The Ones Left Standing - ATL vs CHI, 4th Q Recap

[J@3]

[Drex]

Seems like a nice dynasty

[Wormy10]

I am excited
The first post

[Mick]

looks sensational. Full of mystery, yet stylish... and dangerous!

Sweet!

[Heiks]

ooo...

i'm wondering which team could it be???



atlanta?

[trubucksfan]

great idea, i did this once for madden like, 2001,2002...something like that. ne way its a real fun thing to do cuz your having to work real hard for wins and have to play each possesion very smart in order to score. can get frusterating but its really a fun thing to do.

[Seraph]

GOOD LUCK

[Jing]

whoa, this looks really cool.
looking foward to it

[J@3]

Seems like a nice dynasty

Lol shut up, damn Mexicans

great idea, i did this once for madden like, 2001,2002...something like that. ne way its a real fun thing to do cuz your having to work real hard for wins and have to play each possesion very smart in order to score. can get frusterating but its really a fun thing to do.

Yeah I've really enjoyed it, I've written up like 9 games so far... it's kinda surprising how good some of the players are, even though they're undrafted most of them are better than alot of the top 10 picks, not ratings wise but it's more fun to use them.

[idiot]

move them back to vancouver

[Jing]

put a team in alaska. j/k

[Drex]

Lol shut up, damn Mexicans

LMAO

[Heiks]

damn, i'm stupid, now i figured out what you're going to do
the idea is fantstic! you could make it a hawaiian (sp.?) team...

[The X]

I think u owe it to mankind to pick up Sean Marks

[J@3]

Nah I'm not using real players... although hopefully I can find his clone. I'll make the first 'official' post soonish.

[OrlandoMagic]

Please Clone Andrew Declerq, he can be the team captain!!

[Micchy_boy]

nice first impression though i hope it will last....

[J@3]

Name: Rafer Dalton
Age: 22
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 175lbs
College: Siena
Position: Point Guard

Coming out of high school he was not really highly recruited. Teams saw no potential and thought his basketballing skills had hit the 'glass ceiling' and he simply wouldn't get any better. He paid visits to only three schools, Siena appealed to him because it gave Rafer the opportunity to be the leader of this struggling team from the get-go. He made the most of his first season at the school, setting a new Siena record for points scored in a season by a freshman. Things only went up from there. In his sophmore season Rafer came flying out of the blocks with an awe inspiring 35 point, 14 assist effort against Manhattan. It set new school records, and in the space of 24 hours Rafer Dalton was on the draft radar. He continued the season in the same form, dominating his conference and leading the team to their best finish in years. Mock drafts all over the country had him as a projected lottery pick, NBA scouts from all over were excited by the possibilities of this young star who had once been told he'd reached the limit of his ability. Three days before the deadline though, Dalton shocked the basketballing community by annoucning that he would not be declaring for the upcoming NBA Draft. Money had never been an issue for Rafer, having been raised by rich parents and never really wanting for anything. If he could continue his meteoric improvement any further, rumours were that he would be a lock for the #1 pick in the 2004 NBA Draft in front of the likes of Emeka Okafor and Dwight Howard. With this knowledge resting heavily on his shoulders, some of Rafer's friends from back home suggested a night out to celebrate...

The police arrived immediately, followed by an ambulance. Ignoring the fact that he didn't have a license, Rafer's friends were too drunk to drive home and gave him the keys expecting it to all be fine from there on. Driving home, a man having car difficulties ran out onto the road to try and wave down the teenagers in the black convertable. Being the middle of the night, Rafer panicked and swerved past the man spiralling the car out of control and into a tree. Rafer's friend in the back seat was not wearing a seat belt, and crashed through the windsheild dieing instantly. The man in the passenger seat suffered paralysis from the legs down due to the front of the car crushing his legs. Rafer was thrown awkwardly into the steering wheel, getting his arm caught in between and snapping it in three places. His head bashed against the dashboard and he suffered heavy concussion. News swept the NBA quickly, scouts quickly lost interest when they learnt the extent of Rafer Dalton's horrific injuries. Considering his biggest strength was his shooting touch, it was felt that the injuries to his arm meant he would never fully regain his touch again. Rehabilitation went better than expected and Rafer made it back to the team to play the last eight games of the season. It was a minor disaster, to say the least. His first game against Pepperdine, Rafer demanded to start claiming that he was ready for the obvious physical challenge. In just over thirty minutes, Rafer shot 1/13 and had seven turnovers. Relegated to the bench for the next few games, he fared no better. Towards the end of the season some form was regained and he looked somewhat respectable, although still nothing but a shadow of his former self.

After some intensive training in the off-season Rafer Dalton was once again ready to tackle the task of getting himself back on the NBA Draft radar. Unfortunately for him though, his comeback to the role of starting point guard was not as successful as he would have hoped. His stats were increased from the previous season, but that was mainly due to a boost in minutes played. His shooting stroke was virtually non existant, still struggling to find a style that works with his injured arm. The one thing Rafer did have working for him though was his intelligence. Figuring out that his sharp shooting days were all but over, Rafer learnt the value of being aggressive and attacking the ring, gaining most of his points from driving lay-ups and foul shots. Needless to say, being the best player on a bad team in a weak conference really doesn't do anything for a players draft value, and he struggled against any form of quality opposition. The 2004-2005 NBA Draft came and went, watching all of the young upstart PG's being picked over him hurt, but deep down Rafer saw it coming a mile away. Three weeks after the draft, Rafer was in his home town of Aurora when he received a phone call from the virtually destructed Atlanta Hawks. They invited him to training camp with the view to sign a permanant contract, and without even thinking Rafer jumped on the first plane to Georgia. He knew he was joining a bad team, he knew that this was most likely the only chance he would get in the NBA but Rafer Dalton has never been one to throw away second chances. As far as he was concerned, being signed as an undrafted rookie by an NBA team was just as valuable as being the #1 overall pick.

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                MIN   FG%   3P%   FT%  RPG  APG  TPG  BPG  SPG   PPG
01-02 Siena    32.6  50.5  35.2  79.2  3.6  5.3  2.1  0.4  1.8  16.6
02-03 Siena    34.3  55.3  41.8  85.2  4.6  8.6  1.7  0.2  1.4  24.3
03-04 Siena    22.8  34.9  30.5  72.7  2.8  3.3  2.5  0.1  0.9   9.1
04-05 Siena    31.7  47.2  32.6  81.0  3.9  6.7  3.0  0.2  1.4  13.7
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TOTALS         30.3  46.9  35.0  79.5  3.7  5.9  2.3  0.2  1.3  15.9

[idiot]

lol inspirational stuff it sounds alot like jay williams' story though... actually, it'd be awesome if jay williams would somehow make it on your team...

but eh, who's the guy in the picture lol

:wall::cry: i thought it would be the grizz or something when i saw the claws....

[The X]

Rafer Dalton = J.J. Reddick + Bobby Hurley

[Null17]

*sniff* sounds like it came out of the movies

[J@3]

it sounds alot like jay williams' story though

To be completely honest, I don't actually know the Jay Williams story... I just knew he got badly injured to the point where he couldn't play anymore. The next profile will be tomorrow hopefully, I can't stay online too much tonight

[SkipToMy_Lou]

Looks great Jae

Looking forward for some more updates definetely...

[J@3]

Thanks alot Turns out I might actually be able to do the next player profile tonight. I'm going to do big in-depth ones for the starting 5 and just smaller ones for the bench players. Also, I think I should kinda explain what this dynasty is actually about...

Basically what I've done, is I took control of the Atlanta Hawks in their first season and traded every player for players with expiring contracts. I simmed the season (which finished 4-25 btw) and in the offseason came to a point where I had no players. I forfeited my draft picks, and in the Free Agency period signed 15 undrafted rookies. That's basically it, I've used roughly 18 or so players during the whole season but not all of them are going to have profiles, just because they're lower bench players that get released and replaced, and if the replacements aren't as good they're signed again and so on. I've set my own "rules" whereas I'm going to forfeit my draft picks again and only sign undrafted rookies for the next season aswell. The idea though is to keep a core of 10 players or so together for as long as I possibly can, hopefully making them all-stars and whatever.

[Null17]

definitely a unique dynasty