How's Your Association Going? (2K11)

[Lyko]

Re: How's Your Association Going? (2K11)

Just started a wizards association last week. I simulated this season and went right to the draft. I traded for the wizards actual picks and drafted according to some mock drafts I read. I drafted Jonas valacanuvis (spelling) then went with Tobias Harris and finished the draft with Corey Joseph. A great draft. I didn't sign any free agents because I dont see many free agents going there this year. John wall is putting up MVP type numbers. Harris is coming off the bench and top 7 in rookie scoring. McGee is getting 3-4 blocks a game and blatche is heating up. We are 7-2 going into our 10th game. I am scouting a perry jones and Jared sullinger for next years draft. Truly the funnest team I have played with in 2k.

[TheMan16]

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Orlando Magics

Year 1
Goal: Get rid of contracts that extend past 2011-2012
-Traded Gilbert Arenas to Indiana for Jeff Foster and TJ Ford
-Traded Hedo Turkgolo and Daniel Orton to Dallas for Caron Butler
-Traded Jameer Nelson and Jason Richardson to PHILA for Elton Brand and Jrue Holiday
Finished Regular season 51-31
Eliminated by the Knicks in 6 games

Off-Season: Resigned Caron Butler to a 1 year contract
Drafted a Powerforward

Year 2
Goal: Extend Dwight Howard's contract
-I extended his contract in February for 6 more years
Finished Regular season 40-42 *did not make the playoffs*
Side Note: J.J. Redick had a great season averaging 13ppg

Off-Season
-Let Jrue Holiday, and everyone else walk into free agency
-had 32 million cap space
-Offered Chris Paul a 5yr/100 million offer
-NOH matched my deal and offered him a 6yr/126 million offer
-Signed Russel Westbrook for 6 yrs
-Signed Jrue Holdiay to a 4yr/44mill
-used the rest of my 8mil to sign Caron Butler
-Used my MLE on veterans
Sidenote: I made Russel Westbrook a Shooting Guard
Year 3
Goal: Compete for a championship
Released Rudy Fernandez because he was complaining (his contract was over in a year i did not care).
Finished the season 44-38 (huge disappointment)
Playoffs: Beat Toronto in 5 games, got swept by Chicago


Off Season
-I did not resign any players
-Had enough money to buy Andre Iguodola or Josh Smith
-offered them both 15 million SAS offered Iggy a better deal.
-Josh Smith came to Orlando
Side Note: I changed Josh Smith position to a Small Forward

Year 4
Goal: Win a Championship
Finished the season 58-24 (best in the NBA)
Playoffs: Swept the 76ers, Beat the knicks in 7, beat the bulls in 5, Lost to Memphis in 5.


My Team's Fantastic Four are
PG: Jrue Holiday (86)
SG: Russell Westbrook (92)
SF: Josh Smith (86)
C: Dwight Howard (96)

my powerforward is a 3 year pro and is a 76 overall

[Jdoug312]

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[quote=cgalligan;2042483888]Thats a solid team. Your guys will progress nicely.

You might wanna try to grab a solid veteran player like Jason Terry, Jason Kidd, or someone like that to come off your bench and give your young guys some veteran leadership haha.[/quote]


Does this really effect anything?

[miguelvelasco41]

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Argh! Got the dreaded intra squad scrimmage glitch and my association was ruined as there was no late game fouling. so i just updated to the last patch. (really wished i done that earlier)

anyway, gonna start a new season again. Gonna be rolling the Warriors.

[l3ulvl]

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Oh and one more thing, lol just curious why do some of ya only play like 8 min quarters or even 10, or only play 29 game seasons or 54, whatever is the next one up from 29, just curious, I wouldnt have much fun only playing like 5-8 min qtrs, the stats wouldnt seem that fun lol, thats just me

I play 10 minute quarters but wish I could lower it. Takes me too long to play a game and I get distracted mid game and don't end up finishing til hours later. I do play with game speed 55 so it's almost accurate stats. I also don't change the rosters lol, just do a regular season with the real life rosters and play all 82, plus playoffs. I'm only at the 47 game mark so far, there's too many damn sports games that I try to play the full season and it's tough to play them all before the next version comes out.

[J-Clutch1]

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I'm back to Association after spending most of my team with online leagues and My Player!

I decided to sim the first season and keep it at the offseason. I'm waiting on the draft, and will try to give everyone their respective players.

By the way, I chose the Nets.

[TomZeWolf]

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Keep us updated man. The Nets managed to get a post season berth last season in my game but lost out to the Bulls in 6

PG - Williams/Farmar
SG - Burks/Vujacic
SF - Kirilenko/James
PF - Humphries/Faried
C - Lopez/Ben Wallace

That is what I can remember of the current rotation, a quality SF would probably get them over the barrier in my association.

[vstro]

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I'm back to Association after spending most of my team with online leagues and My Player!

I decided to sim the first season and keep it at the offseason. I'm waiting on the draft, and will try to give everyone their respective players.

By the way, I chose the Nets.

I've been planning on doing the same with the cavs, only a few more days to wait!

[J-Clutch1]

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Keep us updated man. The Nets managed to get a post season berth last season in my game but lost out to the Bulls in 6

PG - Williams/Farmar
SG - Burks/Vujacic
SF - Kirilenko/James
PF - Humphries/Faried
C - Lopez/Ben Wallace

That is what I can remember of the current rotation, a quality SF would probably get them over the barrier in my association.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to be active with it.

[Boomboomwoot]

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So I decided to finally do an association with my hometown Hornets!!

I was going to try to keep it as close to realistic as I could but it just wasn't happening.. None of the players wanted to re-sign with me after the first season and everyone wanted to test free agency so I just said screw it and built my team as best I could..

During the off-season I assembled an amazing team.

I was able to trade 2 1st round draft picks (1 and 8) for Kevin Love because he was upset in Minnesota for some reason.

I was also able to trade Okafor, West, Nolan Smith, and a 2nd rounder for Wesley Matthews and Greg Oden. (Then they cut Nolan Smith for some reason)

I picked up Mbah a moute in free agency because I wanted his defense along with Ariza.

My current line-up is

PG: Paul/Jack
SG: Matthews/Bellinelli/Willie Green
SF: Ariza/Mbah a Moute/Pondexter
PF: Love/Landry
C: Oden/Aaron Gray/Jeff Foster

D-league: Nolan Smith

It's looking like Chris Paul isn't going to want to re-sign with me next year so I'm hoping I have enough talent on this team to run without him. I'm loving the defense though.

[AllStarDaDon]

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I just had a heart breaking loss in my first game of the second season of my Wolves association. I was facing the Lakers, who surprisingly had Sebastin Telfair as there starting PG. Funny cause he choose to leave my team because he was upset, now he's starting PG in the Lake Show. That's why I hate simming the first season, I always forget about keeping players happy.

But back to the game. The game started off a little slow, but picked up late in the 1st quarter. Kobe got on his game, K-Love and Beasly was off for me. So Kyle Korver handled the scoring load, killing them off screens. Enes Canter picked up his game and started drawing fouls. Kobe was killing me in the 2nd half, so I brung Battier off the bench cause Wesley Johnson wasn't doing a good job on Kobe. Battier did a better job, but Kobe was on. I disrupted him a little bit, by bringing in double teams. Fast forward to the end its tied up right and Sebastin Telfair takes the shot for LA to take the lead. I was sort of pissed off because I wanted to see Kobe taking the shot for the lead, to see can I succesfully defend him 1 on 1. Now there's 2 seconds left for me to shoot to tie or shoot to win. Seeing that Korver was on fire, I tried giving the ball to him on top of the arc. Ron Artest slaps the ball out Korver's hand, the ball fumbled on the floor till the the game clock expired.

I wasn't mad at all, it was my mistake to put the ball in Korver's hand at the top of the arc with 2 seconds left. Good game, defense was tight I loved it. The only changes I made to the Wolves is I signed Rubio, drafted Enes Kanter, traded away an unhappy Johnny Flynn for Kyle Korver, also I got rid of Martell Webster some how.

[XtremeDunkz]

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I'm in my 3rd year with the Sixers. The first season we made the playoff as the 8th seed and got swept by the Heat in the first round. There was just no way to improve the team as constructed with the fat contracts several players had, so I spent the off-season and the whole 2nd season trying to find ways to free cap space and obtain draft picks. I really love the way my roster has turned out so far. We are playing poorly still in year 3 but all of my players will only get better.

PG

Jrue Holiday 82
Lou Williams 75
Kirk Heinrich 70

SG

Evan Turner 80
Xavi Rabesada 72
Jodie Meeks 65

SF

Michael Gilchrist 78
Jefferey Taylor 73

PF

Jared Sullinger 78
CJ Leslie 69
Donte Green 62

C

Fabricio Melo 72
Jermaine Oneal 72

Everyone on the team is happy except for Meeks and Heinrich but they are not in my long term plans anyway. I am using the time up until the trade deadline to decide if i want to continue to develop this group of players of maybe put a package together for a superstar.

[mr.662]

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About to start my first chise and im running with the Cavs. Im gonna sim year 1 and hopefully land the number one pick

[cgalligan]

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[QUOTE=Jdoug312;2042507589]

Thats a solid team. Your guys will progress nicely.

You might wanna try to grab a solid veteran player like Jason Terry, Jason Kidd, or someone like that to come off your bench and give your young guys some veteran leadership haha.[/quote]


Does this really effect anything?

I'm not sure how much veterans affect the game, but, I just know in the real NBA teams full of 20 somethings will never be able to win it all. Perfect example, OKC Thunder. They have amazing young talent and their time will come, but, they didn't have enough veterans to pull them through the tough times in the playoffs.

Check out my association in my sig. I picked up, Billups, Ariza, Oden in a deadline deal to help give me some veteran leadership off the bench. Oden is young, so mainly just Billups and Ariza but they compliment Kyrie Irving and Harrison Barnes very nicely

[mr.662]

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Just beat the Nets in my season opener of the 11-12 season 109-95. J.J Hickson led the way with 32 pts 13 reb and 2 stl. Number 1 overall pick Kyrie irving chipped in 18 pts and 9 dimes in his pro debut. My other rookie big man Enes Kanter came off the bench and dropped 19 pts and 9 boards. next up is a road game @ Boston.