I haven't listened to the podcast, but I wanted to express my appreciation for the very straightforward draft approach to a heavily and perhaps overly discussed topic. There is some subjectivity in listing positions, but this is way better than assigning 1-5 point values to players and having 15 points to distribute among a starting five. (I've seen that on DBR before, and it's a whole lot of nonsense.)
A bit of an off-topic analogy, but 2-3 years ago the game show Jeopardy! did a set of All-Star Games, a kind of team tournament of trivia luminaries. 6 former champions were assigned as captains, and each had to draft 12 other former champions to make six teams of 3. The draft was essentially an S-curve; one captain picked 1st and 12th, the second captain picked 2nd and 11th, and so on. YouTube has a 4-minute version of the draft:
Despite picking "last" (6th and 7th), Brad Rutter picked Larissa Kelly and Dave Madden, and they won the whole thing. This kept Brad, at that time, undefeated on Jeopardy! against all human competition (he and Ken Jennings lost to IBM's Watson in a 2011 exhibition).
I bring this up because Sam is Brad Rutter. He took advantage of making back-to-back draft picks at the bottom of the S-Curve to get Grant Hill and Christian Laettner, the Larissa Kelly and Dave Madden of Duke basketball. And what's crazy is how well he drafted after that. In my opinion, it's the three biggest stars of the 1991 and 1992 championship teams, plus upgrades at shooting guard, power forward, and the bench. Marvin Bagley fits in nicely here exactly because he doesn't have to do everything. He's the quick and agile rebounder that those venerated, pre-OAD Coach K teams kind of lacked. I could quibble about Sam picking Nolan Smith at #15 instead of Chris Duhon (who went #20), but he also picked Trajan Langdon as a reserve, so no real complaints.
Look, all of the teams are good because all of the talent is good. I'm not talking crap about Donald or Jason any more than I would criticize Team Buzzy Cohen or Team Ken Jennings in the above video. But while in Donald's and Jason's teams I see amazing talent, in Sam's team I see both amazing talent and a winning strategy. I can tell how the pieces fit. The other teams, while unbelievable groupings, operate more on a "How could they lose?" level of imagination and faith.