Gregg Popovich Draft - R1 - MadNess* vs wackbone

[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: LeBron James (33) | Chris Paul (15)
SG: Bruce Brown (35) | Chris Paul (13)
SF: Eddie Jones (38) | Richard Jefferson (10)
PF: Jayson Tatum (40) | LeBron James (8)
Cc: Patrick Ewing (40) | Kwame Brown (8)



Total: 87.5 | 88.0 FGA

12’-13’ LeBron James 17.8 FGA
23’-24’ Jayson Tatum 19.3 FGA
96’-97’ Patrick Ewing 17.2 FGA
98’-99’ Eddie Jones 11.9 FGA
21’-22’ Bruce Brown 7.0 FGA
24’-25’ Chris Paul 7.1 FGA
15’-16’ Richard Jefferson 4.2 FGA
08’-09’ Kwame Brown 3.0 FGA

GL Wack

Defense:
LeBron on Kawhi, Brown on Kyrie, Eddie on Booker, Tatum on Sheed, Ewing on Mourning. Ewing keeps Zo honest, LeBron locks up Kawhi. Tatum will make Sheed work. Eddie is a great cover for Booker. Bruce Brown is our 5th starter and a solid cover for Kyrie. People forget how good he was with a true roll. CP3 will get time on Kyrie as well. Plan to keep everyone honest, and there’s only one ball. Wack has the weakest bench I’ve ever seen in one of these games so if we get them in could trouble, it could be impending doom.

Offense:
I’m assuming he has Kawhi on Bron and Zo on Ewing. Who the heck is guarding Tatum? Kawhi can’t defend them both. We attack who every Kawhi isn’t guarding.

LeBron + Tatum + Ewing is almost unstoppable.

Kawhi cannot defend LeBron & Tatum leaving one to dominate.

Very weak bench here from Wack.

James Jones playing 20 mins????

Vote NESS.

[wackbone]

One Franchise - Devin Booker - 2024 - 19.2 FGA
Cavs - Kyrie Irving - 2015 - 16.5 FGA
Spurs - Kawhi Leonard - 2016 - 15.1 FGA
1999 - Alonzo Mourning - 1999 - 13.8 FGA
Pistons - Rasheed Wallace - 2006 - 13.3 FGA
Nets - Jared Dudley - 2019 - 4.1 FGA
Heat - James Jones - 2012 - (2.9) 3.0 FGA
Knicks - Chris Dudley - 1999 - (2.4) 3.0 FGA
Total: 88/88 FGA

Rotations:
Kyrie Irving (40) / Devin Booker (8)
Devin Booker (32) / Kawhi Leonard (16)
Kawhi Leonard (24) / Jared Dudley (14) / James Jones (10)
Rasheed Wallace (38) / Jared Dudley (10)
Alonzo Mourning (38) / Chris Dudley (10)

Writeup:

Helluva team as always Ness, best of luck.

Defensively we will start with Kawhi on LeBron, Kyrie on Brown, Booker on Eddie, Sheed on Tatum, and Mourning on Ewing. Dudley will also see significant time on Tatum off of the bench.

My bench is obviously weak but it's not like Ness's is a world beater either with 25 CP3, 16 RJ, and 09 Kwame. Jared Dudley was solid enough. And we have the clear best 5th starter with Sheed>>>Brown.

Brown made 0.5 3PG in the chosen season. Eddie shot 33.8% from deep. Ewing is not a 3 point shooter. Ness's team, especially the starters, are very talented, but it seems like they're lacking legit spacing to give LeBron+Tatum room to operate.

Meanwhile all of Kyrie, Booker, Kawhi, and Sheed are legitimate 3 point shooters in the chosen season. That's 4 starters to 2 that space the floor. With our games all being insanely stacked having high level spacing is paramount.

[durantbird]

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Voting is open, wack and Ness please vote for yourselves

[durantbird]

MadNess advances