S82 Town Hall 9

[Mike Lowry]

How would you assess your progress this season?
Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
Why or why not?
If not, where are you now?

Rules: 1 point if you give thoughtful answers, which I will award after the timer ends for responses. The timer ends for responses at the moment the corresponding week's Sim is run.

Note: Use approximately 5 sentences as your bare minimum for 1 point. If you write 3 long, complex sentences, you'll still get a point. If you write 5, 3 word sentences, you will not get a point. Don't @ me.

Due: Due by the deadline for sim 9

[AngryBanana]

How would you assess your progress this season?

Strictly from a progress perspective I would say I’ve had the best season of any GM. I went from a team that was going to have a guaranteed top three pick, to a team that may get as high as a the #4 seed in the conference. While that is a stark change, and some variable are beyond what I’m doing, none the less, I am very happy with the turnaround I was able to do from both a personnel and gameplan perspective.

Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
Why or why not?
If not, where are you now?

Yeah, so this is why I flipped the script so abruptly and aggressively. I don’t own my 1983 first. I tried to get it back and when I realized that was not going to happen I went scorched earth to make the pick as useless as possible. I may have burned some points doing this flip , but I justify it in my brain by thinking that it was equivalent to what would have been spent for training the pick I would have gotten with the ‘83 pick I don’t have.


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[Mike Lowry]

I would say my team is performing fairly according to my expectations in the offseason.
I had hoped that a deep roster with talented role players would catch the league by surprise and go an an epic win streak, but I was off by a substantial bit in a few areas.
Notably turnovers and a lack of scoring were pulling me backwards.
I am satisfied with how I addressed those shortcomings, but now I have to game plan for cohesion.
So the job is nowhere near done yet, but I think the crew I have now gives me more action than the one I started with.

[IamQuailman]

How would you assess your progress this season?
Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
Why or why not?
If not, where are you now?

Well this season started off as a massive overhaul. We were a young team, unsure what the future held for us outside of lots of young talent. We had spent big on PG & Forward in UFA with Johnny Davis & Phil Ford + Terry Tyler. Lewis Lloyd, Sleepy Floyd, Eddie Johnson, & Alton Lister (among a warchest of draft picks) all headlined our youth movement acquisitions from the draft & trades. It was a fun revitalizing time to start fresh in Milwaukee. But then we saw just how bad the East was. No one was clamoring for it; hell we were 4th or 5th in the playoff seeding after a month... We were unsure of the direction of our team. After a couple trades fell through, we thought offload our backlog of PG depth sending Davis to the Cavs for a highly coveted 1984 1st. Not that the Cavs are destined to be awful next season, but everyone is stocking up on tickets to the big dance. THE WAR CHEST DEEPENS.

But then we saw some of the landscape of player availability changing. Some names of 25 year old vets surfaced as obtainable as many teams were opting to lean into the tank. So we capitalized on acquiring Michael Cooper for a 1985 1st, despite his concussion (which is finally healed). And then we made a big splash in trading Eddie Johnson and a couple picks for Kevin McHale. We also added some big man depth with Caldwell Jones. Suddenly, we were feeling really good about not only competing, but continuing this rebuild while challenging for the East.

We are still chasing the Bullets, but the gap is closing, and only time will tell if we can fill in the void. But our team is easily 7-8 players deep before any drop off in talent, and we are pushing to compete for seasons to come.

[WigNosy]

How would you assess your progress this season?
Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
Why or why not?
If not, where are you now?

I think as far as progress this season, the Blazers are doing about as well as I could have expected. It's always easy to drop your floor by selling off talent; increasing a team's ceiling, especially once you are winning consistently, is harder. But in Season 1 we won 62% of our games. That was 72% last year. This year we're sitting on 79% as of this writing in a much deeper conference, but I do expect that number to come down a little bit. It's a lot easier to go from, say, 40% to 50% or 50% to 60% wins than it is to go from 70% to 80%, because improvements become more and more incremental for the same effort.

Internally, yes, things have gone more or less according to plan. There are two external factors that have not gone to plan - first, the Warriors bringing in Robert Parish to pair with Moses immediately made them the favorites and quite frankly, I'm surprised I've been able to stay within shouting distance of them. Maybe it feels like a case of imposter syndrome, but I have nobody on my squad that is at the level of either one of those guys (Roundfield is good, but not at their level). Second, the Celtics refusing to just let the season run its course but especially picking up George Gervin for basically nothing (points?!? Really?!?) have taken a pick that I thought would be top-5 at the beginning of the season based on the Celtics having nothing around Mo Cheeks and putting it into the double-digits is annoying. But neither of those things is something I can control (the Celtics would argue I could have traded them their pick back, but then I still wouldn't have a top-5 pick and they would have tanked so they would have) so I just chant the Serenity Prayer and keep moving on. Of course, there was the little matter of me passing Clemon Johnson to the Cavaliers in an attempt to help them stay ahead of the Celtics out of spite (and not at all to improve that pick), so...

In short, as far as things I can control:
- Losing Phil Hubbard in free agency hurt a bit, especially at the price he signed for (yes, I bid on him too, but I guess I misread the market and offered him too little)
- Adding Roundfield was a nice surprise, though I worry I might regret trading away my '84 pick
- Team is close to my preseason expectations, though outperforming them slightly, which is a pleasant surprise

[NY_Magic_Garrett]

How would you assess your progress this season?
I would give myself a really solid mediocre. Been a bit of a roller coaster this year trying to find my direction and footing. Began the offseason by taking a big offer for Buck and Wayne Coop broke his arm early so we hopped on the tank train, but after a couple more sims and some trade talks we decided to quickly abandoned the tank wagon and try to make another playoff run for the culture. So we went out and got last year's finals MVP, Mr. English and paired him with Darrell. It has taken some time to find the right game plan through a couple rough road sims agains the West, but we are ready to make a run here late and break some hearts in the playoffs.

Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
I would say so. Presser was a lot of owning the Buck trade and promising a winning team soon, but like the wind, things change quickly in this league. We surprised our fanbase with a big, win now move while also keeping our assets for the future build. The big boss like butts in the seats, wins on the board, and money flowing in.

The league is better when the Knicks are competitive. Give the people what they want. Thanks for comin

[BigDaddyd8720]

How would you assess your progress this season?
I would say we’ve progressed really well. In the toughest division in the league and we’re only two games below .500. Also, three times as many wins, so far, this season than we had last season. Not sure any other teams can say that so that’s one thing I have that nobody else can. Still plenty of basketball left so still hoping we can sneak into the playoffs but the Kareem injury for this sim really makes it difficult for us

Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
Yes and No.

Yes, because we’re much better than we were last season and we’re right on the cusp of being a playoff team. I set out to try and make the playoffs and even though we likely will come up short, we’re still showing we’re not far from being a contender.

No, because I was hoping I would be able to make a couple of more trades throughout the season as well as get some better FAs this past offseason and I wasn’t able to get the last few pieces for my team to really compete. I’m hoping this offseason will be different and I can sign a couple of top tier players to go with my rising young guys.


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[greepleairport]

How would you assess your progress this season?
Have things gone according to the plan you had at your presser?
Why or why not?
If not, where are you now?

The only thing that hasn't gone according to plan is out-rebounding every team every game by like, 20. Sometimes I get out-rebounded, and I'm like...how???

I'm sure Wig would out-rebound everyone every game with my squad...

Anyhoo, seriously, my progress has gone exactly as expected. I saw a lot of teams loading up to try and beat me at the deadline. I love it! Some may have figured out the formula to pull it off (not saying who)! And it's all due to my front court, a move I knew would be tough for any team to overcome. But, it was a fair deal that made both parties happy, and I'm glad that Alton is flourishing in Milwaukee to a point where the flipper of all flippers, Quailman himself, wants to keep him!!

Every other move I have made this season has been a tweak here, a tweak there, and really just fine tuning an already excellent team. Sim 9 will be tough for us - a bit of a grindhouse of other stellar teams in the league - but we look forward to the challenge. I would not be surprised if Portland finished in the top seed this season, at this point. <expletive deleted>.

[Mike Lowry]

@AngryBanana
@Mike Lowry
@IamQuailman
@WigNosy
@NY_Magic_Garrett
@BigDaddyd8720
@greepleairport

+1 Point