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Post by KruPaxson on Aug 5, 2007 10:12:10 GMT -5
Deadline Winners and Losers
Winners Indiana Pacers-Duce had a game plan to rebuild immediately while still managing to have a competitive team this year. Duce did an excellent job of acquiring expirings to be under the salary cap next season. He also received some more future draft picks in some of the deals he made. Chances are those Magic picks are going to turn out to be lotto. Just to go and show you with a little hard work making a few trades and Duce completely reface’s this franchise to his liking and is in a good place to start rebuilding. Detroit Pistons- The Pistons didn’t wait to the deadline to handle his business and made a few trades a week or two before the deadline. Analysts saw potential moves happening with the number of players in their contract years for the Pistons and again the Pistons play financial genius by dealing these rookie contracts before they cash in for big money. Pistons may have acquired a lotto pick for TJ Ford and get a versatile freak in Gerald Wallace who sports a reasonable contract. Toronto Raptors- Maybe this is why the Central is such a powerful division because their GM’s continue to make great moves for their franchise. Although the Raptors only made one move it may prove to be one of the more worthy deals from the deadline. The Raptors acquired defensive presence Adonal Foyle. Foyle came rather cheap at the forced hands of the Atlanta Hawks. Foyle immediately improves the Raptors front court. The Raptors did an excellent job of improving now without sacrificing the future. Losers
Orlando Magic-GM Aaron Haberman continues to not learn from his past mistakes. In the beginning of BBS Haberman sacrificed his future to win now. His team paid the price by suffering for the past 4+ seasons. It seemed as the Magic franchise was finally turning the corner when Haberman tried to build Rome in a day by dealing plenty of future picks, young players, and needed depth for mediocre talent to try and win now. The difference between the first time and now is that he actually won before but this time around his team is suffering after these trades. Trading away players like Raymond Felton, Lamarcus Aldridge, Thabo Stefolosha, Jason Maxiell, Marcus Banks is going to hurt the franchise in the long run. They may have acquired a top 5 talent in Baron Davis however he will go to waste with this supporting cast and no future draft picks to speak of. Cisse will hurt the Magic tremendously taking up nearly a quarter of cap space next season. The Magic would have been much better off with a combination of Rip, Vitaly, ’10/’12 Magic firsts than Redd and Cisse. Look for the Magic to be in their contract year next season. Atlanta Hawks- GM William Archer Bendernagel was in a tough place this season having to pay the penalty of the hard cap. However Bendernagel did not do a good job in dealing with the woes of the penalties. He dealt away his franchise player, a player he could have kept being under contract for three seasons for two point guards and a decently projected first round pick. He then dealt away Foyle without getting at least a RC or First round draft choice. Under extreme pressure from friend, GM Krupinski, he dealt away expiring contracts Tinsley and Knight to get two 2nd round picks. Bendernagel should have been more aware of his situation at the beginning of the season and devised a plan accordingly. Although Bender’s plan has always been not having a plan and he has seen some success with his unconventional ways. He knew Ricky Davis was worth all that cake and watch the joke is on us as Gibson and Farmar might turn out to be one of the better backcourts in BBS.
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Post by KruPaxson on Aug 5, 2007 10:14:37 GMT -5
Central was the most active during the deadline...midwest was least active hmmm
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Post by aaron2344 on Aug 5, 2007 10:15:24 GMT -5
Thanks. I also feel I made two big impact moves by staying pat and getting Theo/Darko back.
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Post by aaronjh on Aug 5, 2007 10:15:47 GMT -5
How could I be in my contract year next year?
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Post by Bender on Aug 5, 2007 10:19:04 GMT -5
i take 2 steps backwards to take 3 steps forward
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Post by duce on Aug 5, 2007 10:33:46 GMT -5
yesss i'm a winner! i wish somebody wanted finley tho.
what's up with the hall of fame?
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Post by Scott on Aug 5, 2007 10:35:11 GMT -5
nice article dave...the deadline wasn't terribly active, but like you said a lot of teams (like detroit) were making moves the couple of sims before the deadline
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Post by aigatdula on Aug 5, 2007 10:51:45 GMT -5
great job man..
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Post by KruPaxson on Aug 5, 2007 10:53:25 GMT -5
yesss i'm a winner! i wish somebody wanted finley tho. what's up with the hall of fame? i'll do that now...i had a crazy week of work and bbs hasn't been #1 priority but don't worry no loss of interest here
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Post by KruPaxson on Aug 5, 2007 10:57:23 GMT -5
How could I be in my contract year next year? Mediocrity 2001 - 33-49 2002 - 24-58 2003 - 35-47 2004 - 41-41 2005 - 30-52 and this season I project you around 35 wins and possibly lotto
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Post by Dan on Aug 5, 2007 11:03:15 GMT -5
good job dave nice read
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Post by aaronjh on Aug 5, 2007 11:10:27 GMT -5
How could I be in my contract year next year? Mediocrity 2001 - 33-49 2002 - 24-58 2003 - 35-47 2004 - 41-41 2005 - 30-52 and this season I project you around 35 wins and possibly lotto I don't know if I'll be in a contract year because of the rules (41 wins and playoff two seasons ago), but your assessment of my team is definitely fair. My only thinking is that if I ever do decide to rebuild, Baron's the kind of piece that could get me so much that I'll be in a solid rebuilding state. Obviously, I can't plan on that any time soon because I need to win. And I genuinely think I can win a lot of games with this team next season. Lots of offensive firepower, probably the best rebounding team based off ratings, and I do have some pretty great defenders mixed in with some mediocre guys. Baron's the kind of player that wins a lot of games on his own; because of Zach Randolph's inside prowess, I haven't based my offensive attack solely on Baron's strengths. That's been a mistake that I'm working on changing. I don't know if we'll catch Boston, but I do believe in this team. Definitely don't think it's a lottery team for long. But as far as everything you said, you're not wrong to feel like you do. I just didn't know if I had any one guy to build around formerly, and I think I can win more games with a superstar and some good pieces around him as opposed to good youth and depth.
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Post by KruPaxson on Aug 5, 2007 11:58:51 GMT -5
I don't think you are the best rebounding team considering there are a bunch of teams with B- or better rebounders at the SF position plus having better rebounders than Cisse and Feick who are both bench players in my opinion
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Post by GP on Aug 5, 2007 12:09:39 GMT -5
nice job dave. i agree with most of that.
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Post by duce on Aug 5, 2007 12:10:06 GMT -5
feick can be pretty money. he plays better than his rating would appear on the boards i think... just based on playing with and without him, he makes a big difference. though he may have declined since.
cisse i'm not so sure, he's definitely not as good as feick imo.
but yeah to be at the top in this league, you have to deal with teams like chicago and pheonix who have rebounders all over the place... i agree with that much.
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Post by KruPaxson on Aug 5, 2007 12:21:25 GMT -5
if you want to look at team rebounding stats I'm not among the league leaders although teams stuggle to rebound against me and also I don't miss many shots to rebound. PHX is by far the best rebounding team in the league they get the most and give up the least. Pistons are up there and the rockets with tc and fortson are among the best as well...sorry haberman these are all much better than feick/cisse and randolph. I could probably name another 5 teams ahead too
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Post by aaronjh on Aug 5, 2007 12:23:31 GMT -5
if you want to look at team rebounding stats I'm not among the league leaders although teams stuggle to rebound against me and also I don't miss many shots to rebound. PHX is by far the best rebounding team in the league they get the most and give up the least. Pistons are up there and the rockets with tc and fortson are among the best as well...sorry haberman these are all much better than feick/cisse and randolph. I could probably name another 5 teams ahead too If I misspoke, so be it, but my point is that based off ratings, we should be a great rebounding team. Three guys at A-. Outlaw is definitely a weak rebounder, but we are very good off the glass at the 4 and 5.
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Post by aaron2344 on Aug 5, 2007 12:23:47 GMT -5
I think it's important to have good rebounders at every position. I don't have a spectacular rebounder, but I have guys who are all above avg. Each game someone new steps up and grabs the majority of the boards.
That being said, I'd love to have a Ben Wallace type rebounder on my team.
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Post by aaronjh on Aug 5, 2007 12:28:07 GMT -5
We did 52.5 RPG this sim, which is good for top five. That's good enough for me if we can keep that up.
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Post by duce on Aug 5, 2007 12:29:54 GMT -5
phx dominated that category from start to finish, but it's not all because of his players, there is a bit of strategy involved. too bad i'm not saying shit beyond that.
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Post by Bender on Aug 5, 2007 12:30:35 GMT -5
farmar is only 19 yrs old i hope he turns out to be a stuud
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Post by Lumley316 on Aug 5, 2007 12:31:13 GMT -5
Nice different type of article
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Post by James on Aug 5, 2007 18:13:27 GMT -5
Nice article Krup, I agree with it all. Maybe you were a little bit harsh on Orlando as I wouldn't nessasarily call them 'losers' of the trade deadline, however you do hit the nail on the head on everything else.
Also, noticing Orlando's past records, are they on their contract year this year/next year?
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Post by aaron2344 on Aug 13, 2007 19:49:26 GMT -5
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