Non-Dynastic Vintage Champions - Play in - MadNess* vs Fadeaway_J

[durantbird]

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 advance. 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).

[MadNESS]

PG: Damian Lillard (40) | Grant Hill (8)
SG: Luguentz Dort (34) | Thabo Sefolosha (14)
SF: Grant Hill (32) | Thabo Sefolosha (8) | PJ Tucker (8)
PF: Kevin Durant (37) | PJ Tucker (11)
Cc: Patrick Ewing (39) | Charles Oakley (9)



16’-17’ Kevin Durant 16.5 FGA
88’-89’ Patrick Ewing 16.0 FGA
96’-97’ Grant Hill 15.7 FGA
17’-18’ Damian Lillard 19.4 FGA
11’-12’ Thabo Sefolosha 3.7 FGA
22’-23’ PJ Tucker 3.0 FGA
22’-23’ Luguentz Dort 8.3 FGA
92’-93’ Charles Oakley 5.3 FGA

Total: 87.7 | 88.0 FGA

WRITE UP:
GL FADE

Defense:
Dort on SGA (also some Thabo). Dame on Batum. GH on Klay. KD on Chet. Ewing on Reed.
Plan to make life difficult for SGA and keep him busy the entire game. We want to put all the pressure on SGA and make him a passer. Dame can hide on Batum here. Ewing shuts the paint down. Off the bench we have 3 great defenders as well.

Offense:
Goodluck defending one of KD or Grant Hill. Batum can't defend them both, which means Chet will have to guard whoever Batum doesn't. Mis-match galore. We ride the mis-match most of the game. Peak Dame is also pretty much impossible to defend, meaning SGA is going to have to work hard on offense and defense. Patrick Ewing will get easy dump downs whenever Reed has to come double on those mis-matches when GH or KD is blowing by Chet/Batum.

Overall, he doesn't have an answer for both KD and GH and we feast on that.
Lillard, GH, KD and in their peaks. Ewing in his prime. Excellent role players everywhere.
We slow down SGA and keep Klay at bay.

Vote Ness

[Fadeaway_J]

Starters
C - Willis Reed (1969-70)

Spoiler:

21.7 ppg, 13.9 rpg, 2.0 apg, .507 FG%, .756 FT%, .552 TS%
- NBA Champion
- NBA MVP
- NBA Finals MVP
- All-NBA First Team
- All-Defensive First Team

PF - Chet Holmgren (2023-24)

Spoiler:

16.5 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.4 apg, 0.6 spg, 2.3 bpg, .530 FG%, .370 3P%, .793 FT%, 129 3P (1.6 pg), .632 TS%
- All-Rookie First Team

SF - Nicolas Batum (2013-14)

Spoiler:

13.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 5.1 apg, 0.9 spg, 0.7 bpg, .465 FG%, .361 3P%, .803 FT%, 145 3P (1.8 pg), .589 TS%

SG - Klay Thompson (2017-18)

Spoiler:

20.0 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 2.5 apg, 0.8 spg, 0.5 bpg, .488 FG%, .440 3P%, .837 FT%, 229 3P (3.1 pg), .598 TS%
- NBA Champion
- NBA All-Star

PG - Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2023-24)

Spoiler:

30.1 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 6.2 apg, 2.0 spg, 0.9 bpg, .535 FG%, .353 3P%, .874 FT%, 95 3P (1.3 pg), .636 TS%
- NBA All-Star
- All-NBA First Team

Bench
F - Jerami Grant (2016-17)

Spoiler:

5.5 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 0.6 apg, 0.4 spg, 1.0 bpg, .463 FG%, .371 3P%, .612 FT%, 43 3P (0.5 pg), .556 TS%

G - Gary Payton II (2021-22)

Spoiler:

7.1 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 0.9 apg, 1.4 spg, 0.3 bpg, .616 FG%, .358 3P%, .603 FT%, 43 3P (0.6 pg), .679 TS%
- NBA Champion

G - George Hill (2019-20)

Spoiler:

9.4 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 3.1 apg, 0.8 spg, 0.1 bpg, .516 FG%, .460 3P%, .842 FT%, 81 3P (1.4 pg), .659 TS%
- Led the NBA in 3P%

Rotations
C - Reed (40), Holmgren (8)
PF - Holmgren (28), Grant (12), Batum (8)
SF - Batum (29), Thompson (19)
SG - Thompson (20), Payton II (16), Hill (12)
PG - SGA (40), Hill (8)

FGA Per Player

Spoiler:

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander - 19.8
Klay Thompson - 16.2
Willis Reed - 14.5 (17.1 * 0.85)
Chet Holmgren - 11.6
Nicolas Batum - 10.0
George Hill - 6.4
Jerami Grant - 4.1
Gary Payton II - 4.8

Total: 87.4/88.0

My team is built around the inside-out combo of our two MVP-level players, SGA and Reed. Despite going twin towers with Reed and Chet, we still provide SGA with the spacing he's accustomed to, as Klay, Chet, Batum, and Hill are all good to great outside shooters, while Reed is proficient from midrange. Defensively, we have an elite big man combo surrounded by size, athleticism and IQ on the perimeter.

Matchup
- Defensive assignments are Klay-Dame, SGA-Hill, Batum-KD, Holmgren-Dort, Reed-Ewing. Chet is pretty mobile for his size and should be able to handle a standstill shooter like Dort. Between Klay, SGA, Batum, Payton, Hill, and Grant, we have a number of quality perimeter defenders to throw at Ness's stars.
- While Dort is great at putting off bigger wings with his physicality, I don't think he has the shiftiness to stay with SGA. Jrue Holiday who is basically the apex version of Dort has been routinely cooked by SGA over the last couple of years, and I foresee a similar result.

Good luck Ness.

[durantbird]

Matchup is open. Fade and Ness please vote for yourselves

[durantbird]

MadNess advances