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Your signature image is basically a factory of sadness.

My life has gone own the tubes haha

Between the Longhorns and Ravens man, what a brutal season

Yikes

Brutal

Keep it going!

Come on Joe!

Yikes, Joe

Unreal D

Jimmy Smith is lock down

Love that play to Marlon

Happy for Jimmy!

CJ can't be stopped

Really excited about Camp and Maxx Williams. Hopefully both can pick up where they left off.

Given our starters only played a series--and it still went for a TD--I feel a little disconcerted that the WR's were barely involved. Seemed like the balls only went to the TE's and RB's other than a short crossing route to Smitty. Hope to see some more production out of them next game

Yikes, over 1000 picks! Impressive, y'all

Man, what's going on with the team's biceps. That's two down already.

I'm headed to Owings Mills for the Training camp at 4pm today. I'll report what I see. If anyone has questions I can try to answer.

Always down for WR updates, especially curious on Waller

Should be renamed the Frank Walker thread. Hands down. 

You know you wanna look over those Dunkey Kongs.

Calvinsmoke:

 

C - Nikola Vucevic, Roy Hibbert

F - Dirk Nowitzki, Amir Johnson

F - Rudy Gay, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist

G - Wesley Matthews, Joe Johnson, Jamal Crawford

G - John Wall, Deron Williams, Jeremy Lin

 

 

The Good: Excellent offense, can score from anyway. Nice bench, especially defensively. Good size at all positions. Nice spacing. Good perimeter defense. Great depth at every position for 12 man team. Nice rebounding wings and guards.

The Bad: A lot of high USG guys, only one ball to go around. Very old team, lack of prospects. Lack of athleticism. Not the best rebounding front court outside of Vuc. Defense is a major issue with Dirk and Vuc sharing the front court.  

Offense: A+

Defense: B+

Rebounding: A-

Depth: A

Fit: A-

Potential Improvement: C+

Overall: A-

I know someone graded your team BaltimoreFlacco, and I would give yours an A as well.

Thank you sir

Anyone mind doing a breakdown of my team? Would be appreciated.. I know I promised some other people an analysis that I haven't gotten to

Movethosechains

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PG: Mike Conley // Tyreke Evans // Shaun Livingston

SG: James Harden // Eric Gordon // Kelly Oubre Jr.

SF: DeMar Derozan // Paul Pierce // Wilson Chandler

PF: Draymond Green // Josh Smith // Ed Davis

C: Marcin Gortat // Omer Asik // Brandon Wright  

The Good: Love the starting lineup, tremendous fit defensively and for the most part on offense. I think the bench is an awesome lineup of its own. Tons of depth at PG, SF and C. Potentially nice depth at the other positions as well. Excellent defense throughout. Rebounders at all positions.

The Bad:  Not sure how well Derozan will play off ball, not a lot of room to improve outside of Oubre and Davis (to an extent). Injury concerns at a number of positions. 

Really really like this team

Offense: A-

Defense: A

Rebounding: A

Depth: A

Fit: A

Potential Improvement: B

Overall: A

Chef Curry's Kitchen

Rotation:

PG: Stephen Curry (1), Derrick Rose (4), Jordan Clarkson (10)

SG: Khris Middleton (5), Avery Bradley (8), CJ McCollum (12)

SF: Danilo Gallinari (9), Justise Winslow (11), Tony Snell (14)

PF: Chris Bosh (3), Nikola Mirotic (6), Myles Turner (13)

C: Andre Drummond (2), Jahlil Okafor (7), Clint Capela (15)

The Good: The Three point shooting and offensive skill all around. You have Curry, Middleton, and Gallinari are excellent, lights out three point shooters. Bosh is a capable three point shooter. Curry will be able to run the offense very effectivley. Bradley and others will keep the high amount of three point shooting going. The team wil truley be a great team if Rose can stay healthy. The depth across the board is excellent. The rebounding is also good.

The Bad: Not much. I would say Gallinari is injury prone and Bosh is coming off of a major one. Rose is injury prone, but coming off the bench should help with that. The defense is only average across the board. But you don't have any true liablilities.

Overall this team has no overall weakness so I'm giving it an A.. I have to go super nit picking mode in order to get a real one

Appreciate it 

I'm in. Hopefully I get to make the draft this year, but I still had fun last year until Pu took me out with an upset in the playoffs lol

I'm down.

 

I'd offer my own analyses, but my knowledge of the league as a whole still needs work.

 

 

Depth Chart

PG: Lillard - Mills - Williams

SG: Afflalo - Fournier - McLemore

SF: Parker - Ariza - Hezonja

PF: Favors - Anderson - Stoudemire

C: Horford - Jones - Adams

The good: Solid front court defense. Good spacing, yet excellent low post threats. In theory, like the combination of Parker and Afflalo, as Parker can draw doubles and AA would be the beneficiary. Nice prospects in Hezonja and Parker. Nice fire power with guards off of bench. Good potential for small ball lineups. Decent overall depth. 

The Bad: Concerned with AA's poor shooting year. No true rim protector. Skeptical Lillard can take the next step to true superstardom. Lack of defense off of bench, outside of Ariza. Don't like Fournier as the backup 2, but you have other options. Lack of toughness. Will Parker be 100%?

Offense: A

Defense: B+

Rebounding: A-

Depth: B+

Fit: A-

Potential Improvement: A

Overall: A-

Edit: I'd reorder your depth chart: 

PG: Lillard - Mills - 

SG: Afflalo - Williams - McLemore - Fournier

SF: Parker - Ariza - Hezonja

PF: Favors - Anderson - Stoudemire

C: Horford - Adams - Jones

It is true that a team's ability to expose weakness is situation dependent, if you are going against a team that has two big guys that are respectable in the low post it is a problem when one of the big guys defending him is awful, but not all teams have that personnel. However most teams at least have the ability to go small, and having those two on the court at the same time also would get destroyed by small ball or even a team with a good stretch four. 

 

On the other end, players who are offensively deficient are more of a problem. We saw in the playoffs that smart teams just don't defend players like Bogut or Tony Allen who can't play defense.

 

In the end, it's almost like going 4 on 5 at both ends of the court.

I mostly agree with what you're saying. With average players and an average supporting cast, it's a prescription for failure. I do think there's some championship-level exceptions though, i.e. Perkins in Boston and Ben Wallace in Detroit. Given, both had excellent supporting casts and were playing in a different game than the one we watch today. 

On the subject, I think Okafor/Noel will be a really interesting combination down the line, and they're a perfect example of what we're talking about. Ideally, if you're a Sixers fan, you'd hope Jah's ability to dominate inside and draw double teams would open up some easy putbacks, cuts to the rim and spot up jumpers (assuming he keeps improving that shot) for Nerlens, while on the other end Nerlens could hide some of Jah's issues with help defense.

I like the potential of this example because there is no going small against Jahlil. As Jay Bilas said, "You wanna put Draymond Green on Okafor in the post, he'll give ya 30."

 

Ron Artest: Chris Paul, D'Angelo Russell, Dante Exum

Ron Artest: Bradley Beal, Kevin Martin, Zach LaVine

Ron Artest:Andrew "Ender" Wiggins, Matt Barnes, Luc Richard Mbah A Moute

Ron Arrest: Paul Millsap, Enes Kanter,  Nene

Ron Artest: Joakim Noah, Andrew Bogut, Joel Embiid

 

The Good: Great fit in starting lineup. Nice passing. Great spacing. Wiggins & Millsap would really benefit from CP3. Lots of youth and untapped potential. Nice depth at PF and SG. Nice balance of slashing and outside shooting. Threats from the post, slashing and spot up shooting. 

The Bad: Lots of bust potential in Russell, Exum and Embiid. Hate the SF situation behind Wiggins. Concerns about Noah being worn down. Injury concerns with Beal, Noah, Martin & Embiid.

Offense: A-

Defense: A-

Rebounding: A-

Depth: B+

Fit: A

Potential Improvement: A+

Overall: A-