Oh yes. Ashamed to admit I temporally forgot about Beard. I was thinking someone should have drafted him.....early.
I considered Grady and I just went with as many multi year guys as I could.
Seems a lot of people were hesitant to take older talent. I took a couple, we will see how voting shakes out but I think young NBA talent will win over 3-4 year stat leaders but we will see. I chose a couple of all time great and popular Cats in Prince and Hayes and I’ll be surprised if I finish higher than 6 or 7th.
In all honesty, I looked up a lot on him. Once again wasn’t sure what he would offer. I felt the early 50s was a tough call.
Yeah, tough balancing act trying to decide between who you think is the best player, best team fit, and who the voters like.
I thought about Beard, Cox, Conley, Master and Feldhaus. I eventually went with Dwight Anderson as my backup PG, to counter guys like Wall, Fox, Rondo and Turner.
The 10 people who are doing this or everyone on the board? I stand by what I said.
That’s the issue I had, like how would those guys guard modern guards or forwards. Kinda a totally different game that is called way different now as well. It makes it really hard to say and that’s why more modern players always rule the drafts to me.
Their main issue is how they were taught to guard and the things that aren’t called now would frustrate them. Guys get away with guaranteed travels to those guys every play almost. I think they would adjust and I believe some are better athletes than we give them credit for. Also like to see how they would be with modern training.
The overall populace would definitely vote for the team with the best player I’d agree. Anyone who would see Jordan or AD would get more votes than they maybe should, obviously overall team dependent but I guarantee a study would show more picked them based on those guys if replaced with any other player.
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I was gonna draft Beard. But like I said, 1950s. From what I can remember of reading up on UK b-ball lore, Beard was a bad SOB.
Yep. I made a post in my first round matchup that I lost kinda talking about this. I had Cliff Hagan and Louie Dampier on my team but really the best we can do is read about those guys. How quick was he? How good a defender? It’s impossible to judge them when you haven’t seen them.. But on the flip side, I remember how I FELT watching Wall slice through defenders and Josie Meeks scoring his 54 points.
I love the all college drafts. The tough thing with those are the KY bias. Teams with the most ky players will win. I’d be open to an all time college draft without KY players included, even
