Oh - I absolutely would’ve taken him under normal circumstances. Probably before this point even, but I’m doing something different this year. There’s one other guy that I love still on the board, but I’m worried he’ll go undrafted. If that looks like it might happen, I’m going to need to jump my board and take him.
Lol you put Gilmore at PF. Gotta swap Gasol and Gilmore's slots.
It is really just anyone before recent memory is disrespected. Recency bias is a real thing. The Gilmore pick is a great example. If anyone had seen him play they would have a different opinion. He was a force. He was another in a long list of dominant players that just never had the right team around them. On a team like they are building here he would be the perfect power player to clog the middle and get every damn rebound. Even at an older age he went toe to toe with some we feel are true greats, like Moses Malone and as was stated in the post, a young Hakeem. It makes it tough to make picks from the older eras outside of the requirement.
I like it a lot. I do question how 2 players that averaged a usage of over 30 are going to share the ball in Kobe and Luka. Although if they can make it work they will be a force.
That's crazy. Back in the 70's the average height was the same as today. There were a lot of great bigs in the 70's too. Even at an advanced age Gilmore was a baller vs the big men of the 80's.
Yeah it really is the recency bias thing. And the idea that "if you put that guy on the floor today he couldn't keep up with the pace and the athletes today" ignoring the fact that these guys were top-level athletes when these dudes still smoked like chimneys and drank on game days and ****. With modern medicine and training they would be even more dominant. Hell, Gilmore was one of the few who had a legit sky-hook, with the left hand no less, and could hit jumpers out to 18 feet. Yeah no 3 pt shot but who is to say he couldn't develop one, like Lopez did over his career. And in his freaking rookie year he averaged 23 pts 20 boards and 5 blocks. So cut those in half and he is automatically rookie of the year even today. We sadly devalue the guys from the past because we want to believe we live in the more dominant age, but we have been making that same argument for decades. It just doesn't hold water.
