Post by Lazy Pete on Dec 30, 2015 16:58:14 GMT -6
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Who do you consider the best GM of 2015? Who is the worst?
Best is obviously Soup. 6 titles in a 10 year span is unheard of. It's something we've never seen before and probably will never see again. Once he moved the team to OKC and hired coach Geeby Galla there was no turning back.
Worst is jw. He has had an incredible amount of talent go through Indiana only to be trade because they aren't very good (Bossert). And, as much as I love the dude, I think trofie is right there with him. Come on man, you draft like you can see the draft file and trade them all away. Why? resign a dude occasionally. There was no reason for Blair to have ever been made. I mean, he's the only elite big Soup has made. Be a little bit more patient. Constructive criticism bro.
Best – 20s. Has been consistently great and has been pretty active working deals.
Worst – RW. There are a lot of worthy candidates, but RW takes the prize for ruining Isiah Thomas’s career. Fuck you, RW.
Best: Heebs
Heebs has been a model of consistency and the only reason he doesn’t have a ring or two is bad luck, which I am all too familiar with considering all of 2.0.
Worst: victor/dump/bankz
Bankz tank is embarrassing, victor is finally putting it together kinda but has had bad luck with savage and gay. Dump hasn’t done anything in a while
Best - I'll go gbg because of the run he had. Do I think he's the best? No but it's hard to go against titles
Worst - I'll go with bankz. For the same/opposite reason as gbg. Do I think he is the worst gm? No . But his team's have been awful. Ayyoe doesn't get as much heat as he should .
If we are going solely on success then that GM has to be GBG. Sure he had some help, but having that many titles and a few other contending teams is nearly impossible in this league. Other than him, I would go Fason. He’s shown he has a good grasp on the concept of the league and has built some really good teams, and makes really great moves.
Worst GM probably goes to those that don’t even try, or seldom try to improve. RW, RV, Vedder fit in to this category.
For me, Soup runs away with best GM even though he only GMd a team until mid-March. Not only did he win a title without Thompson/Kenon, he also laid the foundation and provided enough advice to create the greatest dynasty in league history. Honorable mentions to Dil, Fason, Dirt and Heebs.
Worst is Bankz. Unending tanks, terrible draft picks, awful trades, ugly contracts. Bankz’ 2015 run has been bad from top to bottom. The Khalid Reeves trade (more on that later) set up the Thunder to dominate the league for half the calendar year. Honorable mentions to Victor (much love), Eric (getting better), Harry G (fuck that guy).
gbg i suppose. you don't often seen a noob rape a vet. props to him to getting that team together and have the only elite pg for the better part of a decade
Gotta be GBG. Yes, he was handed the Super Twin. Yes, he was coached into the Shareef deal. But other new GMs have been handed great teams with terrible results.
Eric joined Jan 2nd of 2015, so I’ll say him for all he contributes
I really like all the newcomers. I don't think gbg is technically a newbie. I'll go with Shaun. I know how he got his nickname after dealing with him. He's just so sweet. Eric is also good but his trade offers want me to fag bash him outside his drag shows. Taco is also a great add. Really like that guy.
I think I answered this a bit above, but I think it’s been GBG. His success has been unmatched in sim league history. This has been a great year for additions to the league though.
There’s been a strong field of newcomers this year. Geebs is far and away the most successful of the new crop (and most successful period), and embraced his role as a peacocking villain perfectly.
As far as day to day life of the league, Eric takes the crown here. He has put in countless hours to figure out the various quirks of the software and his influence is clear when you look at how people use Skills camps and set their depth charts now. He’s also a huge oddball who is great in shout.
Soup is still commish. I really thought he'd miss GMing pretty quickly and pass it off to someone else.
Probably Ian quitting TMBSL. He sort of lived in shout and I’m not sure he knows anyone in real life, so I was shocked to see him give up his social circle cold turkey. I’d still like to know what was behind that. As he’s gotten more active on TMB and not shown any interest in returning to TMBSL, I am beginning to believe it’s because he realized he was a mediocre GM and was wasting his time.
Biggest surprise to me is heebs not having a ring, or maybe ian leaving the way he did
The league in general. I didn't think it would last this long , but soup has done a great job and I'm glad it's still going.
My biggest sim surprise are that neither the Nets nor Suns have a title in 2015. I would have lost a shit ton of money in Vegas betting on that. Both have been very close several times.
Ian Boyd leaving the league and staying gone was pretty shocking. I knew he was kind of pissed and wasn’t putting as much effort into his team as usual, but I figured he might step away for a month or two and then come back.
Luckiest would probably be gbg for all obvious reason.
Unluckiest probably bankz. Anyone decent he drafts wants to leave him. That team would be crazy good with Arizin still there.
Ankly and Canesfan tie for luckiest GMs of 2015. Ankly had some outstanding FA luck signing Stackhouse and JO. Cansfan had a few number one picks in a row, plus he had Bankz/Fason negotiate a trade for him that netted him an elite PG.
Unluckiest - Buster. So sorry for your year in 2015, Buster. Losing the amount of talent you lost to FA stings, but you've dealt with it like a man, which I applaud. You're a better man that I.
GBG is the luckiest, victor is unluckiest
Luckiest would be gbg. Guy gets so many good players via the draft at the ass end of the first round.
Unluckiest would be vic. Lost an elite player and collier accepted his free agency offer
GBG would probably get my vote for luckiest. He had the best team, but for a long time no one would step up to challenge him and teams seemed content to sit back and let him win every year. Finally the Clippers finally did something about it and showed that it was possible to beat him. GBG had some help early on with moves, but it seemed like every moved he made had a great return for him.
Unluckiest as far as free agents would have to be Buster. That poor bastard lost two superstars while bidding a lot more money. As far as everything else, I go Ank. There’s no way to explain how he hasn’t won a title by now except that I just keep re-simming until he loses.
Luckiest: Harry Fucking G. After inheriting a team with a superstar in the making in Bossert, this son of a bitch wins the KD sweepstakes the following year, then signs Khalid Reeves away from the two-time champion Rockets in FA. All the while, he puts no points into his players and they still turned into a 60 win team. Fuck that guy.
Unluckiest: Lots of great options to choose from. Ank and Bruns both were snakebit in Game 7s, while Victor got burned a couple times in FA. But the obvious pick to me is Buster, whose bad luck in 2014 continued into this past year. He built two separate 60 win cores but still has yet to make a finals appearance. Even worse, his most recent squad got torn apart by shocking FA departures in back to back seasons. Hopefully the Arizin signing is the first of a wave of good karma heading that way.
Worst trade was Pacers sending picks that would become 1.1 and 1.2 in the following draft, plus a couple other decent thing, for Rolando Blackman. There could be worse a decade ago but that's the one that stands out to me. Bankz' search for a 35 year old star pg was also pretty bad. I've made several bad moves myself but none particularly huge imo. The trade that sent Shareef to OKC was up there.
As for the best trades, they're the same as the worst trades but from a different perspective.
Best – Best deal in terms of the deal making the most sense for both teams was the Tobi-JO deal between the Nets and Lakers. The Nets were up against some cap issues and the Lakers needed another All Star to go with Zinger.
Worst – There are so many to choose from. The Bossert deal, the Shareef deal, the Reeves for JO and picks deal – but I’m going to give the worst deal to Ian giving up Redd, Duhon, and all his picks for Oden. Oden is a good player, but that was the move where I think he realized he’s just not very good at this. Runner up is Yawn selling a lotto pick for dump bucks.
Best: KG to the Nets for 2 firsts and salary
Worst: Khalid Reeves trade or Stephenson to the Kings or Okafor to the Bulls
Best - easily the kg deal. Which upsets me
Worst - the kg deal on shauns end. Too early
There’s been a lot of good trades, but I think the most impactful one is when the Thunder traded for Reef. That was the Thunder’s missing piece that started the run of a dynasty.
There’s been a lot of bad trades, and I’m not sure this is technically the worst but when Canes turned down a resigning of Karl Anthony Towns, to only trade 2 firsts to get him back after FA on a slightly lower contract with the Bulls has got to be one of the biggest retard moves I’ve ever seen.
The best trade for team success is hands down the Shareef to OKC trade. But I prefer to pick the trade most beneficial to both parties. Under that criteria, my pick is the Kings-Bobcats trade that sent Myles Turner to Memphis for picks that became Larry Johnson, Matthew Lockhart and Brandon Knight. Memphis’ second run with Turner led to two Finals appearances, while the Kings reaped the first two picks in a talented draft class and set themselves up for what should be a long run of success.
Worst trade is the easiest question in this RT. Bankz traded 23 year old Jermaine ONeal and a future lotto pick for Khalid Reeves, who was 35 years old, washed up, and retired after that season. I’ll give Bankz a little credit in that this trade didn’t seem this bad when it first happened, but when you consider that it spawned over 4 IRL months of Thunder dominance, it is the worst trade of the year.
Probably the Odin/RW/2poor/Kobe thing. And I'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids. Possibly my "me or eric" ultimatum but it was pretty apparent with that one that i'd calm down from whatever had pissed me off and back out of that.
GBG's Thunder dynasty. It was the biggest story by far of 2015, and it only happened after the commish coached him to make Aaron PG eligible and trade for Shareef. The elephant in the room is obviously Terrell Brandon turning into an MVP candidate the off-season Bankz loses Arizin, quits, and then is talked into coming back.
Odin trying to scumbag RW perhaps
Benghazi. How you liberal cunts let your politicians get away with murder disgusts me.
In Ank’s mind it’s the 3016 sim finals where rumors (mostly started by him) swirled that the fix was in. Commissioner Soup was unavailable for comment.
I think with all of Eric’s breaking down of the software it has become a pretty big controversy of whether to trust his findings as gospel or to trust what has work in years past. I think it has developed a nice little ridge in the league.
Soup serving as GM/Commish during his title season might’ve been a bigger deal if that wasn’t the only option at the time, but if there were more options Soup never would’ve taken over that role. So I’ll go with the Kobe trade that killed conditional draft pick trading.
Thunder or no, the 3011 Rockets were the best team of 2015
'20 Thunder is the best title team. It's a toss up between that squad and the '19 squad. Both had prime verions of Shareef and Aaron, and both had a tremendous supporting cast. If this question had been asked three weeks from now - the answer would be the 3026 Kings though. That squad is scary good.
Best non-Thunder title team is definitely the 3015 Sixers. The core Fason put together coming out of that tank was impressive.
Pick from the Thunder teams, I’m a big fan of the Blazers title team outside of the thunder
Thunder
Best non thunder team? I'm going with pistol. Was his team the best? Probably not . But we shared a homosexual connection by the giant bean in Chicago that can't be denied after he won that title. Sorry bud can't keep it a secret anymore. (ed. note: I’m pregnant and it’s yours)
Stay tuned to the tournament of Champions. It will cover the run of my tenure as commish. I’m hoping my 3014 team will have a good showing, however those Thunder teams were so dominating.
3020 Thunder were absolutely stacked. Harrison and Shareef at their apex, Vlade as an elite defensive big, Q Rich and Justin Anderson as efficient 3rd and 4th scorers, and good depth.
Best non-Thunder team was the 3015 Sixers. Conley was a stud, Barkley was still in his prime, Admiral was 1st team all-league, and he had former greats like Moses and Dantley coming off the bench and contributing big minutes. Very balanced team, and the only one to defeat Aaron Harrison in a sim league finals.
All of my teams
3014 Sixers. Steam rolled the East only to fall to an overperforming Mavs squad.
Ank’s Suns w/Oscar and bossert
I'm partial to the nets and suns teams. Probably the suns. Herbs needs to realize he won't win a title without a good pg. Christ figure it out. For someone who comes off smart , you are one stubborn mug.
After seeing eric crunch some numbers, the only answer is those 3016-3018 Suns. They dominated regular seasons only to melt away in the playoffs like their softer than shit GM Ank.
I’m clearly still bitter about the wasted core of Khalid, Bossert and Durant, but the real answer comes down to either of the teams built around Oscar. The Bulls with Oscar, Emeka and JR were legitimately great and probably could’ve kept ruling the east if Bruns didn’t forget to resign Emeka.
The Phoenix team built around Oscar and Bossert w/ Payton as a supersub also probably should’ve won one, but thanks to almighty Soup the Raptors shocked the world and put them on this list too.
The pod in which RW argued with himself for 2 hours about nothing. it was incredible.
I don't know if it counts, but I really enjoyed the post-power hour podcast. As far as written articles, I'd go with eric's serial software expose. Not only has it been super helpful and really well written, but it's exposed Ian as having been full of shit.
I’m going to go with the podcasts, even though the first one was in 2014
I like the podcasts. Going with the drunk one. Mainly because I was on it. Need to be the best at something imo.
The power hours are great. Creates a real comradery between the GMs and we get drunk as fuck. Also Ank’s Omegle GM search and the NBA jam profiles were fun and entertaining.
All of the Eric articles are informative, although they’re a little misleading because his opinions on certain things shifted the more he researched. GM voted awards were great, I’m glad they’re back. I was really happy with how my 10 for 10 Vol. 2 article turned out, and the NBA Jam was fun too.
C: Okafor/Catfish/Okafor
PF: Turner/Catfish/Catfish
SF: Champ/Barkley/Turner
SG: Zinger/Bossert/Selvy
PG: Bledsoe/Harrison/Skywalker
C: Emeka
PF: Shareef
SF: Niang
SG: Bossert
PG: Harrison
PG: Harrison
SG: Bossert
SF: Porzingis
PF: Turner
C: Catfish
Pg-Harrison
Sg-porzingas
Sf-Turner
Pf-JO
C-tobi
PG – Aaron Harrison
SG – Kristaps
SF – Reef
PF – Turner
C - Tobi
PG: Aaron Harrison; 6x champion, 5x MVP, all-league as a SG and GOAT as a PG
SG: Gary Bossert; A two-way monster even without the proper development early in life
SF: Stanley Robinson; the centerpiece of the Dilnasty, also almost delivered a title to RV
PF: Shareef Abdur-Rahim; The Pippen to Harrison’s Jordan, and the best defensive player since I’ve been in the league
C: Emeka Okafor; After leading the Grizz to a title, became the perfect 2nd banana to Oscar in Chicago
I will trade my future picks in pointless trades less often. lol yeah right
Less sober podcasts.
Stop bitching about draft grades, it’s the attribute grades that really matter, displayed grades are superficial.
Keep bitching about draft grades, it's the displayed grades that matter, attribute grades are superficial
To keep doing you. It’s part of the fabric of what makes TMBSL so great. That 29+ completely different individuals can have one common interest and make that melting pot work for over 5+ IRL years.
No more newbie trade rapes, because resolutions are meant to be broken.
Worst is jw. He has had an incredible amount of talent go through Indiana only to be trade because they aren't very good (Bossert). And, as much as I love the dude, I think trofie is right there with him. Come on man, you draft like you can see the draft file and trade them all away. Why? resign a dude occasionally. There was no reason for Blair to have ever been made. I mean, he's the only elite big Soup has made. Be a little bit more patient. Constructive criticism bro.
Best – 20s. Has been consistently great and has been pretty active working deals.
Worst – RW. There are a lot of worthy candidates, but RW takes the prize for ruining Isiah Thomas’s career. Fuck you, RW.
Best: Heebs
Heebs has been a model of consistency and the only reason he doesn’t have a ring or two is bad luck, which I am all too familiar with considering all of 2.0.
Worst: victor/dump/bankz
Bankz tank is embarrassing, victor is finally putting it together kinda but has had bad luck with savage and gay. Dump hasn’t done anything in a while
Best - I'll go gbg because of the run he had. Do I think he's the best? No but it's hard to go against titles
Worst - I'll go with bankz. For the same/opposite reason as gbg. Do I think he is the worst gm? No . But his team's have been awful. Ayyoe doesn't get as much heat as he should .
If we are going solely on success then that GM has to be GBG. Sure he had some help, but having that many titles and a few other contending teams is nearly impossible in this league. Other than him, I would go Fason. He’s shown he has a good grasp on the concept of the league and has built some really good teams, and makes really great moves.
Worst GM probably goes to those that don’t even try, or seldom try to improve. RW, RV, Vedder fit in to this category.
For me, Soup runs away with best GM even though he only GMd a team until mid-March. Not only did he win a title without Thompson/Kenon, he also laid the foundation and provided enough advice to create the greatest dynasty in league history. Honorable mentions to Dil, Fason, Dirt and Heebs.
Worst is Bankz. Unending tanks, terrible draft picks, awful trades, ugly contracts. Bankz’ 2015 run has been bad from top to bottom. The Khalid Reeves trade (more on that later) set up the Thunder to dominate the league for half the calendar year. Honorable mentions to Victor (much love), Eric (getting better), Harry G (fuck that guy).
Best newcomer GM of 2015?
gbg i suppose. you don't often seen a noob rape a vet. props to him to getting that team together and have the only elite pg for the better part of a decade
Gotta be GBG. Yes, he was handed the Super Twin. Yes, he was coached into the Shareef deal. But other new GMs have been handed great teams with terrible results.
Eric joined Jan 2nd of 2015, so I’ll say him for all he contributes
I really like all the newcomers. I don't think gbg is technically a newbie. I'll go with Shaun. I know how he got his nickname after dealing with him. He's just so sweet. Eric is also good but his trade offers want me to fag bash him outside his drag shows. Taco is also a great add. Really like that guy.
I think I answered this a bit above, but I think it’s been GBG. His success has been unmatched in sim league history. This has been a great year for additions to the league though.
There’s been a strong field of newcomers this year. Geebs is far and away the most successful of the new crop (and most successful period), and embraced his role as a peacocking villain perfectly.
As far as day to day life of the league, Eric takes the crown here. He has put in countless hours to figure out the various quirks of the software and his influence is clear when you look at how people use Skills camps and set their depth charts now. He’s also a huge oddball who is great in shout.
Biggest Surprise of 2015?
Soup is still commish. I really thought he'd miss GMing pretty quickly and pass it off to someone else.
Probably Ian quitting TMBSL. He sort of lived in shout and I’m not sure he knows anyone in real life, so I was shocked to see him give up his social circle cold turkey. I’d still like to know what was behind that. As he’s gotten more active on TMB and not shown any interest in returning to TMBSL, I am beginning to believe it’s because he realized he was a mediocre GM and was wasting his time.
Biggest surprise to me is heebs not having a ring, or maybe ian leaving the way he did
The league in general. I didn't think it would last this long , but soup has done a great job and I'm glad it's still going.
My biggest sim surprise are that neither the Nets nor Suns have a title in 2015. I would have lost a shit ton of money in Vegas betting on that. Both have been very close several times.
Ian Boyd leaving the league and staying gone was pretty shocking. I knew he was kind of pissed and wasn’t putting as much effort into his team as usual, but I figured he might step away for a month or two and then come back.
Luckiest GM of 2015? Unluckiest?
Luckiest would probably be gbg for all obvious reason.
Unluckiest probably bankz. Anyone decent he drafts wants to leave him. That team would be crazy good with Arizin still there.
Ankly and Canesfan tie for luckiest GMs of 2015. Ankly had some outstanding FA luck signing Stackhouse and JO. Cansfan had a few number one picks in a row, plus he had Bankz/Fason negotiate a trade for him that netted him an elite PG.
Unluckiest - Buster. So sorry for your year in 2015, Buster. Losing the amount of talent you lost to FA stings, but you've dealt with it like a man, which I applaud. You're a better man that I.
GBG is the luckiest, victor is unluckiest
Luckiest would be gbg. Guy gets so many good players via the draft at the ass end of the first round.
Unluckiest would be vic. Lost an elite player and collier accepted his free agency offer
GBG would probably get my vote for luckiest. He had the best team, but for a long time no one would step up to challenge him and teams seemed content to sit back and let him win every year. Finally the Clippers finally did something about it and showed that it was possible to beat him. GBG had some help early on with moves, but it seemed like every moved he made had a great return for him.
Unluckiest as far as free agents would have to be Buster. That poor bastard lost two superstars while bidding a lot more money. As far as everything else, I go Ank. There’s no way to explain how he hasn’t won a title by now except that I just keep re-simming until he loses.
Luckiest: Harry Fucking G. After inheriting a team with a superstar in the making in Bossert, this son of a bitch wins the KD sweepstakes the following year, then signs Khalid Reeves away from the two-time champion Rockets in FA. All the while, he puts no points into his players and they still turned into a 60 win team. Fuck that guy.
Unluckiest: Lots of great options to choose from. Ank and Bruns both were snakebit in Game 7s, while Victor got burned a couple times in FA. But the obvious pick to me is Buster, whose bad luck in 2014 continued into this past year. He built two separate 60 win cores but still has yet to make a finals appearance. Even worse, his most recent squad got torn apart by shocking FA departures in back to back seasons. Hopefully the Arizin signing is the first of a wave of good karma heading that way.
Best and Worst trade?
Worst trade was Pacers sending picks that would become 1.1 and 1.2 in the following draft, plus a couple other decent thing, for Rolando Blackman. There could be worse a decade ago but that's the one that stands out to me. Bankz' search for a 35 year old star pg was also pretty bad. I've made several bad moves myself but none particularly huge imo. The trade that sent Shareef to OKC was up there.
As for the best trades, they're the same as the worst trades but from a different perspective.
Best – Best deal in terms of the deal making the most sense for both teams was the Tobi-JO deal between the Nets and Lakers. The Nets were up against some cap issues and the Lakers needed another All Star to go with Zinger.
Worst – There are so many to choose from. The Bossert deal, the Shareef deal, the Reeves for JO and picks deal – but I’m going to give the worst deal to Ian giving up Redd, Duhon, and all his picks for Oden. Oden is a good player, but that was the move where I think he realized he’s just not very good at this. Runner up is Yawn selling a lotto pick for dump bucks.
Best: KG to the Nets for 2 firsts and salary
Worst: Khalid Reeves trade or Stephenson to the Kings or Okafor to the Bulls
Best - easily the kg deal. Which upsets me
Worst - the kg deal on shauns end. Too early
There’s been a lot of good trades, but I think the most impactful one is when the Thunder traded for Reef. That was the Thunder’s missing piece that started the run of a dynasty.
There’s been a lot of bad trades, and I’m not sure this is technically the worst but when Canes turned down a resigning of Karl Anthony Towns, to only trade 2 firsts to get him back after FA on a slightly lower contract with the Bulls has got to be one of the biggest retard moves I’ve ever seen.
The best trade for team success is hands down the Shareef to OKC trade. But I prefer to pick the trade most beneficial to both parties. Under that criteria, my pick is the Kings-Bobcats trade that sent Myles Turner to Memphis for picks that became Larry Johnson, Matthew Lockhart and Brandon Knight. Memphis’ second run with Turner led to two Finals appearances, while the Kings reaped the first two picks in a talented draft class and set themselves up for what should be a long run of success.
Worst trade is the easiest question in this RT. Bankz traded 23 year old Jermaine ONeal and a future lotto pick for Khalid Reeves, who was 35 years old, washed up, and retired after that season. I’ll give Bankz a little credit in that this trade didn’t seem this bad when it first happened, but when you consider that it spawned over 4 IRL months of Thunder dominance, it is the worst trade of the year.
Biggest Controversy?
Probably the Odin/RW/2poor/Kobe thing. And I'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids. Possibly my "me or eric" ultimatum but it was pretty apparent with that one that i'd calm down from whatever had pissed me off and back out of that.
GBG's Thunder dynasty. It was the biggest story by far of 2015, and it only happened after the commish coached him to make Aaron PG eligible and trade for Shareef. The elephant in the room is obviously Terrell Brandon turning into an MVP candidate the off-season Bankz loses Arizin, quits, and then is talked into coming back.
Odin trying to scumbag RW perhaps
Benghazi. How you liberal cunts let your politicians get away with murder disgusts me.
In Ank’s mind it’s the 3016 sim finals where rumors (mostly started by him) swirled that the fix was in. Commissioner Soup was unavailable for comment.
I think with all of Eric’s breaking down of the software it has become a pretty big controversy of whether to trust his findings as gospel or to trust what has work in years past. I think it has developed a nice little ridge in the league.
Soup serving as GM/Commish during his title season might’ve been a bigger deal if that wasn’t the only option at the time, but if there were more options Soup never would’ve taken over that role. So I’ll go with the Kobe trade that killed conditional draft pick trading.
Best Title Team? Best Title Team that wasn’t the Thunder?
Thunder or no, the 3011 Rockets were the best team of 2015
'20 Thunder is the best title team. It's a toss up between that squad and the '19 squad. Both had prime verions of Shareef and Aaron, and both had a tremendous supporting cast. If this question had been asked three weeks from now - the answer would be the 3026 Kings though. That squad is scary good.
Best non-Thunder title team is definitely the 3015 Sixers. The core Fason put together coming out of that tank was impressive.
Pick from the Thunder teams, I’m a big fan of the Blazers title team outside of the thunder
Thunder
Best non thunder team? I'm going with pistol. Was his team the best? Probably not . But we shared a homosexual connection by the giant bean in Chicago that can't be denied after he won that title. Sorry bud can't keep it a secret anymore. (ed. note: I’m pregnant and it’s yours)
Stay tuned to the tournament of Champions. It will cover the run of my tenure as commish. I’m hoping my 3014 team will have a good showing, however those Thunder teams were so dominating.
3020 Thunder were absolutely stacked. Harrison and Shareef at their apex, Vlade as an elite defensive big, Q Rich and Justin Anderson as efficient 3rd and 4th scorers, and good depth.
Best non-Thunder team was the 3015 Sixers. Conley was a stud, Barkley was still in his prime, Admiral was 1st team all-league, and he had former greats like Moses and Dantley coming off the bench and contributing big minutes. Very balanced team, and the only one to defeat Aaron Harrison in a sim league finals.
Best team that didn’t win a title?
All of my teams
3014 Sixers. Steam rolled the East only to fall to an overperforming Mavs squad.
Ank’s Suns w/Oscar and bossert
I'm partial to the nets and suns teams. Probably the suns. Herbs needs to realize he won't win a title without a good pg. Christ figure it out. For someone who comes off smart , you are one stubborn mug.
After seeing eric crunch some numbers, the only answer is those 3016-3018 Suns. They dominated regular seasons only to melt away in the playoffs like their softer than shit GM Ank.
I’m clearly still bitter about the wasted core of Khalid, Bossert and Durant, but the real answer comes down to either of the teams built around Oscar. The Bulls with Oscar, Emeka and JR were legitimately great and probably could’ve kept ruling the east if Bruns didn’t forget to resign Emeka.
The Phoenix team built around Oscar and Bossert w/ Payton as a supersub also probably should’ve won one, but thanks to almighty Soup the Raptors shocked the world and put them on this list too.
Best Article?
The pod in which RW argued with himself for 2 hours about nothing. it was incredible.
I don't know if it counts, but I really enjoyed the post-power hour podcast. As far as written articles, I'd go with eric's serial software expose. Not only has it been super helpful and really well written, but it's exposed Ian as having been full of shit.
I’m going to go with the podcasts, even though the first one was in 2014
I like the podcasts. Going with the drunk one. Mainly because I was on it. Need to be the best at something imo.
The power hours are great. Creates a real comradery between the GMs and we get drunk as fuck. Also Ank’s Omegle GM search and the NBA jam profiles were fun and entertaining.
All of the Eric articles are informative, although they’re a little misleading because his opinions on certain things shifted the more he researched. GM voted awards were great, I’m glad they’re back. I was really happy with how my 10 for 10 Vol. 2 article turned out, and the NBA Jam was fun too.
2015 All-TMBSL team?
C: Okafor/Catfish/Okafor
PF: Turner/Catfish/Catfish
SF: Champ/Barkley/Turner
SG: Zinger/Bossert/Selvy
PG: Bledsoe/Harrison/Skywalker
C: Emeka
PF: Shareef
SF: Niang
SG: Bossert
PG: Harrison
PG: Harrison
SG: Bossert
SF: Porzingis
PF: Turner
C: Catfish
Pg-Harrison
Sg-porzingas
Sf-Turner
Pf-JO
C-tobi
PG – Aaron Harrison
SG – Kristaps
SF – Reef
PF – Turner
C - Tobi
PG: Aaron Harrison; 6x champion, 5x MVP, all-league as a SG and GOAT as a PG
SG: Gary Bossert; A two-way monster even without the proper development early in life
SF: Stanley Robinson; the centerpiece of the Dilnasty, also almost delivered a title to RV
PF: Shareef Abdur-Rahim; The Pippen to Harrison’s Jordan, and the best defensive player since I’ve been in the league
C: Emeka Okafor; After leading the Grizz to a title, became the perfect 2nd banana to Oscar in Chicago
Bonus: Make a New Year’s Resolution for TMBSL in 2016
I will trade my future picks in pointless trades less often. lol yeah right
Less sober podcasts.
Stop bitching about draft grades, it’s the attribute grades that really matter, displayed grades are superficial.
Keep bitching about draft grades, it's the displayed grades that matter, attribute grades are superficial
To keep doing you. It’s part of the fabric of what makes TMBSL so great. That 29+ completely different individuals can have one common interest and make that melting pot work for over 5+ IRL years.
No more newbie trade rapes, because resolutions are meant to be broken.
