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Not for a handful of hours, but that's the third big event of the off-season, and I'm really curious to see what happens with my young team. It would be a great boost if JP had a great camp, I expect some form of improvement with Manning, and a couple of my guys have had stagnant camps the past couple of years, so I think they might be due.

What are you hoping for?

I'll be happy if Pippen lives up to his potential and improves some. It would also be nice to see Brandon Irish improve enough to become my backup pg. As long as Maximiano Gutierrez does not decline much, i'll be happy with anything else that happens.

I hope my old men make it out of training camp alive.

My favourite time of the year..  :tup:

I am hoping Joseph Hughes continues his amazing improvement levels of previous years...
I would really like to see Rodney McCray improve his inside offense, or at least his defense...
If Doleac could improve his deefnse or rebounding, that would be great...

And Vern, if he gets any better, well, that would be icing on a very talented cake.

Kenny Walker improvement in scoring(both in and out) Richmond to improve his Def. Bailey,Milner and Green to stay the same.

here's hoping not :)

Waiting in anticipation....

its up now

bods will give us the pretc ratings later.

my own team had some decent results but sadly butler now is finally done.
some observations:

great TC:
Sabonis +1 outside, defense
had hoped he would improve his handles as well since that was his biggest weakness last year. will see some mins at SF as well this year.
Hobson +1 outside, defense and pot
expected the defense rating to go up but the outside is pretty surprising considering he had problems with his shot last year.
shaw +1 outside, +2 handling +1 reb
didn?t expect anything from him. wasn?t even sure if i should draft him. now he will get a chance to be the starting PG. well done!

decent or hoped for TC:
dwight stayed the same or maybe his ratings are so high that you can?t see any declines here. should still produce his 20/10 in this season
palacio only lost pot. who cares i was more worried about his defense and all around game. he shoudl give me 15/3/3 from SF and maybe see some time at PG as well.
rogers +1 handles, reb
i was sure he would improve his handles since he played a lot of mins at PG last year and did very well. as long as he can?t upgrade inside or defense he won't be more than a backup.
shultz -1 inside
glad he kept his defense and his outside shot. should give me 17 points and good defense.

guglitotta didn?t change at all, which is really disappointing. hoped he would increase either inside or rebounding. Still good enough to get some backup mins at C and PF.
butler lost handles and defense. at age 37 i expected some decline but had hoped he would keep his handles at least. for now he will have to come of the bench.

A demoralizing training camp for the Wolves... nobody really improved dramatically and more people seem to worsen rather than improve... Poor poor TC...

I could only imagine what could have been my team if I didn't trade my first for GM points and have Danny Manning as my starting SF in my team.

Anyway,  all the ratings of my centers declined.

Lincoln Lord, Saperstein and Mark Price's ratings also declined.

I'd just make most of what this team has right now.

well if you don?t want rod who improved 4 ratings i will take him :-) also trey seems to have improved some.

Was a fine TC for the Raptors, I'll reserve most judgement til I get a good look at pre TC ratings. At a quick glance, Buck looks amazing now and I'm happy with everyone else.

http://files.ssbabasketball.com/files/2024/End/rosters/roster15.htm

You can look at your preTC roster via the file archives link.

Very happy with the development of Hersey Hawkins.  Finally, I have a very good young player to build around...this could be the first one since Nick English...wow

Well I sure am glad I won my title last year, because the window is quickly closing.

Borgmann went +1 REB, aiming for a contract year I imagine
Tyler went -1 DEF, still B+/B+ at d/reb, pretty good
Zollner is proving to be very scrub-worthy, another -1 DEF
Collins went -1 DEF, sucks, he is only 30, at least he still has the offense
Stockton, last year's 2nd rd pick, -1 DEF, +1 REB
Reggie Lewis, -1 OUT, +1 HND
Magic went unchanged, thankfully
Bellamy ends up going -1 OUT, -1 HND after a great TC last year
Evans sucked it up, -1 DEF, -1 HND, that should prove costly

Danny Manning is looking like a flat out scorer. Giddy up. Lost abit in REB, but he's big at the three, so I hope he's fine.

Prize project JP went +3 in the big categories - perfect.

Jonny Contract improved a wee bit.

MJ lost an OUT, but who cares.

Mags stayed the same.

Little tweaks of goodness to most of my project second rounders except Risen, so maybe some of them can play abit....especially Marshall. He might get himself a nice role with a good pre-season.

uneventful TC for the Hawks, let's get this season started.

Damn.. JP looks like the top 2 overall player from the draft. Nice draft for your team this year. Totally propelled your rebuilding process.

Can't wait to see how the Mailman will play his new position.

Pretty uneventful. Hinson lost a rebounding, which hurts, because that's my biggest weakness.

Actually, a suprisingly good TC for the Warriors...

Hughes dropped a defense, but picked up a rebound.  In another TC or two, he should be a very good center.

McCray stayed even...  Was hoping for an improveemnt, but not expecting it.

Lester Conner improved...  +1 outside, and +1 defense now.  This is great, he was already an excellent defender, and with improved offense, he will be a even more effective.

Vern stayed the same, which works for me.

And, Oh yeah, did I foget to mention... 
Taylor Doleac!!!!!
+1 outside, +1 defense.  He is now a, A+ outside shooter, and his defense improved to B+.
This improvement pretty much guarantees him a starting SF spot, as well as pushing me towards an outside offense.

On top of that, Terry Teagle also bumped up to a A outside, giving me a great set of scoring swingmen. 

so-so TC for the Celtics.

biggest improvements:
2nd round pick Anthony Mason went up 4 ratings, one in every categor but inside
Christian Clark improved +3 in scoring, ball handling and defense.
And some young guys picked it up in vital categories (Divac & Wu +1 def, Cliff +1 reb, Hunt +1 inside, Embry +1 hnd)

biggest disappointments:
none really, as Peters -3 at age 37 hardly matters
Mahorn dropped one in def at PF
Embry and Barkley both dropped one outside
the rest isn't worth mentioning.

and FA pickup Hector Atkins went +2 and may see minutes over FA signee Cory.

Guess i'd generously call that a B- overall.
 8)


This looks like a season where team effort will be needed to get things done, as there are no stars carrying the load. So let's see ...
 :cheers:

At furthur glance it was a rather uneventful TC for the Raps. Ewing stayed the same which is fine. KWill also stayed the same and lost a potential, but I'm fine with that too. Salley stayed the same. Buck had an excellent TC going +1 inside and +1 potential. Other than Buck, virtually everyone went unchanged.


Looking forward to dressing some good lineups in PS.

http://files.ssbabasketball.com/files/TC/2025/

Mediocre TC, very balanced, nothing bad happend, nothing great, im satisfied.

And btw, both my MLE and LLE signing declined in this year's TC.

Tarpley got worse... lost some inside.

I'm happy Fortson has gotten over his C- inside scoring up to a C