Lakers teams will start dominating the Gym Rat League again

Yeah... shaq/kareem/wilt (pick 2 of the 3)

Don't forget about Chris Mihm and Travis Knight.

Lakers lack the 3pt shooting to compete in the current sim engine.

You would have to play a SG at SF and get killed on the boards.

if shaq or wilt plays pf a lineup of wilt/shaq/kobe/jones/magic would have enough threes and wouldnt be too bad on the glass...magic and kobe rebound pretty well

but youre right...lakers are missing a good sim sf...it feels funny saying it, but worthy and baylor just dont cut it

Odom?

Quote: Originally posted by slymonium on 5/22/2010Odom?

only if hes feeling lucky

05-06 Odom, 07-08 Kobe, 89-90 Magic = 900 3pas and you can still have the 68-69 Wilt + some version of Shaq or Kareem and about 3m for your bench

Quote: Originally Posted By dh555 on 5/22/2010

Quote: Originally posted by slymonium on 5/22/2010
Odom?

only if hes feeling lucky

05-06 is actually very nice - 18.2 usg 52%efg 6/19 rbd%s 18 as% 200+ 3pa 84d sub 4s on per 48 TOs and PFs - nice complementary player

(and since this is the sim he's only slightly less consistent than in real life)

You can also do a platoon at SG using guys like Eddie Jones and Sasha Vujacic and get your high usg% elsewhere. Kobe's great, but there are other ways to go in the sim.

Magic really helps with the boards, too... Also gets you alot of ftas and is a good 2nd banana to someone like Shaq. 68-69 Wilt, 99-00 Shaq, 89-90 Magic... vujacic/Jones (don't remember season(s) right this second) at the 2... then you could get away with Kobe or Worthy (without worrying about 3s or boards)... or you could straight up go with Odom anyway, as you'd have plenty of possessions with Shaq, Magic and that Wilt.

I like that core. What's the cap in gym rat again? $47M or $42m?

Cedric Ceballos also is nice at both the 2 or the 3

Nixon at PG with Magic at SF might work better. Also, no love for Scott at SG?

$47M is the Gym Rat cap.

The point about Magic is that he gives you a lot of boards from the PG spot. Putting him at SF would defeat the primary purpose of what makes him worth a damn in this sim. Scott doesn't shoot enough 3s, especially when you're limited in your player pool and the one position you can get a ton of 3s out of in the Gym Rat (lakers) is SG.

$47M cap, eh? That makes defense slightly more important, but nowhere near as much so as in a $52M cap. I'm pretty sure I do a bomber platoon at the 2, 89-90 Magic starting at point, Shaq at C, 68-69 Wilt at PF (or vice versa) and then think long and hard about who I'm putting at the 3.

In the current scenario, I might try Landsberger + Rodman at PF... that gives you 30 minutes a game at high reb%... not sure what after that, but this is all off the top of my head anyway.

Totally off-topic...

Seble, can you get rid of the 2 and 3pt#%? Serves zero purpose as they are not used in the sim (and never will be). When looking at advanced stats, these are the numbers we see rather than 2pt% and 3pt%.