I couldn't decide on Spooner - Torque, it looked too close. Spooner has a very good bench and a more 'traditional' team with rim protection. Afflalo and Lee are having good years. On the other hand, Lee/DeAndre front line seems soft-ish, while Torque has two physical beasts up front. Torque wins Dragic, LeBron, Pekovic matchups IMO, and overall his starting lineup seems more stacked. But no rim protection and a worse bench. A very tough choice. Anyway, it seems Spooner wins 4-3, which seems like it should have ended, 4-3 one way or the other.
DonatasFanboy g Mike Conley g JJ Redick f Durant f John Henson c Brook Lopez Bench: Brandon Knight, Michael Beasley, Chris Andersen vs Spooner PG - Kyrie Irving SG - Aaron Afflalo/ Manu Ginobili SF - Paul George / CJ Miles PF - David Lee C - Deandre Jordan/Anderson Varejao
Conley has been so much better than Kyrie this year. Redick Afflalo in this sort of context is a wash IMO. Spooner's bench is beastly with Manu having a terrific year this year which brings the gap alittle closer. I'm also not the biggest Henson fan. But I just don't see the David Lee/DeAndre Jordan frontline stopping anyone.
I like dfb's team ability to spread the floor. Durant and Conley is a great combo. Dfb can score so many ways - inside/outside - transitional - post game - spot up. Think rebounding May be a concern against lee/jordan. DFB's bench isn't appealing. I think spoon may be over the cap because he's got some high dollar players lol
I think spoon has more talent with Manu coming out as the 6th but donaras can score from anywhere on the field and spoon cannot defend that (includes guarding Durant). Durant just killing it right now dropping 30-50 points a game. Idk how you gon stop that. I pick donaras
FC - if anyone is slowing down durant its george. im not worried about lee's defense because of hensons lack of offense, and i still see lee scoring perectly fine. center deandre has really been improved, and he is rebounding very very good. he is also still a shot blocker and tall enough to disrupt lopez. I would say FC is practically almost even considderring durants play but ill give the slight slight edge to spooner. BC - again its almost exactly even. afflalo is balling but irving is having a down year, neithers defense have been good this year. conley/redick is good spacing and better defense with sighty less offense offense. but with durant its a better BC for the team. Slight slight edge DFB Bench - this one is much less close. spooner has your prototypical sixth man offensive spark in manu who is playing well. Add in a good defensive huste center with a respectable offense in varejao and its very good. cj miles adds range. DFBs bench is much less impressive with the only valued player i would say is knight whos doing goodish. Spooner wins the bench Scheme/Overall/Chemistry/Fit/Etc... - Both teams are built really good. i think DFB has the better overall defense and he has the much more reliable clutch shooter in Durant. Spooner has the better depth and better offense. But when it comes down to it i see this match as so close its going to who can make the last shot and the last stop, and to me that is DFB. DFB wins in a 4-3 double overtime thriller. On A Side Note: I'm 2 reps away from my fifth bar, if you catch my drift. :grin:
thething FTW got me my 5th bar and changed me from omer asik(crybaby biitch) to james harden(my favorite player even before he was a rocket)
Votin for Donuts, don't like the Henson+Lopez combo tho... But the team is better backcourt-wise and on the wing.
Torque would make the decision much easier. Spoon matches up much better against Dfb, which is what makes it tough
6-3 DFB is our new 2014 NBA draft champion! Good job voting in the last matchup.. Went by really quick and had 9-10 voters! This concludes the draft. Sooo long gay boys!
Thank you, thank you. My laptop died, and I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to log in from PC until the weekend. I guess this is my first 'true' win, not counting the one where i was leading and then the draft died because of fake votes. Or second, I don't remember. Anyway, cool.
