2016 Scavenger Hunt Draft - ESAL/Gatz wins

amcoolio · Post #701 » by **amcoolio** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:02 pm

He went to college at Notre Dame, which is, in fact, in Indiana......

Most people forget that Bill was a great pick and pop player. Deadly from midrange, and could shoot 3's later in his career. A stretch four who will beat you up? Yes please. Since I can pick any year, I'll go with 89-90... Despite the reduced stats per game, he won a championship, layed guys out and also made 57 threes that year. By the way, this dude didn't miss a game for 8 straight years in his career, and nearly averaged 90% from the stripe during that span. Impressive. 12.1 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 1 bpg, 51/36/85%

PG: John Stockton (1992; Dream Team, 2nd team all NBA, 2nd team all Defense, 15.8 ppg, 13.7 apg, 3.0 spg, 50/40/84 %)
SG: Kobe Bryant (2008; NBA MVP, 1st team all NBA, 1st team all Defense, 28.3 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 5.4 apg, 1.8 spg)
SF:
PF: Kevin McHale (1984; All-Star, 6th MOTY 18.4 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 1.5 bpg. 55% FG)
C: Tim Duncan (1998; All-Star, 1st team all NBA, 2nd team all Defense, Rookie of the Year, 21.1 ppg, 11.9 rpg, 2.5 bpg, 2.9 apg, 55% FG)

Bench: Artis Gilmore (1978; All-Star, 2nd team all Defense, 22.9 ppg, 13.1 rpg, 2.2 bpg, and 3.2 apg)
Bench: Mark Price (1993; All Star, All-NBA 1st Team, 18.2 ppg, 8.0 apg, 48% FG, 41% 3PT 94.8% FT
Bench: Bill Laimbeer (1990; NBA Champion, 12.1 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 1 bpg, 51/36/85%)

EwingSweatsALot · Post #702 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:09 pm

i knew you were going to that category. Not who I thought you would go with though.

Flip Murray · Post #703 » by **Flip Murray** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:58 pm

Shawn Marion Championship bench 10-11

For some reason this damn website doens't work since i updated chrome. Cant do proper writeups i've been trying to make this pick for 20 minutes and I wanted to add a video that wasn't working. How good must you be to have that shooting form and make such a good career in the league? You'd be laughed at but Marion was such an incredible player and athlete. And I also like the fact that he never really changed it. I mean for god's sake he shot 39% with it on 4.5 attempts in Phoenix.

Flip Murray · Post #704 » by **Flip Murray** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:00 pm

Laimbeer didn't miss a game in 8 years? That's nuts especially with his play style

James Gatz · Post #705 » by **James Gatz** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:03 pm

Flip Murray wrote:Shawn Marion Championship bench 10-11

For some reason this damn website doens't work since i updated chrome. Cant do proper writeups i've been trying to make this pick for 20 minutes and I wanted to add a video that wasn't working. How good must you be to have that shooting form and make such a good career in the league? You'd be laughed at but Marion was such an incredible player and athlete. And I also like the fact that he never really changed it. I mean for god's sake he shot 39% with it on 4.5 attempts in Phoenix.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Marion started too many games to be considered for this category.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #706 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:26 pm

James Gatz wrote:
Flip Murray wrote:Shawn Marion Championship bench 10-11

For some reason this damn website doens't work since i updated chrome. Cant do proper writeups i've been trying to make this pick for 20 minutes and I wanted to add a video that wasn't working. How good must you be to have that shooting form and make such a good career in the league? You'd be laughed at but Marion was such an incredible player and athlete. And I also like the fact that he never really changed it. I mean for god's sake he shot 39% with it on 4.5 attempts in Phoenix.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Marion started too many games to be considered for this category.

Correct. 50 games or more played. 10 starts or less.

Post #707 » by **fatlever** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:46 pm

Flip is fired!!!

Post #708 » by **JDR720** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:49 pm

he's gonna flip out when he sees this.

Post #709 » by **fatlever** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:49 pm

Wow, I just realized I had a massive overlook in my research. When doing my rankings for Hoosier I stopped after only looking at Indiana University. Duh. Several other huge universities in Indiana. Time to see who else I can dig up for that category.

I have YBs picks for this round. He just sniped my next pick. Good thing he picks before me. Bastard. I'll go with my backup plan.

Post #710 » by **fatlever** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:50 pm

Apparently Coolio's plan is to fight his way to the championship.

LamarMatic7 · Post #711 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:34 pm

Diop wrote:I was looking a Cummings too, I'm sure we all were

Thought that I was going to take him for the longest time before figuring that McGinnis would make more sense.

Sent from my C5303 using RealGM Forums mobile app

LamarMatic7 · Post #712 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:36 pm

fatlever wrote:Wow, I just realized I had a massive overlook in my research. When doing my rankings for Hoosier I stopped after only looking at Indiana University. Duh. Several other huge universities in Indiana. Time to see who else I can dig up for that category.

I have YBs picks for this round. He just sniped my next pick. Good thing he picks before me. Bastard. I'll go with my backup plan.

I literally had opened a Wikipedia page of "List of universities at Indiana" to educate my ignorant self about the available colleges.

Sent from my C5303 using RealGM Forums mobile app

LamarMatic7 · Post #713 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 5:38 pm

Laimbeer is underrated as a player. People look back at him as a simple goon when in fact he provided you with 16/9, great defense and shot threes back when Sikma was the only other center to do so.

Kind of Marc Gasol-ish.

Sent from my C5303 using RealGM Forums mobile app

EwingSweatsALot · Post #714 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:00 pm

fatlever wrote:Wow, I just realized I had a massive overlook in my research. When doing my rankings for Hoosier I stopped after only looking at Indiana University. Duh. Several other huge universities in Indiana. Time to see who else I can dig up for that category.

I have YBs picks for this round. He just sniped my next pick. Good thing he picks before me. Bastard. I'll go with my backup plan.

Was hoping this realization was going to last at least one more round or two.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #715 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:01 pm

LamarMatic7 wrote:Laimbeer is underrated as a player. People look back at him as a simple goon when in fact he provided you with 16/9, great defense and shot threes back when Sikma was the only other center to do so.

Kind of Marc Gasol-ish.

Sent from my C5303 using RealGM Forums mobile app

Well Barkley does consider him soft. Which is funny to hear that from a player when every fan thinks the opposite.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #716 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:05 pm

Random thought. I know at the end we have the opportunity to state our case for our team. Would it take to much time to have each team be able to ask three other teams of their choosing a question about their team. So we get maybe some more specific details.

Ask them why they chose this guy. Ask them how they would defend your team or another team. What kind of matchups would you deploy for this. Or something like that.

Just a thought. Might be too cumbersome though.

LamarMatic7 · Post #717 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:18 pm

EwingSweatsALot wrote:
LamarMatic7 wrote:Laimbeer is underrated as a player. People look back at him as a simple goon when in fact he provided you with 16/9, great defense and shot threes back when Sikma was the only other center to do so.

Kind of Marc Gasol-ish.

Sent from my C5303 using RealGM Forums mobile app

Well Barkley does consider him soft. Which is funny to hear that from a player when every fan thinks the opposite.

Ironically, there are real tough guys like Oakley who consider Barkley a fake tough guy.

Sent from my C5303 using RealGM Forums mobile app

amcoolio · Post #718 » by **amcoolio** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:06 pm

I wanted Laimbeer several rounds ago, but I kept gambling on the fact nobody realized Notre Dame counted for the category on basketball reference. I was certain fats/Yosemite was going to pick him this round. He's a player that you want him on your team, otherwise you are gonna absolutely hate him. And he works well with Price and Gilmore on the 2nd unit.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #719 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:09 pm

amcoolio wrote:I wanted Laimbeer several rounds ago, but I kept gambling on the fact nobody realized Notre Dame counted for the category on basketball reference. I was certain fats/Yosemite was going to pick him this round. He's a player that you want him on your team, otherwise you are gonna absolutely hate him. And he works well with Price and Gilmore on the 2nd unit.

There is another guy I have alluded to that falls in the Laimbeer category that hasn't been picked yet. I contemplated it a few rounds ago until I read more and more about him.

EwingSweatsALot · Post #720 » by **EwingSweatsALot** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 7:10 pm

So is it Lamar's pick or are we waiting for Flip to correct?