I'm fine with it, just a bit angry that no one explained their vote and I assume some voted out of dislike. Like Donatas said, both our teams matchup good and it's more 50/50. The vote is now 2-6 and not one single person gave an explanation, it's not really how this should go imho.
A real tough choice. I literally went back and forth between these two teams. I gave the slight nod to Yung T. I like his shooters around LeBron and Hibbert has good size. I think if Yung goes with his small ball lineup, he'll win in 6 or 7.
frankly, i think i'd be more scared of Hibbert than small ball. I'm not sure it makes sense for me to have Tyson Chandler chase someone at the 3 pt line, he'd just stay in the paint, protect it and grab all the rebounds. If there are 3s, ok. But there will also be rebounds and a lot of transition opportunities. I'm not sure that small-ball would be very effective vs. a team that's very quick/athletic for their positions and tall. Such team would win the rebounds battle and turn it into transition. Besides, halfcourt defense/rim protection would suffer quite a bit. And the only reliable low-post offensive option (Hibbert) would be lost. I might be wrong, but I just can't picture it working well at the moment. IMO, Hibbert would be the better option. That team is super-athletic and quick anyway at other positions. There's plenty of athletes on that team to defend my transition as much as it's possible, and there's enough shooters to stretch the floor. And Hibbert moves fairly well too (for a 7'2 guy). I think Hibbert - Chandler matchup is fairly balanced. Hibbert wouldn't have to chase/battle Chandler on defense much, just stay in the paint and protect it. They'd battle for rebounds and on Hibbert's post ups on the other end, but it's a fairly solid scenario for Hibbert, imo. He wouldn't tire out quickly. I think my plan would actually be to try and go at Hibbert at the start with Blake, Chandler, guards and try to cause some quick fouls. IMO, I'd want you to go small, since it wouldn't really give you a significant advantage in shooting or athleticism over my team, while making me the bigger team and pretty much guaranteeing the edge in rebounding, transition opportunities and causing you defensive issues in half-court. Overall, I think it's an even matchup. I think Ilyasova is a little worrying for me. He might outperform himself here because of the matchup. But I think Blake is a very tough matchup for him as well due to strength disadvantage. LeBron is obviously a beast, Deng won't be enough. But then CP3 is a similarly tough task for Conley. The inside-out passing with Hibbert could be very dangerous - kind of like Blake's passing to Chandler/shooters on my end. Tbh, I think we have very similar teams. You have the best player surrounded by younger, less experienced guys. My team has several lesser stars, and overall my guys are generally older, more experienced. But in the end, IMO, these are quite similar, very athletic teams that run great transition, cut a lot, shoot extremely well, rebound well, play very good defense, pass very well at 3 positions (PG, wing, big). I think this would be an even match-up, where in the end hopefully my talent in the post prevails, especially once Hibbert is on the bench. Or maybe LeBron just kills everyone, who knows. But while all of this is unfolding, it will be raining 3s on both sides + a lot of transition, passing, cutting and defense...
Thanks Donatas, good post. Know that Hibbert is agile enough and would probably succeed in our matchup, but all the people here kept repeating how incredibly slow footed he is, I basically already lost this when I drafted Hibbert, his reputation is incredibly bad here.
well he wouldn't run transition like Chandler, Noah or Pau, he's almost exclusively a halfcourt center, but for a 7'2, he's not slow. You have enough other transition options, IMO. Maybe just in terms of transition defense you'd suffer, since your main shot blocker wouldn't be back on D as quickly.
