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Posted on: September 28th, 2008

Recently, I was lucky enough to participate in a mock draft set up by Jamaal Gilbert from FantasyBasketball.com. The draft pretty much consisted of various basketball bloggers as well as a few guys from FantasyBasketball.com. You’ll need to buy their 2008 fantasy draft guide to see the results of the mock, so while it wouldn’t be right for me to rundown the entire results of the draft, I don’t think I’ll be hunted down and killed if I showed you how my team shaped up.

And – in my humble opinion – it is one of the greatest mock draft teams ever assembled in the history of mock drafting.* The league consisted of 12 teams and was based on a 8-category rotisserie scoring format. It starts 4 G, 4 F, and 1 C. I had the 6th pick in the draft and here is how things shook out for me:

Round/Pick/Player
1.6 Shawn Marion (F MIA)
2.19 Elton Brand (F PHI)
3.30 David West (F NO)
4.43 Chauncey Billups (G DET)
5.54 Manu Ginobili (G SA)
6.67 Gilbert Arenas (G WAS)
7.78 Chris Kaman (C LAC)
8.91 Jason Terry (G DAL)
9.102 Leandro Barbosa (G PHO)
10.115 Jamario Moon (F TOR)
11.126 Drew Gooden (F CHI)
12.139 Grant Hill (F PHO)
13.150 Darko Milicic (C MEM)

Very nice. A couple quick notes about the mock draft:

*No, I’m not really a megalomaniac and, yes, pretty much everyone loves their own draft before the season starts, but I’m usually fairly realistic with my fantasy teams. For example, Nels and I are participating in a mock draft over at Full Court Press Fantasy Basketball, where I would charitably say my draft up to this point has been adequate. Andrew Bynum in the 3rd ? Oy… I wish I could take that back.

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  • terrance

    hey patrick, i thought FCP was hacked? I havent been able to see the results of the draft. You doing it offline, or is there another way to get to the site?

  • terrance

    Im surprised brand lasted that long and that those three went ahead of him, did granger go ahead of him too? Thats fine if they did, but sometimes managers want to show off how smart they are and take the next big thing. Im conservitive when it comes to my first few picks, so youll likely never see me take a risky 1st round pick, and i dont like the idea of building my team around danny granger. I like PG and PF/C to start a team.

    Finally, it seems that billups is being slept on this seasons. Good call on passing on him for west, who is getting his due after a few seasons of being a good sleeper in the 4th and 5th round. I may take bbillups this season if he falls to the third round, i dont like taking him in the second.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    @Terrance, the draft was on FantasyBasketball.com, not Full Court Press.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    @Patrick, Shennanigans! I delcare Shennanigans!

    Without seeing the rest of the draft, I have no way to prove that you didn’t actually draft that team, but you also have no way to prove that you did draft that team. There is no way in a 12 team league that Brand goes 19, David West 30, and Billups at 43. You made this entire thing up. Please stop sullying the name of FantasyBasketball.com just to make yourself look better.

  • http://www.2ndroundreach.blogspot.com Brendan K.

    Dude, who the hell were you drafting with and what are their definitions of “sleeper” that let these players fall to you!?

  • Mike Plugh

    Holy shit. Brand in the 2nd is great, but how did Chauncey Billups slip to the 4th round???? He was 20th in the Yahoo! standings last year and figures to be at least in that range this season. Ginobili as the 54th pick? Who was picking in this league? There aren’t 35 players better in fantasy hoops than Ginobili, let alone 53.

    Just to show I’m fair, I think your last three picks were wasted. Those guys have no shot of finishing the season on your roster. Gooden is a marginal player in fantasy, Hill is sure to play 28 minutes a game with Barnes on board, and Darko is on his way out of the league.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Patrick

    @terrance – Granger went with the second pick in the third, number 26 overall. That actually seems like a good spot for him. But, I agree with you that Granger is getting so much love right now he’s going to be reached for in a lot of drafts.

    @Nels – you’re on to me…

    Dr. A also participated in the draft and he briefly recaps it (and one other) in this article. It’s by no means proof that this draft was more than a figment of my imagination. However, if you make it to the second page, you can see where he does not like my Arenas pick.

    @Mike – yeah, I tried to mention briefly in my post that the CBS draft application (we mocked live) was giving me crap starting in the 11th round. My plan in the 11th was to draft Ronnie Brewer, but CBS was telling me that I couldn’t do it because it would make my roster illegal. I spent 88 out of my allotted 90 seconds clicking on Brewer’s name 150 times and wondering why I wasn’t drafting him. Gooden was a last second move. Darko was a little bit of a joke pick when CBS forced me to pick a center in the last round.

    Looking back at the draft, there was plenty of reaching going on from the first round. Maybe that’s a little easier to do when your mocking and don’t necessarily have to live with the repercussions of your picks.

  • http://fantasyaddict.wordpress.com/ Fantasy Basketball Jedi

    I think there should be a new, alternate term the one coined by Basketbawful, regarding the great feeling you have after a mock draft.

    Instead of “Drafterglow” maybe “Mockification” or “Mock-Esteem”