Non Championship Decade Draft - Play in - flaco* vs lilroddyb

[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).

[flaco]

Best of luck, roddy!



Rotations
PG: Luka Doncic (36) / Jrue Holiday (12)
SG: Jrue Holiday (24) / Thabo Sefolosha (24)
SF: Kawhi Leonard (36) / Nicolas Batum (12)
PF: Kevin Garnett (36) / Nicolas Batum (12)
C: Jaren Jackson Jr. (36) / Tyson Chandler (12)

Offense
We run a 5-out PnR/PnP-heavy motion offense forcing Jokic to abandon his drop coverage. Needless to say, Jokic cannot defend the perimeter. Option A is Luka spamming the spread PnR/PnP with KG or JJJ. Option B is Kawhi either creating shots himself or utilizing the Luka PnR. Luka's presence opens up space for Kawhi to attack the closeout with a shot fake or a drive, and also creates opportunities for him to spot up for open three-pointers. Jrue is my 5th option. Was the 3rd option on the Bucks and the 5th option on the Celtics winning 2 rings in the process. Should absolutely thrive in a supportive offensive role. Jokic and Reggie are weak links on D allowing our PnR-heavy offense to hunt mismatches. PnR is all about generating mismatches.

Defense
Since Penny is an unreliable 3pt shooter, we always go under and dare him to shoot the 3. This makes it a bit easier to handle the Penny-Jokic two-man game. JJJ has the size to protect the paint and the mobility to follow Jokic on the perimeter. KG might be the best help defender of all time. When necessary, he risks the 3 from Siakam to double on Jokic. We got 4 DPOY winners, plus Jrue who's arguably the best POA defender in the modern era. I'd go as far as to say this is the best defensive team Luka has ever had in our games.

FGA
2021 Luka Doncic 20.5
2017 Jrue Holiday 13.3
2021 Kawhi Leonard 17.5
2010 Kevin Garnett 11.2
2023 Jaren Jackson Jr. 13.0
2012 Thabo Sefolosha 3.7
2023 Nicolas Batum 4.9
2006 Tyson Chandler 3.6

Total: 87.7

[lilroddyb]

C: Nikola Jokic 38 min / Steven Adams 10 min
Pf: Pascal Siakam 38 min / Kyle Anderson 10 min
Sf: Paul George 38 min / Nate McMillan 5 min /Kyle Anderson 5 min
Sg: Reggie Miller 38 min / Nate McMillan 10 min
Pg: Anfernee Hardaway 38 min / Nate Mcmillan 10 min

2019 Nikola Jokic 15.1
2014 Paul George 17
1995 Reggie Miller 13.5
1996 Anfernee Hardaway 14.8
1996 Nate McMillan 4.3
2025 Steven Adams 3
2025 Pascal Siakam 15.2
2017 Kyle Anderson 3

Tfga: 85.9

Offense

I think this is the perfect jokic team. You know how difficult it was to contain Jokic and Murray running pick and rolls/pops but now I have Penny instead of Murray who is way more consistent and can get anywhere on the court and with them I got one of the best offball players ever in Reggie Miller who averaged during long playoffs 25.5 points per game 63Ts % and then I got Indy Paul George who took heatles to 6 games in the playoffs and finally Pascal siakam who was the leading scorer for Indy in the playoffs scoring 20 ppg on 60ts% vs great defenses like OKC and knicks


Defense

Could be better but I think its going to be fine overall with Paul George, Pascal, STeven Adams, Nate McMillan being really great defenders and I think Jokic can be fine. Reggie and Anfernee are maybe not known for defense but I think they can do fine because the offense is so great overall that they don't need to carry the offense anymore and therefor can use more energy on defense

defensive matchup

Jokic/ Adams on Garnett
Pascal/ Kyle Anderson on Jaren Jackson
Paul George/ Kyle Anderson on Kawhi
Reggie Miller/Nate on Jrue
Anfernee / Nate on Luka

overall

all my guys in the starting lineup can shoot well and all of them did really well in the chosen year in the playoffs and now they are playing with cast that fits really well and should maximize their potential

Flaco build a good team like he usually does but I think my team is more talented overall

Even if Kawhi will be successful guarding Paul George it wont matter that much because Paul George can be the 4th or 5th option because my team has so many great offensive players that fit well together

Penny during his career shot way better from three during playoffs ( 38 % from three ) than during the regular season ( 31% from three ) and in the season chosen he shot 36% from three during the playoffs

lastly Kevin Garnett is really good player but this is older celtics version that had lost a step

best of luck Flaco

[durantbird]

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Voting is open. Team owners please vote for yourselves

[Dr Positivity]

Stacked 1st round. The Holiday season used stands out to me.

[Fadeaway_J]

This is tough because think Luka is going to bully whoever roddy puts on him, but then he also has nowhere to hide defensively.

Going with flaco because of KG and JJJ. Both teams have some individual mismatches to attack but flaco's help defense is substantially better.

[durantbird]

flaco advances