2015 Dynasty Draft Official Thread

[ATLHawks3]

Good luck!

[Guest]

Draft order has been chosen!

@AHF

@ATLHawks3

@lethalweapon3

@Diesel

@Spud2Nique

@capstone21

@JETSET

@PSSSHHHRRR87

@jy23

@IheartFerry

@alejandro09

@Nicholasp27

@Alex

@Blazemore

lethalweapon3 gave me the order of teams, Diesel gave me the order of picks and the draft order shook out as above. I extrapolated that for the entire draft and posted directly above. That means @Blazemore is on the clock...Happy Hunting!

Did Ernst & Young witness the lottery process? @AHF

[Blazemore]

I'll update this when I get off work but for now...

With the first pick of the Hawk Squawk 2015 Dynasty Draft the Paulding County Blazes select:

Anthony Davis

[AHF]

Did Ernst & Young witness the lottery process? @AHF

 

Well, D and LW3 can verify their inputs but I suppose that leaves the door open that they could have colluded.  I'm just not convinced they would have given themselves the 3rd and 14th picks if that was what they were doing!  Plus, D and LW3 are good people, you know?

I'll update this when I get off work but for now...

With the first pick of the Hawk Squawk 2015 Dynasty Draft the Paulding County Blazes select:

Anthony Davis

 

Ooohhh....leading off with a Kentucky Wildcat.  I like it!  Remember to ping the next person after each of your picks by putting them in the post like @Blazemore.

[Guest]

Well, D and LW3 can verify their inputs but I suppose that leaves the door open that they could have colluded. I'm just not convinced they would have given themselves the 3rd and 14th picks if that was what they were doing! Plus, D and LW3 are good people, you know?

Ooohhh....leading off with a Kentucky Wildcat. I like it! Remember to ping the next person after each of your picks by putting them in the post like @Blazemore.

Totally kidding I'm very excited about my 2nd round pick (#21 overall, it's Nique's # and Bud loves the second round)

[AHF]

I'm not going to overthink this one.  As much as I may despise him as a fan, as a fictitious GM I have to go with the best player of this generation:

 

With the second overall pick, the U-Niques select:

 

LEBRON JAMES

 

 

Yeah, Kobe.  Best of this generation.

 

The reasoning is simple.  He is the best player in the league today.  He is massively efficient when he doesn't have to do everything.  He has a great basketball IQ and is versatile enough to play the 2-4 positions.  He is just 30 right now which gives him  several years of prime play and the development of a now lethal post game should allow him to age gracefully.  I thought about a few younger players but I don't know that any of them will be as good at any point in their career as Lebron is today and none of them are big impact players on both sides of the ball today.

 

Lebron will give me a lot of flexibility in building my roster and his ability in the post-season to drag some talent to the NBA Finals that would otherwise have been competing for a top lottery pick was impressive.  Welcome aboard, Mr. James.

 

@lethalweapon3 - you are on the clock!

[capstone21]

I'll update this when I get off work but for now...

With the first pick of the Hawk Squawk 2015 Dynasty Draft the Paulding County Blazes select:

Anthony Davis

Excellent Pick

[Alex]

Can we get a thread for just picks and another one for discussions? It worked well last year and it was my idea. So there's that.

[lethalweapon3]

With the 3^rd Pick in the 2015 Summer Dynasty League Draft, the Lethal Voltage select:

 

 

Listen, Stephen Curry (PG, Age 27, 6’3”, 185 lbs.), you mind wiping that down? You got slobber all over the darn thing!

 

After pulling it all together during a magical 2015 MVP season, the Baby-Faced Assassin will bring his championship mettle to Lethalopolis. He is the unquestioned leader of the league’s Creative Class, using an inimitable array of deft maneuvering both with and without the ball to get quality open shots, and doing a better job of dribbling out of double-teams and protecting the ball while finding open playmakers. No player in the league (certainly no one under 30 years of age) accomplishes as much purely on the strength of his dribble as Curry, and few are better on catch-and-shoot plays.

 

Curry’s shot, while not pure, is as sure as one will find in the league. The league’s leading 3-point shooter among active players, Curry ranks fourth overall in effective field goal shooting while hardly ever needing to dunk the ball. He’s just as reliable at the charity stripe, the league’s active leader in free throw percentage who led the league in that category during his MVP season.

 

Steph’s also making a big Splash at the other end of the floor, leading the league in total steals in 2014-15. Overall, he led the league in win shares per-48. After struggling through much of his early career with ankle stability issues, his durability has been remarkable, particularly during the rough-and-tumble playoffs as his top-seeded team’s prime target.

 

To sustain his winning ways with the Voltage, Curry will need teammates that can spread the floor and get themselves in position for high-percentage shots, along with colleagues that can effectively defend pick-and-roll plays. He has done the work necessary to develop himself into the best pound-for-pound threat around, and his energetic leadership will suit the Voltage well in the seasons to come. The league’s future trophies may have to be Saran-wrapped.

 

The esteemed @Nicholasp27 is up next on the clock!

 

~lw3

Edited July 6, 2015 by lethalweapon3

[JETSET]

Did Ernst & Young witness the lottery process? @AHF

It looks like Arthur Andersen did the "witnessing"

[Guest]

@Nicholasp27 You have 7.5 hours left...

:-|

[Guest]

Make that 7 hours and 20 min.

[AHF]

Can we get a thread for just picks and another one for discussions? It worked well last year and it was my idea. So there's that.

 

We've got a separate pick summary thread that lists all the picks and then this one for posting and discussion.

[Alex]

We've got a separate pick summary thread that lists all the picks and then this one for posting and discussion.

Awesome.

[lethalweapon3]

Hey there @, be ready just in case @Nicholasp27 doesn't make his pick by 9:40 AM Eastern time tomorrow!

 

~lw3

[LucastheThird]

Hey there @, be ready just in case @Nicholasp27 doesn't make his pick by 9:40 AM Eastern time tomorrow!

 

~lw3

I'm ready now

[IheartVolt]

Well then

[Nicholasp27]

Just saw this

Picking in a minute

[Nicholasp27]

At #4 I get the biggest steal of the draft

The best player in the league and is only 26, yet is already a 5-time 1st team all-nbaer, 4-time scoring champ, and an MVP

Kevin Durant

@ is up

Edited July 3, 2015 by Nicholasp27

[LucastheThird]

No need to think too hard this early in the draft. The Fighting Jandros select the triple double machine: Russell Westbrook

 

 

@jy23 is now on the clock. Tried to pm, but inbox is full

Edited July 3, 2015 by alejandro09