3-1 Comebacks Pairs Draft - Playin - Dr Positivity* vs Larry_Russell

[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).

[Larry_Russell]

PG: Chris Paul (2016-17) 12.9
18ppg, 5rpg, 9.2apg, 2spg, 41% on 5-3pta
DEF-1, Robbed of ALL NBA

SG: Tracy McGrady (2002-03) 24.2
32.1ppg, 6.5rpg, 5.5apg, 1.7spg, 1bpg, 38.5% on 6-3pta
MVP-4, NBA-1, AS

SF: Trevor Ariza (2015-16) 10.6
12.7ppg, 4.5rpg, 2.3apg, 2spg, 37% on 6.2-3pta
DPOY-13, All Defense Votes Received

PF: Carmelo Anthony (2007-08) 19.2
25.7ppg, 7.4rpg, 3.4apg, 1.3spg, 0.5bpg, 35.5% on 2-3pta
MVP-13, AS, Just missed All NBA, Most efficient season

C: Rudy Gobert (2020-21) 8.2
14.3ppg, 13.5rpg, 1.3apg, 0.6spg, 2.7bpg
MVP-10, DPOY, NBA-3, DEF-1, AS

PG/SG: Juan Toscano-Anderson (2021-22) 3.2
4ppg, 2.5rpg, 1.7apg, 0.7spg

SF/PF: Thabo Sefolosha (2011-12) 3.7
4.8ppg, 3rpg, 1.1apg, 1spg, 0.5bpg, 43.7% on 1.7-3pta

C: Ben Wallace (2005-06) 5.7
7.3ppg, 11.3rpg, 2apg, 1.8spg, 2.2bpg
DPOY, NBA-2, DEF-1, AS


PG: Paul (38) / Sefolosha (10)
SG: McGrady (38) / Tuscano-Anderson (10)
SF: Ariza (38) / Sefolosha(5) / Juan Tuscano Anderson (5)
PF: Anthony (38) / Sefolosha (10)
C: Gobert (32) / Wallace (16)

87.7/88


Defensive matchups:
Chris Paul on Steph Curry
Trevor Ariza on Ray Allen
Tracy McGrady on Tayshaun Prince
Carmelo Anthony on Kevin Love
Rudy Gobert/Ben Wallace on Dwight Howard

My Defense is stout. Have an elite ball handler defender, an elite win defender, and ELITE rim/bigman defenders.

Paul is as good a defender as anyone can be on Steph Curry, Ariza is an awesome cover for Ray Allen, and the Howard is in trouble here. Cleveland love is not much of a threat to prime Denver version of Carmelo who has the size to bang against Love post ups, and more than enough speed and athleticism to cover loves 3pt shooting (almost 50% of Kevin's attempts were from kick out 3s)
McGrady gets to hide on defense a bit and focus on offense.

Offensively I have an additional gear in this one, and have created a mismatch.

Curry has to defend Paul, that's fine, Curry is not an elite defender so that lets Paul dictate the offense for me with an elite screen setter roll man in Gobert.

I assume that 2nd year Prince is going to guard McGrady (remember everyone it is only his SECOND, season) and McGrady is in his absolute DOMINATE season.

That means that either Love or Ray Allen has to guard Carmelo Anthony in his absolute peak offensive efficiency season. Ray Allen is too small, and Kevin Love is far too slow.

Also this is a test to see if anyone actually reads the right ups. I am wondering if these writeups are read by everyone, so if you are reading this, drop a plus one on first post of this thread and prove my doubts incorrect.

My offense is going to pick apart DrPs team with elite playmaking and table setting from Chris Paul, and an offensive barrage with secondary playmaking from McGrady and Melo.

Long story short - Great defensive pieces surrounding 2 great offensive players with the offense being orchestrated by one of the GOAT PGs.

[Dr Positivity]

PG: Stephen Curry (2015: 16.8 FGA)
SG: Ray Allen (2006: 19.2 FGA)
SF: Tayshaun Prince (2004: 8.8 FGA)
PF: Kevin Love (2018: 12.4 FGA)
C: Dwight Howard (2009: 12.4 FGA)

PG/SG: Shaun Livingston (2017: 4.2 FGA)
SF: Otto Porter (2022: 6.6 FGA)
PF: Serge Ibaka (2012: 7.4 FGA)

87.8 / 88

PG: Stephen Curry (38) / Shaun Livingston (10)
SG: Ray Allen (38) / Shaun Livingston (8) / Otto Porter (2)
SF: Tayshaun Prince (30) / Otto Porter (18)
PF: Kevin Love (36) / Serge Ibaka (12)
C: Dwight Howard (38) / Serge Ibaka (10)

Defensive matchups Curry on Paul, Prince on Tmac, Allen on Melo, Love on Ariza, Howard on Gobert

- We live with Allen/Melo matchup, it's not great but we make up for it by young Melo a half decade before he tried played playing PF getting killed by Love in the post and especially on the glass. Our frontcourt should be great on the boards.

- His team is talented but Curry/Allen/Love/Howard are all players who can make an impact off ball, while two big egos in Tmac and Melo could take the ball away from Paul driven offense. While Tmac would normally be ok running backup point, on this team maybe having one would've helped. I believe Melo was in reality a worse player in 08 than his playoff breakthrough 09, despite the regular season stats.

- We have a great bench, Big Ben plays 16 minutes and some of those are a result of dropping Gobert's minutes to 32, meanwhile JTA is less playable than either of my perimeter players.

Stronger team play gets us the win.

[durantbird]

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

...

Matchup is open, LR and Doc please vote for yourselves

[Larry_Russell]

****

Getting crushed again and I thought I had a pretty dope team

[durantbird]

****

Getting crushed again and I thought I had a pretty dope team

I like your team and voted for it. But just a quick question - I see it a lot in your rotations, but why don't you ever use your starters for bench roles? Using Sefolosha or JTA as a backup PG makes no sense to me. Why not McGrady? I also didn't understand the "Delly at SF" decision in the last game.

[Larry_Russell]

****

Getting crushed again and I thought I had a pretty dope team

I like your team and voted for it. But just a quick question - I see it a lot in your rotations, but why don't you ever use your starters for bench roles? Using Sefolosha or JTA as a backup PG makes no sense to me. Why not McGrady? I also didn't understand the "Delly at SF" decision in the last game.

I guess its just how I write it up...

I intend on McGrady being the backup ball handler with a little Carmelo, I guess I should look to make those adjustments moving forward.

I look at the positional listings as more defensively I guess, not offensively.

[Larry_Russell]

I guess no one read the bolded part of the writeup?

[durantbird]

Dr Positivity advances

[Larry_Russell]

I guess no one read the bolded part of the writeup?

Nope. lol


I am going to stop putting thought into matchups and just post lineup.