**2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

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After losing interest in MyGM numerous times - due to having all badges/facilities equipped - I'll have another go with the Wizards! All badges/facilities, except the scouting- and injuries/fatigue-related ones , have been unequipped FYI.

I love playing P&R's with John Wall in Play Now Online, so I'm obviously going to build on that concept: and the team is already well built for that purpose. Gortat is a great screen-setter and roll-man, and if the double team arrives, we have three capable shooters to kick it to: Beal, Porter and Morris.

There's some good talent in the second unit as well: Burke, Bogdanovic, Oubre and Mahinmi. I did want to get Mahinmi's big contract off the books though.

That's the first move I made: Ian Mahinmi and a 1st round pick for Tiago Splitter (76'ers) and a 2nd round pick. Splitter's contract is up at the end of the year and in the meantime he will be a serviceable back up to Marcin Gortat.

Next Up I tweaked my guard rotation a bit. Wall and Beal will obviously be starting, and while Trey Burke is a good backup to Wall, I wasn't too fond with the back up for Beal. So I decided to move Brandon Jennings (who wouldn't see minutes anyway) and two second round picks for the Spurs' Jonathon Simmons.

To open up a little bit more cap space, I also traded Jason Smith straight up for Kevin Seraphin, who's contract will also expire.

Which means my main rotation looks like this ahead of the season opener vs. the Atlanta Hawks:

PG: Wall / Burke
SG: Beal / Simmons
SF: Porter / Bogdanovic
PF: Morris / Oubre
C: Gortat / Splitter

The goal for the first season will be to finish top three in the conference, and after that, advance from the first round. I'll assess the situation from there. The team we have right now will be more than capable of doing that, but long term it's going to be a tough challenge to compete with the Cavs. For the partnership of Wall/Beal to really be effective, I do think we need a great center to set screens and roll. We have him right now in Gortat, but he's 32 already, so when Porter, Oubre and Beal reaches their absolute peak, he will be beyond his. I'll keep him around for the first season, but I need to clear some more cap space, in order to sign his replacement down the line. I doubt we will find a +80-rated center though...

If you guys have any suggestions in regards to how I should replace Gortat long term, feel free to let me know! He has three years left of his current deal, earning 12-13.5M per year. I'm currently thinking about two scenarios:

1.
Trade him after the first or second season, in a deal where we throw in near-to-all our picks along with Gortat for a younger, but similar big man.

2.
Let him play out his contract in Washington and then look to replace him in free agency. I think we can get a better quality player with this solution, as the cap will go up, and I have more time to shave some wages off the books, but there's a big catch to it: John Wall's contract is up the same year, and he's going to ask for a big time payday. We could still hurry up and get a big man in the first days of free agency, but then we'd have to pay a lot of luxury tax to resign John Wall. So I'm leaning towards the first solution. Too much risk involved in this one.

[Black Bruce Wayne]

Re: **2K17 - How's your MyLeague/MyGM going?**

After losing interest in MyGM numerous times - due to having all badges/facilities equipped - I'll have another go with the Wizards! All badges/facilities, except the scouting- and injuries/fatigue-related ones , have been unequipped FYI.

I love playing P&R's with John Wall in Play Now Online, so I'm obviously going to build on that concept: and the team is already well built for that purpose. Gortat is a great screen-setter and roll-man, and if the double team arrives, we have three capable shooters to kick it to: Beal, Porter and Morris.

There's some good talent in the second unit as well: Burke, Bogdanovic, Oubre and Mahinmi. I did want to get Mahinmi's big contract off the books though.

That's the first move I made: Ian Mahinmi and a 1st round pick for Tiago Splitter (76'ers) and a 2nd round pick. Splitter's contract is up at the end of the year and in the meantime he will be a serviceable back up to Marcin Gortat.

Next Up I tweaked my guard rotation a bit. Wall and Beal will obviously be starting, and while Trey Burke is a good backup to Wall, I wasn't too fond with the back up for Beal. So I decided to move Brandon Jennings (who wouldn't see minutes anyway) and two second round picks for the Spurs' Jonathon Simmons.

To open up a little bit more cap space, I also traded Jason Smith straight up for Kevin Seraphin, who's contract will also expire.

Which means my main rotation looks like this ahead of the season opener vs. the Atlanta Hawks:

PG: Wall / Burke
SG: Beal / Simmons
SF: Porter / Bogdanovic
PF: Morris / Oubre
C: Gortat / Splitter

The goal for the first season will be to finish top three in the conference, and after that, advance from the first round. I'll assess the situation from there. The team we have right now will be more than capable of doing that, but long term it's going to be a tough challenge to compete with the Cavs. For the partnership of Wall/Beal to really be effective, I do think we need a great center to set screens and roll. We have him right now in Gortat, but he's 32 already, so when Porter, Oubre and Beal reaches their absolute peak, he will be beyond his. I'll keep him around for the first season, but I need to clear some more cap space, in order to sign his replacement down the line. I doubt we will find a +80-rated center though...

If you guys have any suggestions in regards to how I should replace Gortat long term, feel free to let me know! He has three years left of his current deal, earning 12-13.5M per year. I'm currently thinking about two scenarios:

1.
Trade him after the first or second season, in a deal where we throw in near-to-all our picks along with Gortat for a younger, but similar big man.

2.
Let him play out his contract in Washington and then look to replace him in free agency. I think we can get a better quality player with this solution, as the cap will go up, and I have more time to shave some wages off the books, but there's a big catch to it: John Wall's contract is up the same year, and he's going to ask for a big time payday. We could still hurry up and get a big man in the first days of free agency, but then we'd have to pay a lot of luxury tax to resign John Wall. So I'm leaning towards the first solution. Too much risk involved in this one.

Have you considered a Stretch 4? I was Dwight Howard also, but he always wants too much money

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Btw. in terms of potential replacements for Gortat, I have Mason Plume and Nerlens Noel on my target list. Both of them have expiring contracts, are long capable defenders and can work in the pick&roll. None are very skilled, but they can defend the paint, set a screen, roll to the rim and catch lobs.

More interesting though, but maybe too expensive an option, is Myles Turner! Indiana will undoubtedly pick up the team options they have on him, but then he will have the opportunity to test free agency in the same season as Gortat's contract expires. If everything works out, that would be a killer move for this Wizards team. Again, it's very high risk, as there's no assurance of landing him what so ever, plus it will make us luxury tax offenders by virtue of a John Wall extension in the same off season, but it's also VERY high reward. Imagine John Wall pumping the ball at the top. Sizing up the defender and all that nice stuff. Then Turner sets a pick which opens a paradise of opportunities. John Wall can blow right by and slash towards the rim. If no help arrives he'll just finish, and if help arrives he can kick it to Beal, Porter or Morris, but Turner is a real threat from 3 too. How the hell do you defend that? He's an athletic guy too, so there's also the option of him rolling and receiving the pass/lob from Wall. Again, if help arrives, we have four guys on the perimeter who can knock it down. Man, that's a wet dream of an offense....................

[LowPostPresence]

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Have you considered a Stretch 4? I was Dwight Howard also, but he always wants too much money

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Dwight definitely fits the bill, but as you say, he's too expensive and age-wise he doesn't really fit too well. I'm looking at max 28 years of age, as I want to stay contender throughout Wall's peak.

I haven't considered a stretch 4 really. As mentioned, Myles Turner is an option, but mainly due to his potential as a pick&roller/popper. Depends what you mean by a stretch four, if you mean weak interior defender, who's not really capable of being a roller, then no. It wouldn't really fit in to what I'm trying to build around John Wall. Besides, Markieff Morris is a stretch four already.

[LowPostPresence]

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I've played through the first seven games. I played the opener vs the Hawks myself. Dennis Schroeder caught fire early while Wall struggled a bit with his. He was still dishing out dimes though. The game was close, but due to a strong fourth quarter from Wall, we secure the W with a 102-98 win. Wall put up 24 points and 13 assists while Beal scored 25 and went 4-5 from deep.

I simmed the next five games, with very lacklustre results. An L against Memphis, a W against the Raptors, two L's against the Hawks and Orlando and then an L against Houston, in which Harden dominated John Wall: 34 points, 7 rebounds and 11 assists. Wall put up 16 points and 8 assists. Chemistry was pretty low, but it's already moving in the right direction, so I hope that's the reason for our bad start to the season. I was going to take control myself in the seventh game at home against Boston. John Wall was straight fire as he got the better of Isaiah Thomas in a closely contested overtime point guard duel. IT was hard to stop off the dribble, and the pick&pop scheme they're running with IT and Al Horford proved effective: 33 points, 11 assists for IT and 24 points, 9 rebounds for Horford. Isaiah went 12-32 fromt he field though, so Wall did a decent job defensively. However, the AI in 2K is stupid AF, so IT was guarding Wall for the entire game, instead of putting a lockdown defender like Avery Bradley on him. This allowed me to continuously blow by Isaiah with Wall, where I was able to effectively finish on Horford or dishing it out to Beal (23 points), Porter og Markieff. Wall finished with a brutal statline: 44pts (16-30), 6 rebounds, 11 assists, 3 steals, 1 block and 3 turnovers. Gortat played a huge game as well, putting up 14 points and 22 rebounds!

Let's hope this game turn things around for us, and we get back on track towards the top three in the east.

[Lord Bonium]

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In the finals of my fourth season about to win a 3rd straight championship. I'm using a 1999-2000 roster and controlling the raptors since vince carter is my favorite player of all time. Definitely not a realistic myleague since a) the rosters were pretty inaccurate with a lot of stars that shouldn't be there and b) i edited some of my players. Reasonably enjoyable though.

pg: jason williams (82ovr), in case one of you young kids don't know him, youtube, trust me, one of the more creative playmakers you'll ever see - backup: edited cpu player 5'5 pg, 6th man number 1, basically an 80ovr isaiah thomas

sg: vince carter (95 ovr), GOAT, 3 time regular season and 1 time finals MVP so far - backup: 2nd year cpu player 75ovr, jamal crawford type

sf: rookie (75ovr), jack of all trades, master of none - backup: darvin ham 78ovr, 6th man number 2, hustle player, backup pf as well as sf

pf: keith van horn (78ovr), stretch four

c: created player (91ovr), 7'2 333lbs monster, basically a huge ben wallace, 1 time finals mvp and 2 time DPOY - backup: pavel podkolzine (71ovr), 7'5...

Only got about 50 wins this season after getting 70 the previous one. (i sim almost all games in the regular season). This drop happened because i had to let my starting sf, ricky davis, (85ovr) walk as well as backup c/pf chris andersen (80ovr) since they were asking 25 and 20 million respectively. And ofcourse darvin ham has regressed a bit because of age (he was 82ovr) as well as clyde drexler (80ovr) retiring. Replaced those guys with keith, rookie and pavel so basically quite a drop in talent.

Still haven't met shaq and his sidekick in the finals which is disappointing. Hopefully next season. Might make some moves in the offseason, however my core 4 are untouchable (vince, 7'2, jason and darvin). I'd prefer to keep the 5'5 pg but it might be wiser to move/package him for a sf or pf, haven't decided yet. Possibly try to get ricky davis back or maybe reunite vince with his college teammate antawn jamison. I could try to get mcgrady back to toronto but he's around a 95ovr by now so basically impossible unless if he's a free agent by now, then i could give it a shot. Trading won't work though. We'll see how it goes.

Definitely a fun team to use though. I play on superstar, 9m quarters.

[LowPostPresence]

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Still not going too well for my Wizards yet. We're currently the 9th seed in the east with a 15W-20L record. John Wall (22PPG, 10APG) and Bradley Beal (21PPG) is playing good basketball, putting up great numbers, but the rest of the team is severely underperforming. Well, Gortat is grabbing boards (12RPG) and setting good picks, we can't ask more from him, so that's fine.

Porter and Morris are scoring just about 10PPG each, I was expecting a little bit more especially from Porter, and their percentages from the outside isn't really that great either... Off the bench Kelly Oubre has flat out been disappointing. He's getting 20MPG and putting up only 6 PPG, 3RPG and 0.5APG. His percentages are all right, so I know he can get up there. Bogdanovic is averaging 11PPG off the bench, but he's constantly complaining about his minutes (20MPG), so I might have to trade him if I can find a stretch four for the bench unit, who can guard on the perimeter. That would allow Kelly Ombre to play more minutes as a small forward, and not the power forward position which he often plays now. I'm definitely eyeing Kelly Ombre as the future sixth man of the team, which is going to be a very important role when we're deep in the playoffs facing STACKED starting lineups like the Cavs and hopefully - eventually - the Warriors.

[LowPostPresence]

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Quick update going in to the All-Star break: I traded Bogdanovic for Nemanja Bjelica. Stretch Four 3&D player. He's a lower overall, but fits in well to the rotation and take a few millions off the books. My record is at 29W's-26L's. Wall is our only All-Star while Beal participates in Three-Point contest. He's shooting 46% from deep. Wall has been dominant over this stretch and is averaging almost 24PPG, 11APG, almost 2SPG and 3TPG. Kelly Oubre has improved coming off the bench too, now that he's locking up more minutes at the small forward position. The goal is still the top three seed which is currently owned by: 1. Cavs, 2. Buck, 3. 76'ers.

[LowPostPresence]

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A few games in to the second half of the season and Marcin Gortat goes down with a broken vertebrae - is out for the season. This means Splitter takes the starting centre position and Kevin Seraphin starts getting minutes off the bench. I was thinking about signing a free agent like Sanders or Bogut, but let's see what Splitter can do. This pretty much kills our chances of the top three seed and any hopes of beating the elite teams of the east in the playoffs. Gortat is already 33 years old, so this definitely means we're looking at trading him in the off season. I've come to the realisation that this pick&roll based team needs a great screen-setting big man, who can also protect the rim, to be successful. I am also not going to re-sing Scott Brooks as the head coach, let's see if we can't find a better fit for the system we're trying to run.

EDIT: Just simmed two games more, now John Wall is out for almost the remainder of the regular season... 33-29 currently - bye bye playoffs... We're going to start Raul Neto, and keep Burke on the bench. I like to have at least one scorer off the bench, but we're going to spread their minutes evenly.

[LowPostPresence]

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We actually managed to suck it up in Wall's and Gortat's absence and clinch a payoff berth with the 7th seed! We had the 9th seed, and things were looking dark, but Wall returns for the last 4 games and get us 4 W's! We finish with a 42-40 record. Wall receives First Team All NBA honours off of a 23 points, 11 assist, 2 steals season. Westbrook wins MVP on a 30 points triple double season...

We faced the 2nd seeded Bulls in the first round of the playoffs, but it's an early exit for us. A very disappointing first season ends on a 4-1 loss in the first round.

Cats sweep their way through the east and face the (duh) Golden State Warriors in the finals. Warriors take it in 7 games, Durant is MVP of the finals.

Going in to the off-season, our owner actually demand a Big Three (overall of 83). Let's see if that's do-able to replace Marcin Gortat. I really think a star big man will get us over the hump, and make us the biggest contenders for the Cavs in the East - barring injuries of course.

I regards to the head coaching position, ISO-Scott Brooks was let go. I offered contracts to Doc Rivers, who has experience with great pick&roll point guards in CP3 and Rondo (not to mention he kind of was one himself), and Stan Van Gundy. I love Van Gundy's playbooks in 2K: it's straight fire if you can get a quality point guard and an athletic big man! I ended up with Van Gundy, who cost me half of what Doc would have, so I think that was a great solution. Now we just need a center!!!

Unfortunately though, due to Gortat's injury, he couldn't be traded early in the off season. Every finger/toe were crossed that he would be healthy before free agency started, as I needed the player flexibility in order to get a decent replacement.

Top 6 in the draft:
1. Magic: Fultz
2. Heat: Smith Jr
3. Hornets: Tatum
4. Kings: Jackson
5. Pistons: Fox
6. Celtics: Ball (lol).

We end up picking up the team option on Oubre and not picking up the options on Seraphin, Neto, McCullough and Mac. We need as much wiggle-room in free agency as possible. I don't extend the expired contracts of Splitter or Simmons either.

Free agency arrives and Gortat is still injured. Meaning we can't trade him. This means we have to go past free agency, to the start of the season, and see if we can move him there. Probably doesn't change much as the only candidates available in FA was Monroe (not the type we need), Noel (definitely the type, but not sure of his potential) and Dedmon (not good enough).

Going in to FA, we were targeting a backup SG and a backup center, along with some reserves. I end up signing Jodie Meeks (2years3M) as a cheap 3&D option and bring Nene (1yearMinimum) back home to Washington as a more versatile big man. We round out the - so far - 13 man rotation by signing Derrick Williams and DeAndre Liggins to 1 years Minimum salary contracts.

Our depth chart looks like this going in to year 2:

PG: Wall, Burke
SG: Beal, Meeks, Liggins
SF: Porter, Oubre Williams
PF: Morris, Bjelica, Bertans
C: Gortat, Nene

Gortat's value has decreased now. He's earning 13M per year and has two years remaining. We can't get great trade value for him... What we can do though, is trade him for an expiring contract that's a small improvement, which makes us a little better this year, but gives us some flexibility in free agency next year. So I ended up going for Willie Cauley-Stein. He's really athletic, so he'll work out great in our pick&roll scheme, where he can also knock down the mid-range J on pick&pops. He's a more versatile defender, but definitely not a great rim protector, and not as good of a rebounder either. Could give us some troubles, but long term this is the best option for us. I threw in the 18' and 21' 1st round picks- and the 21' 2nd round pick to make it work for the Kings, and added took on Kosta Koufos' expiring contract to make the salaries work.

Now we have a capable roster to compete this season, and have the freedom to make moves when free agency comes around. Let's see where it takes us. :use:

EDIT: Btw. This next off-season is really do-or-die for us if we ever want to have a championship worthy roster. Wall's contract is up the following season, which takes us beyond the salary cap. That means we can't sign another star and puts us in a permanent state of "kind-of-contending-but-not-really" - so basically what the Thunder was going through before KD left. We absolutely NEED that star-bigman!

[LowPostPresence]

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I've just finished simming most of the regular season. We ended with the 4th seed. The east was extremely close this year!

1st seed: Cavs (52-30)
2nd seed: 76'ers (48-34) (Simmons featured in MVP talks off 20PPG, 10RPG, 8APG)
3rd seed: Celtics (46-36)
4th seed: Wizards 43-39)
5th seed: Bucks (42-40)
6th seed: Magic (41-41)
7th seed: Pacers (41-41)
8th seed: Hornets (40-42)

Wall and Beal both made the all star team, Wall off a great season again (23PPG, 10APG) and Wall made the 2nd Team All NBA Team. Willie Cauley-Stein actually worked out. He is wonderful in the pick&roll, I didn't take control of the games that much, but when I did it's LOB CITY with him and Wall. He's a good shot blocker and can guard on the perimeter, but overall, he's not a good interior defender. We still need to strengthen the center position IMO. Fun to play with though. Looking forward to playing with him a little mor win the playoffs.

Curry won MPV off a strong scoring season (32PPG) and Fultz took home rookie of the year. Golden State were dominant in the West (65W-17L).

[GetBuckets]

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I play a lot of MyGM and I always try to go for realism. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to re-tool this Cavs roster, in order to make it more poised in taking on the Warriors? Without cheesing the CPU that is. I'm thinking trades that move all the defensive liabilities like Deron Williams and Frye, and get us some two-way players that can shot and play at a high tempo, like Paul George. Kevin Love, J.R and Tristan are all potential trade bait, bit any specific suggestions on how to do it? Interesting discussion IRL as well.

[ezmoney707]

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Anyone else use the start today option and all the offseason contracts are off and not actually expiring?

[FerdBrown]

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Is the business side of MyGM relevant? I can go beyond the limit and extend contracts and still win championship. Though I'm losing money.

[GetBuckets]

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Is the business side of MyGM relevant? I can go beyond the limit and extend contracts and still win championship. Though I'm losing money.

If you're only looking to play with the franchise through a dynasty era, and not try to build it up again when that era closes - then no. However, if you're constantly in the red, keeping big contracts on the books etc. eventually you'll face major troubles! Your owner will will limit you on what he's willing to pay for contracts and you can't sign free agents barring the minimum contracts. That's a tough hole to crawl out from.