kbryant's realistic lakers dynasty

[kbryant24]

Huge loss for the Lakers!!!

Kobe Bryant has been diagnosed with a bone spur in his foot. He will be out for about 5 weeks

The Lakers are 2-10 without Kobe

[3PK]

WOW thats terrible news for the lakers there team is now nothing, although this might actually make a few players happy that their allowed to have 10 shot attepts per game

[Deathbringer]

i don't see realism in this dynasty

[kbryant24]

i don't see realism in this dynasty

you dont? wuts wrong with it? jermaine o'neal is a possible trade option for the lakers... lamar odom is most likely finished with the lakers. whats not realistic about it? the fact that our team doesnt have enough players? (i agree).. gimme suggestions/comments to make this dynasty more realistic plz. thank u.

[deihatein]

Look at other dynasty stories so that you can pick an idea

[3PK]

i don't see realism in this dynasty

Whats so unrealistic i don't get it, it may not be the best dynasty story but it's fairly realsitic E.G

you dont? wuts wrong with it? jermaine o'neal is a possible trade option for the lakers... lamar odom is most likely finished with the lakers. whats not realistic about it? the fact that our team doesnt have enough players? (i agree).. gimme suggestions/comments to make this dynasty more realistic plz. thank u.

Also give him adice to make it better don't just say this is unrealsitic and "Piss off" as of such

I'm not trying to be the bad guy here but it's kinda the truth

[kbryant24]

3pk do u have any suggestions for me to make this dynasty more realistic? i know my dynasty is not as detailed as the other ones but i dont have time to play every game.

let me know 3pk thx.

[3PK]

3pk do u have any suggestions for me to make this dynasty more realistic? i know my dynasty is not as detailed as the other ones but i dont have time to play every game.

let me know 3pk thx.

Well actualy i like ur short sharpe recaps and i don't have a great amount of suggestion but i do have a few for you
Less trades, there is a trade very frequantly
Also maybe an article or newspaper report to real it up, like on how you're going E.G. Happy with start/Not happy with start

[kbryant24]

i know this move is unrealistic but i want rasheed wallace on my team hehe

hes awesome he can block, get rebounds, shoot 3's, post up, shoot inside shots.. a little bit of everything

i didnt check how much his salary is.. but all i know is jermaine o'neal costs too damn much


EDIT:

Since our team wasn't getting enough wins for the second time this season since we obtained Jermaine O'Neal, we decided to make a major trade. The Lakers decided to trade Jermaine O'Neal and 1st round pick Dabrowski to the Detroit Pistons for Rasheed Wallace and Devin Brown. We are looking forward to bringing Rasheed Wallace's energy to the team in hopes to spark the team on the right track. This trade should also free up some cap space.

Now we are looking to trade Devin Brown for a backup power forward

edit:

The Lakers first game with Rasheed Wallace against the 22-11 Washington Wizards was amazing. The team seemed to connect showing great numbers in each player.

Here are the stats for Thursday's game.

[kbryant24]

Since our team was lacking a backup power forward, we went on a hunt for a team that was interested in Devin Brown and had a power forward they were willing to trade. We came across the Magics and started to negotiate. After a long day of discussion and debate, we decided to trade Devin Brown for Paul Millsap.

Here is our new player rotation:




TEAM NOTES:

Instead of training Andrew Bynum, we are going to train Paul Millsap instead in all three areas (offense, defense, and athletics)

[kbryant24]

Trades finalized


The Spurs trade Bruce Bowen to the Warriors for Jasikevicious
The Kings trade Mike Bibby to the Suns for Amare Stoudemire
The Washington Wizards acquire Ron Artest from the Sacramento Kings for Jason Terry
The Sixers trade Carney to the Nuggets for Kleiza
The Cavaliers trade Z. Ilgauskaus to the Celtics for Wally Szerbiack

[3PK]

Nice move sheed is a machine u will win now lol and great trades for kings and warriors especially kings who will have a great line-up now btw what is there line-up?

[kbryant24]

Nice move sheed is a machine u will win now lol and great trades for kings and warriors especially kings who will have a great line-up now btw what is there line-up?

And here is the standings for the Pacific Division

[3PK]

Yeh great line-up although i really think they need a SF but somehow they're only 26-33 which is terrible honestly.

Your'e also not doing to well it's time you begin to make a bit of a run and get going, anyway good luck

[JJ_Weir]

this dynasty is very unrealistic, too many trades, and WAY WAY WAY too many superstar trades....

[kbryant24]

i actually play paul millsap as SF and Williams and backup PF


it may not be realistic but hey at least my team is not stacked.. im liking the challenge


only reason it can be realistic is because the lakers are going to do major trades for next year. they are willing to trade their core players like lamar odom for either jermaine o'neal or kevin garnett. jermaine o'neal and tinsley both want to be traded and it was mentioned that Jermain o'neal want to be a laker.


here is a small update

[3PK]

this dynasty is very unrealistic, too many trades, and WAY WAY WAY too many superstar trades....

I say it's hes choice and if he wants to have fun and not really worry bout how realistic it is i dig that coz fuck playing a game if it ain't fun, although u r entitled to ur opion

(had ur back lol)

[kbryant24]

this dynasty is very unrealistic, too many trades, and WAY WAY WAY too many superstar trades....

I say it's hes choice and if he wants to have fun and not really worry bout how realistic it is i dig that coz fuck playing a game if it ain't fun, although u r entitled to ur opion

(had ur back lol)

lol thx bro


but keep those comments/suggestions coming.. whether its postive or negative.. better than no feedback lol

[asgsjb]

I think Kbryant24's dynasty looks great and he is enjoying it, which is what matters.

I think that as hard as one might try to play a realistic season, it's virtually impossible to do so on a video game. As lifelike as EA tries to be, it ain't the real NBA. Look at one of those trades the CPU put together for itself...Sacramento dealing Bibby to Phoenix for Stoudemire. Why would the Suns trade Stoudemire, especially for a PG when they have Nash? It isn't going to happen in real life. So telling someone that their dynasty is not realistic makes little sense...it can never be truly 100% realistic, and there will always be some lattitude needed.

Anyway, I'm all in favor of everyone trying whatever they want with a video game, as long as they have fun. You want to try realism (as best as possible)...cool. You want a fantasy all-star draft....go for it. You want to do a lot of trades or no trades...whatever you want. There isn't a right or wrong way to play the game...just play it the way you want and try out as many variations as you can. I have several variations going myself...I have my Knicks Dynsasty where I am trying to do a ton of trades to try to undue Isaiah Thomas' mess, I have a fantasy draft dynasty where I did actually luck out with the 1st pick and got Shaq to dominate the inside, I tried a "season" mode with a fantasy draft and I tried a season mode with the Suns. They all offered different levels of enjoyment...I personally am enjoying my Knicks dynasty the most of the bunch, likely because of the fun of playing GM with trades and trying to get under the cap. But in the end, it's the fun that matters. If you like a player but don't want that player's whole team, then pick a team you like and try to get the player you'd like to give it a go with. Or go with that player's team. Whatever. There are too many interesting teams and interesting players to just say one way of playing is the right one.

I think this Lakers dynasty looks pretty interesting and a lot of fun. The "realistic" approach is a cool way of playing and I may try that myself once I've done a few seasons with my Knicks dynasty. The key is that this dynasty is enjoyable to kbryant24...so keep enjoying it!

[kbryant24]

well said asqsjb

hows ur knick dynasty looking? post a ss of ur player rotation

[asgsjb]

I am still learning to be as talented as the rest of you in posting screenshots and telling a good dynasty story. So I'll have to settle now for just words.

But my dynasty is looking good. I am new to the game and am playing live 2005...I just found the sticky about realistic sliders so I need to use that new knowledge to adjust my sliders more so that my Knicks don't dominate so much. I was working on 2 fronts...(1) win, of course, and (2) fix the salary cap issues Isaiah put the Knicks into. The latter part has been a challenge, as the Knicks had too many lower ranked, higher priced, poorly-contracted players to do much with. I maneuvered a bunch of deals. The first 2 were key as I hate to play the video game with a PG who is the "star" of the team...I prefer a star SG and have a PG who can take over a game when needed but who prefers to pass first.

The roster started like this:

PG: Marbury (starter), Moochie Norris and Jamison Brewer
SG: Crawford (starter), Houston, Hardaway
SF: T.Thomas (starter), S.Anderson and Ariza
PF: K.Thomas (starter), Sweetney and Jerome Williams
C: Baker (starter), Mohammed and Sundov

Not the way I like my team to be set up and way too costly. So I made a ton of deals that would take too much space to list here. Key ones were adding Jason Williams to be the pass-first PG with good defense I wanted, adding Kobe to be the star SG I wanted, adding Ilgauskas and Mihm to give me defensive centers I like, and adding young, cheap talent at other spots. My team presently looks like this:

PG: Jason Williams (starter), Moochie Norris (I will likely be adding Bryce Drew from free agency to give me another backup PG for the season)
SG: Kobe Bryant (starter), Allan Houston, Penny Hardaway
SF: Gerald Wallace (starter), Trevor Ariza (I've developed him pretty nicely) and Kyle Korver
PF: Okafor (starter), Sweetney and Jerome Moiso
C: Ilgauskas (starter), Mihm and Mohammed

I have cut almost $8M from my cap and have another $2.5-3M coming off at the end of the year from players I've dumped into free agency. I will be letting Penny Hardaway's contract expire at season end and will lose his $14.63M at that time. My other goals are as follows:

1. Trade Moochie Norris in a deal that nets me a young cheap PG.
2. Get a young SG and then trade Houston for an expiring contract.
3. Sign my 3 SF's (all have expiring contracts) to reasonable extensions.
4. Trade Mohammed for cheaper talent.
5. Trade Ilgauskas in a deal that nets me an expiring contract and a young, cheap, lower-rated center with great defense and with some offensive potential.

The tricky thing is that if you get any "star" player, you are likely paying over $10M, which is a huge chunk of cap. Kobe alone ($14.18M) is over 1/4 of the $43.84M salary cap. So my goal is to surround Kobe with as cheap talent as I can get while still fielding a competitive team. For example, I just tried moving Jason Williams to Chicago for Hinrich and Gordon...both being lower ranked than J-Will and with Chicago wanting a PG improvement. But they didn't want to accept. Too bad, as 2 players under $3M for several years is a better cap deal for me than one $6M+ player. I could have moved Houston more freely knowing I had a young SG like Gordon waiting to play.

Anyway, I'll be looking forward to continuing to read about your Lakers dynasty. These dynasty stories are great and usually help me learn how to someday share my dynasty better with you all.

[kbryant24]

i understand where your getting at.. my other dynasty i tried to reduce the salary cap as well and surround cheap players around one to two stars.

and i recommend using pdubs gameplay settings.. using his setting brought more challenge to the game and most of the games result in overtime. and before i changed settings, i would easily score 3-pointers when needed and all the shots were easy to make. now its more challenging and kobe rarely makes 3's when hes surrounded.

good luck with your dynasty

[asgsjb]

Thanks for the referral for settings. I hadn't seen pdub's. I had seen Andrew's, Pared's and fgrep's. Have you tried any of those before going to pdub's? If so, what did you like or dislike about each person's settings you tried? Thanks in advance.

Also, can you help clarify the scales for the sliders? Meaning, if, for example, you are set at 75 for substitutions, does that mean you substitute more often or less often?

[kbryant24]

yea i never tried any other sliders except pdubs lol so i wouldnt know

0 means no substitutions.. so 75 will substitute more oeften

[asgsjb]

I'll assume it's the same with all other sliders, right? So a blocks slider set below 50 will have less blocks allowed than if the slider was over 50...and a steals slider set to 30 will allow less steals than a slider set to 70. Does this all sound accurate?