NBA Alltime Fantasy Playoffs -- Round 2
Posted: Tue Feb 1, 2011 1:14 pm
Warspite vs Boned Samuels
(assumed rotation from round 1)
PG KJ (34) / Lever (14)
SG Miller (28) / Rip (20)
SF DrJ (36) / Cunningham (16)
PF Sikma (26) / Cummings (20)
C Deke (28) / Ruland (18)
Vs
PG: Joe Dumars (20), Terry Porter (28)
SG: Sam Jones (33), Joe Dumars (15), Jerry Sloan
SF: LeBron James (38), Detlef Schrempf (10)
PF: Jerry Lucas (28), Shawn Kemp (20),
C: Dwight Howard (32), Ralph Sampson (16)
Years used and resume can be found here
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I must start by saying that I don’t think I respect anyone in this game as much as I respect the knowledge of warspite. Anyone that has talked strategy or players with him will know what I am talking about. Thanks for all of you assistance in all of these games that I have played. I truly hope that the student can get the best of the teacher in this match up. Good luck my friend, I am sure your going to need it!
War has built a team around my childhood idol! The Doc was the man, and could do almost anything. The Doc vs LeBron matchup will be very fun to watch because both can do soo much on the court. Matter of fact, I told warspite during the draft that I was going to build my team like it was the 83 Sixers with LeBron ( as Doc) and Dwight (as Moses)
OFFENSE
I think my team is well balanced and is built to take advantages of mismatches and my opponents weaknesses. My team is build around one of the most difficult players to defend in the history of the game in LeBron James. He has a combination of size, speed, strength and quickness that has never been seen in the history of the game. I have surrounded him with an equally as athletically dominating freak of a player in Dwight Howard and shooters galore.
Guards
My guards are simply WINNERS, there is no other word that I can use to properly explain Joe Dumars and Sam Jones.
Joe D is going to split his minutes on offense between the 2 guard positions, like he did during his playing career. In the selected seasons he won 2 World Championships (a Finals MVP). He was a clutch and deadly shooter with great efficiency and shooting percentages (averaged 49%) and did not need a lot of shots or plays run for him to get his points. In my offense, he is going to be playing both on and off the ball, and is shooting and range (averaged 44% from 3 in selected seasons) will make doubling player very painful for my opponents.
Sam Jones was the #1 scoring option on World Championship teams in both of his selected seasons (the 7th and 8th of his 10 rings) and finished in the top 5 in MVP voting both seasons. When discussing his style of play with a few other GM’s I was told his game was a “very very very rich mans version of Rip Hamilton”. While the 3 pointer was not used when Sam played, he was known as “The Shooter” and had great FG% and TS % during his selected seasons, and scored with great efficiency .
My 3rd guard is Terry Porter. Terry was a great passer and deadly 3 point shooter (averaged 40% from 3 in selected seasons) with amazing FG % (49%) and TS% (61%). My favorite thing about my 3 guards is that they can all play together and all can shoot and none of them can be left to double team
KJ will most likely be guarding Joe D, with Miller/Rip guarding Sam Jones and Porter (Fat’s minutes will be against Porter I assume). We are going to do our best to take advantage of Reggie Miller every minute he is on the court. Sam will have a great series here. I will be running some baseline double screens (especially if Kemp and D12 are on the court together) to free up some jumpers off of curls, as well as letting Sam Jones run so isolation plays when Reggie is in the game. But for the most part whatever guard combo I have on the court will be used for spacing, a lot of my offense will be coming from the low post, so the inside/out game will be deadly. War’s defenders will need to stay with there man, or get burnt by deadly high % shooters.
Forwards
LBJ vs Doc is awesome. I think both players are equally as dominant, Doc was a very good defender , so I don’t expect LBJ to do anything special, but I also do not see him playing less then his averages either.
Jerry Lucas was an awesome player. He was a great scorer and an unbelievable shooter. His range will give Sikma all sorts of trouble, and will make him play on the perimeter, something he is not used to doing. Lucas may be the best shooting BIG in the history of the NBA, and I expect his shooting to play a big role in this series.
Shawn Kemp vs Billy C will also be a very favourable matchup for me. During this time he was basically unstoppable in the post, and I can not see the Kangaroo Kid being able to handle this physical of a freak of an athlete. He had that rare combo of speed and size that defenders could not handle, plus he could jump out of the building and run like a deer. That is not a knock on Billy, just a bad matchup from an athletic standpoint.
Detlef will get a few minutes to give LBJ a break, and will most likely be guarded by Cunningham during these few minutes. He was the 6th man of the Year in both of his selected seasons, so I am pretty sure he will handle this role without a problem. He was an amazing shooter (efficient, high % and had 3 point range) and rebounder. Cunningham will matchup very well here, so I only expect Detlef contribute on the glass and for spacing, but like my other players, he can not be left open.
Center
D12 is a beast, an athletic freak that has never been seen before. Deke was a great shot blocker and has the size to guard Dwight, but Deke always did struggle one on one against stronger athletic beast C’s (I don’t think too much is different between current day Dwight and ORL Shaq) Deke had trouble slowing down Shaq, I don’t think he will shut down Dwight either. I am not saying Dwight will go off, but you can assume his numbers are not going to be any different then his averages during the selected seasons)
Sampson will get the backup C minutes and I think he will have pretty good success as well. His seasons (84 & 85, his 1st 2 seasons) are basically the same the same selected seasons as Ruland (83 and 84). I can not find box scores from those seasons, but I honestly think the much slower Jeff Ruland will have much success stopping the bigger, much more athletic, versatile game that Sampson played early in his career
DEFENSE
On the defensive side of the ball, I am pretty sure I will stay with the same matchups. Joe D will be guarding KJ. His great top tier defense should have KJ playing below what he is used to playing. Joe will limit KJ’s driving ability with was the best part of his game. This may be one of the worst individual matchups for KJ in this entire game because of the physical man to man style of defense that Joe D plays. KJ was very quick, but I think Joe will be able to keep him undercontrol.
While Reggie has a length advantage on both Sam Jones and Porter, he is too thin and weak to take advantage of that. While he is a deadly shooter, I do not think either of my 2 very good defenders will have trouble guarding him. And both Sam and Terry are very smart defenders and I can not see them getting tricked into the stupid shooting fouls that the leg kicker was know to get dumber defenders to fall for. Rip had a little more rounded offensive game then Reggie (but with less range). Rip was a superior mid range shooter, but I think my guards will keep him in check
I do not believe the “give the ball to Doc and get out the way” game plan will work in this matchup. Doc was the man but LBJ is a All NBA 1st team defender who is equally as big (or bigger), as strong (or stronger), and as quick (or quicker) then the 2X ABA MVP (LBJ is also 2 x MVP) but LBJ also finished 2nd and 4th in DPOY voting during his selected seasons.
My BIGS should not have much trouble at all guarding the BIGS that warspite will be playing. I think I may switch up and have Dwight guard the more physical (but much slower) Sikma and let Lucas to match up against the offensively challenged Deke.
OVERALL
As solid as a team as war has built, I simply think I matchup very well against him, and think he will struggle in a few areas. I simply think I can take advantage of his weaknesses because of the versatility of my squad. I have one of the few players that can contain the great Doctor, and his other scoring options either have bad matchups, or are not players that can pick up the slack and carry a team. I think war would win against many other teams, but my defensive strengths all matchup with his offensive strengths. I see my 2 old school legends ( Sam Jones and Jerry Lucas) simply being too much for warspite’s squad to handle. That combined with LBJ and Dwight doing what they always do will lead The Boned Samuels to victory in a very well played series from both teams.
(assumed rotation from round 1)
PG KJ (34) / Lever (14)
SG Miller (28) / Rip (20)
SF DrJ (36) / Cunningham (16)
PF Sikma (26) / Cummings (20)
C Deke (28) / Ruland (18)
Vs
PG: Joe Dumars (20), Terry Porter (28)
SG: Sam Jones (33), Joe Dumars (15), Jerry Sloan
SF: LeBron James (38), Detlef Schrempf (10)
PF: Jerry Lucas (28), Shawn Kemp (20),
C: Dwight Howard (32), Ralph Sampson (16)
Years used and resume can be found here
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I must start by saying that I don’t think I respect anyone in this game as much as I respect the knowledge of warspite. Anyone that has talked strategy or players with him will know what I am talking about. Thanks for all of you assistance in all of these games that I have played. I truly hope that the student can get the best of the teacher in this match up. Good luck my friend, I am sure your going to need it!
War has built a team around my childhood idol! The Doc was the man, and could do almost anything. The Doc vs LeBron matchup will be very fun to watch because both can do soo much on the court. Matter of fact, I told warspite during the draft that I was going to build my team like it was the 83 Sixers with LeBron ( as Doc) and Dwight (as Moses)
OFFENSE
I think my team is well balanced and is built to take advantages of mismatches and my opponents weaknesses. My team is build around one of the most difficult players to defend in the history of the game in LeBron James. He has a combination of size, speed, strength and quickness that has never been seen in the history of the game. I have surrounded him with an equally as athletically dominating freak of a player in Dwight Howard and shooters galore.
Guards
My guards are simply WINNERS, there is no other word that I can use to properly explain Joe Dumars and Sam Jones.
Joe D is going to split his minutes on offense between the 2 guard positions, like he did during his playing career. In the selected seasons he won 2 World Championships (a Finals MVP). He was a clutch and deadly shooter with great efficiency and shooting percentages (averaged 49%) and did not need a lot of shots or plays run for him to get his points. In my offense, he is going to be playing both on and off the ball, and is shooting and range (averaged 44% from 3 in selected seasons) will make doubling player very painful for my opponents.
Sam Jones was the #1 scoring option on World Championship teams in both of his selected seasons (the 7th and 8th of his 10 rings) and finished in the top 5 in MVP voting both seasons. When discussing his style of play with a few other GM’s I was told his game was a “very very very rich mans version of Rip Hamilton”. While the 3 pointer was not used when Sam played, he was known as “The Shooter” and had great FG% and TS % during his selected seasons, and scored with great efficiency .
My 3rd guard is Terry Porter. Terry was a great passer and deadly 3 point shooter (averaged 40% from 3 in selected seasons) with amazing FG % (49%) and TS% (61%). My favorite thing about my 3 guards is that they can all play together and all can shoot and none of them can be left to double team
KJ will most likely be guarding Joe D, with Miller/Rip guarding Sam Jones and Porter (Fat’s minutes will be against Porter I assume). We are going to do our best to take advantage of Reggie Miller every minute he is on the court. Sam will have a great series here. I will be running some baseline double screens (especially if Kemp and D12 are on the court together) to free up some jumpers off of curls, as well as letting Sam Jones run so isolation plays when Reggie is in the game. But for the most part whatever guard combo I have on the court will be used for spacing, a lot of my offense will be coming from the low post, so the inside/out game will be deadly. War’s defenders will need to stay with there man, or get burnt by deadly high % shooters.
Forwards
LBJ vs Doc is awesome. I think both players are equally as dominant, Doc was a very good defender , so I don’t expect LBJ to do anything special, but I also do not see him playing less then his averages either.
Jerry Lucas was an awesome player. He was a great scorer and an unbelievable shooter. His range will give Sikma all sorts of trouble, and will make him play on the perimeter, something he is not used to doing. Lucas may be the best shooting BIG in the history of the NBA, and I expect his shooting to play a big role in this series.
Shawn Kemp vs Billy C will also be a very favourable matchup for me. During this time he was basically unstoppable in the post, and I can not see the Kangaroo Kid being able to handle this physical of a freak of an athlete. He had that rare combo of speed and size that defenders could not handle, plus he could jump out of the building and run like a deer. That is not a knock on Billy, just a bad matchup from an athletic standpoint.
Detlef will get a few minutes to give LBJ a break, and will most likely be guarded by Cunningham during these few minutes. He was the 6th man of the Year in both of his selected seasons, so I am pretty sure he will handle this role without a problem. He was an amazing shooter (efficient, high % and had 3 point range) and rebounder. Cunningham will matchup very well here, so I only expect Detlef contribute on the glass and for spacing, but like my other players, he can not be left open.
Center
D12 is a beast, an athletic freak that has never been seen before. Deke was a great shot blocker and has the size to guard Dwight, but Deke always did struggle one on one against stronger athletic beast C’s (I don’t think too much is different between current day Dwight and ORL Shaq) Deke had trouble slowing down Shaq, I don’t think he will shut down Dwight either. I am not saying Dwight will go off, but you can assume his numbers are not going to be any different then his averages during the selected seasons)
Sampson will get the backup C minutes and I think he will have pretty good success as well. His seasons (84 & 85, his 1st 2 seasons) are basically the same the same selected seasons as Ruland (83 and 84). I can not find box scores from those seasons, but I honestly think the much slower Jeff Ruland will have much success stopping the bigger, much more athletic, versatile game that Sampson played early in his career
DEFENSE
On the defensive side of the ball, I am pretty sure I will stay with the same matchups. Joe D will be guarding KJ. His great top tier defense should have KJ playing below what he is used to playing. Joe will limit KJ’s driving ability with was the best part of his game. This may be one of the worst individual matchups for KJ in this entire game because of the physical man to man style of defense that Joe D plays. KJ was very quick, but I think Joe will be able to keep him undercontrol.
While Reggie has a length advantage on both Sam Jones and Porter, he is too thin and weak to take advantage of that. While he is a deadly shooter, I do not think either of my 2 very good defenders will have trouble guarding him. And both Sam and Terry are very smart defenders and I can not see them getting tricked into the stupid shooting fouls that the leg kicker was know to get dumber defenders to fall for. Rip had a little more rounded offensive game then Reggie (but with less range). Rip was a superior mid range shooter, but I think my guards will keep him in check
I do not believe the “give the ball to Doc and get out the way” game plan will work in this matchup. Doc was the man but LBJ is a All NBA 1st team defender who is equally as big (or bigger), as strong (or stronger), and as quick (or quicker) then the 2X ABA MVP (LBJ is also 2 x MVP) but LBJ also finished 2nd and 4th in DPOY voting during his selected seasons.
My BIGS should not have much trouble at all guarding the BIGS that warspite will be playing. I think I may switch up and have Dwight guard the more physical (but much slower) Sikma and let Lucas to match up against the offensively challenged Deke.
OVERALL
As solid as a team as war has built, I simply think I matchup very well against him, and think he will struggle in a few areas. I simply think I can take advantage of his weaknesses because of the versatility of my squad. I have one of the few players that can contain the great Doctor, and his other scoring options either have bad matchups, or are not players that can pick up the slack and carry a team. I think war would win against many other teams, but my defensive strengths all matchup with his offensive strengths. I see my 2 old school legends ( Sam Jones and Jerry Lucas) simply being too much for warspite’s squad to handle. That combined with LBJ and Dwight doing what they always do will lead The Boned Samuels to victory in a very well played series from both teams.