Award Winning Lakers Board NBA Dynasty League - Year 10- ROballer wins the Championship!

[tugs]

Y'all cute. We see you

[tugs]

I love my spot. Not too low to not be able to get a quality player, not too high to be pressured to f up my pick

I'm picking the "scraps"

[ROballer]

Collins is on board for the next 2 years with a player option for year 3, and he'll likely get an extension. Hendricks value just took a massive tank.

Yeah. I mean tugs might like it but Collins won't be much better than in Atl.

If he's expecting to get a Markkanen type jump out of him he's **** delusional, there's too many mouths to feed and the Jazz don't have facilitators like Young or Murray.

Kind of move who doesn't help anyone fantasy wise, but makes it worse. Taylor Hendricks just became irrelevant, and both Markkanen and possibly even Kessler will be worse because of this move, there's fewer minutes to be had in the frontcourt and less touches.

[tugs]

Hey theoretically it could. I'm one of those, "can't shoot so efficiency might go up" crowd, plus all of those non scoring goodness. Not expecting rebounds to go up as well as stocks but hey, if Hardy intends to play Collins he'll find something useful for him.

Now if reality translates to fantasy remains to be seen. Clarkson has seen success as a playmaking combo with LA and he could have this tandem with Collins. Uptick in assists and efficiency are all I'm asking. Being realistic here that I won't be getting all star numbers

[ROballer]

Bull crap. Did Markkanen just die? He averaged 25.6 ppg last year.

The Jazz had nothing last year, that's why Markkanen thrived. Jazz have Markkanen this year, that's why Collins won't.

Markkanen still eats 1st and 2nd on this team. Wet dreaming about opportunistic scrub Clarkson and weak ass Collins getting a 1-2 punch on an NBA team is fallacy. Clarkson might not even be around.

He had 13 a game last year. He's getting to his usual 16-17 ppg with crap anything else at best.

[tugs]

Lol I know, take it easy. 12 and 8 I'd take with a sprinkle of good %. Greg Monroe numbers I know but everything else should be bonus

Fck JC he'll re-sign! I don't want him in LA!

But man what if he goes home to Texas and be Pop's 6th man, no?

[ROballer]

Also, glad I traded those picks.

It's unbelievable how weak this draft is outside of the top 10. And even Cason Wallace at 10 is not a player I'd give up a pick for, he's pretty bad.

Maybe Lively is the only guy worth being drafted.

I'm not saying one or two couldn't be good in the future, but they're years and years away from being ready as fantasy dudes.

[tugs]

Whitmore could be vengeful y'know who knows

[ROballer]

Most Villanova guys have translated, that's the only thing going on for him. Then again, all have been developed for 3-4 years by that system, they weren't freshmen coming into the league.

He was not outstanding in college and the fact that he dropped from a potential 4th spot(there were plenty of outlets putting him around there) to 20, it means he tanked his workouts bad.

Eason will eat his lunch and dinner. He already had dinner with Ime btw, so it's pretty much over for everyone else.

[ROballer]

Read on Twitter

[TyCobb]

So many players flameout because they go into awful situations. You really have to have the stars aligned like Kessler to get a decent opportunity.

[ROballer]

So many players flameout because they go into awful situations. You really have to have the stars aligned like Kessler to get a decent opportunity.

Yeah. I'd argue most busts in NBA history have happened because of terrible coaching and under development, not because of the players.

Look at the Warriors for example. Kerr refused to play consistenly or develop all three of his lottery picks.
He literally had off the street bums like Ty Jerome or Anthony Lamb playing over Moody/Kuminga.

Wiseman has been sacrificed and the other two will probably follow his path.


At least the Warriors were stacked. But there are countless teams who play the "Age" and "contract" over the skill.
Because yeah, some 19-20-21 guys are actually BETTER basketball players than some 28-30 yr olds. I know it must be a shock to some of the FO's/coaches, but it's true.

[TyCobb]

It’s these coaches fault 100% of the time they want win now guys so they don’t get fired. Very few coaches can actually develop and win at the same time.

[TyCobb]

Like it’s just stupid. Why would you trade for Collins when you have Hendricks and why would you want Kuzma when you have Murray. Just idiotic stuff.

[ROballer]

Exactly. Hendricks is a prime example of a player who can be a bust stricly because he was ruined by the system.

Instead of getting around 25 mpg as a rookie and starting minutes possibly from year 2, and getting reps/exposure/confidence....he'll probably get 15-20 mpg for as long as John Collins is on that team. Not all young guys are Jermaine's O'Neal of the world. You stifle them for 3-4 years at the beginning of their career and most never recover.

John Collins isn't even a win now player. His presence on that roster won't mean ****, the Jazz will be exactly the same with or without him.

I'm just scared of Houston. You just know they'll be doing something extra dumb. If they sign Dillon Brooks I'm done with basketball, that guy is all flare and off court antics, his actual skill level is CBA level.

[Mamba Mentality]

Make sure to trade me Haliburton before you hang it up.

[ROballer]

You should've shoot your shot when I was dangling him just after the season was done during my intoxication period.

I was mad as **** he missed all of the fantasy playoffs, I would have legit traded his ass for anything decent back.

Now that I'm back to business, there's no **** way. This guy is eligible for the supermax this year, and needs to make an All NBA team to squeeze every ounce of money out of that contract....while needing to play in 65 games ofc, I just love the new rules, perfectly made for my team to get rid of the slackers.

You play, you get paid. Simple as that. No way that **** Carlisle will convince anyone not to play ever again, especially Hali.


Tbh, I'd be good if he just did an encore of last year, but there's no way.

If you remember last year, we did a stat prediction BEFORE the season started. I nailed Hali to a tee, I legit called a 20/4/10 season which he did. I said 1.8 spg and he got only 1.6 but all is forgiven.

He's getting 25/4/11 next season while being the first player in NBA history to get a 20/10 season and 50/40/90 shooting splits in the same year.

Remember this prediction.

[moonpie]

*****TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT*****

Planet Moonpie and Team Tugs have agreed to terms of the following trade:

Jrue Holiday
Patrick Williams
2024 1st round pick
2024 2nd round pick

FOR

Myles Turner
Terry Rozier
Bogdan Bogdanovic

Drops on my end to get to 20:

- MarJon Beauchamp
- Theo Maledon
- Danilo Gallinari
- JT Thor
- Matisse Thybulle
- Drew Eubanks

Tugs wants me to say: Jrue Holiday (for 2 years)

[tugs]

*****TRADE ANNOUNCEMENT*****

Planet Moonpie and Team Tugs have agreed to terms of the following trade:

Jrue Holiday
Patrick Williams
2024 1st round pick
2024 2nd round pick

FOR

Myles Turner
Terry Rozier
Bogdan Bogdanovic

Drops on my end to get to 20:

- MarJon Beauchamp
- Theo Maledon
- Danilo Gallinari
- JT Thor
- Matisse Thybulle
- Drew Eubanks

Confirming.

And demmit moonie I said put "Jrue Holiday (for 2 years)"!

Edit: There we go!

Great doing business with you, brother!

[tugs]

Team tugs (2023-2024 roster)

PG - Jrue Holiday
SG - C.J. McCollum
G - Jordan Clarkson
SF - Mikal Bridges
PF - Patrick Williams
F - Kevin Huerter
C - Nikola Jokic
C - Nikola Vucevic
C - Mark Williams
Util - Nick Richards
Util - John Collins
Util - Josh Hart
Util - Immanuel Quickley
Util - Kevin Porter Jr.
BN - Monte Morris
BN - Darius Bazley
BN - Cam Thomas
BN - Kris Dunn
BN - Alex Caruso
BN - Xavier Cooks

2024 1st Round Pick
2024 2nd Round Pick
2024 1st Round Pick via moonpie
2024 2nd Round Pick via moonpie

Dropping:
Delon Wright
Tim Hardaway Jr.
Sandro Mamukelashvili