Griffin.

[disoblige]

He is a beast in pre-season. What place do you think he will end up at the end of the season.

[mikem1]

The interesting about Griffin is that he hasn't taken that many FT's during the preseason. Which is good b/c he's such a horrible free throw shooter. If that keeps up during the regular season, I think he'll be a beast. His horrible FT% is really his only downside. He scores, boards, and looks like he'll contribute (but not dominate) defensive stats.

I think his value will be on par with Chris Bosh and Al Horford, below Gasol and Amar'e, but a cut above Al Jefferson, David West, Nene Hilario, and Andrea Bargnani.

And of course, Blake will be just be fun to own. I mean dayam, his alley-oops, breakaway dunks are just SICK!!!

[mikem1]

Geez, I'm really sorry. I completely misspoke. Blake has taken a lot of FT attempts. It's his defensive numbers so far that really stand out.

My bad on that one. Either way - I do think he's going to be a beast!

[He's Heating Up]

Yep and a chose Beasley over him.

[AshyLarrysDiaper]

I love Griffin as a third round pick in the "build around Dwight Howard" strategy, incidentally. In a mock yesterday I went Howard-Smith-Griffin, and it turned out to be my best roster yet.

Under normal circumstances I don't think I'd take him before the 4th round, though. The FT's are just too big a liability.

[vincecarter4pres]

Taking him in the 3rd is an epic reach. He may very well live up to, or even out perform that draft position by miles, but he's going about 5th round or even 6xth in most drafts, 4th round at earliest even in leagues where people know what they're doing. No reason to kill the his value by taking him 1 to 4 rounds too early.

He reminds me a lot of Arian Foster this year in FFL. A touted unproven young guy that is nothing but potential that crushes his hype by thoroughly exceeding it, but that doesn't mean you have to take him too early. Even towards the very end of most FFL drafts when people got to see Foster beast throughout the entire preseason, he was still going 3rd to 4th round, so why would you take him 1st or 2nd? Same principle here.

[MoMoneyMoProbs]

I took him in the 3rd round, 34th overall. Its a 14 team H2H draft, with no FT% but there are FTM FTA, so his value jumps up a little bit there.

[cochiseuofm]

Griffin is going to be very good as long as he stays healthy. 3rd round is way too high for him because you can probably get someone like Joakim Noah or Al Horford there, double-double guys with potential to be better than last year that have regular season experience. The Arian Foster comparison is very good, there are plenty of guys who have huge preseasons who don't perform nearly as well once the actual games start. Blake doesn't seem like one of those guys, but its a risk to use a pick that high on him.

In the league I have him in, it was auction format, I paid the 5th most from my budget on him. So late 4th to early 5th seems right to me.

[vincecarter4pres]

I took him in my standard H2H league on Wednesday. Got him 50th overall, which was the 2nd overall pick of the 4th round in a 16 team league.

Love, love, love this guys potential for an absolute monster season, my only fear is he absolutely punts your FT% cat a la Dwight Howard because he's gonna get a ton of attempts and can be pretty damn bad from the charity stripe.