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Early season mistakes 

Post#1 » by Pointgod » Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:07 pm

What early season mistakes have you made so far? Whether it's a poor trade or free agent pickup/drop. Mine was dropping Frank Kaminsky after his first game. I'm not going to count draft misses because hindsight is 20/20
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#2 » by DRK » Thu Nov 2, 2017 9:20 am

Had Lauri on my waiver wire for a while, but didnt pick him up, because I liked my bench in Donovon Mitchell, Jordan clarkson and MKG...

I was tossing up heavily between DAngelo Russell and Oladipo in the draft. DAR already was a steal for where I got him, and if it was any other player other than Oladipo I was tossing up, I wouldnt been writing this. But Oladipo has gone mental
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#3 » by Revived » Thu Nov 2, 2017 3:13 pm

I could've picked up Markannen and decided on keeping Lance Stephenson instead.

Had a chance on picking up Mitchell and punted too...same with the rookie big on the Hawks that's doing good.

Dropped Rodney Hood the other day...hope it doesn't come back to bite me in the ass.
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#4 » by Dominator83 » Sat Nov 4, 2017 10:09 am

Dropped Hardaway just a tad too early. Also briefly picked up lamb, only to watch him explode last night. But I mainly dropped him because I read that Batum is gonna be back soon. Thought about picking up Kanter, decided to keep RHJ instead. At the time I thought the Knicks were high on Hermangomez.

On the bright side, I did get Eric Gordon and Jalen Brown on the wire though. So I guess you win some, you lose some.

Bad move averted: before the season started, I offered a guy Draymond for Butler straight up. I didn't have Eric Gordon or Brown yet so was desperate for a guard. He turned it down! Came crawling back the other day saying offer it again and he'll accept. I told him he had his chance to rip me off and blew it
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#5 » by kane0801 » Sun Nov 5, 2017 1:32 pm

Draft WCS in round 8,sigh
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#6 » by slimkaka » Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:53 am

I had Eric Bledsoe on 3rd round and Batum on the 4th for a 18 team league. You know the pain...

4 straight loses for the first 4 weeks.
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#7 » by Dominator83 » Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:41 am

slimkaka wrote:I had Eric Bledsoe on 3rd round and Batum on the 4th for a 18 team league. You know the pain...

4 straight loses for the first 4 weeks.

18 teams?? man thats gotta be some slim pickens in those drafts
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#8 » by elBJ » Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:43 am

In my 8 team h2h points league, Ben Simmons went in the 7th round and I wasn't the one picking him up.
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#9 » by PistolPeteJR » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:40 pm

Dropped Tyreke Evans after the first few games...
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#10 » by Pointgod » Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:46 pm

PistolPeteJR wrote:Dropped Tyreke Evans after the first few games...

ouch that's gotta hurt
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#11 » by CableKC » Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:01 pm

Stuck with Players much longer than I should have ( Nerlens and Eric Gordon ) while not selling high on Eric Gordon when he was playing out of his mind.
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#12 » by mickie » Fri Dec 8, 2017 8:31 pm

drafting lonzo ball
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#13 » by alessandro3945 » Tue Dec 19, 2017 11:22 pm

although he was on my must draft list didn't draft oladipo anywhere in my leagues
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#14 » by Dominator83 » Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:15 am

CableKC wrote:Stuck with Players much longer than I should have ( Nerlens and Eric Gordon ) while not selling high on Eric Gordon when he was playing out of his mind.

Believe me I tried doing that. But my league is a bunch of smart marks so nobody was falling for it
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#15 » by blzzd » Sat Jan 6, 2018 10:45 pm

dropped steven adams during a week okc had 2 games and he sprained his ankle earlier
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#16 » by mcgrady_1 » Thu Mar 8, 2018 7:29 pm

I dropped Favors the day before Gobert went down.
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#17 » by niQ » Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:32 pm

Dropped Jamal Murray too early. But man, he was killing my FG% early on.
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#18 » by Dominator83 » Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:03 am

Dropped THJ in week 2.

BUT, considering that since week 6, hes reached 100 fantasy pts only twice, not really that bad of a drop
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#19 » by Roddy B for 3 » Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:09 am

I dropped Mitchell
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Re: Early season mistakes 

Post#20 » by Moooose » Sun Apr 1, 2018 5:14 am

Roddy B for 3 wrote:I dropped Mitchell


Kinda same here, but I picked Ntilikina over Mitchell in a deep keeper league.

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