Assigned Teams Non Draft - Discussion

[durantbird]

Philly probably wasn't the ideal partner for Denver to complete a Jokic build. My initial thought for roddy's pair was that I might have passed on Jokic and try something around Murray-Butler-Melo-Wilt. This can also be the basis for a Jokic team, though Wilt could've covered better for Melo's (or English's) defensive issues.

Philly is tough in general for this exercise. Basically all their elite players are concentrated in Category 1, and their role player pool isn't amazing because most of their success came in the 80s and earlier.

Yeah. Some teams were categorized in a higher tier because of their category 1 players, but basically if you choose to skip those guys for a better category 1 from the other franchise, they become a liability.

[Laimbeer]

Torn between two builds:

Magic / Byron Scott
Rip / Scott
Prince / Horry
Davis / Horry
Rasheed / Salley

Cooper / LeBron
EJ / McKie
LeBron / Prince
Davis / Prince
Rasheed / Mahorn

Pretty clearly the second for me. I'd take Laker LeBron over peak Magic but that's an interesting debate.

[durantbird]

Kyle Korver isn't category 4

Same for Kirilenko

[Laimbeer]

Could we do this using DB's tiers, but we privately select our two teams? If a team like the Celtics is too obviously the best, we could take them off the board. Rankings could be used since we'd probably have duplicates.

[Laimbeer]

Could we do this using DB's tiers, but we privately select our two teams? If a team like the Celtics is too obviously the best, we could take them off the board. Rankings could be used since we'd have a lot of duplicates.

[durantbird]

Could we do this using DB's tiers, but we privately select our two teams? If a team like the Celtics is too obviously the best, we could take them off the board. Rankings could be used since we'd have a lot of duplicates.

I'm not sure I understand the idea. I'm not certain Celtics is obviously best.

[durantbird]

Some suggested this idea should be a draft with everyone choosing the team. We pretty much finished this game in a day, we can try the draft idea as well.

[Larry_Russell]

Kyle Korver isn't category 4

shoot, missed he was an allstar

[durantbird]

Kyle Korver isn't category 4

shoot, missed he was an allstar

Kirilenko as well

[Snakebites]

Hmm.

Interesting dilemma here.

What was the dilemma? Whether to pair LBJ and Luka? Which version of Kyrie to use?

Yeah both of those.

[durantbird]

That was a fun exercise

I understand you completed your team? You haven't posted it. Notice the deadline is in less than 2 hours

[Larry_Russell]

I do not remember AK47 or Korver being Allstars. To my surprise....they both were.

[Fadeaway_J]

I do not remember AK47 or Korver being Allstars. To my surprise....they both were.

Korver was a weird one where they rewarded the Hawks for being a surprise 60-win team (Jeff Teague also made it). I believe he was an injury replacement as well.

AK-47 should have made one or two more if anything.

[Larry_Russell]

I do not remember AK47 or Korver being Allstars. To my surprise....they both were.

Korver was a weird one where they rewarded the Hawks for being a surprise 60-win team (Jeff Teague also made it). I believe he was an injury replacement as well.

AK-47 should have made one or two more if anything.

I dont disagree, I just dont recal him ever being in one.


Regardless, I was keeping him no matter what. I liked the idea of a mourning and AK-47 front court defensive pairing. That should be viewed as a gamechanging defense.

[flaco]

Some suggested this idea should be a draft with everyone choosing the team. We pretty much finished this game in a day, we can try the draft idea as well.

• 3-round draft
• ABB order
• 10 drafters
• We select teams instead of players. Each drafter ends up with 3 teams.
• Keep the 4 categories regarding career accolades otherwise certain franchises are OP.
• We gotta use at least 2 players from each of our selected teams.

[Larry_Russell]

Some suggested this idea should be a draft with everyone choosing the team. We pretty much finished this game in a day, we can try the draft idea as well.

• 3-round draft
• ABB order
• 10 drafters
• We select teams instead of players. Each drafter ends up with 3 teams.
• We gotta use at least 2 players from each of our teams.

sounds good

[Fadeaway_J]

Some suggested this idea should be a draft with everyone choosing the team. We pretty much finished this game in a day, we can try the draft idea as well.

• 3-round draft
• ABB order
• 10 drafters
• We select teams instead of players. Each drafter ends up with 3 teams.
• Keep the 4 categories regarding career accolades otherwise certain franchises reign supreme.
• We gotta use at least 2 players from each of our teams.

Could we not just do two franchises so it doesn't have to be limited to 10 drafters?

We could just open up all 30 franchises so people have more options.

[flaco]

Some suggested this idea should be a draft with everyone choosing the team. We pretty much finished this game in a day, we can try the draft idea as well.

• 3-round draft
• ABB order
• 10 drafters
• We select teams instead of players. Each drafter ends up with 3 teams.
• Keep the 4 categories regarding career accolades otherwise certain franchises reign supreme.
• We gotta use at least 2 players from each of our teams.

Could we not just do two franchises so it doesn't have to be limited to 10 drafters?

We could just open up all 30 franchises so people have more options.

That works too. It's up to the commish, I guess. Unfortunately, I don't have enough spare time to run the game myself. Just throwing the idea for discussion. The commish puts time and effort to run the game, hence he decides the rules.

[durantbird]

I'm pro trying it as a draft. I'd consider changing the Finals MVP rule a bit - instead of including every Finals MVP guy in category 1, just include "MVP or Finals MVP who ever won All NBA First as well". I don't see a reason Billups, Parker, Pierce, Worthy, Brown, Dumars, Iggy, DJ, etc. should be considered category 1. But it keeps guys like Kawhi, Wade and West in category 1 which makes more sense.

[Fadeaway_J]

I'm pro trying it as a draft. I'd consider changing the Finals MVP rule a bit - instead of including every Finals MVP guy in category 1, just include "MVP or Finals MVP who ever won All NBA First as well". I don't see a reason Billups, Parker, Pierce, Worthy, Brown, Dumars, Iggy, DJ, etc. should be considered category 1. But it keeps guys like Kawhi, Wade and West in category 1 which makes more sense.

Agree with that adjustment.

When you say trying it as a draft, do you mean a full draft or just drafting the teams?