Scavenger Hunt Draft - finals - Fred Wins!!!

[Fred Williamson]

With their next selection A Different World selects, arguably the greatest one on one player in the NBA, "The Truth" 2001-02 Paul Pierce for the category "March Madness"



Blood game time

Pierce has never been in the final four with the Jayhawks as far as I know

"He was the team's leading scorer as a sophmore and led Kansas to the 1997 Final Four"

Damn, I knew I shouldn't trust wiki as a source

edit: hold on
http://www.wral.com/sports/blogpost/2644876/

Williams also incorporated into his speech two apologies — one to his children, Scott and Kimberly, for not being around more when they were younger, the other to members of his best Kansas teams for not leading them to the Final Four. Williams was the head coach of the Jayhawks for 15 seasons, from 1988-2003.

"Paul Pierce, Raef LaFrentz and Jacque Vaughn," Williams said. "The leaders of great teams that I feel I failed because I didn't get you to the Final Four."

The 1997 Jayhawks entered the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 1 in the nation but lost in the Sweet 16 to Arizona, the eventual national champion. The 1998 Jayhawks entered the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 2 in the nation but lost in the second round.

and yeah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_NCAA_ ... Tournament

he didn't

[LamarMatic7]

Pierce has never been in the final four with the Jayhawks as far as I know

"He was the team's leading scorer as a sophmore and led Kansas to the 1997 Final Four"

Damn, I knew I shouldn't trust wiki as a source

edit: hold on
http://www.wral.com/sports/blogpost/2644876/

Williams also incorporated into his speech two apologies — one to his children, Scott and Kimberly, for not being around more when they were younger, the other to members of his best Kansas teams for not leading them to the Final Four. Williams was the head coach of the Jayhawks for 15 seasons, from 1988-2003.

"Paul Pierce, Raef LaFrentz and Jacque Vaughn," Williams said. "The leaders of great teams that I feel I failed because I didn't get you to the Final Four."

The 1997 Jayhawks entered the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 1 in the nation but lost in the Sweet 16 to Arizona, the eventual national champion. The 1998 Jayhawks entered the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 2 in the nation but lost in the second round.

and yeah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_NCAA_ ... Tournament

he didn't

I went through every year of Final Fours since the 1970s on sports-reference, so I'm pretty sure he hasn't made the final four.

[fatlever]

JDW, the guys are correct. pierce never played in final four, according to kansas website
http://www.kuathletics.com/sports/m-bas ... story.html
they didnt go between 93 and 02. pierce was there in 96, 97 and 98.

you can put him in allnba or allstar or you can select a new player. let me know. for now i am moving him to allnba.

[MKG14]

yeah i just googled paul pierce final four and that line came up, so idk where that misinformation came from

[TheKingofSting]

Jason Terry (2001-02) - 6th Man

[BigSlam]

The Chief Robert Parish from the Black Hole category in his 1981-82 season.

Didn`t Parish play for the 1st time in 1976?

[SWedd523]

Once again, let's go back to Simmons and let him describe my next pick

He was the greatest defensive guard of his era, making nine straight All-Defensive appearances from 79-87 (first or second team) and becoming one of the only players ever described as "destructive" on that end.

Larry Bird called him the greatest he ever played with.

He could defend anyone shorter than 6'9" and lock them down.

There's a great scene in the '87 team video when the Celts are boarding the bus after a Game 6 shellacking in the Pistons series. Still sulking about Dennis Rodman's antics, he sarcastically waves his hand over his head and says something like 'Yeah, okay, we'll see what happens on Sunday.' Sure enough, the Celts pulled out an absolute slugfest of a 7th game, with him following Rodman around in the final seconds and sarcastically mimicking Rodman's high-stepped gait while waving his hand over his head.

The lesson, as always: don't mess with Dennis Johnson

For my Dead Guy category, I'll take the younger, more dynamic, 1980-81 Dennis Johnson and use him as a bulldog combo off the bench. That year:

19 points
4 assists
5 rebounds
2 steals
1 block

First Team All-NBA
First Team All-Defense
All-Star

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY_4v2FkyUA[/youtube]

[SWedd523]

Didn`t Parish play for the 1st time in 1976?

Does rookie year 76-77 qualify, or is it 77-78?

thanks for asking this... its actually the 76-77 season.

[BigSlam]

Vinnie Johnson - 6th man - 1982-83

[BigSlam]

Didn`t Parish play for the 1st time in 1976?

Does rookie year 76-77 qualify, or is it 77-78?

thanks for asking this... its actually the 76-77 season.

Knob.

[SWedd523]

Don't know much about Vinnie, was he a 1 or 2?

[amcoolio]

It was between Dennis Johnson and my other hopeful for my next pick. 1 more pick to go. Come on Fred!

[amcoolio]

Just for clarification when all this is over and we are judging teams we are using single years and not career longevity, right? Thats the whole point of the pick a year thing? Because there are some flash in the pan-type players who had incredible years but fizzled out.

[SWedd523]

With that statement I have a feeling I know exactly who you have in mind

[amcoolio]

I will say no more

[Fred Williamson]

I take 85-86 Bill Laimbeer as my deep sleeper pick

[amcoolio]

Well I can't believe this player hasn't been taken yet, I've read over the rules and fatlever's rule clarification 100 times and the players taken list and can't see anything wrong with it, so..... I'm taking 1982-1983 Adrian Dantley as my Journeyman and moving him into the starting lineup and sending Reggie to the bench.

In 83 Dantley won the scoring title with 30.7 points per game and also posted a modest 6.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists on 58% shooting and 85% from the charity stripe.

PG: Steve Nash (18.6 PPG, 11.6 APG, 53% FG, 45% 3PT, 90% FT)
SG: Adrian Dantley (30.7 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 4.8 APG, 58% FG, 85% FT)
SF: Scottie Pippen (22.0 PPG, 8.7 RPG, 5.6 APG, 2.9 SPG, 50% FG)
PF: Charles Barkley (25.6 PPG, 12.2 RPG, 5.1 APG, 1.6 SPG, 52% FG)
C: Ming Yao (22.0 PPG, 10.8 RPG, 2.0 BPG, 50% FG, 85% FT, Really Tall)

Bench:
G: Reggie Miller (24.6 PPG, 3.8 APG, 3.6 RPG, 51% FG, 42% 3PT, 86% FT)

Also this was not who I was planning to pick Sweed

[Diop]

I had Dantley on my radar for a while but decided to go for someone younger more athletic.

[SWedd523]

Well I can't believe this player hasn't been taken yet, I've read over the rules and fatlever's rule clarification 100 times and the players taken list and can't see anything wrong with it, so..... I'm taking 1982-1983 Adrian Dantley as my Journeyman and moving him into the starting lineup and sending Reggie to the bench

In the right system I think he can be really effective, but he wasn't the type of guy I thought would work with my plan. He's just too much of a ball stopping, me-first, type of guy. I thought about picking him up just so I could say I had 3 guys who averaged right at 30 points, but all the research turned me off.

Also this was not who I was planning to pick Sweed

Not who I had in mind!

[Diop]

Just for clarification when all this is over and we are judging teams we are using single years and not career longevity, right? Thats the whole point of the pick a year thing? Because there are some flash in the pan-type players who had incredible years but fizzled out.

someones grandma?

He has to be drafted at some stage.