Give Me The Rock
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A mere three weeks after it started, the CBS Experts league draft is done. It was a 30 team league with “experts” from CBS sports and around the Internet. I wrote about the start of the draft, but here is how it ended.
My team (Round/Pick/Player):
1.11: Chris Paul (PG NO)
2.50: Josh Howard (SF DAL)
3.71: Ricky Davis (SG MIA)
4.110: Andres Nocioni (SF CHI)
5.131: Walter Herrmann (SF CHA)
6.170: Robert Swift (C SEA)
7.191: Speedy Claxton (PG ATL)
8.230: Sean Williams (PF NJ)
9.251: Fabricio Oberto (C SA)
10.290: Carlos Delfino (SG TOR)
11.311: Greg Oden (C POR)
12.350: Greg Buckner (SG MIN)
I got to be honest with you, I’m not Mclovin my team. But that probably has to do more with going 30 deep than anything. In fact, after the seventh round (pick 191 for me – Speedy!), strategy went out the window and I just started picking guys with cool names. Fabricio Oberto, Carlos Delfino. Those names make me really happy.
Overall, I like what I have at the PG position (with Paul) and at the SG position (with Howard). I’m also kind of excited that Ricky Davis is going to the Heat (I had no idea that he’d be traded at the time), but it works out for me and Davis will be great until Wade returns. Instead of picking a center in the fifth round, I went with my boy Walter Herrmann (who I couldn’t pass up at pick 131). Hermann is going to be good this year, but the CBS positions are much more restrictive than Yahoo, so I’ve got both Howard and Herrmann on my team as guys who can only play at SF. That sucks… for me.
I’m a little worried about my PF position, where I drafted Andres Nocioni. He had a pretty crappy year last year, but I’m banking on him improving (and staying healthy dammit). As mentioned in the previous post, the CBS Experts league is a points-based league that leans heavily on points and assists, so I could care less that Nocioni isn’t a typical power forward. Still, I’m a little worried. Nels, you might have to give me a pep talk about Nocioni. Please tell me he’s going to be healthy this year.
Overall, I’m most worried about my center. I was hoping to grab Zaza Pachulia or Joel Przybilla in the fifth round, but they went well before the pick got back to me. So, in the sixth, I was forced to grab the last guy with any hope of being decent – Robert Swift. Yes, the guy who didn’t play a single regular season minute last season. Yes, I’m worried about that. But that’s what happens when you pick your first center after 170 guys have already been picked.
My bench is obviously weak, but that is to be expected. Fabricio Oberto and Carlos Delfino might actually start for their respective teams this season, which makes them worth a late round pick just on principal. There was crap left by round 11, so I said what the hell and drafted Oden. Even if he comes back for a week at the end of the season, he’ll be worth it. Greg Buckner? I think that was auto pilot.
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