Sorry but it doesn't look like a lot of care was taken while making your so-called updates.

06-07
19.1 PT 0.3 3s 7.4 RBs 3.7 Asts 2.1 Stls 0.3 Blks 2.9 TOs 46.3 FG 86.3 FT

07-08
20.3 PT 1.1 3s 6.7 RBs 4.9 Asts 2.2 Stls 0.4 Blks 2.6 TOs 46.6 FG 90.1 Ft

I think your comment is way off base. His numbers improved considerably last year, the increase was even higher while Arenas was out.

The biggest concern still isn’t being addressed. Butler misses 20 games a season. You can’t have your 1st round pick miss a quarter of the season.

As for Granger, I am personally worried about his ceiling. There just isn’t enough data there yet for me to say for certain that he’s going to be that much better than last year. You are right that his team has changed in a way that should be better for him, and I’m sure that he’ll get taken in the 10-15 range in a lot of leagues because there is certainly the possibility that he’ll be even better than that. But I prefer to be pessimistic about mostly everybody and I try to draft players when I feel they should have already been drafted, as opposed to drafting them at the high end of their topside potential.

I also think Danny Granger should be higher. He finished 17th last year. He was 5th after J. O’Neal left. Now he will have an entire season without O’Neal and they significantly upgraded their point guard in T.J Ford. Add in the fact that he is young and last year was his first full-time starter year and you have to agree he finishes higher than last year. I like him anywhere in the 10-15 range, with the potential to make a Chris Paulesque type of leap.

That said, the controversial posts are always more interesting and popular than the straightforward, easy-to-digest ones. Or, as Kanye once said: Everybody feel a way about K but at least y’all feel somethin

As for Duhon (again), I don’t disagree that if he gets 30 minutes per game that he’ll be a 110-120 ranking PG. The place where we differ, though, is that you think he’ll get those minutes, and I don’t.

I do realize that it’s only July but your rankings do look like they’ve just made small changes from last season instead of looking at players who’s situations have drastically changed. And identifying those are the players that win or lose leagues for you. That’s locating both solid sleepers (like Duhon) or players to avoid (like the now 3rd string Deiner). I’m sure this isn’t anything you don’t already know I’m just surprised that you shrugged off the value of Duhon so easily? NY has all but said that Marbury won’t be back next season with all the sarcastic comments that D’Antoni has made about him this summer and they’ve already signed 2 PG’s to forward with.

As it is, back in 2005-06 Duhon started for the Bulls, played almost 30 mpg and was ranked in the top 110. And no matter how bad you think Duhon is (and he’s not a great player by any stretch) if you’re an NBA starting PG getting 30+ mpg as he looks to get this year, you’re going to rank pretty high. Certainly higher than he did last season. Just look at what Anthony Carter and Beno Udrih last season.

Good luck and I hope this turns into healthy debate rather than my previous immature rant.

As for Duhon… well, the Knicks are a mess. And even if Duhon got 29 minutes a game, he’d be right about where you say he’d be “at worst.” I see that case as his “at best.” I don’t really believe that D’Antoni will somehow transform the Knicks into a fantasy powerhouse like he did with the Suns. If they get rid of Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph, then I will feel more comfortable moving Duhon up the board. Perhaps I’m just overly critical of Duhon because I had to deal with him as part of the 6-foot-3-and-under 3-guard lineup the Bulls actually put on the floor at times. But the Knicks still have Jamal Crawford (who played 39 minutes in 80 games last season), and Nate Robinson (who played 26 minutes in 72 games), both of whom seem (to me at least) more like D’Antoni type players than Duhon.

The Knicks also have Quintin Richardson at SG (a surefire D’Antoni guy) and Mardy Collins at the more general backup G position. They also just signed the 6-2 guard Anthony Roberson. Even if they dump Stephon Marbury, that’s 6 players for 2 spots and I don’t see how you can get more than 20 minutes for Duhon from that.

Finally, we never claimed to be experts, unless it was sarcastic and/or self-deprecating. Sorry if you got the wrong impression. We are just two guys who like fantasy basketball enough to write a blog about it. If you want a Big Board from an actual, official expert go to Yahoo and check out Brandon Funston, from whom we (or at least I) stole the idea for the Big Board in the first place.

Sorry but it doesn’t look like a lot of care was taken while making your so-called updates.

Boozer and Jefferson are both popular in my league and will be gone by the time I’m picking. Shame really because even though I’m a little excited to see what West can do the lack of C classification is a real downer.

Thanks again for the Big Board and for the site in general – it’s hard to find quality info / opinions in late july.