch out gang!

[Timmaytime]

Gives Dantley a guy that I didn't want to open up but I prefer letting him go to the other alternative. Plus he's not an MVP!

Dwyane Wade

[8on]

I'm still really pissed off that I didn't get my guy earlier (totally valid pick IMO), but this sort of makes up for it.

LeBrooooooooooooooon James

[wackbone]

Lots of choices here. I am ultimately going to go with a guy that gives me a ton of FGA flexibility, and is an elite defender to deal with some of the high end guys in this draft. I will pick Ben Wallace.

[MadNESS]

I'll go Chauncey Billups here:



Hit the 3, play some clamp down d, make the right pass-y.

Perfect fit for my new big 3