Rookies! Rookies! Rookies!
Well it's all about rookies for me right now - reflecting on my rookie year as GM, looking forward to my first annual draft and enjoying the promising play of recently acquired rook Josh Boone.
Rookie GM
Wow! What a learning experience my first year in this league was! Going in I thought I knew a fair bit about the NBA and how to play fantasy hoops - until I met you guys and realised how much I didn't know! Very eye opening experience to learn some valuable lessons from keen fantasy ballers all around the globe. Hmm, so what did I learn - well, looking back I was a bit too quick to pul the trigger on a certain David West and 'Q' - think i could have done better. Will make much better use of the waiver wire in future too. Live and learn right? You can all look forward to a pretty well drilled Adelaide team in its sophomore season.
All things considered it was a pretty good first season. Knocked off the LA Jam (who were admittedly without the power of Yao) in the first round and narrowly fell to the Rage in the next (if only the Bargnani / Marv Williams combo played poorly in that series you'd be looking at a conference finals team - which incidentally would have also lost to the Fusion in all likelihood). Still, you have to give credit where credit is due...congratulations to both the Fusion and Spoilermakers.
2007 Annual Draft
As the 2007 annual draft rolls around the Adelaide Dragons will be spectators until the second round. Let's not forget some of the second round sleepers taken last year though - Garbo, Millsap, Walter Hermann (Fabio / The Big Pretty - insert male model joke here), Craig Smith and Balkman. Let's not forget who snared Azubuike before he actually got his dues in the NBA - and who also waived him at exactly the wrong point in time! Hah hah I'll put that one down to another rookie GM mistake.... Plus the second round also produced the Dragons own dynamic duo - Rogriguez and Boone (sounds like a law firm)! Needless to say the Dragons scouts will be doing overtime to snare that second round sleeper this year.
One final thought - Eddie Griffin! Grrrrrrr, now i know what it must feel like being a T-Wolves fan - of the Minnesota variety, not the Danish equivalent!
Rookie GM
Wow! What a learning experience my first year in this league was! Going in I thought I knew a fair bit about the NBA and how to play fantasy hoops - until I met you guys and realised how much I didn't know! Very eye opening experience to learn some valuable lessons from keen fantasy ballers all around the globe. Hmm, so what did I learn - well, looking back I was a bit too quick to pul the trigger on a certain David West and 'Q' - think i could have done better. Will make much better use of the waiver wire in future too. Live and learn right? You can all look forward to a pretty well drilled Adelaide team in its sophomore season.
All things considered it was a pretty good first season. Knocked off the LA Jam (who were admittedly without the power of Yao) in the first round and narrowly fell to the Rage in the next (if only the Bargnani / Marv Williams combo played poorly in that series you'd be looking at a conference finals team - which incidentally would have also lost to the Fusion in all likelihood). Still, you have to give credit where credit is due...congratulations to both the Fusion and Spoilermakers.
2007 Annual Draft
As the 2007 annual draft rolls around the Adelaide Dragons will be spectators until the second round. Let's not forget some of the second round sleepers taken last year though - Garbo, Millsap, Walter Hermann (Fabio / The Big Pretty - insert male model joke here), Craig Smith and Balkman. Let's not forget who snared Azubuike before he actually got his dues in the NBA - and who also waived him at exactly the wrong point in time! Hah hah I'll put that one down to another rookie GM mistake.... Plus the second round also produced the Dragons own dynamic duo - Rogriguez and Boone (sounds like a law firm)! Needless to say the Dragons scouts will be doing overtime to snare that second round sleeper this year.
One final thought - Eddie Griffin! Grrrrrrr, now i know what it must feel like being a T-Wolves fan - of the Minnesota variety, not the Danish equivalent!
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