How's Your Association Going? (2K11)

[ajf14]

After 4 games in my wizards franchise, I'm 2-2. I originally traded for joe johnson, but felt it was too unrealistic. So, I got Arenas back, and my lineup is

PG Wall
SG Arenas
SF Hornton
PF Blatche
C McGee

6th: Nick Young
7th: Hinrich
Thornton
Jianlin


Simmed 2 of the games, one win and one loss. The first game i played was against the magic, and won. Then, i faced the hawks and had one of the best games of my videogaming career. it was a competitive game the whole time, and johnson had been lighting me up all night. So, with 4 seconds left, i sunk a jumper w/ wall, and they had the ball. Up by 1. then, after a hawks timeout, johnson is somehow able to jack up a last second off balance shot in traffic, and it rattles in. i lose, 92-91. next played game was against the knicks, and i won by 8. through the first two weeks, wall is averging a double double w/ 18-12, and another surprise star is nick young, averaging 25 pts a game.

[jeremym480]

I'm back for another update in my Suns Association.

My Record: 29-17
Date: Feb 1 2010
Next Opponent: Bucks

Western Conference Standings
Mavericks - 35-12
Spurs - 32-15
Thunder- 30-17
Suns- 29-17
Lakers- 28-20
Nuggets- 27-21
Kings- 24-21
Rockets - 25-24
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Jazz - 24-25
Trail Blazer- 23-24
Hornets- 22-28
Grizzlies - 21-28
Warriors - 18-29
Clippers- 17-30
Timberwolves - 16-31

Power Ranking's
1. (1) Heat - 35-11
2. (2) Celtics - 35-11
3. (3) Mavericks - 34-12
4. (4) Spurs - 32-15
5. (7) Thunder - 29-17
6. (5) Magic - 29-19
7. (9) Lakers - 27-20
8. (12) Nuggets - 26-20
9. (6) Bulls - 28-19
10 (8) Bucks - 27-19
11. (10) Suns - 2817

Notes
The Thunder are the hottest team in the NBA. They went 12-1 in January and jumped from the 8th spot in the West to the 4th. Also, the Lakers started to pick up some team and have cut our lead in the Pacific down to 2 games. Both of those teams are going to be very scary come playoff time. As for us, we had a tough January going 8-7. However, both Grant Hill and Channing Frye are coming back from injuries to start February so, we really looking to maintain our lead and have a strong month.

Suns Starters
Steve Nash - 22 PPG - 3.1 RPG - 9 APG - .5 SPG - 49% FG%
Jason Richardson - 19 PPG - 5.6 RPG - 1,3 SPG
Grant Hill - 14 PPG - 7 RPG - 1 SPG - 53% FG%
Hedo Turkoglu - 12.5 PPG - 5 RPG - 3.3 APG - 42% FG%
Robin Lopez - 7 PPG - 7 RPG - 1.3 BPG

Key Bench Players
Goran Dragic - 9 PPG - 3.2 APG
Josh Childress - 9 PPG - 5.2 RPG
Channing Frye - 7 PPG- 5.4 RPG

Team Trends
We are a front running type of team. We have won 20 of 23 game in which we had the lead at the half and 25 of 27 when leading going into the 4th Quarter. On the flip side, we're only 7-13 in games in which we trailed at half-time and an abysmal 3-14 in games where we were behind entering the 4th. Crazy Stuff.

Suns Trades
None

Leauge Trades
1/4 Wizards trade Al Thornton to Knicks for Roger Mason & Shawne Williams
1/16 Pacer's trade Jeff Foster & Solomon Jones to Pistons for Charlie Villanueva
1/18 Cavs trade Leon Powe to Thunder for Nenad Krstic
1/20 Kings trade Jason Thompson to Wizards for Cartier Martin & '12 1st Round Pick
1/26 Mavs trade Alexis Ajinca & Brian Cardinal to T'Wolves for Kosta Koufos & Anthony Tolliver
1/31 Bucks trade Carlos Deifino & Jon Brockman to Knicks for Ronny Turiaf & '11 2nd Round Pick

Rumor Mill
Mo Williams, Mike Bibby, Evan Turner, Elton Brand and Lamar Odom are all rumored to be moving before the Trade Deadline.

Big League Injuries
K. Martin - Houston - Torn MCL - Out 6-8 Months
G. Arenas - Washington - Broken Arm - Out 2-4 Weeks
K. Durant - OK. City - Sprained Finger - Out 1-2 Weeks
A. Jefferson - Utah - Knee Tendinitis - Out 1-2 Weeks
A. Bargnai - Toronto - Sore Foot - Hurt 1-2 Weeks

Players of the Month
November - East - Lebron James / West - Kobe Bryant
December - East - Lebron James / West - Kevin Durant
January - East - Lebron James / West - Monta Ellis

Rookies of the Month
John Wall for the East and Blake Griffin for the East have won the award all 3 months.

Hirings/Firings
Raptors fire Jay Triano and hire Albert Rice
T'Wolves fire Kurt Rambis and hire Wallace Drew
Pistons fire John Kuester and Hire Juwan Paxon

Doug Collins, Flip Saunders and Vinny Del Negro are all Rumored to be on the Hot Seat.

[Evan_OS]

1-8 with the Cavs right now. I'd be 4-4 or so if I was smarter didn't blow leads in the 4th. talk about blowing a 15 point lead in 3 minutes.

[AnArtofWar]

Really lucky right now...got 1st pick in the draft...now what to draft.

Right now I have...
Louis Williams(75)
Ben Gordon(79)
Iggy(87)
Charlie V(73)
Monroe (72)

Role Players: Daye(69), Bynum(72), Julian Wright(65)

I was really thinking about going PG and drafting Kemba Williams and I could hope to sign some people for my front court who may or may not be better. Another thought I had was to make some kind of trade so I move back a bit, get Kyrie, and upgrade Charlie V.

[Timmy458]

Started a Association with the Magic last night, I am 3-0. Was able to hold on to win against the Heat after a strong 3rd quarter rally from them which cut a 15 point halftime lead to only 4 going into the 4th.

And almost blew another halftime lead against the Knicks but Rashard Lewis was stroking it from 3 and made 8/13 from 3 finished the game with 42 points. JJ Redick added 7 3's of his own. I pulled away in the 4th and won 103-82.

Wondering if anyone thinks I should trade Vince Carter? He hasn't been a big factor for me and wondering who I could possibly trade him for.

[thaprodigyisback]

Quote: Originally Posted by AnArtofWar

Really lucky right now...got 1st pick in the draft...now what to draft. I was really thinking about going PG and drafting Kemba Williams

Did you mean Kemba Walker? If you have the 1st pick i'd go with Kyrie you could always trade down if you wanted Kemba

[Weeks]

Bulls Association

I have Keith Bogans as my starter but he sucks, so I was looking around the rosters to see if there was anyone I could trade him for, when my eyes stumbled across Roddy B.

I am seriously debating trading for him because I think Ronnie B and Roddy B could have something special. Ronnie would be the big defensive stopper who plays late and doesn't make many mistakes. While Roddy would be my offensive guy that can spark a comeback.

Now my only question is how I would go about trading for him.

Players I'm willing to trade:

-Keith Bogans-67 OVR
-Kurt Thomas-68 OVR
-James Johnson-62 OVR
-'11 1st round pick
-'12 1st round pick
-'12 1st round pick via Bobcats (they have it IRL)
-'12 2nd round pick

I was thinking something along the lines of:

James Johnson
Kurt Thomas
'12 1st round pick

for

Rodrigue Beaubois

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

[DarthRambo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Timmy458

Started a Association with the Magic last night, I am 3-0. Was able to hold on to win against the Heat after a strong 3rd quarter rally from them which cut a 15 point halftime lead to only 4 going into the 4th. And almost blew another halftime lead against the Knicks but Rashard Lewis was stroking it from 3 and made 8/13 from 3 finished the game with 42 points. JJ Redick added 7 3's of his own. I pulled away in the 4th and won 103-82. Wondering if anyone thinks I should trade Vince Carter? He hasn't been a big factor for me and wondering who I could possibly trade him for.

I'm doing a Magic association as well...I am doing well with VC, averaging 20+ ppg with him in games I play. Had 44 with him against Miami that 2nd game of the season.

I may play it differently than you, but I would trade VC for a couple reasons. 1. It's just not realistic irl for that to happen right now. 2. There's a team option for next season, so if you really don't want him, wait and decline the team option. That 2nd scenario is waaaay more likely to happen irl than him being traded irl, so that's what I would do.