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Since, IMO, it's really hard to pick a "gm of the year", since rarely do you feel the full effects of a move within a year.  So I'm just asking, what team improved the most from the finals last year to opening day this year.

The Raptors have to be a candidate with the additions of Holman (11 and 11), Dickau (11 4 and 4), Garcia, Arbogast.

And with the TC's of Perry and Max...

Forgot to say, you can't nominate yourself.

Bah.  :P

I think the Knicks have to be a candidate.  Stocker and Sura are just what they needed (although they certaily don't need 4.2 turnovers/game, but 15.4 pts, 4.3 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 1.7 steals with A- defense is a huge improvement over what they had).

Other candidates:
Bulls - growth of Fabrizio, addition of Amare.
Pacers - Marion makes that team  :shock:
Nuggets - Berkowitz and Butler's development, nice addition of Odom.

oof, two of my moves made people candidates for this thing

Haha.

Well, Sura was a no brainer.  he had to go.  You just didn't have a need for him.

i think the Knicks had a great off season, Stocker and Sura are both great additions

Make that three of my moves: Knicks, Nuggs, Pacers  :(

Oh well. At this point the only trade I have some regret making is the Pacers deal. Otherwise, I am very happy with my offseason (Radman putting up 20/7; Gadz 11 rpg, 3 bpg; Melo 29/6).

If the Pacers could have gotten a veteran PG in FA or trade I would say the Pacers for sure. Elliot looks like he is going to be good, but not for a few seasons. If they can get a better PG, they will be great.

Still, I'll go with the Pacers even without the PG.

thanks i never expected marion to explode like that. I knew he is a great scorer but i nver thought he would avg. near 30.
I agree on Elliot but for the moment he and fisher are doing a fine job shooting at a high % and not turning the ball over too many times.
for the moment i will go with the nuggets. They really surprised me.

*ahem*  :roll:

Besides ignoring the fact that I said you can't nominate yourself, what did you do to improve yourself?  The drafting of David Hollister?  The huge signing of Brent Mercer?

jeez.. you can't stand sarcasm :D

i guess you are referring to your nearly league-leading 8-8 record which is a huge surprise considering the team you have.

you get my vote ...
 :wink:

and btw, how about the vote for WORST OFFSEASON

I know you can't nominate yourself but i have to be the lead candidate by a mile:

Coming off a 52 win season I resigned EVERYBODY, drafted nicely and ...
went on to lose 9 of 10 to start the season (to put this into perspective, apart from the Nets and Kings the 7 other losses came to teams who COMBINED for a .426 winning% last year)

Not only that, I cut my major new FA signee who immediately went on to become the top improvement in TC.


Now beat that ...
 :(

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find the guy with no underwear :D you'll see Pau.  :D

I have to vote for the Nuggets, at this pint in the season.  The turnaround that the team has made is just unbelievable.

The thing is, my offseason wasn't that eventful.  I only made the one deal for Odom.  I guess you could also add the Stockton and Pachulia resignings, since they're both now starting, but they were small things.  But the Butler deal happened last year, when I was able to acquire him from the Spurs for Eddie Uner.  I really liked Butler at the time, so much so that I probably would've taken him over Bertram Schultz in the draft, had I not had the #1 overall pick.

So, two deals have gone well for me: the Odom trade (this year) and the Butler trade (last year).

So I guess if I had to vote, I'd vote for the Knickerbockers.

Thanks for the mention guys. Stocker and Sura were huge additions (and I think Linton Johnson for the minimum was big too because I have had absolutely no defense at backup SF since, well, ever).

I finally have a good feeling about my team. Hopefully, the pick I dealt for Sura doesn't make me regret it.