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well not pleased with my Tc this time. only welp increased his ratings the rest either had a minus or 0 overall TC. Sabonis and hopson might have increased their scoring production but lost also ratings.

Vlade is looking studly...  Excited to see what he can do...

Vlade:  +1 Inside, +1 Defense...
Rosow:  +1 Outside, +1 rebounding...
King:  Dropped like a rock...
Morris:  -1 Defense
Chapman:  Same
Teagle:  +1 rebounding
Greiner:  Same
Gragg:  -1 Handles
Lord:  -1 rebounding
Childs:  -1 Handles
Gottlieb:  Same
Shaw:  +1 Inside, -1 Outside
Edwards:  Same

Overall it was a positive TC...  My 2 young stars in Rosow and Divac improved...  Only thing that would have made it better is if Chapman, Morris and King improved...  Should be an interesting season...

shit

My first reaction as well...

Well, my team got kicked around a bit.  Mostly in the nuts.  Actually, I think it was totally in the nuts with a steel toed boot.

It's not all bad though.  Now I can piss in a rainbow of colors.

Gawd awful, again. What do I have to do to get a good TC around here?

Fortson had a nice camp I think, Pryz gained in D. Most of my kids waffled, and a whole lotta guys dropped hard.

Rough TC for the Raps but judging by the other comments in this thread maybe we got off easy.

Neither Kite or Salley improved which I was certainly hoping given their youth. Looks like MLE signee Doleac may have improved an inside shot and will likely see some time.

Willis also seems to have stayed the same which is too bad, I was hoping for either a +1 inside or +1 defense. Although he didn't decline....hopefully he will be the kind of player I think he can be, closer to the 25/19 he put up against the Hornets in the playoffs. I'll take 17/11 from him this year.

Nique also stayed the same which is excellent, I really think he could put up big numbers on my team.

Blackman also seems to have stayed the same, again no worries there although it would have been nice to have at least 1 player that improved....I don't think I did. Wiggins gained a handle but I'm pretty sure he lost a rating somewhere else to even things out.

Kersey was a -1 handles and now I think I really might need to take a shot at a new starting PG.

before i get to the Celtics, a few observations from around the league:

 :lol2: @ the Rockets PG situation. With Grant +3 and Hardaway +4 they now easily have the best starter-backup tandem in the league. What a waste, with the rest far from a playoff team, so I'd expect one of them gone by midseason for a stud SG/SF and a good backup PG ...

 :lol2: @ Sampson. He may have zero pot and he may have gone down 4 ratings since being drafted, but that didn't keep him from improving +2 and that where it counts (inside, def). Watch out for the Suns, and with Green not improving at all I feel a little sorry for the Hawks. Can you imagine A C- D+ A- B+ D Raplph and  A D+ D+ A B D Hakeem next to each other ? Wow ...

Hands down winner this offseason: Clipps. Amazing FA and now amazing TC with most starters improving. AC + 4, Reggie + 4, Mitchell +2, Laimbeer and Stockton +/- 0. Now if they just could translate that to on court performance they will make some serious noise ...

Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Minus 3 TC at age 25 ??? Fortson's +3 and Przy's +1 may ease his pain, and they still will contend for the East title, but wow ...

The Hornets look like the scariest team with no PG out there. But mybe they don't even need one. With lot's of A's across the board, especially on D, hardly anyone will score on them. Now let's see how they get into the offensive sets without John, and Buck's offense going down won't help either. So as of now a repeat seems unlikely ...



more to come.
 8)

Well, a very odd TC for the Warriors...

Dylan Petitt - at the age of 32 gains a defense to become an A- A- center.
Joseph Hughes - no change.  Was hoping for some improvement from him.
Shawn Kemp - gained a handle and a defense.  very glad about the handle, I was worreied abut his turnovers.  Hopefully he will block some shots as well.
Taylor Doleac - took a hit, losing a defense and a rebound
Rodney McCray - no change in the last 3 years
Vern Fleming - lost a rebound, and gained a handle.
Harrold Pressley - lost a handle...  my favorite part of his game.
Lester Connor - after his breakout season last year, apparently he decided he did not need to work anymore.  Lost an inside and a handle.
Jerod White - lost an insdie and a defense.  Not good that my weakest position got hit  so hard in TC...

Big winner - Terry Porter - gained and inside and an outside, and he now looks like a SG stud...

All in all, not too bad of a TC.  2 of my 5 starters dropped ratings, and one starter gained ratings.  The point guard position my be an issue for me, though, only PS and time will tell.

Pretty good TC for the Hornets. I'm particularly happy with Donald Harpring, who gained a defense and rebounding, and has that A potential. I'm also happy about Bol's improvement in rebounding.
Buck took a hit on inside, but I think George (+1 outside) and Kyle will pick up the slack.

Right now, tentative lineup =

C: Bol
PF: Hinson
SF: Buck
SG: George
PG: Macy

That's still pretty scary in my book.

still beatable by the Magic team :D

well that goes without saying  :tup:

Appears to have been a nice TC for the young Wiz.  (Is there a link to the pre-TC roster?)

Smits and Cartwright remain the same, rookie C Podoloff improved his rebounding and kept his A potential.

Tisdale improved his inside game to A- and lays claim to the spot as the Wizards #1 option.

X lost a point of rebounding and gained a point of D which hopefully will lead to more steals.

None of my guards appear to have changed in any major way.

C:Smits
PF:Tisdale
SF:McDaniel
SG:Scott
PG:Harper

Maybe he spent the whole summer gambling.

Sweet

I do have 2 of the best PG's in the league but DAMN, did ack Profit phjone it in?!

I will experiment to see if hardaway or Grant can play the 2 then trade my ass off from there!

Pre and Post TC here:
http://files.ssbabasketball.com/files/TC/2026/

Wicked, thanks mang.

Maybe its ur fault or maybe.. you're just making excuses..

BECOME LEGENDARY..

Rod strickland +4 last year, +2 this year. Whats not to like?

Wooten, the reason for the Munson trade, has become a disappointment. (trey, wake up you have 90 sumthing potential in you.. Release the dragon inside of you..)

Dr.J: I searched his name in google and came up with guys like Darko and Kwame Brown.

Petrovic: See Wooten

Malone: I expect him to be delivering again on a consistent basis.

Keyon Montross: still looks sexy. Love at first sight, remains..

The rest: Its like looking mediocre looking chicks..
too lazy to check them out..

Eric Wu: Like a Hot mama.. Improves his inside scoring from b to B+

Tom, no need to pass along my "good news" with MJ  :bash:

Gotta do a full summary, but at first blush, yeah, it sucked. How nice would AC Green have been in a Nets uni?

how many more jackpots you need?
what about trying to win with what you have, after you got most of it for free anyway ... ?

:-)

Free?

It cost me countless hours of creative negotiation, plus I burned all my FBB luck in one off-season that's biting me in the keister right now.

I'll probably put up an MJ block sometime over the next couple of weeks - bad TO's + bad TC's bug me.

Here's my wrap up:
Dial +1 HAN - didn't cought it up much anyway, so no biggie.
Koncak - Same.
Outlaw - +1 OUT, -1 REB - interesting, but not too playable.
Pryz - +1 REB - a little disappointing, but will still be solid.
Wanzer - -1 HAN/DEF/REB = -3. Shit.
Majerle - Same.
Aguire - -1 IN/DEF = -2. Not playable anymore.
Marshall - -1 DEF. Ugh.
Saperstein - Same. Shit - but might have improved on D as big.
Jordan - -1 IN/HAN/DEF = -3. Good lord.
Robinson - +1 HAN - interesting.
Fortson - +1 HAN/OUT = +2. Good.
Bagley - -1 HAN. Grrr.
Wallace - Same.

-5 overall. Important young guys regressed or stayed roughly the same. Must be filling the cooler with Jersey swamp water or something.

ah the TC overreaction.  Happens every year.