Draft Spillover Thread

[teamchemistry15]

Let's get this thing rolling. We've got myself, Blue Heaven, Downes, Spiritof96, uglyduckling, Lighthouse, Friendsofcoal, Kevin, Jworld, Will, and KCKUKfan. That's 11. Did I miss anyone?

Add in Dwight that gives us 12. Let's see if Colvin is for sure out and if 85fly wants in then we will get started.

[George]

Did we decide who's doing the drawing for draft order?

[teamchemistry15]

Did we decide who's doing the drawing for draft order?

We know who isn't. Myself, Will, and Jworld are all banned.

[J.Jennings]

We know who isn't. Myself, Will, and Jworld are all banned.

How did i get banned, i never did nothing wrong lol lol

[KevinHall]

I don't think we have heard from catfaninin. He always seems like good fan and a nice guy. Hopefully he will get in again this year.

[J.Jennings]

I think I agree with Jworld. I don't think there's any way Devin Booker goes top 5 at SG in this draft, based on the rules. But because of what he did in the NBA he would go at least that high. At Kentucky, he didn't look like a top 5 SG, over the history of the program. I think the NBA needs to have some influence. If not, you are almost disregarding an entire era.

With all due respect, thank you. Im not trying to be a A hole but how can i pick A. Epps over any of Cal's guards when Epps UK career and contributions was way up there, same with Turner,Macy, and a few others...

[J.Jennings]

Im just going draft and do the best i can, its all fun anyways. My problem will be trying to get Nba out of my head..

[J.Jennings]

Just a reminder to anyone reading this thread who hasn't officially joined the Fantasy Draft: we're all breaking TC15's rule by having current discussions in this thread. If you want to join the Draft and haven't already done so, please jump in and say "I'm in."

Lol lol lol

Rules are meant to be broken lol

[uglyduckling]

I'm just ready to draft lol. Let's do it!

[Joneslab]

With all due respect, thank you. Im not trying to be a A hole but how can i pick A. Epps over any of Cal's guards when Epps UK career and contributions was way up there, same with Turner,Macy, and a few others...

Because you have eyeballs in your head?

"Contributions" are one thing. Those are highly subjective mainly because this is a team sport.

How good a player is is the metric this thing should be based on. Dan Issell never went to a Final Four. Ditto Tayshaun Prince. Turner was in multiple.

Sometimes players are on teams that drag them forward. They might be good individually, but the collective is better.

Other guys' teams fell short, but this is a contest based on individual worth.

And on the poster's point about Karl Towns: if you couldn't tell that Towns was going to be a superstar then I'm not sure what you were watching.

This opens up a conversation that I've felt for a long time: Kentucky fans are way, way too critical of these players. You would've thought Malik Monk and De'Aaron Fox were garbage for most of the year if you read the message boards. Those guys will be all-stars.

[J.Jennings]

Exactly. No one wants to look at it the other way. We start factoring in the NBA and suddenly Delk doesn't look so good as a top-five player in this draft.

Delk scored over 50 in a Nba game, how many does that?

Anyways,game on..

[teamchemistry15]

I don't think we have heard from catfaninin. He always seems like good fan and a nice guy. Hopefully he will get in again this year.

Very true. So we currently have 12 confirmed and potentially 3 more at least.

[uglyduckling]

Because you have eyeballs in your head?

"Contributions" are one thing. Those are highly subjective mainly because this is a team sport.

How good a player is is the metric this thing should be based on. Dan Issell never went to a Final Four. Ditto Tayshaun Prince. Turner was in multiple.

Sometimes players are on teams that drag them forward. They might be good individually, but the collective is better.

Other guys' teams fell short, but this is a contest based on individual worth.

And on the poster's point about Karl Towns: if you couldn't tell that Towns was going to be a superstar then I'm not sure what you were watching.

This opens up a conversation that I've felt for a long time: Kentucky fans are way, way too critical of these players. You would've thought Malik Monk and De'Aaron Fox were garbage for most of the year if you read the message boards. Those guys will be all-stars.

I'm a young fan at 28. My favorite player is Derek Anderson. I couldn't tell that Towns was going to be a star back then. Same unknown as Diallo now. Zach Auguste and the LSU boys made Towns look ordinary. Where are they now? In college, they looked equal to Towns.

[Joneslab]

Towns was the same sort of unknown as Diallo? Hami Diallo has never played a second of college basketball. Towns was an anchor on probably the second best Kentucky team of the last 50 years.

And sure you can pick out single games from Towns' time here and show that he struggled. But that goes for virtually everybody who ever played, particularly when they were 18-19 years old.

But I'm not sure Zach Auguste is a great example. Towns put up 25 in that game and was virtually unstoppable offensively.

[J.Jennings]

If i draft a Super star it will be Nba doesn't matter what did he do at Kentucky? If i draft a solid player from Kentucky with great career stats and many wins over the course of his career for KENTUCKY but hes not on the same level as a Nba star, then what ??

Im drafting stats and wins for Kentucky