2008 Draft Day Thread: 7:30 ESPN

[PhilasFinest]

HOLY SHITTT....VERY UNEXPECTED...

good for him

[TheGuiltyParty]

Well, we're now guaranteed to be able to pick from Randolph, Arthur, Speights, and Jordan. 1 of those 4 will be in a Sixers uni next season.

[JD76ers]

what what what

[anklebreaker]

Thompson?  Biggest shocker thus far. 

[Stanford]

He was a reach at our pick IMO

[jemagee]

HOLY SHITTT....VERY UNEXPECTED...

good for him

Just a bad pick, a bad bad pick...

[jemagee]

Well, we're now guaranteed to be able to pick from Randolph, Arthur, Speights, and Jordan. 1 of those 4 will be in a Sixers uni next season.

Unless of course 3 of them go 13, 14 and 15

[PhilasFinest]

Well, we're now guaranteed to be able to pick from Randolph, Arthur, Speights, and Jordan. 1 of those 4 will be in a Sixers uni next season.

not a bad situation to be in...all have tons of upside and somewhat fit a need...Randolph is my lowest ranked player tho.

[jemagee]

Who has dropped the most so far?  Is there someone left that still might fall to the sixers?

[Derek Bodner]

A.  DX has better servers and a better set up than RealGM

Actually, RealGM has 6 servers.  DX has two.  And DX actually only has two because I "borrowed" one from work to use as a squid image cache for draft night.

The real difference is that DX has a professional linux sysadmin and dba, and realgm doesn't.  I've optimized the *shit* out of DraftExpress.  90% of queries are hitting the query cache, and 99% of the queries that don't hit the image cache are hitting indexes.  You can literally count the # of sequential scans being performed on the DX database on your hands.  We also (probably, I don't know RealGM's disk configuration) disk configuration that's allowing 1500 queries/second to only have a 0.3 iowait.

(sorry for boring down the board with technical mumbo jumbo).

[TheGuiltyParty]

Well, we're now guaranteed to be able to pick from Randolph, Arthur, Speights, and Jordan. 1 of those 4 will be in a Sixers uni next season.

Unless of course 3 of them go 13, 14 and 15

Then the 1 left behind is a Sixer. My guess is the Blazers grab Randolph.

[jemagee]

A.  DX has better servers and a better set up than RealGM

Actually, RealGM has 6 servers.  DX has two.  And DX actually only has two because I "borrowed" one from work to use as a squid image cache for draft night.

The real difference is that DX has a professional linux sysadmin and dba, and realgm doesn't.  I've optimized the *shit* out of DraftExpress.  90% of queries are hitting the query cache, and 99% of the queries that don't hit the image cache are hitting indexes.  You can literally count the # of sequential scans being performed on the DX database on your hands.  We also (probably, I don't know RealGM's disk configuration) disk configuration that's allowing 1500 queries/second to only have a 0.3 iowait.

(sorry for boring down the board with technical mumbo jumbo).

So the solution is you should offer your highly skilled (and costly) services to realgm...because it's quite embarassing that they go down every draft night

[jemagee]

Well, we're now guaranteed to be able to pick from Randolph, Arthur, Speights, and Jordan. 1 of those 4 will be in a Sixers uni next season.

Unless of course 3 of them go 13, 14 and 15

Then the 1 left behind is a Sixer. My guess is the Blazers grab Randolph.

My guess is the blazers are working the phone until the last minute to try and get out of this pick

[Stanford]

A.  DX has better servers and a better set up than RealGM

Actually, RealGM has 6 servers.  DX has two.  And DX actually only has two because I "borrowed" one from work to use as a squid image cache for draft night.

The real difference is that DX has a professional linux sysadmin and dba, and realgm doesn't.  I've optimized the *shit* out of DraftExpress.  90% of queries are hitting the query cache, and 99% of the queries that don't hit the image cache are hitting indexes.  You can literally count the # of sequential scans being performed on the DX database on your hands.  We also (probably, I don't know RealGM's disk configuration) disk configuration that's allowing 1500 queries/second to only have a 0.3 iowait.

(sorry for boring down the board with technical mumbo jumbo).

I understand it all. 

[TheGuiltyParty]

The Blazers needed a PG out of this draft. Maybe they're trying to trade with the Pacers since that could make some sense.