Posted by goetz93 on 6/5/2022 1:17:00 AM (view original):
Happy with my squad - invite commentary from the savants on here - we like def, reb and sharing the ball

PG - Buckner-Art Williams-Wohl
SG - Riordan-(Player to be named - possibly the HAWK)
SF - HAWK-Tolson
PF - Barnes-George L Johnson (or Fox)
C - Cowens-Fox

I invite feedback - criticism doesn't bother me - I like the NBA and like to learn

I haven't added the assists up, but doesn't look like a lot of passers.

Outside of open leagues I have observed that assists are the least important statistic.

The draft is not quite over, but it is for my team. We have our 12. Guys, I haven't had so much fun for quite a while as I did with this draft. I feel I learned a lot just from the start of the draft 9 days ago until now. I will not likely come into this league full of hall of famer owners and win 60 games right away, but I hope to be at least over .500 here, and 50 wins would be awesome.

I look forward to being in any and all versions of this league that come along in the future. Lots of names of players that I hadn't thought about in 45+ years.

Posted by goetz93 on 6/5/2022 1:17:00 AM (view original):
Happy with my squad - invite commentary from the savants on here - we like def, reb and sharing the ball

PG - Buckner-Art Williams-Wohl
SG - Riordan-(Player to be named - possibly the HAWK)
SF - HAWK-Tolson
PF - Barnes-George L Johnson (or Fox)
C - Cowens-Fox

I invite feedback - criticism doesn't bother me - I like the NBA and like to learn

Big Fan---Cowens and you may have drafted the best of all GM's at the PG position, especially for the rounds in which you got them.
Fan--Tolson was a great pick in the 9th (I wanted him)
Just OK---Johnson, Riordan, Fox
Not a Fan---Hawk and Barnes---I think you are going to be disappointed. IMO, 2nd Round, Tomjanovich, Parish, or Buse would have been much better picks than Barnes. In the 3rd, imo, I personally love Debusschere but would have taken quite a few other players b4 Hawk including Hudson, Gus Williams, Clifford Ray, ML Carr....

Hawkins would be a great pick in the 60s. He was awesome in the ABA in 67-68 and 68-69, but he dropped off tremendously in 69-70 when he went to the NBA.

Posted by riftonapple on 6/5/2022 9:34:00 PM (view original):

Posted by goetz93 on 6/5/2022 1:17:00 AM (view original):
Happy with my squad - invite commentary from the savants on here - we like def, reb and sharing the ball

PG - Buckner-Art Williams-Wohl
SG - Riordan-(Player to be named - possibly the HAWK)
SF - HAWK-Tolson
PF - Barnes-George L Johnson (or Fox)
C - Cowens-Fox

I invite feedback - criticism doesn't bother me - I like the NBA and like to learn

Big Fan---Cowens and you may have drafted the best of all GM's at the PG position, especially for the rounds in which you got them.
Fan--Tolson was a great pick in the 9th (I wanted him)
Just OK---Johnson, Riordan, Fox
Not a Fan---Hawk and Barnes---I think you are going to be disappointed. IMO, 2nd Round, Tomjanovich, Parish, or Buse would have been much better picks than Barnes. In the 3rd, imo, I personally love Debusschere but would have taken quite a few other players b4 Hawk including Hudson, Gus Williams, Clifford Ray, ML Carr....

appreciate you taking time to give that feedback - thanks and good luck

My payroll is $75,357,567.

Wow you’ve certainly built a beast.

Posted by chewy3344 on 6/6/2022 10:10:00 PM (view original):
Wow you’ve certainly built a beast.

Not really, it's just that because there's no salary cap the bench can be guys who were real life starters with a lot of minutes and thus, higher salaries. I have one guy over 10 million and 5 guys at 7 million plus. one just under 7 million, one just under 6 million, a 5+, a 4+, a 3+ and a 2+

Look at these ridiculous box scores form the playoffs in the Open League I was in.

https://www.whatifsports.com/NBA/boxscore.asp?GameID=10192619&nomenu=1&teamfee=9.95

https://www.whatifsports.com/NBA/boxscore.asp?GameID=10192620&nomenu=1&teamfee=9.95

https://www.whatifsports.com/NBA/boxscore.asp?GameID=10192617&nomenu=1&teamfee=9.95

https://www.whatifsports.com/NBA/boxscore.asp?GameID=10192618&nomenu=1&teamfee=9.95

After 30 games here are the top 25 guys for MVP and when they were drafted.

Kareem - 1-1
Haywood - 1-9
Gilmore - 1-6
Erving - 1-4
McAdoo - 1-5
Archibald - 1-17
Cunningham - 2-19
McInnis - 5-3
Wicks - 4-6
Lanier - 1-10
Havlicek - 1-22
Malone - 1-3
Bellamy - 3-7
Lucas - 1-19
Barnes - 2-9
Roger A. Brown - 5-16
Gervin - 1-14
Tomjanowich - 2-11
Parish - 2-13
Marques Johnson - 1-13
Thurmond - 2-7
Issel - 3-1
Daniels - 1-15
Hawkins - 3-9
Cowens - 1-16

Ironically McInnis turned out to be a great pick in the 5th round.

Moses Malone working out in 1983 with the University of Houston Hakeem.

Which team would you root for?

Captain Caveman, obviously.

I just ran our all-star game using the Dream Teams. The West clobbered the East.

Final - 7/5/2022

EAST ALL STARS 94

WEST ALL STARS 123

Player of the Game

George Gervin (WEST)

21 pts, 6 reb, 5 ast, 2 stl, 2 blk

	1	2	3	4	T
EAST	22	21	28	23	94
WEST	30	35	33	25	123

EAST

Starters	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	PTS
1977-78 David Thompson	27	4/11	0/2	2/3	1	1	2	1	1	1	0	10
1974-75 Artis Gilmore	23	5/10	0/0	2/2	2	9	1	2	0	1	1	12
1974-75 George McGinnis	22	4/11	0/1	0/1	3	4	2	1	0	3	2	8
1972-73 Nate Archibald	22	4/8	0/0	2/2	0	1	7	0	1	1	0	10
1969-70 Billy Cunningham	22	5/13	0/0	0/0	3	5	1	1	1	0	4	10
Bench	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	PTS
1979-80 Micheal Ray Richardson	21	0/0	0/0	0/0	0	2	7	1	0	4	0	0
1971-72 Jerry Lucas	20	3/8	0/2	0/0	4	6	3	1	1	4	2	6
1972-73 Walt Frazier	19	6/10	2/3	1/2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	15
1974-75 Sidney Wicks	19	2/6	0/0	0/0	1	7	2	0	0	0	0	4
1971-72 John Havlicek	18	2/10	0/4	2/2	2	5	3	0	2	2	2	6
1973-74 Bob McAdoo	16	6/8	0/0	1/1	3	6	1	2	0	1	0	13
1971-72 Walt Bellamy	10	0/1	0/0	0/0	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
Totals		41/96	2/12	10/13	21	49	30	10	6	19	12	94
		42.7%	16.7%	76.9%

WEST

Starters	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	PTS
1969-70 Spencer Haywood	31	5/11	0/0	5/8	1	6	0	2	1	3	1	15
1974-75 Julius Erving	23	3/7	0/0	1/2	2	5	6	2	1	0	0	7
1969-70 Oscar Robertson	23	2/4	0/0	2/2	0	4	6	1	2	0	2	6
1979-80 George Gervin	22	9/15	1/1	2/2	2	6	5	2	2	1	1	21
1971-72 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	22	6/9	0/0	1/2	0	3	3	4	1	3	0	13
Bench	MIN	FGM/FGA	3PM/3PA	FTM/FTA	OREB	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO	PF	PTS
1971-72 Archie Clark	23	3/7	1/2	0/0	0	1	6	0	0	0	2	7
1973-74 Rudy Tomjanovich	22	7/11	1/1	3/3	1	5	1	2	2	0	0	18
1970-71 Mel Daniels	16	3/7	0/0	0/0	2	5	0	1	1	1	0	6
1974-75 Marvin Barnes	16	6/8	0/0	0/0	2	4	1	0	1	2	1	12
1978-79 Moses Malone	14	4/7	0/0	0/0	8	12	0	0	0	0	0	8
1975-76 Paul Westphal	14	1/4	0/1	0/0	0	0	7	0	3	1	0	2
1973-74 Bob Lanier	12	4/7	0/0	0/0	1	4	1	2	1	0	1	8
Totals		53/97	3/5	14/19	19	55	36	16	15	11	8	123
		54.6%	60.0%	73.7%