One Time Draft CHAMPIONSHIP - Laimbeer** vs. wackbone

[Fadeaway_J]

Here is a quick list of what you need in your writeup.

1. Specific years for each player on your team
2. Rotations and minutes for each player
3. Reasoning as to why your team will win and/or why people should vote for you.

Do not vote in this thread until both managers have submitted their writeups. Once the writeups are posted, I will add a poll, and the team with the most votes after 24 hours will win the championship. EACH MANAGER SHOULD ALSO VOTE FOR THEIR OWN TEAM IN THE POLL - IF YOU FAIL TO DO THIS, YOU ARE SIMPLY GIVING AWAY A VOTE. If the votes are tied, we will decide the matchup via AI vote.

You are not required to state or explain your vote, but you are free to comment in the thread if you want to.

If writeups aren't posted within 24 hours, we will vote solely based on the players they have drafted (and any rotations they have posted on their roster page).

[Laimbeer]

Good luck, wack.


Patrick Ewing ( 1989 ) 16.0
Kevin Garnett ( 2005 ) 16.6
Paul Pierce ( 2005 ) 14.9
Doug Christie ( 2003 ) 7.0
Anfernee Hardaway ( 1996 ) 14.8

Isaiah Hartenstein ( 2024 ) 4.9
Toni Kukoč ( 1996 ) 9.7
Delon Wright ( 2022 ) 3.5

87.4

Patrick Ewing (38) / Isaiah Hartenstein (10)
Kevin Garnett (38) / Toni Kukoč (10)
Paul Pierce (30) / Toni Kukoč (18)
Doug Christie (38) / Paul Pierce (10)
Anfernee Hardaway (38) / Delon Wright (10)

We have a very talented starting five offensively with Kukoc a major addition off the bench. We'll hunt Harden, lol.

Ewing/Mourning, KG/Horofrd, Pierce/Erving, Christie/Harden, Penny/Green are pretty solid defensively. Mourning is going to allow Ewing to lend some elite rim protection.

Kukoc gives us a boost off the bench.

There are some similarities to the teams, but I feel we have a talent edge.

[JimmyPlopper]

Ewing vs Mourning in the finals makes for a fun sub-plot that was a real life rivalry of guys from the same school

[wackbone]

Julius Erving - 1981 - 18.6 FGA - MVP
James Harden - 2015 - 18.1 FGA - 2nd in MVP, 37.5 3P% on 6.9 att
Alonzo Mourning - 1999 - 13.8 FGA - 2nd in MVP, DPOY
Al Horford - 2018 - 10.5 FGA - All-Star, 5th in DPOY, 42.9 3P% on 3.1 att
Herb Jones - 2024 - 7.7 FGA - 5th in DPOY, 41.8 3P% on 3.6 att
Danny Green - 2014 - 7.4 FGA - 41.5 3P% on 4.7 att, notably good defender
Marcus Smart - 2019 - 7.1 FGA - All-Defensive 1st, 36.4 3P% on 4.3 att
Andrew Bogut - 2016 - 4.0 FGA - Starter on best team ever
Total: 87.2/88 FGA

James Harden (22) / Marcus Smart (26)
Danny Green (32) / James Harden (16)
Julius Erving (38) / Herb Jones (10)
Al Horford (32) / Herb Jones (16)
Alonzo Mourning (36) / Andrew Bogut (12)

Writeup:

Helluva team as always Laimbeer, best of luck.

Defensively we will start with Harden on Christie, Green on Penny, Erving on Pierce, Horford on KG, and Mourning on Ewing. Smart will also see a lot of time on Penny off the bench, and Herb is yet another elite defender to have on any of Pierce/KG/Kukoc.

Offensively we are built around our three-tiered attack, with 2nd in MVP Harden as the primary playmaker, MVP Erving on the wing, and 2nd in MVP Mourning down low. They are surrounded by 3&D galore in Green, Horford, Smart, and Herb. Both Smart and Erving will take some of the playmaking responsibilities off of Harden as well.

Laimbeer has a super strong team to be sure, but I do think we have the spacing and defensive edge, as well as the top two pure scorers in the series in Harden and Erving. I also prefer our bench as far as both their individual talent as well as their usage in this matchup. Hartenstein and Bogut essentially cancel each other out so then there's 10 minutes of Wright (which isn't a detriment but also doesn't add a ton of value) and then 3 high quality and bigger minute bench guys and we have 2/3 with 52 combined minutes of Smart/Herb as compared to 28 minutes of Kukoc.

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Ready for votes. Laimbeer and wack, please vote for yourselves as well.

[Fadeaway_J]

I don't know if we made enough of the fact that Laimbeer got Penny in the 3rd round and Ewing in the 4th. Understandable as you need the right teams to fit them on, but two crazy drops from a talent perspective.

[wackbone]

Call the damn match!!!

[Fadeaway_J]

Call the damn match!!!

Yeah I think we can at this stage

[wackbone]

GG Laimbeer!

Another nice thing about polls - you can never get swept! (Unless you forget to vote for yourself)

[Snakebites]

Yeah I wasn’t too torn up about losing in the semis- doubt I’d have stood a chance against that buzz saw either.

[Laimbeer]

Woot!. Center and point were both pretty deep as I recall but Penny and Ewing were steals. Some folks got a little conservative early and I was lucky they fell to me.