Celticsblog Fantasy Roster Review

[celticmaestro]

The Las Vegas Lakers

C: Darko Milicic (23)
PF: Chris Bosh (24)
SF: Kevin Durant (19)
SG: OJ Mayo (20)
PG: Chris Duhon (25)
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6th: Rashad McCants (23) - SG
7th: Luke Walton (28) - SF
8th: Steven Hunter (26) - C
9th: Speedy Claxton (30) - PG
10th: Donyell Marshall (35) - PF
11th: Rasual Butler (29) - SG
12th: Nick Fazekas (23) - PF
13th: Devean George (30) - SF
14th: Petteri Koponen (20) - PG
15th: Nathan Jawai (21) – C

Carlos Delfino is also on our books but will be playing in Russia for the 2008/09 season. He will be expected back in Vegas September 2009 to fulfil his contractual obligations.

  C: Milicic – Hunter – Jawai
PF: Bosh – Fazekas – Marshall
SF: Durant – Walton – George
SG: Mayo – McCants – Butler
PG: Duhon – Claxton – Koponen

[indeedproceed]

I like what you're doing. Very Portland Trailblazers. Some of your guys (Devean George, Rasual Butler, Speedy Claxton, Donyell Marshall) don't make a lot of sense considering you're admitting you're atleast a year away from the playoffs.

Durant is a sure fire top tier player, Bosh already is one of the best forwards in the league. Personally I'm of two minds about how good Darko Milicic is, and how good he could be, but I could easily see playing him as a starting 5, especially on a young team.

Jawal has gotten good reviews, he could be a decent player someday. Same with Kopponen. I'm not sure how i feel about OJ Mayo. He's one of those guys where if I'd managed to get him, I'd be a believer, but since he's not mine, he's easy to criticize. Duhon I don't believe in.

I really hate McCants as your sixth man. He's just not that good, and he's one dimensional.

Overall i think its very easy to see why you're optimistic about your squad in the future. You did a good job here. Durant and Bosh are obviously the center of the team, but that cast, if they come along, they could be special. Its just a matter of throwing each against the wall and seeing which one sticks.

This is interesting though:

Petteri Koponen, the 6-5 Finnish point guard who was a 2007 first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers, has signed a four-year deal with Virtus Bologna of Italy.

His agent, Marc Cornstein, says the deal has buyouts every summer which would make it possible for Koponen to return to the NBA. The Blazers can continue to hold Koponen's rights until 2011, although it will cost them some flexibility under the salary cap to do so.

In Bologna, the 20-year-old Koponen will compete for minutes at the point guard spot with Earl Boykins.

Koponen (who wants you to know that saunas and Santa Claus are from Finland) is something of an unknown. Although he has played twice as a Blazer in summer league, he has played regular seasons only in the lightly regarded Finnish league, where he was dominant.

[Gainesville Celtic]

I really hate McCants as your sixth man. He's just not that good, and he's one dimensional.

Glad someone agrees with me, i said something similar when offered Mr. McCants.



The ORLANDO MAGICS:

PG: Chauncey Billups* - Delonte West - Jason Williams*
SG: Matt Harpring - Dorell Wright* - Devin Brown*
SF: Danny Granger - Matt Barnes - Jared Dudley - Kasib Powell
PF: Tim Duncan* - Shelden Williams
C:  Brad Miller - Joakim Noah - Adonal Foyle - David Harrison

Today, we're leaning towards starting Matt Harpring at SG over Delonte West to get some more size in the starting lineup, especially versus bigger backcourts like the NETS.

* = NBA Championship Ring

[Celtic Fan Forever]

Your Detroit Pistons

C: Yao Ming
PF: Shawn Marion
SF: Hedo Turkoglu
SG: Ben Gordon
PG: Earl Watson

6: Jason Terry
7: Damien Wilkins
8: Carl Landry
9: Kyle Lowry
10: Roy Hibbert
11: Flip Murray
12: PJ Brown

13: Trenton Hassell


I'm very satisfied with my team, I think we're without a doubt top 4 in the East.

[Edgar]

What do u think on the Mavs?
time to ask and start fighting....

[The Walker Wiggle]

Alright, I hadn't weighed in yet at any point. But I'm starting to put my thoughts together. Here's my top ten in alphabetical order for now, more notes to come:

Atlanta Hawks

Golden State Warriors - The league's best young center and its' best veteran point guard; which last time I checked said positions were still the fulcrum and the lever. Add to that a pair of live wire young scorers; and two of the NBA's meanest? Team has honest to god balance. Team gets added consideration for being somehow still underrated. That said, Larry Hughes, Stromile Swift and Yi Jianlian have about as much talent between them as any three players in the league that don't actually matter.

Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Clippers

cough, Mrmfis Girzzlys, cough

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Jersey Nets - Three vet starters that threaten 20+ points whenever with a point guard, who remains - however much his reputation suffered last season - our best improviser. As much as I love David West alongside Paul Pierce (Remember how well Gomes played off of him?), I worry about Pierce next to Maggette. Also Corey doesn't fit into the team's overriding aesthetic of toughness belayed by softening middles. Oh, and, I am putting the league on notice, the obvious weaknesses of the starting lineup cannot be hand waived away by the sixth man. Drew Gooden does only so much to improve NJN's  vague interior presence. P.S. A more acceptable answer in this case: Kidd is first among PGs in rebounding and Pierce manages nicely on the low post.

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic - Tim Duncan has never missed the playoffs, never not made it out of the first round. He and Miller are two of the best passing bigs. Billups is stalwart. Danny Granger is multi-faceted, and now puts up the numbers of a guy that probably ought to receive 3rd Team honors but doesn't. That's four-fifths of a championship contender with great ball movement, size, defense. But somewhat inexplicably there are no shooting guard to be found anywhere. Matt Harpring no longer plays the two; Dorrell Wright never played there; Delonte West is at his worst when asked to play both.

Utah Jazz

[Donoghus]

Alright, I hadn't weighed in yet at any point. But I'm starting to put my thoughts together. Here's my top ten in alphabetical order for now, more notes to come:

Atlanta Hawks

Golden State Warriors

Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Clippers

cough, Mrmfis Girzzlys, cough

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Jersey Nets

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic

Utah Jazz

No Portland?

[Edgar]

Alright, I hadn't weighed in yet at any point. But I'm starting to put my thoughts together. Here's my top ten in alphabetical order for now, more notes to come:

Atlanta Hawks

Golden State Warriors

Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Clippers

cough, Mrmfis Girzzlys, cough

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Jersey Nets

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic

Utah Jazz

No Portland?

And no mavs?

Come on

whats this ....

I can even beat your No.2 or 3
interesting approach but you definetly over looked
portland and Dallas

[Roy Hobbs]

Alright, I hadn't weighed in yet at any point. But I'm starting to put my thoughts together. Here's my top ten in alphabetical order for now, more notes to come:

Atlanta Hawks

Golden State Warriors

Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Clippers

cough, Mrmfis Girzzlys, cough

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Jersey Nets

New York Knicks

Orlando Magic

Utah Jazz

No Portland?

Just keep giving us bulletin-board material, boys.

[Roy Hobbs]

As I see it, legit contenders (alphabetical order by conference):

Eastern Conference: Detroit, New Jersey, New York, Orlando

Western Conference: Dallas, Golden State, Houston, Portland

There are some other good "dark horse" teams (Toronto, L.A. Clippers, etc.) but I see those eight teams above as the class of the league.

[BigAlTheFuture]

My TOP three teams. 

Numero uno - San Antonio Spurs
Numero dos - Oklahoma City Thunder
Numero tres - Miami Heat

You guys thought I meant top three teams in the league? Oh no no no. Those are the top three team with the best odds for the number 1 pick in the lottery.  .


Man, I wish we can start this whole draft over. 

[The Walker Wiggle]

No Portland?

I could justify giving Hobbs the GM of the Year nod for grossly outmaneuvering the field pre-draft. But I don't like Portland's playoff prospects. I would expect them to qualify.

That said there were a lot of teams that I've only half-formed thoughts on, Dallas among them.

[Donoghus]

Hopefully, one of these days we'll get around to the "Teams of the Future" rankings. 

[RebusRankin]

I think Dallas is overrated.

[BigAlTheFuture]

I think Dallas is overrated.

I kinda think Detroit is. (No offense CFF)