Best team for association

Hi guys,
can anybody recommend me a good team for the association, I would like it to be one of those teams that battles throughout the season and nearly gets into the 8th seed.

How about the Jazz?

T-Wolves, 76ers, Hawks

Hmm thanks guys those are pretty good ideas, I think i'll go with eather the jazz or wolves

How bout bobcats? LOL!

Yeah.. Bobcats.. 8th seed..

Im playing association with bobcats!

on which difficulty?

Pistones

do the Pistons. Super fun. Basically just develop Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond, have a shit ton of cap space (which you can use to sigh CP3) by 2nd year your lineup can look like this
PG-CP3
SG-Stuckey/Drafted Player (I usually go for Shabazz/McLemore, depends on the draft class you use)
SF-Drafted Player
PF-Drafted Player (Nerlens Noel?)/Andre Drummond
C-Greg Monroe

Seems like a playoff team to me. I won the championship in my 3rd year

omg that actually is a great idea

bobcats, timberwolves..

started with kings with up to date roster... sim the play off (spurs won in 5)

Fired coach keith smart, hired Mike Malone change coach profile to Rebounding and defense pressure man to man, and 3 and attack basket

And Then..

traded away Demarcus cousins for taj gibson,
Traded away jason thompson, chuck hayes, Travis outlaw for Tyson Chanlder
trade marcus thorton, john salmons for thabo shefolosa, Kendrick Perkins
trade away jimmer fredette for utah jazz 1st round pick (lol)
Trade Draft pick from 1st bulls, my 2nd rounder for hedo and 1st rounder

Kept sign Tyreke Evans to mutiple year, Kept team option on Isaiah, aldrich

starting 5
PG: isiah thomas
SG: Tyreke Evans
SF: Pattrick patterson
PF: Kendrick Perkins
C: tyson chandler
6th man: Taj Gibson
bu sg/pg: Thabo Shefolosa
SF/pf: Hedo Turkolu
then rookie C Issac redd from draft? 2k13 generated Got the 1 pick he is A- Potential and started with 75 rating

So far sim the whole season

Tyreake avg 25 ppg 6 reb 5 assist 2 stl
Thomas avg 20 ppg 4 reb 7 assist
Patterson avg 15 ppg 8 reb 2 assist

REke is 1st team all star and 1st def

Team defense is 3rd in all nba offense is 15th overall of 82 with 80% team chemistry

seeded change from not makign play off to 4th seed pit up agaisnt Ok Thunder in first round, i sim and we are now at game 7 which i will be playing ... They have (thorton, salmons on their team) RIVAVLRY?

started with kings with up to date roster... sim the play off (spurs won in 5)

Fired coach keith smart, hired Mike Malone change coach profile to Rebounding and defense pressure man to man, and 3 and attack basket

And Then..

traded away Demarcus cousins for taj gibson,
Traded away jason thompson, chuck hayes, Travis outlaw for Tyson Chanlder
trade marcus thorton, john salmons for thabo shefolosa, Kendrick Perkins
trade away jimmer fredette for utah jazz 1st round pick (lol)
Trade Draft pick from 1st bulls, my 2nd rounder for hedo and 1st rounder

Kept sign Tyreke Evans to mutiple year, Kept team option on Isaiah, aldrich

starting 5
PG: isiah thomas
SG: Tyreke Evans
SF: Pattrick patterson
PF: Kendrick Perkins
C: tyson chandler
6th man: Taj Gibson
bu sg/pg: Thabo Shefolosa
SF/pf: Hedo Turkolu
then rookie C Issac redd from draft? 2k13 generated Got the 1 pick he is A- Potential and started with 75 rating

So far sim the whole season

Tyreake avg 25 ppg 6 reb 5 assist 2 stl
Thomas avg 20 ppg 4 reb 7 assist
Patterson avg 15 ppg 8 reb 2 assist

REke is 1st team all star and 1st def

Team defense is 3rd in all nba offense is 15th overall of 82 with 80% team chemistry

seeded change from not makign play off to 4th seed pit up agaisnt Ok Thunder in first round, i sim and we are now at game 7 which i will be playing ... They have (thorton, salmons on their team) RIVAVLRY?

Really? Hedo Turkorlu? Cousins for Gibson? Then later go for Chandler? Salmons and Thornton for Thabo and Perkins?

Then again, I must say you copy them quite well

Bobcats! Just got James Harden for Gordon and a second round pick. Signed Greg Oden out of free agency ("solid" backup center) and waived Diop (too expensive). Now I'm building around Kemba and Harden and try to get a solid big man ASAP. Also trying to develop Biyombo into a decent defensive big.
It's a lot of fun. won the first 6 games just to realize that the game was set to pro... Since I'm switched back to All-Star/Superstar (home/road) I got more realistic results...

Really? Hedo Turkorlu? Cousins for Gibson? Then later go for Chandler? Salmons and Thornton for Thabo and Perkins?

Then again, I must say you copy them quite well

its really in the the details I basically turn the team from a team with horrible chemistry and mix into to play off contender who defends/rebounds.

booge was 18 ppg 10 rb
reke was avg 17ppg 4 rb 3 assit 1 stl
IT was avg 14 ppg 2 rb 5 assit

29th offense/29th def
vs

Tyreke avg 25 ppg 6 reb 5 assist 2 stl
Thomas avg 20 ppg 4 reb 7 assist
Patterson avg 15 ppg 8 reb 2 assist

15th offense/3rd def

sim season with current roster and sac kings were 22-58 with Boogie 30% chem, and current roster after roster haul 44-38 80% chem

And yes i am happy with these moves...

Hedo was a expiring contract and is not part of the long term future

Cousins for Gibson? Gibson is instant spark plug off bench for chandler/perkins (I actually started him over Perkins in play off)

Chandler? tradede away horrible contracts fringe player contracts for a true starter?

Salmons and Thornton for Thabo and Perkins? : needed decent roler players didnt need thornton or salmons to take shots away from reke/it/pat

this just my version of the kings... better then what i started with..

I did a Pistons one too, most fun I've had.

Also won a championship in my third season, started Drummond at the C and made him pretty defensive minded, Greg has a nice midrange game, got Terrence Williams as a starting F and Stucky/Knight in the back court. Both of their shot releases are pretty fun. It's a true inside out game with this team.

Bench was Jerebko/Magette/Maxiell. Was a really fun one to run, just sort of fizzled out around year three because all the players started looking like eachother.

Started a Magic one recently, I'm about 25 games in with a 15-10 record. I traded for Thomas Robinson from the Rockets & enjoy splitting playing time between Tobias Harris & Moe Harkless at the SF with Hark being my defensive guy & Harris the 6th Man, he's too strong for the opposing teams SF's & too quick for their PF's. Fun, fun, fun.

if you have draft classes (2013,2014) you can should take the wizards because first season they finish with a 6th or 5th pick and you can draft a good franchise player so that is what i recommend

try maybe raptors or wizards