Award Winning Lakers Board NBA Dynasty League - Year 8 - K>J>G Wins Championship

[moonpie]

Blah blah blah

The real topic of discussion should be - when are we starting the Award Winning Lakers Board Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) Dynasty League?

RO will draft Hamed Haddadi with the 1st pick

[ROballer]

Welp isn't that what we want though? Stat bitches?

Advance metrics would show win-loss contributions by a player but really, which player in recent memory has been benched while producing solid numbers for his team because metrics showed he's a net negative for winning basketball games?

Drummond, Whiteside, Josh Smith. There are always examples out there. Wood is next.

Christian Wood is a tank commander, not less, no more. If he's that good, he would've been drafted accordingly.
And even if you disregard this(Marc Gasol, Jokic, Vanvleet, etc)..all of these EARNED their chops even if they were ignored in the draft, on their very first teams. They played winning basketball and impacted the game and they took minutes from the guy in front of them.

Wood never did that. He was tossed around like a rotten burrito time and time again. Only when Detroit ran out of bodies and decided to tank, is the time he really got some minutes up. He never took minutes from anybody, never earned anything.

He's a pussy. Sengun and Martin Jr. are boys who will become men real soon and they will run his ass out of town.
****, even Garuba impacts the game more and will cut into his minutes.


And yes, we're all stat bitches. But this is a dynasty league and you need to know if something's sustainable or it's not.
That's why infso dropped Oshae Brissett although he balled. That's why you traded Wood(props to you).

I was a fool and held on to Drummond too much. coach bdj was a fool and held on to Whiteside too much. Both of us will drop them at some point not getting anything back in return.

Unfortunately we're living in an analytics world. So at some point, you're going to lose your minutes if you're a negative on the court and don't contribute to winning games. Even if your stats are solid.

It's a fantasy league and we're only counting the raw stats here, but what happens in real world matters as well.

[tugs]

That's the thing, there should be a sure fire player to play over Wood. At the moment there is none. And his game is/should be complementary to a traditional and even a stretch big

Whiteside was competing against Holmes and Adebayo - both can play inside and out

Drummond was competing against Wood and Blake - again inside and out

Smith was surrounded with floor spacers in Atlanta (don't really recall his Detroit days)

So even if Sengun, KMJ, and Garuba perform, they can play with Wood (nasty). What if Houston goes the youth route? Better, he'll be showcased as a trade piece

[ROballer]

He never had any value playing alongside a competent big, that's why he was on half the league already.

He only got PT after the Pistons traded Drummond and they had nobody left. And he had no one in Houston to compete with.
If he's traded to a team who has some bigs who are in need of minutes as well, he's going to end up getting the short end of the stick every single time because he's not that good to begin with.

So yes, he has maybe one more season of fantasy relevancy. Although I'll argue he's going to begin losing minutes as soon as the end of this season to the young pups.

Get **** real here, Houston is not shedding future picks to draft another PF/C(Sengun), gets ANOTHER PF/C(Garuba) with their pick...and signs ANOTHER PF/C(Theis) if they think Wood is their lord savior Black Jesus.
You don't just crowd a position/s if you think you're set there, just for the heck of it.

He'll be traded in the offseason to a supposed better team who's looking to add bigman depth....and he'll eventually end up as a Bobby Portis backup to that team because he's not impactful enough to earn the role/court time over competent bigs.

[tugs]

Sssshhh Houston is following the Cleveland formula. Small ball is too mainstream and getting outdated. Time to load up on bigs

[ROballer]

I'll crap on this scrub every single day the next season, until I'm proven right.

I did it with Boucher last year, I'm not going to continue to beat that dead worse because I was proven right as soon as Khem **** Birch came on board and he started seeing teen minutes because of it.

Khem **** Birch, let that sink in.



I will not stopped. My cursings will mean the end of the stat whores from the other teams, the only ones allowed are on the RO train.

[moonpie]

I'll trade you Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue for Haddadi RO

https://basketball.realgm.com/international/league/40/chinese-cba/stats

[ROballer]

I'll pass since I have my eyes set on Salah Mejri.

Dear lord, I actually think I had this guy on my roster at some point.
I added all kinds of scrubs during the years




Last year was a good year from me though. I remember at the end of the season, there was a poll on the yahoo fantasy page voting different things.
At the one for "Add of the season", there were 4 choices and were the top 4 guys in total fantasy points for the whole season. Guys who were barely drafted at the start.

3 of the 4 were TJ McConnell, Kyle Anderson and Mason Plumlee, guys who I scooped.

[Optms]

I think he goes by worst offer. Optms, I’ll give you your choice of current free agents for Dinwiddie.

Believe it or not, one guy offered waiver wire guys with zero upside, I won't say who but he knows who he is

[Optms]

And I was waiting for this rant on how badly I screwed up. Smh.

Now tell us how your deal would have been better, Ro. Don't be shy

[Optms]

As for the deal, it wasn't even a bad deal. Fair value on both ends. Woods is a mid round big man that can potentially be a top 40 player if raises his FT% back up. He is not going anywhere either. All those picks in Houston mean nothing. The Rockets didn't draft a franchise altering big man, just a lot of B-Level prospects.

Thies is a backup. As for the 2 rookie bigs, they could easily bust but if they don't, they can all easily play with one another. This isn't a Drummond scnenario where Woods is a stat padder that is also clogging up the paint - He can actually shoot. And so can the guys they drafted. In fact, that's why they drafted Garuba, a defensive big man which this team desperately needed that can play next to Woods. He's going to be stat padding for a long time because the Rockets are not competing anytime soon.

The only guys on this roster who should be worried about being traded and ending up as sixth men somewhere are their current guards. COUGH COUGH. Jalen Green is the future and is a future All-Star/potential superstar. Every other guard is exependable.

[ROballer]

Time will be the judged of that. You and I only know who was involved, you can share that info if you want.

[Optms]

John Wall + Kuminga

Wall can potentially bounce back but he has 10x more question marks than a guy like Woods does moving forward. He's older, injury prone, finished worse in value last year and he now has Jalen Green, Porter and a rebuilding Front office breathing down the back of his neck. He might be moved next off season, not Woods.

Kuminga vs Moody are equal talents to me, IMO. Kuminga has top 30 upside but also bust potential. He can't shoot and his FT% are also bad. Moody checks all those boxes even if his ceiling is lower. I ultimately went with the safer pick.

[ROballer]

As for the deal, it wasn't even a bad deal. Fair value on both ends. Woods is a mid round big man that can potentially be a top 40 player if raises his FT% back up. He is not going anywhere either. All those picks in Houston mean nothing. The Rockets didn't draft a franchise altering big man, just a lot of B-Level prospects.

Thies is a backup. As for the 2 rookie bigs, they could easily bust but if they don't, they can all easily play with one another. This isn't a Drummond scnenario where Woods is a stat padder that is also clogging up the paint - He can actually shoot. And so can the guys they drafted. In fact, that's why they drafted Garuba, a defensive big man which this team desperately needed that can play next to Woods. He's going to be stat padding for a long time because the Rockets are not competing anytime soon.

The only guys on this roster who should be worried about being traded and ending up as sixth men somewhere are their current guards. COUGH COUGH. Jalen Green is the future and is a future All-Star/potential superstar. Every other guard is exependable.

You can lie to yourself to go to sleep if it makes you feel better, fact is you don't even know his name and calling the other draftees B level prospects just because you traded for him.

**** me, was Wood even drafted? Can't remember. I do remember the waiving though, it was a whole lot of that.
You're calling guys B level prospects while defending a **** nobody who got a shot in his mid 20's. What level is he if the other ones are B level?

We'll talk again in a year when the only big you have on your roster from the Rockets is Garuba.


And Wall is getting traded after they pump him up with stats to raise his non existent value due to his salary. And?
Everyone knows this, you think I don't? Thing is Wall actually did something before Houston and will do it post Houston.
I can't say the same thing for Wood. He's Bobby Portis for every other team who gets at least 40 wins(decent, caring about winning).

Porter Jr. though can easily co-exist with him, there is plenty of room in the backcourt.

Wall and Wood don't fit with the timeline, they're gonna build around Green/Porter/Sengun/Martin/Garuba/Tate and whatever high pick they get next year plus what they get from the Wood deal.

So better pray Moody's going to be better than his GSW counter-part, because that's the real haul you'll be getting from this trade.

[TyCobb]

They all suck. No point in arguing about trades after the Chris Paul trade though. We have already accepted free gifts.

[Mamba Mentality]

Glad I traded Lebrons geriatric ass for Jaylen Brown+Wiggins a couple years ago. One of the best trades I made in this league.

[tugs]

In another random trivia of the day, I'm the only GM in this league whose roster has been blessed by the 2 P&G legends of our generation.

[moonpie]

In another random trivia of the day, I'm the only GM in this league whose roster has been blessed by the 2 P&G legends of our generation.

You had DJ Mbenga on your roster at some point?!

[tugs]

Close. Smush Parker

[Optms]

Off season is too long and I'm bored.

I suggest again that we start a second League (Non dynasty) and bring in new members who may want to participate or current members if they have time to manage multi-league rosters, I know some of you already play in multiple leagues. Thoughts?