2020 Historical Draft Thread: Draft over. Playoffs coming soon!

[Roy H.]

Dang.  Was hoping he’d fall.

[gouki88]

With the 10th pick in Round 7 of the 2020 Historical Draft the Miami Heat select:



Antonio McDyess

Nice pick, McDyess had a really good year or two before his injury

[Celtic Fan Forever]

With the 10th pick in Round 7 of the 2020 Historical Draft the Miami Heat select:



Antonio McDyess

Heck of a pick. Dude was a monster in the very early 2000's before he got hurt

[GreenFaith1819]

With the 5th pick of the 7th round Indiana's reuniting Dirk with an Old Friend Tyson Chandler:



As a Defensive Player of the year AND a Big who TALKS on defense like KG Tyson will make our defense even better and help Joel out.

Strong selection at this point of the draft, I think Chandler was a top 25-30 player at his peak.

Thanks.

Was surprised at his 3rd team All-NBA selection as well.

He reminded of KG towards the latter half of his career...I always saw him talking on defense much like KG did.

I think he'd serve as a good mentor to Joel as well.

[Who]

I thought Camby peaked in New York rather than Denver. He played fundamentally sound defense for Van Gundy. In Denver, he was stat-padding for blocks and rebounds instead of playing solid D. That is why Denver did not miss his D after he left for nothing in a cap dump.

Criminal that Camby got a DPoY and Duncan did not.


Edit: Camby was arguably the best player on that Knicks team that made the Finals in 1999. He was phenomenal for the Knicks during that run. Killed Indiana.

[gouki88]

With the 5th pick of the 7th round Indiana's reuniting Dirk with an Old Friend Tyson Chandler:



As a Defensive Player of the year AND a Big who TALKS on defense like KG Tyson will make our defense even better and help Joel out.

Strong selection at this point of the draft, I think Chandler was a top 25-30 player at his peak.

Thanks.

Was surprised at his 3rd team All-NBA selection as well.

He reminded of KG towards the latter half of his career...I always saw him talking on defense much like KG did.

I think he'd serve as a good mentor to Joel as well.

My favourite little weird fact about Chandler is that in the year he won DPOY he didn't make All-Defensive First Team (he made 2nd team). Made the First Team the next year though.

How did that happen?

[Celtic Fan Forever]

With the 5th pick of the 7th round Indiana's reuniting Dirk with an Old Friend Tyson Chandler:



As a Defensive Player of the year AND a Big who TALKS on defense like KG Tyson will make our defense even better and help Joel out.

Strong selection at this point of the draft, I think Chandler was a top 25-30 player at his peak.

Thanks.

Was surprised at his 3rd team All-NBA selection as well.

He reminded of KG towards the latter half of his career...I always saw him talking on defense much like KG did.

I think he'd serve as a good mentor to Joel as well.

My favourite little weird fact about Chandler is that in the year he won DPOY he didn't make All-Defensive First Team (he made 2nd team). Made the First Team the next year though.

How did that happen?

I think that happened the year Marc Gasol won it as well.

[Who]

High value pick right there with McDyess. Nice one.

[tazzmaniac]

I wanted a starting point guard who can play defense, shoot, and move the ball without being ball dominant.

I was surprised to find that in the history of the NBA, only three players have achieved the following stats for a season:

6.0 assists per game
2.5 3PM per game
40% 3P%
.600 TS%

Steph Curry, Kyle Lowry and...



Mike Conley

Conley is also the only one who has made an All-Defense team.

Checked basketball reference season finder.  Curry did it 5 times and Lowry did it once but Conley wasn't listed.  Rounded up Conley did it in 16-17 but he was actually 2.478 on 3PM per game. 

I was thinking the .60 TS% was the limiting factor but when I removed it only 8 seasons were listed (an additional Curry and an Irving).  When I removed the 2.5 3PM per game instead, 36 season were listed.  Confirms how the game has changed in recent times and that Curry is a shooting god. 

I accidentally did 6 TRB instead of 6 AST at first.  Only 3 seasons appeared (Peja, KD and KAT).  Another fumble fingers showed that Lebron and Bird (twice) are the only ones with 6 TRB, 6 AST, .40 3P% and .60 TS%. 

[nickagneta]

All excellent picks thus far but there is one player I thought should have gone early this round that had a season that is better than most everyone's this round.

[Somebody]

With the 7th pick, the LA Clippers bring back a favourite son who was ahead of his time.

We select:


Lamar Odom

Very strong pick, I was looking at him as one of my potential selections the next round.

I love what he brings tbh. Just a fun player who had some really good seasons

Yeah, his qualities scale well too (except for his sketchy shooting).

[Who]

With the 5th pick of the 7th round Indiana's reuniting Dirk with an Old Friend Tyson Chandler:



As a Defensive Player of the year AND a Big who TALKS on defense like KG Tyson will make our defense even better and help Joel out.

Strong selection at this point of the draft, I think Chandler was a top 25-30 player at his peak.

Thanks.

Was surprised at his 3rd team All-NBA selection as well.

He reminded of KG towards the latter half of his career...I always saw him talking on defense much like KG did.

I think he'd serve as a good mentor to Joel as well.

My favourite little weird fact about Chandler is that in the year he won DPOY he didn't make All-Defensive First Team (he made 2nd team). Made the First Team the next year though.

How did that happen?

I think that sort of thing happened one year with Russell and Wilt too where one of them won the MVP but did not make First Team All-NBA.

[Somebody]

With the 5th pick of the 7th round Indiana's reuniting Dirk with an Old Friend Tyson Chandler:



As a Defensive Player of the year AND a Big who TALKS on defense like KG Tyson will make our defense even better and help Joel out.

Strong selection at this point of the draft, I think Chandler was a top 25-30 player at his peak.

Thanks.

Was surprised at his 3rd team All-NBA selection as well.

He reminded of KG towards the latter half of his career...I always saw him talking on defense much like KG did.

I think he'd serve as a good mentor to Joel as well.

I don't think I was surprised by his selection, he was the finest rim non-Dwight protector back then. Massive impact on defence (or as much as a non superstar guy can have).

[Roy H.]

All excellent picks thus far but there is one player I thought should have gone early this round that had a season that is better than most everyone's this round.

If it’s the guy we talked about, Yoki should take him.  I worried people would hyper-focus on his weaknesses rather than strengths.

[gouki88]

With the 7th pick, the LA Clippers bring back a favourite son who was ahead of his time.

We select:


Lamar Odom

Very strong pick, I was looking at him as one of my potential selections the next round.

I love what he brings tbh. Just a fun player who had some really good seasons

Yeah, his qualities scale well too (except for his sketchy shooting).

No doubt, his shooting was super erratic. Huge % jumps season to season, but I'll be adding some shooting help later