Post#1109 » by whitehops » Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:38 am
just to clear some things up about Toronto-bosh... offensively he was an iso-heavy mid-high post player who threatened defending bigs with his jumpshot but his primary goal was to get to the rim - which he did quite frequently. in his later years in Toronto (08 and 09) I would say he was almost unguardable 1 on 1.
about his rebounding, it's not like he's any worse of a rebounder now it's just that in Toronto he was often guarding centers (in the traditional sense) so he was often in premium position to grab boards. in Miami though he often switches on PnR's all the time and I wouldn't be surprised if he spent about half his time on defense from the free throw line to the three point line. it's about strategy, not stats.
PS I will finally divulge how I drafted the players I did. there were a few main categories i looked for (searches on bball-ref) and had a spreadsheet with players' three-year averages in: PER, ORTG, DRTG, the difference in ORTG/DRTG, WS/48 and I used TS% as a tie-breaker. I know that one stat (no matter how advanced) accurately portrays a player's impact which is why I tried to find players that had good impact across the board. my theory with this is that I would find players that had a good medium of production/efficiency and also contributed to the team's success. my barkley, paul, gasol, sabonis and harden picks were at the top of my big board, the rest were in the top 1/4 of my big board. positional needs was also a bigg issue of mine, and I feel I drafted my players wrong from a positional standpoint. eg I could have gotten doc rivers who went undrafted but was pretty much an equal to mo cheeks and drafted kiki vandeweghe instead of lewis.
thinking about it now i'm kind of glad I went PG/PF first, those were the positions that were drafted the least.