The Knickerbockers (Live 06): Week 1 Review

[White Chocolate]

The Knickerbockers – New York Knicks Dynasty

Dynasty info:
Game: NBA Live 06 (PC);
Rosters: nlsc opening night 2005-06 rosters;
Sliders: nlsc sliders (with some tweaks for 8 min quarter play);
Quarter length: 8 min quarters (12 min sim);
Season length: 82 game season (1/3 play - 1/3 sim - 1/3 intervention in 4th quarter);
Playoff lenght: 7-7-7-7;
Skill level: superstar;
Schedule type: NBA;
trade deadline on;
CPU assistance off;
shot control: user.

Patches:
NBA on TNT graphic mod;
Net animation from NBA Live 2005;
My portrait patches.

It’s my first try to make dynasty story at nlsc forums. I think here will be a lot of box scores, news, screens and pictures, maybe some videos and not much text.

[White Chocolate]

NY Knicks 2005-06 opening night roster

C Eddy Curry (76 ovrl)
PF Channing Frye (69 ovrl)
SF Quentin Richardson (76 ovrl)
SG Jamal Crawford (78 ovrl)
PG Stephon Marbury (88 ovrl)
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6 Trevor Ariza (68 ovrl)
7 Matt Barnes (66 ovrl)
8 Nate Robinson (70 ovrl)
9 David Lee (61 ovrl)
10 Allan Houston (68 ovrl)
11 Penny Hardaway (64 ovrl)
12 Malik Rose (67 ovrl)
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Injured list:
Maurice Taylor (67 ovrl)
Jerome James (57 ovrl)

Starting five:

Bench:

Injured list:

Cap room: -58.45M

NY Knicks stuff
Owner: James Dolan;
Coach: Mike D’Antoni;
GM: Anthony Norski (me );
Assistant coach: John Starks;
Scout: Gustave Ashmore;
Trainer: Lawton Hall.

[White Chocolate]

Preseason review
Week 1 review

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October transactions

NYK hires Anthony Norski as a new general manager.
NYK fires Larry Brown, hires Mike D’Antoni as a head coach;
CHA fires Bernie Bickerstaff, hires Larry Brown as a head coach;
PHO hires Bernie Bickerstaff as a head coach;
NYK hires former Knicks player John Starks as an assistant coach;


NYK hires Gustave Ashmore as a scout;
NYK hires Lawton Hall as a trainer.



Allan Houston decided not to retire and arrived to Knicks training camp.


NYK waives Jackie Butler (contract: 938k/1 yr);


NYK waives Antonio Davis (contract: 13.9M/1 yr).


Training camp

Coaching focus:
Offensive – 50%;
Defensive – 50%;
Athleticism – 0%.


Matt Barnes was 1 of 8 Knicks players who improved his skills after training camp

NY Knicks announce opening night roster for 2005-06 season.

[Bucket]

Cap room -58 millions dollars?

[White Chocolate]

Cap room -58 millions dollars?

Yes. Knicks have terrible heavy contracts those days. For example: A.Davis - 13M, A.Houston - 19M, Marbury - 16M, Hardaway - 15M, Maurice Taylor - 9M, M.Rose - 6M, Jerome James - 5M.
I'll try to trade away some of these contracts.

[Murat]

Good to see you again, White Chocolate. Can remember your 2k9 portraits. Anyway, good luck.

About contracts: Don't think trading man... Just you can make a big move if you don't waive-trade them (with a big cap signing LeBron?)

[Andrew]

Best of luck with this one, both in making the best of what you've got and in trading away those bad contracts.

[Martti.]

Definitely interesting to see how you'll figure out the train-wreck that the '05-06 Knicks are.

[White Chocolate]

Thanks for good words, guys! I'll try to do my best and I hope that this dynasty will be interesting. About contracts... Some of them are 1 year long contracts (as Hardaway's), so I'll trade only the bad ones. I don't want to trade away whole team, but I think of 2 or 3 trades in first season. Don't think about big moves now (signing superstars) but want to develop my young players (Frye, Ariza, Nate and Lee).

[Andrew]

By all means keep any expiring deals, if you can move some of the ones that run longer then so much the better.

[White Chocolate]

NYK@BOS (play)

Box score: NYK | BOS

Play of the game: Trevor Ariza finishes fastbreak after Matt Barns' steal.

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Photos:


Photo of the game: Ariza dunks!


MIL@NYK (sim)

Box score: MIL | NYK

Who’s hot?
Antoine Walker, Miami. 28 pts (13-19 fg) + 9 reb + 9 ast (Pacers@Heat, 101-120)


Who’s not?
Quentin Richardson, New York. 2-11 3pts fg (Knicks@Celtics, 114-103), 3-14 fg (Bucks@Knicks, 83-79)


NBA Transactions:

Chicago signs Travis Best (6,77M/2 yrs)


Milwaukee waives Ersan Ilyasova, signs Raul Lopez (10,75M/6 yrs)



Main injuries (unplayable):

T. Prince (DET) - broken finger
J. Salmons (PHI) - bone spur in his foot
Kurt Thomas (PHO) - torn achilles tendon


Rumors:

Some ESPN insiders talk that Knicks want to trade away players with heavy contracts. GM wants to free salary cap space for future transactions. Stephon Marbury, Jerome James, Maurice Taylor and Eddy Curry are the main candidates for trade.


Quote of the week:

Our team was shitty tonight. We have to play better if we don’t want to finish our careers in China.

- Stephon Marbury after loss to Bucks