Continental Chaos Round 1: lilroddyb vs hoopsfan777***

[GeorgeMarcus]

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).

[lilroddyb]

C: Hakeem Olajuwon 38 min / Steven Adams 10 min
Pf: Pascal Siakam 24 min / Boris Diaw 24 min
Sf: Danny Green 34 min / Pascal Siakam 14 min
Sg: Derrick White 28 min / Rudy Fernandez 20 min
Pg: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 38 min / Derrick White 10 min

1993 Hakeem Olajuwon 19.5
2025 Pascal Siakam 15.2
2024 Derrick White 11.5
2014 Danny Green 7.4
2025 Steven Adams 3
2013 Boris Diaw 4.4
2010 Rudy Fernandez 6.8
2024 shai gilgeous-alexander 19.8

tfga: 87.6

Team is built around the duo of Hakeem Olajuwon and Shai. Both are among the best ever for their position and it's really hard to contain them and it gets harder since everyone around them outsite of Steven Adams is an elite to great threepoint shooter. we have two extra secondary playmakers in Derrick white and Pascal Siakam.

Defense

Hakeem is one of the goat defenders, can shut down big centers and quick enough to guard guards and everyone around him is an elite defender that can guard multiple positions outsite of Rudy Fernandez

Defensive matchup

Hakeem on Marc Gasol
Siakam/Danny Green on Lebron James
Danny Green/ Siakam on Peja
Shai / Rudy on Bridges
Derrick White on Kyrie Irving

overall

Hoopsfan built a great Lebron Team but I think my team is more talented due to two mvp caliber players in Hakeem and Shai vs Lebron. Both teams are strong on offense but I think I got sizeable edge on the defensive end with the best defender in Hakeem and with Peja and Kyrie not being great defenders

[hoopsfan777]

13 LeBron James - 17.8
15 Kyrie Irving - 16.5
04 Peja Stojakovic - 17.1
22 Mikal Bridges - 10.5
13 Marc Gasol - 10.9
23 Alex Caruso - 4.3
21 Precious Achiuwa - 3.7
24 Dante Exum - 5.5

86.3/88

PG - Kyrie Irving (38) / Dante Exum (10)
SG - Mikal Bridges (28) / Alex Caruso (20)
SF - Peja Stojakovic (28) / LeBron James (10) / Mikal Bridges (10)
PF - LeBron James (30) / Peja Stojakovic (10) / Precious Achiuwa (8)
C - Marc Gasol (38) / Precious Achiuwa (10)

We've got shooting, scoring and playmaking. We've got perimeter and post-defense and rebounding. We have intangibles. Kyrie and Shai are even. Mikal holds his own against White. Peja wins his matchup against Danny. LeBron wins his match-up against Siakam. M.Gasol holds his own against Hakeem. Our bench holds its own against our opponents bench.

[GeorgeMarcus]

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).

[Dr Positivity]

I think roddy having to use 24 SGA made the difference for me here.