It depends on the draft and talent in the draft, but if i started a team this year i would have to say pf. I say that because Thyras Thomas and Lamarcus Aldridge are too good to pass. If this was another draft i would say pg. In your team's first year a big man aint't going to provide excitment, but a pg will. In your first year your goal is to sell tickets then win so i'll start with a pg.2006: pfother draft: pg
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticBalla32 @ May 12 2006, 04:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Best available player.</div>exactly. If you had to start a team when Lebron was coming out for instance, would you pick a PG or C over him?As the great Denny Green is always saying come draft time, he will pick BPA.
Assuming you have 5 great prospects coming into the league and they are all rated the same and each play one of the 5 positions you take the inside player. You can always find wing players and scorers (Well except the Nuggets) I don't think it matter if it's a center or power forward.
Guard. It is really hard to find superstar big men so I wouldnt take the chance on that. Guards are the ones that run the team, distrubute the ball and score the majority of the points and set the pace for the game. You can always get a solid big man in free agency.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CB4AllStar @ May 12 2006, 09:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Guard. It is really hard to find superstar big men so I wouldnt take the chance on that. Guards are the ones that run the team, distrubute the ball and score the majority of the points and set the pace for the game. You can always get a solid big man in free agency.</div> You have it completly opposite. Guards have the ball the most and score a lot but it's the bigmen that win games. You can always find good bigmen in FA? Where? I have not seen good bigmen in FA in years. You can always find good SG's in FA. SG's and swingmen are like RB's in the NFL, you can plop almost any decent player in there and he will do fine.
Decent Centers. It is alot easier to pick someone up who you know is solid rather then to gamble in the draft. Do you know how many big men fail in this year?You have one vet at very good PF, a fresh All Star guard and a solid defensive center and boom, playoffs.
Were not talk talking about the risk in drafting bigmen in the draft. When your building a franchise a PF/C is a must unless you want to be like the Wizards and thats who you pick up first.
I assumed this meant through the draft. My new answer: pick up all star potential players at pf and pg/sg through free agency.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ May 12 2006, 01:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Assuming you have 5 great prospects coming into the league and they are all rated the same and each play one of the 5 positions you take the inside player. You can always find wing players and scorers (Well except the Nuggets) I don't think it matter if it's a center or power forward.</div>Thats what i was thinking. If everything is even at the positions then you take the best low post player. But if its like any other draft, you take the best avaible player. Think about this, name me 10 dominant centers/power fowards in the league rigft now. I'm not sayin decent, i'm saying dominant. Shaq, Yao, Duncan, Elton Brand, Dirk, Bosh, Kevin Garnett, then the talent level drops. Now name me 10 wings. LeBron, Kobe, Vince Carter, Gilbert Arenas, Carmelo Anthony, D-Wade, T-Mac, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Rip Hamilton, Jason Richardson, Ron Artest, Michael Redd, and the list goes on forever. What i'm sayin is, if you have 5 great players coming into the draft and they each play a different position, I'd take one of the post players. There are a ton of wings that come into the league that you can get on your team and they will look really great once they play with a dominant post. Their stats will show this. I also wouldnt go with a rookie point guard to start the franchise. I want a good veteran to start it off.Now i know drafts are not like this, so i'd go with best player available.
That's absolutely wrong. You start of with a team, and then you find a coach who best fits the needs of your team.
My first choice would be a point guard because they're the ones with the ball most of the times and that could make a team championship contender with the right point guard. My second choice would be a big man because there aren't that much talented big men out there, preferably someone who can rebound, defend, and have a inside game.
I would choose to start my team with a big man, without a doubt. Great, dominant big men are very hard to find, but swingmen are a dime a dozen. If you have the right guy to pound the ball down low you can pretty much put any average or above-average swingman next to him. However, it's a lot harder to find an average or above-average big man to put next to a great perimeter player.
i would go with a pg because big men don't score much, and you need to prove your team to the fans. So its like chris paul or emeka okafor decision. Paul got so many fans into the arena in Oklahoma, and that is waht you want tickets sold.
I think if you have a swingman avaible and a post player avaible of about the same caliber, you have to take the big guy due to the rarity of dominant post players. You can always get swingmen later on because there is such a surplus of perimiter players who can contribute, but without an interior game, its very tough to win. Obviously you want to go best avaible, but if you have players of a similar level, I think you must select the big guy. Secondly, I think you need a good point guard who will be your leader on the court. If you fullfill those two positions adequatly, you should be able to construct a nice team..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (desi tmac91 @ May 13 2006, 07:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i would go with a pg because big men don't score much, and you need to prove your team to the fans. So its like chris paul or emeka okafor decision. Paul got so many fans into the arena in Oklahoma, and that is waht you want tickets sold.</div> Your logic makes little sense. Chris Paul is on a different level than Emeka Okafor. Winning sells tickets and games are won inside by great PF/C's, thats what you need to win games and be a great team.
