On March 19th we explained the rules to our "battle
of the sites" contest between NBADraft.net and NBA based sister site
HoopsDaily.com. Now with
just 3 tourney games left, the outcome is becoming clearer: Team HoopsDaily.com
holds a commanding 90 point lead at 1453 points to 1363 and a one player advantage
heading into the final four.
Here are the results (both team and individual) thus
far:
Team HoopsDaily.com
| Jon Pastuszuk | Joshua Motenko | Mark Priaulx | Aran Smith |
| B.Griffin (28,33,30,23) | Teague (10) | Evans (15,19,33) | Blair (27,10,10,20) |
| Price 20,27,15,18 | Thabeet 20,6,15,5 | Flynn (16,11,22) | Ellington 25,23,19,9 |
| Green 15,8,13,18 | Lawson 0,23,19,19 | Cunningham 25,18,14,14 | Fields (6,13,14,10) |
| Ruoff (9) | Harden (9,10) | Reynolds 8,11,16,15 | Walker 10,8,5,23 |
| Johnson (22) | Hill (17,16,14) | Devendorf (10,21,8) | Heytvelt, (22,10 14) |
| Lyons (23,18,15,13) | A.Anderson (13,2,18) | Taggart (8,14,9) | T. Griffin (18,7,9,4) |
| Bouldin (12,20,7) | Pargo, (9,18,16) | McNeal (14,30) | DeRozan (18,18) |
| Randle (14) | Daye (10,10,10) | Abrams (26,17) | Aminu (17) |
| 401 pts, 2 remaining | 289 pts, 2 remaining | 394 pts, 2 remaining | 369 pts, 2 remaining |
1453 points
8 players remaining
Team NBADraft.net
| Borko Popic | Brian Cerone | Adam Ganeles | Adi Joseph |
| Hansbrough 22,15,24,8 | Young (14,32,19,28) | Warren (16,16,6,18) | Henderson (13,24,7) |
| Clark (12,12,19,19) | Adrien 13,23,8,12 | T.Williams (13,24,14,5) | Douglas (26) |
| Singler (10,17,15) | Samuels (15,13,14,0) | Carroll (13,15,17,12) | Lucas 13,10,18,10 |
| Collins (32,25,20) | Scheyer (15,13,13) | J.Anderson (10,15) | Butler (12) |
| Thompson 6,6,5,10 | Dozier (6,17,19) | I.Thomas (9,24) | Hummel (9,7,17) |
| Aldrich (23,13,17) | Budinger (20,15,22) | Christmas (29) | Maynor (21) |
| Pendergraph (22,9) | Brockman (10,20) | Fisher 11,13,6,9 | Collison (10,15) |
| Morgan 16,3,4,0 | Robinson 24,12,10,13 | J. Smith (7,6,16,8) | Wilkinson (15) |
| 384 pts, 3 remaining | 420 pts, 2 remaining | 332 pts, 1 remaining | 227 pts, 1 remaining |
1363
7 players remaining
Individual Scoreboard
| Brian Cerone | Jon Pastuszuk | Mark Priaulx | Borko Popic | Aran Smith | Adam Ganeles | Joshua Motenko | Adi Joseph |
| Young (93) | B. Griffin (114) | Evans (67) | Hansbrough 69 | Blair (67) | Warren (56) | Teague (10) | Henderson (44) |
| Adrien 56 | Price 80 | Flynn (49) | Clark (62) | Ellington 76 | T. Williams (56) | Thabeet 46 | Douglas (26) |
| Samuels (42) | Green 54 | Cunningham 71 | Singler (42) | Fields (43) | Carroll (57) | Lawson 51 | Lucas 51 |
| Scheyer (41) | Ruoff (9) | Reynolds 50 | Collins (77) | Walker 46 | J. Anderson (25) | Harden (19) | Butler (12) |
| Dozier (42) | Johnson (22) | Devendorf (39) | Thompson 27 | Heytvelt (46) | Thomas (33) | Hill (47) | Hummel (33) |
| Budinger (57) | Lyons (69) | Taggart (31) | Aldrich (53) | T. Griffin (38) | Christmas (29) | A. Anderson (33) | Maynor (21) |
| Brockman (30) | Bouldin (39) | McNeal (44) | Pendergraph (31) | DeRozan (36) | Fisher 39 | Pargo (43) | Collison (25) |
| Robinson 59 | Randle (14) | Abrams (43) | Morgan 23 | Aminu (17) | J. Smith (37) | Daye (30) | Wilkinson (15) |
| 420 pts, 2 remaining | 401 pts, 2 remaining | 394 pts, 2 remaining | 384 pts, 3 remaining | 369 pts, 2 remaining | 332 pts, 1 remaining | 279 pts, 2 remaining | 227 pts, 1 remaining |
Top 10 scorers:
Blake Grffin (114)
Sam Young (93)
AJ Price 80
Sherron Collins
(77)
Wayne Ellington 76
Dante Cunningham 71
Tyler Hansbrough 69
Leo
Lyons (69)
DeJuan Blair (67)
Tyreke Evans (67)
Team HoopsDaily has
3 Tar Heels, 3 Huskies and 2 Wildcats, while Team NBADraft.net has 2 Tar Heels,
2 Huskies, 2 Spartans and 1 Wildcat. So a Michigan State-Villanova final would
greatly benefit team NBADraft.net’s chances.
Team
Outlooks:
Brain Cerone’s (420 points) Cerone’s team beneftted
greatly by having Sam Young fall to him at 4. He also made a phenominal choice
in the last round grabbing 59 point scoring Stanley Robinson who is still adding
to his total. Even with no Sam Young, Cerone’s duo of Adrien and Robinson could
be enough to push him over the finish line. Should Michigan State upset UConn,
it will likely open the door wide for another team to win it. With a 19 point
lead and 2 dependable scorers left and likely to play 2 games, this team has a
strong chance of winning.
Mark Priaulx (401 points) This team is just 19
points off the pace. If Villanova can somehow pull the upset over the Tar Heels,
this team will have a real shot at winning with Nova’s top 2 scorers. Without a
Nova win, it’s hard to imagine this team scoring enough to get the
win.
Jon Pastuszek (394 points) Pastuszek’s team could end up with the
top two overall scorers in the tournament with Blake Griffin and the leader
among players still alive, AJ Price. With possibly the most firepower left in
Price and Green, this team could come from behind and make up the 26 points
should UConn and UNC meet in the final.
Borko Popic (384 points) The only
team left with more than 2 players, this team could greatly benefit from some
bounce back performances from final pick Raymar Morgan. Just 4 points in the
past 2 rounds is not getting the job done. Stanley Robinson’s 36 point lead over
Morgan is exactly the point differential between Popic’s team and first place
Cerone’s team. With Hansbrough and Thompson, this team could definitely climb to
first place, particularly if Michigan State can upset UConn.
Aran Smith
(369 points) With Villanova beating Pitt, my chances of winning went up in
smoke. And with Sam Young consistently outscoring Fields and Blair combined,
this team would have had a near impossible job of reeling in the first place
team anyway. The criticized third and fourth round picks of Fields and Walker
could have been better selections, however combined they actually outscored all
but two team’s 3rd and 4th rounders. This team has a good shot to overtake
Priaulx’s squad if UConn and UNC meet in the final, but with 51 points to make
up on the leader, this team has little chance of winning.
Adam Ganeles
(332 points) Ganeles doesn’t have much hope for improvement with just one player
(Corey Fisher) left and 37 points off the pace. This team had a lot of explosive
scorers, but ultimately fell short as those player’s teams were eliminated.
Joshua Motenko (279 points) Motenko has a shot to move up to sixth place
with 2 very live players still going. 53 points behind, should Lawson and
Thabeet both have big games in the final four and championship game, it’s
possible he could score close to 100 points and move into 6th place.
Adi
Joseph (227 points) Joseph needs Kalin Lucas to singlehandedly outscore Hasheem
Thabeet and Ty Lawson in order to make up ground on the second to last place
finisher. 52 points behind, that has about as much chance of happening as the
Lions winning the superbowl next year.
Draft Results
Here was how the draft went down:
1. BP: Tyler Hansbrough, No. 1 North Carolina
2. JP: Blake Griffin, No. 2 Oklahoma
3. JM: Jeff Teague, No. 4 Wake Forest
4. BC: Sam Young, No. 1 Pittsburgh
5. AG: Willie Warren, Oklahoma
6. AJ: Gerald Henderson, No. 2 Duke
7. MP: Tyreke Evans, No. 2 Memphis
8. AS: DeJuan Blair, Pittsburgh
9. AS: Wayne Ellington, North Carolina
10. MP: Jonny Flynn, No. 3 Syracuse
11. AJ: Toney Douglas, No. 5 Florida State
12. AG: Terrence Williams, No. 1 Louisville
13. BC: Jeff Adrien, No. 1 Connecticut
14. JM: Hasheem Thabeet, Connecticut
15. JP: A.J. Price, Connecticut
16. BP: Earl Clark, Louisville
17. BP: Kyle Singler, Duke
18. JP: Danny Green, North Carolina
19. JM: Ty Lawson, North Carolina
20. BC: Samardo Samuels, Louisville
21. AG: DeMarre Carroll, No. 3 Missouri
22. AJ: Kalin Lucas, No. 2 Michigan State
23. MP: Dante Cunningham, No. 3 Villanova
24. AS: Levance Fields, Pittsburgh
25. AS: Kemba Walker, Connecticut
26. MP: Scottie Reynolds, Villanova
27. AJ: DaSean Butler, No. 6 West Virginia
28. AG: James Anderson, No. 8 Oklahoma State
29. BC: Jon Scheyer, Duke
30. JM: James Harden, No. 6 Arizona State
31. JP: Alex Ruoff, West Virginia
32. BP: Sherron Collins, No. 3 Kansas
33. BP: Deon Thompson, North Carolina
34. JP: James Johnson, Wake Forest
35. JM: Jordan Hill, No. 12 Arizona
36. BC: Robert Dozier, Memphis
37. AG: Isaiah Thomas, No. 4 Washington
38. AJ: Robbie Hummel, No. 5 Purdue
39. MP: Eric Devendorf, Syracuse
40. AS: Josh Heytvelt, No. 4 Gonzaga
41. AS: Taylor Griffin, Oklahoma
42. MP: Shawn Taggart, Memphis
43. AJ: Eric Maynor, No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth
44. AG: Dionte Christmas, No. 11 Temple
45. BC: Chase Budinger, Arizona
46. JM: Antonio Anderson, Memphis
47. JP: Leo Lyons, Missouri
48. BP: Cole Aldrich, Kansas
49. BP: Jeff Pendergraph, Arizona State
50. JP: Matt Bouldin, Gonzaga
51. JM: Jeremy Pargo, Gonzaga
52. BC: Jon Brockman, Washington
53. AG: Corey Fisher, Villanova
54. AJ: Darren Collison, No. 6 UCLA
55. MP: Jerel McNeal, No. 6 Marquette
56. AS: DeMar DeRozan, No. 10 Southern Cal
57. AS: Al-Farouq Aminu, Wake Forest
58. MP: A.J. Abrams, No. 7 Texas
59. AJ: Gary Wilkinson, No. 11 Utah State
60. AG: Jerry Smith, Louisville
61. BC: Stanley Robinson, Connecticut
62. JM: Austin Daye, Gonzaga
63. JP: Jerome Randle, No. 7 California
64. BP: Raymar Morgan, Michigan State
