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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.
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PG: Deron Williams (2013: 14.4 FGA) SG: Vince Carter (2000: 20.7 FGA) SF: Lebron James (2013: 17.8 FGA) PF: Kevin Love (2018: 12.4 FGA) C: Tyson Chandler (2008: 7.7 FGA)
PG: Matthew Dellavedova (2015: 4.6 FGA) SF: Kyle Korver (2018: 6.6 FGA) C: Marcin Gortat (2009: 3.0 FGA)
87.2 / 88
PG: Deron Williams (38) / Matthew Dellavedova (10) SG: Vince Carter (38) / Kyle Korver (6) / Matthew Dellavedova (4) SF: Lebron James (28) / Kyle Korver (20) PF: Kevin Love (38) / Lebron James (10) C: Tyson Chandler (38) / Marcin Gortat (10)
GL Fadeaway
Defensive matchups: Deron on Conley, Vince on Wade, Lebron on Anunoby, Love on Towns, Chandler on Dwight. Lebron takes Wade at the end of the game.
- We acknowledge that we don't have a great Wade matchup, although I would point out that Lebron gets to hide on a weaker offensive player in Anunoby, while Wade presumably guards Vince and spends some energy on a team that is heavily reliant on his offense.
- We're going to try to take advantage of Towns guarding 3pt PF in Love. Love is great to get him on fakes and I believe Deron is a great fit with Love as he is like Boozer with a 3pt shot.
- His bench is more talented but is less proven in playoffs while all my players were on finals runs, in addition have bonus of Lebron chemistry.
Overall Lebron + Vince/Deron/Love/Korver is more explosive on offense and best player in the series takes us through.
It's going to be a glorious day... I feel my luck could change
18.3 ppg, 13.2 rpg, 1.8 apg, 0.9 spg, 2.8 bpg, .612 FG%, .592 FT%, .630 TS% - Led the NBA in rpg, bpg, FG%, DWS (7.1), DBPM (2.8) - Defensive Player of the Year - NBA All-Star - All-NBA First Team - All-Defensive First Team
Rotations C - Howard (38), Towns (10) PF - Towns (28), Isaac (18), Highsmith (2) SF - Anunoby (36), Highsmith (12) SG - Wade (38), Suggs (10) PG - Conley (37), Suggs (11)
FGA Per Player
Spoiler:
Dwyane Wade - 19.6 Dwight Howard - 10.2 Mike Conley - 14.6 OG Anunoby - 8.2 Karl-Anthony Towns - 15.3 Jalen Suggs - 9.5 Jonathan Isaac - 4.9 Haywood Highsmith - 5.0
Total: 87.3/88.0
My team is built to maximise the insane rim pressure applied by Wade and Dwight. Conley is the perfect PG for this team, as he's comfortable running the show himself but also a good enough shooter to play off Wade. KAT spaces the floor for Dwight, and also has some underrated interior passing chops which he showed off playing alongside Gobert. Between those four complementary stars, we can run out any number of combinations to keep things humming offensively. The rest of the roster is populated by high-level 3-and-D role players in OG, Suggs, Isaac, and Highsmith, all of whom slot in perfectly alongside the core four both ends.
Matchup - Defensive assignments are straight up. LeBron + spacing is always challenging, but we have a good framework with OG as the on-ball guy (occasionally spelled by Highsmith) and Dwight patrolling the paint without a shooting big to space him out. - While LeBron is the best player in the series, Dr P's utter lack of a viable Wade defender allows us to close the gap considerably. - Given that our best player has a very favourable matchup and we also have the offensive edge at every position except the 3, I don't see the argument for Dr P having more firepower. Also, it seems odd to list Korver as part of the core when the rotations don't seem to allow for that lineup to share the court, but in any case Korver is just another defensive scab for us to pick at. - KAT has his defensive flaws to be sure, but Love has many of the same weaknesses with less size and atheticism. We can attack Love in pick-and-roll with Wade/Conley in much the same way, and I'd argue even more effectively given where KAT and Love are this stage in their careers.
Very close one here. For me, I am going to give the slight edge to Fade. Dr P has a few too many guys either a bit young or a bit old, whereas Fade has optimal/near-optimal years for his whole group (outside of the 3&D Anunoby who is fine as a 3&D).
I think Dr P is too vulnerable defensively in general. Only LeBron and Chandler to hold up the defense. Fade is much better in this department. In this matchup it's hurting him in the Conley matchup and especially in the Wade matchup.
LeBron is the best players here by a good bit and I don't see any advantages for Fade that make that up.
Vote - Dr P
Comments to rationalize bad contracts - 1) It's less than the MLE 2) He can be traded later 3) It's only __% of the cap 4) The cap is going up 5) It's only __ years 6) He's a good mentor/locker room guy
Vince always gets underappreciated. To me, this season of Vince is as good as any season of Wade. Many wont agree with that, but watching that 2000 season of Vince was crazy, He was everywehre. And assuming modern rules Vince would be the top SG in the league
