Snailbites

2008-2009 Maplewood Moosen

Chris Paul (NO - PG)
Hedo Turkoglu (Orl - SG,SF)
Mo Williams (Cle - PG)
Richard Jefferson (Mil - SF)
Carlos Boozer (Uta - PF,C)
Drew Gooden (Chi - PF)
Yao Ming (Hou - C)
David Lee (NY - PF,C)
J.R. Smith (Den - SG)
Jameer Nelson (Orl - PG)
Mickael Pietrus (Orl - SG,SF)
Yi Jianlian (NJ - PF)
Quentin Richardson (NY - SG,SF)

Thoughts:

• First pick - I didn’t want it, but I had the first pick and of course I hadda take CP3.  Usually I like to kill it with bigs, and muscle all the other teams out, so it was difficult this year to build around a PG. So my strategy was to go Big-Big in rounds 2 & 3, and then try to draft players that basically had either PG or C stats.
• Gamebreaker - Taking a huge gamble with Yao this year.  I know he’s missed 20+ games past 3 seasons, but I felt like I needed to roll the dice since my 2nd/3rd picks were so much further from my 1st.
• Question marks - Q-Rich, Yi Jianlian, and Pietrus.  Can they breakout this year?  Can Q-Rich get back to his Phoenix form back under D’Antoni?
• Sleeper category - Steals.  CP3 is crazy in steals and that’s also why I drafted Booz.  He gets alot for a big man.  The PGs I drafted also hold it down, so I think I can win this category outright every week, along with rebounds and blocks.
• Category that will do me in - TOs. Again, when you build a team around a PG, it’s bound to happen.