Re: What if all players were available in the draft?

"Miguelito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>Parag Gajarawala wrote:
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> >>>"Miguelito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>>>Charlie Board wrote:
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> >>>>>Miguelito wrote:
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> >>>>>>Red Schism wrote:
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> >>>>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (s_knight8) wrote in message
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http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/sports/basketball/nba/golden_state_warrio
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> >>>>>>>>Here's our game. Suppose you threw every player on Planet Earth
into
> >>>
> >>>a
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> >>>>>>>>pool. Everyone is available, nobody has a contract, and a draft is
> >>>>>>>>held today. Here's one person's mock draft, picks No. 1 through
No.
> >>>>>>>>13.
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> >>>>>>><snip>
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> >>>>>>>TD over Shaq.  TD doesn't score as many points, but his overall
stats
> >>>>>>>are better.  He's won 2 championships to Shaq's 3, but, then again,
> >>>>>>>look who Duncan's supporting cast is compared to Shaq's.
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>>Hall-of-Famer David Robinson?  Ginobli?  Parker?  Rose?  No Bryants,
> >>>>>>but once you get past Kobe, the Lakers have none of these.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Total Points last year:
> >>>>>    Kobe                                   2461
> >>>>>    Robinson PLUS Parker PLUS Ginobili     2340
> >>>>
> >>>>Rebounds?  Assists?  Blocked shots?
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> >>>Why don't you compare the rebounds, blocks, and assists of robinson,
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> > parker
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> >>>and ginobli to kobe and the lakers next 2 best players?  It doesn't
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> > really
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> >>>make sense to compare all those 3 to just kobe, even though the point
> >>>scoring comparison was mildly amusing.
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> >>That was my approach to begin with.  It is AFTER Bryant that the Laker
> >>talent level took a big drop.
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> > That's probable, but you can't just compare the stats of one player to
> > three.  Even with the drop-off, I'd guess that the Lakers next 2 plus
Bryant
> > would still probably be better than the spurs 3.  And to look at a
> > supporting cast, you have to to look at more than just 3 players by the
> > way..
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> Who was it that compared one player to three?  Who decided to focus on
> three?
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Charlie compared one to three.  I decided to focus on three.  You just said
"rebounds, assists, blocked shots" when he compared one to three, you never
said anything about comparing three on the Lakers to three on the Spurs.