So a while back I made a roster with Woldbeard's All Time rosters. Basically I took the 30 CAT logos, overwrote the NBA teams with them, and then gave them names like the Vermont Monsters, Florida Cougars, Montana Black Bears, etc etc. I gave teams to states and tried to keep the teams in states that don't already have a team. And then I converted one of my street mods to be the D-League.
With the patch being released I finally started an association with this. I thought I sucked out on the draft, didnt do a custom draft position and did that serpentine draft (123,321,123,321) . I was pick #15, so I got the worst of the worst players overall.
First thing I noticed was that all teams were WAY over the Hard Cap. And everyone has seemingly random salaries, so no trades can happen. I got Wade, Pistol Pete, Dr J, Lakers Shaq, Hakeem The Dream, Manute Bol, young Ray Allen, Charles Oakley, Steve Francis, Brandon Bass, Reggie Lewis, JJ Barea and Antoine 4 pointer Walker (version Celtics.0).
After losing my first 2 games (4 min quaters), I dropped Francis to the D-League, had Bol starting at Center (so I can always with the tip) with Hakeem, Dr J, Wade, and Maravich. Shaq came first off the bench with Ray Ray and played a lot of minutes. I had great perimeter D with Wade and Maravich with a great offensive PF in Hakeem with shot blocking from Bol and Shaq.
After going on a 3 game winning streak Bol broke his wrist. So the complaining Shaq took over at center and I kept Hakeem in there too. Oakley, Ray, and Reggie Lewis were bitchin' big time about minutes, but there wasn't much I could do.
On the "street" one of the other teams sent Brandon Jennings down to the same D-League team, so Franchise and Jennings were tearing it up down there. Lots of give n go's and there were actually a few good big men on that D-League team that could block and finish strong.
Then I played against the New Hampshire Lynx and broke Nash's fucking jaw in the 3rd quarter.....sure enough they were the ones that sent Jennings to the D-League so he got called up and now I can't do shit with Stevie because no one else can pass the damn ball.
So with the inability to trade anyone due to the hard cap issues I decided to focus on my 2 workhorses that were going to be free agents next year.....Ray Allen and Antoine Walker. My entire gameplan is to dominate with Wade until they get in and then just rain 3's with them both. Antoine has a PER of 50? I think and Allen had his at 30. When they did the little graphic on shooting percentage it was 'toine and ray with over 60% and then Abdul Jabbar, Kevin Love (ya really), and then Wade with 51%.
So I made my starting lineup Maravich, Wade, Allen, Dr J, Hakeem. Then Hakeem got the "flu" and was playing like shit so I took him out for Shaqtus. Got Antoine coming 6th man off the bench and the only other player I really use for a specific role is Reggie Lewis who is good for a steal and a fast break each time he's in the game. Figure I need to make Ray and toine as happy as possible so I can try to resign them....but if I'm over the hard cap then I won't be able to anyway.....fack. It's usually a close game before I bring them in and rain 3's to give me the lead.....don't want to lose them and no i dont want to cheat by editing salaries either.
So, being way over the Hard Cap due to the fantasy draft, what can I do to resign Allen and Antoine next year?
The other teams in this mod are insane too. Just had a close game against Melo and John Wall with Larry Nance, one of the teams has LeBron with a healthy Yao and the rookie Michael Jordan, and my first loss was to Paul Pierce, Deron Williams, Kobe, and Chamberlain.....no chance in hell I was going to pull that off.
So yea, if you read that, thank you, this association is as fun as I was hoping it to be....I'm about 15 games in on a 29 game season and I completely finished 5 games with 4 Street games. Here is your reward for reading that.
2 Off the Glass Oops
http://community.2ksports.com/community ... id=4175414http://community.2ksports.com/community ... id=4177789Franchise killing the Street D-League
http://community.2ksports.com/community ... id=4175656And a OMG WTF Block against me
http://community.2ksports.com/community ... id=4177916