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NBA Redraft 6/21: 2008
300 sats \ 17 comments \ @Undisciplined 17h Stacker_Sports
We have another very interesting draft to evaluate.
The player who had the best career is indisputable, but was it inevitable?
Hop in your time machines and tell the Bulls who they should take with the number one pick.
While you're at it, you may as well rank your top 3 choices for them.
honorable mention: Serge Ibaka just missed the VORP cutoff
Nic Batum0.0%
Kevin Love0.0%
Deandre Jordan0.0%
Russell Westbrook50.0%
Serge Ibaka0.0%
Goran Dragic0.0%
Brook Lopez0.0%
Derrick Rose50.0%
Danilo Gallinari0.0%
George Hill0.0%
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @gnilma 5h
Knowing what we know now, I would take Westbrook in the redraft. Rose is a great great player, but the injury plagued career stops me from taking him at number one.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 5h
That's the question. Was an injury plagued career inevitable?
Probably, but maybe if he doesn't have that one terrible injury in 2012, the rest of his career is different.
Also, that Bulls team with Rose and Jimmy was awesome. Without the injury, there's a good chance they win a title, especially since Playoff Jimmy hadn't even emerged yet.
As good as Russ has been, we know his ceiling is lower than best player on a title team.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 6m
IMO, with the way Rose was playing, an injury plagued career was inevitable. The ways he attacked the basket were amazing and scary to watch at the same time. Maybe with today's conditioning/training methods, as well as load management, they might help prevent some of the injuries? Maybe not? But I still think Rose's play style was too explosive for a mere mortal body to handle.
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21 sats \ 11 replies \ @grayruby 16h
Rose Westbrook Jordan
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82 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13h
I might've said Rose if another team was drafting first, but my operating assumption is that if you just repeat the actual draft, then you also repeat the actual history.
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40 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 13h
Well, no, because Westbrook will go 2nd this time, which means the whole timeline is a little different. So, the league is different and events will play out differently.
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82 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h
The way I interpret these hypotheticals is that I'm the only one with knowledge of the future, not the whole league.
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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 9h
I guess I never specified that, but we were initially thinking in terms of full redrafts where every team is privy to this future information.
The poll format just doesn't lend itself to a full redraft. Plus, there aren't usually more than a few memorable players, anyway.
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82 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 9h
I suppose it makes more sense for whole league anyway. If I'm the only one with private information, the best move is actually to draft who the league perceives as best in the moment, then trade for the ones that were undervalued.
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40 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 16h
Woah! Jordan over Love? Explain yourself.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 15h
It was a toss up. Never been much of a Love fan. He did have a few really great years. I also liked Lopez. It was pretty much a toss up between the 3 for me.
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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 15h
Love's one of my favorite role players ever and I've never been a DJ guy, so I didn't think it was close.
What about the headliners? Was Rose vs Westbrook a tough call?
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 14h
Knowing what we know now makes it a tough call.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 14h
That is the point of the exercise.
They both played a physically reckless style, but we learned that Russ is built like a tank.
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 16h
*Apparently I typed "Ibaka" instead of "other" because I was thinking about him.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13h
Yeah I was like "Serge Ibaka missed the VORP cutoff"
sees Serge Ibaka in the poll
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