JohnnyRondo nice squad.
Only question I really have for you is about your bench. I feel there is a huge concern there. Jason Williams may or may not sign with a team this year, Stevenson may not be fully recovered from back surgery, and most of the others are really inexperienced/rookies. (I really like Anderson btw) Do you feel as worried about your bench as I am? I also think your starters will have to take on heavy minutes in order to fight for a top seed.
Like a few other teams, you have 3-4 great players and a thin bench. Looking at this from a real life stand point which is what we will end up judging this on later down the line, rather than an NBA 2k9 assembled team, I think that your team is going to be fatigued come the 2nd round of the playoffs. Any argument against that statement? I love your starters, but your bench outside of Anderson and Bogans has a lot of questions to be answered.
Thank you for the questions. I'm actually not that concerned with the bench. With CP3, you obviously don't need a great back-up. Jason Williams just worked out with the Knicks and is said to be in great shape. Between J-Will will be a fine back-up.
Deshawn is said to be healthy, but having Bogans is insurnace on that.
Anderson and Armstrong were both part time starters last year and fit our system great.
I was looking at the top 20 rookies from last year and I'm a little surprised fans have so little faith in rookies. While we don't need to play them, I think we will be involved in quite a few blowouts and I think Buddinger (at the 2/3) and Johnson (at the 3/4) will be impressive this year.
Looking at the previous two champions:
The Lakers had Odom off the bench and one of Farmar or Brown.
Odom is obviously better than any one big on our bench, but they need him more, b/c Bynum is more of a question mark toughness and health-wise compared to Horford. Also Odom is really their third best player. It would be like if we started Deshawn and had Kevin Martin off the bench.
The Celtics sacrificed a lot to get the Big 3. They went into the season with a 2nd yr point guard and an oft injured young center. They're backup bigs were an undersized part time backup 2nd yr player and House as the backup pg, as well as Posey coming off an off yr. We don't have those question markis in our starting lineup.
Minutes will not be a problem. Look for Paul's, Gasol's, and Martin's regular season minutes to go all down from last season's averages. Obviously in the playoffs teams shorten their rotations and play their starters more. If needed, we can do that, b/c our big 3 and then Horford as well are all still in their 20's. We expect our first and second round series to each be done in 4 to 5 games, and even if one goes 6, our stars will be well rested come the ECF and WCF. It will be hard to get CP3 off the court then. He wants that ring so bad.
Thanks again for the questions. Hope I answered them all.
Minutes won't be a problem. I expect CP3, Gasol, and
Oh I forgot to answer your NBA2k question. We really like that with are team the parts fit. It's not just a bunch of sudo stars and other players thrown together. We turned down several trades for large character risks or immobile bigs. I think there are some NBA2k teams in our league, and I think in reality those teams would fair poorly.
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