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ROSTER
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Devin Booker
Danilo Gallinari and Amir Johnson
Nerlens Noel
Allen Crabbe and Nemanja Bjelica
Cameron Payne, Willy Hernangomez, Alex Abrines, Chris McCullough, Dorell Wright, Sam Dekker, and Dejounte Murray
Athletic, dynamic guys across the roster and guys playing out of traditional positions everywhere. This may just be the most Wiggle team ever assembled.
CHECK THAT DATE!
Pretend Sam Hinkie can spell Antetokounmpo, Bjelica, and Hernangomez, while some of you get tripped up on Dorell.
OUTLOOK
Amir Johnson has the second shortest wingspan of the 76ers starting five at 6’11. The 76ers NEARLY covered the full 22'9" to the three point arc with their first three picks: Gallo at 7'1", #PointGiannis at 7'3", and Noel at 7'4".
Length Kills.
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STARTING LINE-UP
DeMarcus Cousins, Center
Height: 6'11''/ 2.11m
Weight: 270 lbs./ 122.5 kg
PTS REB AST
26.9 11.5 3.3
Kelly Olynyk, Power Forward
Height: 7'0''/ 2.13m
Weight: 238 lbs./ 108 kg
PTS REB AST
10 4.1 1.5
Omri Casspi, Small Forward
Height: 6'9''/ 2.06m
Weight: 225 lbs./ 102.1 kg
PTS REB AST
11.8 5.9 1.4
Andrew Wiggins, Shooting Guard
Height: 6'8''/ 2.03m
Weight: 199 lbs./ 90.3 kg
PTS REB AST
20.7 3.6 2
Kris Dunn, Point Guard
Height: 6'3''/ 1.91m
Weight: 205 lbs./ 93 kg
PTS REB AST
16.4 5.3 6.2
**College Stats
Primary Bench Rotation
Jerryd Bayless, G – 28.9 MPG, 10.4 PPG, 3.1 APG, .437 3P%
Nene Hilario, F/C – 19.2 MPG, 9.2 PPG, 4.5 RPG
Greivis Vasquez, G – 20.0 MPG, 5.7 PPG, 4.0 APG
Kris Humphries, PF – 15.8 MPG, 6.5 PPG, 4.1 RPG
Reserves/Situational Players
Chase Budinger, F
Deyonta Davis, C
Skal Labissière, F
Caron Butler, F
Nik Stauskas, SG
Demetrius Jackson, PG
THE FOUNDATION: A dominant, physically gifted center paired with a dynamic, freakishly athletic wing. No, I’m not talking about a young Shaq and Kobe… I’m talking about DeMarcus Cousins and Andrew Wiggins.
Cousins is an all-around basketball player – he can score from just about anywhere on the floor, rebound the ball on both ends, facilitate for his teammates, and defend the paint. After extending his range and hitting a career high 33% in 3FG, he posted a career high 26.9 per game in just 32 minutes.
Wiggins is a little less established but is poised to take the next step after posting a career high 20.7 points per game last season. Wiggins isn’t a conventional shooter, but he explodes into the lane and cuts to the rim for high percentage shots.
Rounding out the starting lineup are two of the best shooting forwards in the league, Kelly Olynyk (41% 3FG) and Omri Casspi (41% 3FG). Both of these guys are high character and hardworking and will be a boon to our locker room.
Kris Dunn is the most NBA-ready defender from this year’s draft class. Dunn will be the starting point guard opening night, and we will look to him to provide bulldog defense on opposing point guards night in and night out. Offensively, he is a work in progress and we will allow him time to develop behind Cousins and Wiggins. But with his ballhandling ability, explosive athleticism, and his well-documented work ethic, we expect Dunn to take a lot of the league by surprise this season.
BENCH MOB: Our primary bench rotation consists of savvy, high BBIQ veterans in Nene Hilario, Kris Humphries, Jerryd Bayless, and Greivis Vasquez. Bayless in particular will see heavy minutes in the rotation, allowing us to play a small ball lineup featuring Cousins/Casspi/Wiggins/Bayless/Dunn. We expect Nene to be Cousins primary backup, but he will also play next to Cousins when the situation calls for it. Vasquez will see court time in the backcourt with Bayless and Dunn, but will also be counted on showing the rookie the ropes. Humphries' junkyard dog persona and high effort rebounding will fit right in with this group.
LONG-TERM VIEW: With a relatively young core in Cousins (26), Wiggins (21), and Dunn (22), Brooklyn invested in some low risk/high reward talent at the back of the draft with Deyonta Davis (19), Skal Labissière (20), Nik Stauskas (22) and Demetrius Jackson (21). These guys’ primary goal will be to learn from our group of vets, led by Chase Budinger and NBA champion and 2x All-Star Caron Butler. This is a group of youngsters with tremendous upside, but require a little more attention. We believe Coach Atkinson is up to the task.
Is the voting still gonna happen?
from the main thread...
Important Announcement from Commish's office:
What is going on? Did this just die before our eyes?
Well... yes and no.
The long-and-short of it is I'm simply unable to continue coordinating things.
Folks may have seen in anothr thread (and as I told the other volunteer-assistants-to-the-commish (NickAgneta, Evantime34, and The Walker Wiggle earlier today) that my wife has been having some health issues that led to an ER visit this weekend. Thankfully there's nothing critical or life-threatening. But that combined with being *slammed* at work means I'm just not able to set up the press conferences, voting for playoffs, playoff matchups and subsequent playoff voting.
I put to Nick, Evantime and Wiggle if one of them was interested in taking over or if we should just "call it". For what it's worth the original CBD was just the draft and maybe press conferences no voting.
The general consensus was that the best part of CBD is the draft itself -- and that the press conf/playoffs/voting is (a) a lot of work and (b) where some of the hyper competitive stuff comes out. We are also down at least 4 GMs (including me) since the start of the draft. So we were all fine letting things be, as disappointing as it might be.
All that being said, if someone else woudl like to take over from here and set up press conf., voting and playoffs --- be my guest. Sadly I won't be able to be very active, but other GMs may want to be -- and it's not like there's a rulebook you have to follow.
Again I'm really sorry for having to bail. The group of GMs has been really great this time and the discussions were all pretty respectful and thoguthful. it was a lot of fun to dust this CBD thing off! Maybe a group of us can start a bit earlier next summer to share the load of CBD 2017?
Ubuntu.... and TPs all around gents!!!!!