Lineup Roll call...what your squads looking like?!!?!

[harryl]

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I feel like I need to take out Harden asap... prefer a more solid all rounder SG. Kinda wanna chage Amy Magic too but he's definitely been a star 6th and lowkey MVP for this side. Been doing all the dirty work when it's asked of him... thanks guys for the hot tip to pick him up weeks and months ago

The one thing I'd say is that it doesn't make sense to have Magic and Harden on the court at the same time, I don't think. Both need to dominate the ball to fulfill their potential. Magic needs to dominate to not be an offensive liability. Harden needs to dominate because he's a defensive liability and there's no point taking that on if he's a catch & shoot guy.

[jballaz]

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I like your squad. We have similar starting units. You mentioned dropping harden.. Have you considered putting butler at the 2 and grabbing someone like Pg13 for your bench 3? Going butler/pg or butler/kawhi will really buff up your bench perimeter D.

Yes, Harden has already been dropped off the lineup!

I've moved Butler to bench SG and put Amy Connie Hawkins (with a Diamond shoe as kindly suggested by Grimace) in the SF position.

That said, as I have a bit more MT these days... I'm thinking of filling up the rest of the lineup with 3 backups at 11, 12 and 13 instead of the 3 bronze cards I have there now. I will probably fill it out with Amy Harden, Amy MJ and Amy Yao. Dirk also probably deserves a look into making the last 3 spots [emoji14]

How are you finding your team Bubba, and what options are you considering?

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[harryl]

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I also would try to find more optimal balance than run Magic and D12 at the same time. D12 is most useful in offense as a P&R roller. Magic is good for P&R and can score by driving for layups, but he can't give you jumpshot credibility as the P&R ballhandler. He's also most effective when getting ISO'd in the post and working for his post hook. With the latter, D12 on the court means that D12's man has pretty wide latitude to double Magic.

[GrimaceZ7]

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The one thing I'd say is that it doesn't make sense to have Magic and Harden on the court at the same time, I don't think. Both need to dominate the ball to fulfill their potential. Magic needs to dominate to not be an offensive liability. Harden needs to dominate because he's a defensive liability and there's no point taking that on if he's a catch & shoot guy.

That's definitely more true on Harden's end than Magic's. Magic is very good defensively. You could have someone else generate your offense while Magic is on the floor. If you're not getting your offense out of Harden, you're crazy for having him in your lineup with his terrible defense.

[harryl]

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That's definitely more true on Harden's end than Magic's. Magic is very good defensively. You could have someone else generate your offense while Magic is on the floor. If you're not getting your offense out of Harden, you're crazy for having him in your lineup with his terrible defense.

I think you've said that you shoot from outside solidly with Magic. I definitely don't, and I only take totally wide open threes with him, if I shoot outside with him.

I feel like Magic being off-ball is allowing the opponent to use his defender to roam off-ball to some extent. But I shoot terribly with Magic. Even open midrange.

[isdatyt]

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Nice little upgrade at SG. Hopefully they update him lol. I'm just happy I finally won one.

[jballaz]

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I also would try to find more optimal balance than run Magic and D12 at the same time. D12 is most useful in offense as a P&R roller. Magic is good for P&R and can score by driving for layups, but he can't give you jumpshot credibility as the P&R ballhandler. He's also most effective when getting ISO'd in the post and working for his post hook. With the latter, D12 on the court means that D12's man has pretty wide latitude to double Magic.

Yep, I have definitely copped a lot of double teaming on Magic lately. And the outlet to Dwight is far from ideal. Do you think it'd be better to swap Dwight in for Blake, and then move KAT to the bench 5? More than happy to have Dwight back in on my starting lineup!

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[K_Aug]

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Well Elgin didn't last long as my starting SG lol. First ever PD locker code I was able to win. Oh and DWade can wear nikes or jays so you can boost his 3 ball to an 86 or 89. I hope they fix the cold zones at the top of the arc though.

[harryl]

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Nice little upgrade at SG. Hopefully they update him lol. I'm just happy I finally won one.

I didn't try for Love but the time window for this Wade worked out well for me. Had Tweetdeck open with a burner account following only the few relevant 2K accounts, and nothing else. Only the "Home" column for that account. And had my phone emulator open to the app's entry screen, next to the Tweetdeck window.

This PD Wade isn't a cream-of-the-crop elite card anyway. No HoF badges, 80 Open 3, and 65 Strength are all "disappointments." I'm not even sure he makes my lineup, given all the wings that one has to choose from.

I'm excited to finally use all the Way of Wade Li-Nings I have lying around.

Yep, I have definitely copped a lot of double teaming on Magic lately. And the outlet to Dwight is far from ideal. Do you think it'd be better to swap Dwight in for Blake, and then move KAT to the bench 5? More than happy to have Dwight back in on my starting lineup!

I don't really know what the "right" answer is, if any. But I guess, if your selection of players is the 10-deep selection you show, what I would try is:

• Swap Magic into the starting lineup in place of GP, because your starting 2-5 can all shoot (Blake is viable from 3, but is high level from mid.)
  
• Swap D12 for Gasol in your starting lineup.

[848]

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I got the Dwade code! I finally got a code!!! Wow that was exciting. My only diamond players are Tony Parker and Paul Pierce, so this will be a great addition to my lineup!

[jballaz]

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Well Elgin didn't last long as my starting SG lol. First ever PD locker code I was able to win. Oh and DWade can wear nikes or jays so you can boost his 3 ball to an 86 or 89. I hope they fix the cold zones at the top of the arc though.

Sick pickup. I'm fully jelly. I woulda tried for this one if I wasnt in a meeting

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[Bubba13laze]

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Yes, Harden has already been dropped off the lineup!

I've moved Butler to bench SG and put Amy Connie Hawkins (with a Diamond shoe as kindly suggested by Grimace) in the SF position.

That said, as I have a bit more MT these days... I'm thinking of filling up the rest of the lineup with 3 backups at 11, 12 and 13 instead of the 3 bronze cards I have there now. I will probably fill it out with Amy Harden, Amy MJ and Amy Yao. Dirk also probably deserves a look into making the last 3 spots [emoji14]

How are you finding your team Bubba, and what options are you considering?

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That's great. How do you like Connie? I haven't tried him.

I like my team I am very happy with a lot of my pieces. I run a variety of lineup combos and basically go 12 deep. The only player that doesn't see floor time is D Rob, he is basically there in case one of my bigs gets in foul trouble which is never.

I run:

Payton / Vince / Pierce / KG / Shaq
Oscar / MJ / Pippen / Malone / Dikembe

Also stuff like:

Payton / Iverson / Vince / KG / Shaq
Oscar / MJ / Pippen / Artest / Shaq
Payton / MJ / Pippen / Artest / Dikembe
Payton / MJ / Pippen / KG / Dikembe

Ideally I want to upgrade my KG for a prime version. Same thing with my Iverson. A Lakers Shaq would be dope but not necessary. I also really want USA Malone but that will probably be too expensive. Lastly the idea of replacing Pierce with a prime LeBron intrigues me.

I don't know what else. I guess we'll have to see what cards drop. If Demar gets a juiced up playoff moments card he will probably crack my rotation too.

[jballaz]

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Great options you have at your disposal. Not much left to work on except upgrades!

I only got two games in last night, but Connie was silky smooth. I picked up one semi-badged with Silver catch&shoot and silver Corner specialist for 17.5k

He felt great on D even though his stats wouldn't suggest it. He is agile for a big-ish dude when getting to the rim, and when he does he posterises hard. Even got a couple of open corner 3s with him on my first few attempts, the release is very easy. The only thing I neglected to try was his mid-range and post game, which I'm hoping pretty decent!

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[K_Aug]

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I just looked over his stats and they did DWade dirty with the 46 block. The 3 ball I'm not too worried about anymore since you can put a shoe on him but he deserves a better block. They gave TMac an 81 block for his 2000 season. DWade deserves at least a 65 if these are the stats reflected from his 2011 season.

[P234thetruth]

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What's yall secret? Damn it looks like a bunch of people were able to snag him. I tried but messed up I put the code without slashes, got 2 invalid code messages, by the time I tried with slashes I was late. I didn't know know it was going to start with dwade-whatever meh prob won't try ever again. Lol