How's Your Association Going? (2K11)

[Shield]

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

I created an association with TOR to see how difficult it was. It took me over 2 weeks and played 7 years into the association and didn't make the playoffs once. I'll break it down as simply as possible.

[2010 went 25-57 record,15th seed] traded Barbosa,Evans[both whining about PT] to LAC for Foye & '11 1st round. Weems,Andersen,Wright,Banks,Dorsey tested FA and all signed elsewhere. Got #2[PG,77rtg] & #5[SF,72rtg] pick in draft. signed Tyson Chandler & Josh Howard.

[2011 went 28-54,15th seed] traded Calderon[made my #2 pick my starting PG] to SAC. Lineup was #2 pick M.Lee[won ROY award], Derozan,J.Howard,Amir Johnson,Bargs. Had #3 pick[SG,76rtg]. Signed Dragic[2yr,7.98mil]

[2012 went 31-51,14th seed] Traded Jack[no PT with Dragic backup my Star PG from 2011] & Ty.Chandler for 2nd rounders.
PG-M.Lee[82rtg]/Dragic
SG-Derozan/G.Cowen[76rtg]
SF-D.Little[77rtg]/G.Bryan[69rtg]
PF-Amir/Ed Davis
C-Bargs/L.Jinks[68rtg]
signed Casspi & Jrue Holiday in offseason,had 3 2nd round picks

[2013 went 35-47,11th seed] trade Dragic[upset with PT], #5 pick N.Avant[SG,76rtg], Ed Davis tested FA, signed Varejao, E.Udoh,Trevor Booker

[2014 went 33-49,13th seed] made no trades. Offseason BOS traded me Perkins for my #4 pick. Signed Kevin Durant[5yr/105mil][don't know why he'd sign w/me] and La.Aldridge.

[2015 went 42-40,9th seed] I had an team of 83 overall and just missed playoffs by 1 game. Signed Javale Mcgee

2016 went 35-47,13th seed and that's all she wrote. Deleted and moved on to a different one. so tough. i tried to keep the original TOR roster in tact but eventually most were upset at PT or didn't want to re-sign and were super-ceded by younger talent. Derozan was the only guy who stayed til the end.

[richyung62]

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Bulls Assoc.

Just to let you guys know ahead of time, I don't play according to real life, well sort of, lol. I make transactions according to checking players morale andyhe rumormill etc.. It makes the game more fun IMO.

Traded:
Luol Deng, CJ Watson & (2) 1st rounders

For
Josh Smith & Mike Bibby

(wouldn't happen IRL, the original trade was suppose to be for J-Smoove but Bibby wasnt happy so I snatched him up)

Thought about making a 3 te trade with Indy but wanted to try playing with J-Smoove, and he is a BEAST!!!

Also want to trade for Landry Fields & Ronny Turiaf, update coming soon.

[Rocboyz101]

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I just started a Bulls Assoc. Simmed season one, made it to the conference championship after beating Miami 4-2(Simmed the series until the decisive Game 6)

Simmed the ECC, lost to the Celtics

Drafted some bust. And in free agency I picked up Gee. Hes the guy off the bench behind Ronnie Brewer.

Nice. He starts at sg for my phoenix squad since I traded jrich and a pick for jason thompson. Averages about 17 a game for me.

[Noles4ever]

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Minnesota Timberwolves l [Control 30 Teams] Association

Record l 3-9

Scores l

10/27 l vs Kings [L 127-90]
10/29 l vs Bucks [L 120-107]
10/30 l @ Grizzlies [L 112-82]
11/02 l @ Heat [L 111-90]
11/03 l @ Magic [L 118-96]
11/05 l vs Hawks [L 117-108]
11/07 l @ Rockets [W 116-105]
11/09 l @ Lakers [L 130-100]
11/10 l @ Kings [W 97-93]
11/12 l vs Knicks [L 122-89]
11/14 l @ Hawks [W 118-112]
11/15 l @ Bobcats [L 104-100]

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Starting 5 Stats l

Luke Ridnour l 9.1 PPG l 6.5 APG
Wesley Johnson l 17.8 PPG l 6.1 RPG
Michael Beasley l 21.7 PPG l 7.5 RPG
Kevin Love l 13.9 PPG l 9.7 RPG
Darko Milicic l 4.8 PPG l 6.2 RPG

Bench Stats

Corey Brewer l 8.5 PPG l 3.5 RPG
Wayne Ellington l 5.5 PPG l .370 3PT %
Martell Webster l 5.2 PPG l 1.8 RPG
Sebastian Telfair l 4.7 PPG l 3.3 APG
Kosta Koufos l 3.3 PPG l 4.1 RPG

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Overall Recap l

As you can see we play no defense, I am loving the development of Michael Beasley & Wesley Johnson through 12 games, Johnson has future all-star written all over him and Beasley has been a points machine. Kevin Love has been up and down all year seems when you get him going early he is likely going to have a good game. I am excited to see the offense develop with Flynn running it because I am struggling with Luke running the show.

* I have anyone that is injuried on the bench

[hammittheels]

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Just got back into my Hawks assocation after a few weeks off after I saw the patch was out. Currently 7-1 after dominating the Magic. Was up by as much as 26 and ended up winning by 14 after putting the end of the bench in. Joe Johnson is unstoppable goingto the basket but I cant hit a jump shot at all with him. Crawford is pretty nice off the bench.

I have no shooters outside of Crawford and maybe Bibby. I hate making trades unless they happen in real life so I am going to try to hold out as long as possible and hope Atlanta makes some trades in real life.

[convince]

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Okay so i started an Association with the Wiz, did a couple trades via trade finder and one trade i did using Trade override*. My lineup is as follows:

PG Wall
SG S. Brown
SF R. Gay
PF B. Griffin*
C J. McGee
6th S. Ibaka
7th B. Rush
8th Willie Warren

Currently I'm 12-8

So after playing a couple games, I realize i was lacking an outside threat in my lineup, so i bit the bullet and traded S. Brown to the Bulls for K. Korver, who IMO is very underrated in real life. So i have Korver starting at SG and the trade really help my team. One thing that i sometimes do is change some player tendencies to fit the playing style i want. And i did it two of my players Blake and Javale McGee. I play too many game where they both would get an offensive rebound and do like a crazy jump shot looking layup when like two feet from the goal. So i increase both of their putback and putback dunk tendency to like 80ish. Problem solved. AS for blake i normally don't mess w/ any player ratings but come 2k Blake block rating was at a 30, so i bump it up to a 60. I think that increase his rating 1, so now he's an 79 or 80. And last but not least his dunk package, they have him with Amare and that's okay but after watching his highlights the last few weeks, he def. needs his own package. IMO is more of a "angry" dunker, and i was going through the packages to see who was closest and landed on Kemp. But before i decided on Kemp went though them one more time and after watching the previews again, there was one in my eyes that fit him best and that was J. Rich. I know you guys will say I'm crazy but after playing like 15 games with him "changed" I think it fits him better much better than Amare. Don't worry he hasn't attempted the between the legs dunk at all and he's not jumping 4 feet over the backboard. I will link a few video i uploaded to see what you guys think.
But back to my Assoc. I have a game against the Champs tonight. So what do you guys think about my lineup? I know it unrealistic but i did not totally railroad any team except the Clips
1. 3 team trade WSH-Blake--SAC--Hinrinch and LAC---J.Thompson
2. 3 team trade
PHI--(2)1st rounders{WSH/CHA} and Diop/Carroll and Extra
guy for Salary(at least two expiring slaries)
CHA--G. Arenas
WSH--Iggy--who i traded a few games later for Rudy Gay.
As for other notables YI and N. Young, i traded to IND for Rush and some picks. Trying to recoup what i lost. Plus i figured Indy had Troy Murphy at one time an YI is a similar player so he fills a need.

Since the patch, I'm actually having more fun playing the game than before.

[matthewj]

So I was bored and wanted to start a Pistons association.
I went and grabbed Eric Bledsoe before the season for Bynum and a couple firsts. Then I traded Maxiell to Minny for Darko(im a fan lol) and Telfair.

I simulated to around midseason to figure out what I wanted to do with the team and decided I hate it so I traded all the big contracts away for cap space. The only odd trade I had was Philly offered me Turner for Stuckey and a 2nd. For some reason he was really unhappy there and im not sure why he was getting 33 min a game and started all his games. But whatever what they don't want I do. The future of the team lies in Bledsoe and Turner. I'm contemplating a Prince and a 1st for Maggette and L. Sanders right now. I've always been a big 2k Maggette fan he seems to just score points. Im unsure if ill go through with that as it will eat 10 mil of my cap that ill need to save for the long run or a run at Melo. Having three rookies means long term financial planning though. Right now the team is very bad so they will probably be a lottery team by seasons end. Im going to play the rest of the season to see if what I've built has a glimmer of potential or I went too overboard and may want to rethink some decisions.

[LionsFanNJ]

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So because i want the draft classes to have the patch fixes, and the nets to have black shoes on the road, I've decided to start my Association over.

So first things first i just threw it out there Devin /Favors/ both firsts this and next year for CP3....and they took it. Though thinking about it we got crushed, but they wouldn't accept it otherwise, and I'm sure i can get a pick somewhere else. So now my starting five is as follows:

CP3
Morrow
Outlaw
Murphy
Lopez

I'm looking to dump Murphy for a scorer and some backup bigs and weighing my options. Nothing in the trade finder looks promising though so I'll have to search some out manually.

[jeremym480]

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After not playing the game for almost a month I decided to start my Association over. This time I chose the Suns.

My lineup looks like this:

PG- Nash/ Dragic
SG- Richardson/ Childress
SF- Turkoglu/ Dudley/ Clark
PF- Hill/ Frye/ Lawal
C- Lopez/ Warrick

I'm really in love with this team. Sure they're not the best out there but, they're a nice mixture of vets and young blood. The basketball IQ in the starting line up with Nash, Turk and Hill is pretty hard to beat, as well. I'd love to get all of those guys a ring.

Since I haven't played in awhile I decided to start with playing on Pro/Default

Game One against Portland- I won 84-77. Richardson was the played of the game with 28 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal.

Game two versus Utah- I won 106-84. Richardson again was the player of the game with 21 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and two steals.

After the whipping I gave Utah I guess I need to start looking at sliders again. I may just move up to Pro/Sim for the next few games and see how that goes.

As far as my team, I normally only make one trade per season. I'd like to get a backup SG so Childress could play his more natural position. Dudley may end up being the odd man out so, I'll probably look to move him or Grant Hill since he's likely to retire. I'm going to wait until mid-season to see how everything shakes out though.

[SB119]

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Minnesota Timberwolves l [Control 30 Teams] Association

Record l 3-9

Scores l

10/27 l vs Kings [L 127-90]
10/29 l vs Bucks [L 120-107]
10/30 l @ Grizzlies [L 112-82]
11/02 l @ Heat [L 111-90]
11/03 l @ Magic [L 118-96]
11/05 l vs Hawks [L 117-108]
11/07 l @ Rockets [W 116-105]
11/09 l @ Lakers [L 130-100]
11/10 l @ Kings [W 97-93]
11/12 l vs Knicks [L 122-89]
11/14 l @ Hawks [W 118-112]
11/15 l @ Bobcats [L 104-100]

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Starting 5 Stats l

Luke Ridnour l 9.1 PPG l 6.5 APG
Wesley Johnson l 17.8 PPG l 6.1 RPG
Michael Beasley l 21.7 PPG l 7.5 RPG
Kevin Love l 13.9 PPG l 9.7 RPG
Darko Milicic l 4.8 PPG l 6.2 RPG

Bench Stats

Corey Brewer l 8.5 PPG l 3.5 RPG
Wayne Ellington l 5.5 PPG l .370 3PT %
Martell Webster l 5.2 PPG l 1.8 RPG
Sebastian Telfair l 4.7 PPG l 3.3 APG
Kosta Koufos l 3.3 PPG l 4.1 RPG

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Overall Recap l

As you can see we play no defense, I am loving the development of Michael Beasley & Wesley Johnson through 12 games, Johnson has future all-star written all over him and Beasley has been a points machine. Kevin Love has been up and down all year seems when you get him going early he is likely going to have a good game. I am excited to see the offense develop with Flynn running it because I am struggling with Luke running the show.

* I have anyone that is injuried on the bench

What did you do with Jonny Flynn? Also, what difficulty are you using? I'm playing with the Timberwolves also, but I have won every single game since I'm on rookie.

I just can't lose, lol

[bobeureally27]

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What did you do with Jonny Flynn? Also, what difficulty are you using? I'm playing with the Timberwolves also, but I have won every single game since I'm on rookie.

I just can't lose, lol

Here's a thought: Up the difficulty! However, for some reason, it seems you are saying you won't play through a game unless you win.

[SB119]

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Here's a thought: Up the difficulty! However, for some reason, it seems you are saying you won't play through a game unless you win.

Yeah, that was what I was saying. It sounds stupid. I'll up it to Pro and go on from there.

[J-Clutch1]

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

So because i want the draft classes to have the patch fixes, and the nets to have black shoes on the road, I've decided to start my Association over.

So first things first i just threw it out there Devin /Favors/ both firsts this and next year for CP3....and they took it. Though thinking about it we got crushed, but they wouldn't accept it otherwise, and I'm sure i can get a pick somewhere else. So now my starting five is as follows:

CP3
Morrow
Outlaw
Murphy
Lopez

I'm looking to dump Murphy for a scorer and some backup bigs and weighing my options. Nothing in the trade finder looks promising though so I'll have to search some out manually.

Nice trade. I was thinking about doing that, or a Melo trade, but I wanted to have a team with no current stars.

I read that Mayo IRL is getting less and less minutes and an uncertain role, so I traded Murphy and Ross and 2 picks for him and Thabeet. I simmed my first season, and I got the 1st pick in the draft.

So in 2011, my rotation is

Harris/Farmar
Mayo/Morrow
Barnes/T.Williams/James(spot minutes)
Favors/Humphries
Lopez/Hollins/Petro

2-0 so far.

[Noles4ever]

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What did you do with Jonny Flynn? Also, what difficulty are you using? I'm playing with the Timberwolves also, but I have won every single game since I'm on rookie.

I just can't lose, lol

I use pro with good sliders, Rookie is to easy. I said in the post that all players that were injuried IRL are placed on the bench till the ETA that they were supposed to come back, I am actually having fun I don't think I should be winning all my games I am the Twolves there bad IRL.

[ajf14]

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Just got back into my Hawks assocation after a few weeks off after I saw the patch was out. Currently 7-1 after dominating the Magic. Was up by as much as 26 and ended up winning by 14 after putting the end of the bench in. Joe Johnson is unstoppable goingto the basket but I cant hit a jump shot at all with him. Crawford is pretty nice off the bench.

I have no shooters outside of Crawford and maybe Bibby. I hate making trades unless they happen in real life so I am going to try to hold out as long as possible and hope Atlanta makes some trades in real life.

thats weird, i can hit most anything with johnson. i guess just practice w/ him more, because if you get his shot down, he's automatic from just about anywhere.