The picture of the draft comparisons is not working for me. I will email it to @walesy to see if he can upload it for us.

Norm was on my radar but I completely forgot about him during the draft itself (one of the pitfalls of winging it)

Things got off to a bad start when the 2 players I wanted (Monobrow and Gobert) were taken right before my picks.

Too many speculative picks in my team for my liking (Jamal and Dejounte Murray, Fultz and Justin Holiday). If they fire, then I have a chance, if they don't I will be in a spot of bother.

Thanks for the analysis Ant.

hmmm, its under the size limit, but still triggers the size warning. Not sure what it's problem is, so probably easier to just upload it elsewhere and link it in

https://s1.postimg.org/18u4c5b3bz/draft_results.jpg

Ok great, thanks. Ive added it to the OP now

Reckon I'm pretty happy with my draft.

Davis and Paul are a solid base to start from, and Kemba being available at 31 was great.

Wasn't a fan of many in the 4th, but Middleton seemed the best value. Not a huge fan though.

Picking up a C in the 5th was always my plan, but it felt like a ton when off the board, so I jumped on Horford. Thought Carmelo here was an absolute steal, and he went next pick.

Ibaka and Barnes are decent enough picks, but I was really hoping to pick up Gallinari here.

Made up for it with the Crowder pick though, who felt like too good value.

Next up was Z Bo, who I think is the only guy I've gone earliest on. Reckon he's gunna kill it this year if he can stay on the court.

Isaiah was still on the board at 114, which was simply too good value to stash on the IR.

Final picks hopefully do alright, but will likely get traded through the wire over the week, along with the dude I bring in for IT

As always, was a fun night

Anyone know what time players clear waivers tonight?

I already have an itchy finger to dump some players

My biggest regret of the draft is the pre-draft trade of picks I did - it didnt work out well for me in the end, I dont think.
For those that care, this was the deal:

BUZZ traded 1st Rd. Pick (5th Overall) to AH
BUZZ traded 2nd Rd. Pick (20th Overall) to AH
BUZZ traded 4th Rd. Pick (44th Overall) to AH
BUZZ traded 12th Rd. Pick (140th Overall) to AH
BUZZ traded 13th Rd. Pick (149th Overall) to AH
AH traded 1st Rd. Pick (3rd Overall) to BUZZ
AH traded 2nd Rd. Pick (22nd Overall) to BUZZ
AH traded 6th Rd. Pick (70th Overall) to BUZZ
AH traded 10th Rd. Pick (118th Overall) to BUZZ
AH traded 11th Rd. Pick (123rd Overall) to BUZZ

In my own rankings, I had Harden and Westbrook as clear 1&2 and I didnt think there was any chance I would get either at 3, so I thought about dropping a tad to improve my 2nd pick. I thought dropping from 3-5 I wouldve still been able to get my target of KAT, or if I missed him, perhaps been able to get Gobert at 20. Turns out I missed the 2 big centres and also couldve got Westbrook at 3, and I dare say I probably wouldve got Conley at 22 anyway.
The 2nd part of the trade, I managed to pick up an extra top 50 pick, which I wanted to use on a PG as there was a lot of depth there in the early-midrounds. But then when I missed my top-line centres I'd hoped for, I drafted a few quality bigs in the 3rd and 4th rounds and then I grabbed Lin at 51, who I probably couldve got later anyway.
I think I wouldve been better off with my original picks, but it was still fun, I enjoy trading picks as it mixes it up a bit. I'm interested to hear what @bgt2110 thinks of the trade? How did it work out for you?

Another mishap was missing out on all the SGs I was targeting: in order of preference: Avery Bradley, Garry Harris, Josh Richardson and Rodney Hood. I was planning to use my pick 75 on one of these guys, but 3 of them fell in the 10 picks before then and I held off on Hood who I mistakenly thought I could get much later. But I was stoked to get Batum at 94 - my heart was pumping in the picks leading up to it hoping he'd still be on the table. Then I ended up having a few speculative fliers on SGs late in the draft and it will be interesting to see if any of them pan out ok, like Tyreke Evans, CJ Miles (after I missed Norm Powell), & Troy Daniels.

Overall, it is pretty clear that I paid overs for many of my players, going relatively early on all of Mike Conley, Nikola Vucevic Jeremy Lin, Derrick Favors, Dirk Nowitzki and could probably include Troy Daniels, but overall Im happy with my team and am optimistic most of the players will show the sort of value that I picked them at.

Still, its a lot of guess work at this time of the year. I reckon the rotations this year are more difficult to predict than any other year I can remember.

The draft was fun. Now onto the regular season, which is fun in other ways

It's usually around 3am New York time

I saw your team and thought that mustn't have been intentional. So many bigs!
But you've got a decent enough team to work with.

I guess you dont want to hear this now, but you can actually preset positional limits so they only draft certain amount of each position, you can set min and max for each pos, and also choose if you want a certain position selected with certain picks. I was gonna mention this to everyone prior but forgot

Hi Ant
I thought the trade worked really well for me, i wasn't fussed about picking up either Harden, The Greek Freak or Westbrook with my pick 3 which is what first attracted me to the deal. Having 2 picks in the 20's, i figured i would have 3 guys i could really build a team around even without my round 4 pick. Finishing the draft a few rounds earlier than the rest of you guys afforded me the opportunity to grab La Vine with my last pick and stash him on IR. If i waited a few more rounds when my last pick would have been then i'm pretty sure i would have missed out on him. All up am pretty happy with my team, lacking in SF's and SG's, although i am hoping that Caldwell Pope, after serving his couple of games suspension with provide a pretty decent option in case Fournier has a stinker of a season.

Players have just come off waivers just now