QUOTE (Guest @ Oct 13 2008, 03:05 PM)
Hinrich, Deng, Bargnani and Rose starting......ouch. I like Rose but not with the Bulls crowded backcourt. I agree with Zoom you need help in the assist and 3 point department badly.
Heres my team:
PG Mo Williams
SG OJ Mayo
G Andre Miller
SF Josh Smith
PF Dirk Nowitzki
F Al Thornton
C Marcus Camby
C Rasheed Wallace
Util Mike Bibby
Util Raymond Felton
BN Rafer Alston
BN Andray Blatche
BN Brook Lopez
Love Blatche now that Haywood, Arenas and Jamison are out. I really didn't want Dirk but when he fell to the 8th pick I couldn't complain. This is biased, but I really think I'm one solid three point shooter away from a championship team.
Not sure how I missed this before. How the heck did you get Camby/Smith in the 3rd? That's pretty nice. A few things I would suggest though:
1) As you said, you need a few more 3's, but I would say your biggest hole right now is FG%. Dirk will help, but neither of your centers is going to help you in that area ('Sheed is actually a liability) and you have several other likely low FG guys like Bibby, Felton, Alston, Williams (his 48% last year was well over normal) and probably Mayo. Also, outside of Dirk you don't really have anyone that's likely to get close to 20 points a game.
2) You're a bit over-loaded at PG in terms of position and blocks for stats. Camby and Smith both derive the bulk of their value from blocks and don't really fill in the gaps any. You also get decent to good contributions there from Wallace, Blatche and Dirk.
3) Because of those past comments, I would recommend trading Camby and a PG. You can afford to lose some blocks and boards in trading Camby and you should target a big man that will get you more points and a nice FG% while not TOTALLY destroying your boards/blocks totals. Pau Gasol and Al Jefferson seem like good targets to me that have relatively comparable value (would probably have to add one of the PG). I'd also consider packaging two of those points (preferrably Miller and Felton since they hit fewer 3's and Felton's PT appears to be going down) for one better PG and then target steals and 3's with the extra spot that creates. You want to wind up with as many really good players as possible, those type of guys really carry you in basketball and it's easy to find guys that can fill in a category gap here and there as long as you don't load up on guys that kill your percentages or turn it over a lot.