I tend to think that you have to have a strategy going in generally, but modify it quickly if a few of your targets dont fall to you. Thats what happened here in Round 4.

Ive never had a team make-up like this without being PG heavy in the past 5 years, so it feels very foreign to me – We’ll see what happens. Im psycho on the wire though, and feel Im going to need to be since Im sure I will be craving PGs shortly….

Thx for the feedback. Oddly, having won this league 2 of the last 3 years on the strength of PGs and PF’s, you would think I was on to something only to completely depart from 1/2 my equation in 2010, but I digress.

My rationale was 2 fold – 1) If D.Williams or S.Curry were there at #10 overall, I was going guard #1-big #2, but they both went before that….so, I wasnt going to reach for subpar PGs (in my mind) in the first 2 rds. I tend to like the bigger guards (Tyreke, Westy, Rose) and thought they could be had in Rds 3-4. I really wanted to pair 2 of those with 2 Bigs, which I knew I could land in Rd.1 (Amare) and #2 (Gasol). That was the thinking going in until both Tyreke and Westy were snagged late in Rd.2, so I ultimately went Rose#3 and KevMart#4… Kev Mart is an injury risk and I really liked him in the 5th, but didnt want to risk losing out on that, so plunged a bit early. 2) Most of the league is on to my PG heavy strategy based on past success, so there were a lot of pt. guards flying off the board earlier than normal — so I simply decided by rd.6 that i was punting assists for better or for worse.

Contrary to your take, I think JaVale could/will/better be that nice source of blocks for me and should blossom in Washington this year – all the signs are there. I do appreciate your “risk” assessment on both him and Randolph and tend to agree (especially on Randolph), but snagging him in the 7th round (when I almost took him in the 5th) made me feel a lot better about the pick.

Having looked at the squad again this am, I was thinking that a nice piece to my team, might be a guy like Stephen Jackson cause I think I sorely need steals and another 3pt guy wont hurt, granted the fg% will take a hit, but Im pretty strong there. thoughts on that? or just type of player to add (aside from name)?

Anyway, I also snagged Belinelli this am as hes not going away. Thornton seems to be in the dog-house right now…

thanks,
EL BURRO

You’ve got tons of firepower and your percentages will be solid. I wonder where your blocks are going to come from though. Gasol will be nice, but Amar’e blocks like a SF, Scola doesn’t much try and Randolph/JaValevator are just as risky as they are promising.

@Free Weezy: two early third-rounders for a mid-first-rounder? I guess it depends on if you’d rather have $1.25 in quarters or a single dollar bill.