S83 Town Hall 1

[Mike Lowry]

Pick a team that is not your own and grade their offseason.
Tell us why they deserve the grade and what you liked/disliked.

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 2 - acknowledging late post

[Darth Vegito]

I'll pick the Clippers.

I thought they had a phenomenal off-season particularly free agency. They placed masterful bids on just the right players and hit the jackpot turning there entire outlook on the season around. Last year they looked like an inconsistent dumpster fire a la Tyrese Haliburton. Now they look like ship contenders. Amazing what a couple of amazing bids will do for a team.

[WigNosy]

Pick a team that is not your own and grade their offseason.
Tell us why they deserve the grade and what you liked/disliked.

Houston Rockets - The get a "D" from me. They did what they absolutely had to do in bringing back Otis Birdsong and Artis Gilmore, but I'm not sure about the Roy Hinson pick (or the choice to once again not protect guys in TC - Bird, Birdsong, and Hinson have now all gotten hit in consecutive offseasons, at least TC Insurance saved Birdsong, but how many guys have to die before at least the free protection gets used?) and the Rockets seem like a team in limbo - not committed to getting better, but also not really tanking, which means they won't get any really high lotto picks. They need to commit to going all in or to a rebuild, and for yet another offseason, they did neither, they just did the bare minimum to get through the class. "D" is the grade here. You don't get a "fail" because you did show up and do the absolute minimum, but there wasn't any movement that suggested any sense of direction for the team, so I can't give you a "C" either.

[greepleairport]

I'll take the Bullets, partly cuz you're my boy, and also because you did a LOT.

Having fielded the #1 team in the eastern conference, I wouldn't think the Bullets would do much. The only thing they didn't do, though, was trade Buck Williams. They went 10/10 on their UFA Rd 1 bids (?! - would not have noticed if they didn't say so in their presser), which is unprecedented, especially when no one would sign with the Spurs (also unprecedented). Their team is unrecognizable compared to last year, and yet they're still really, really good. I love the Nance pickup. They're building a smaller, faster, yet incredibly strong front court, making my Moses/Parish front court look old and slow (just look at the first game of the season! OOF).

Let's be clear. Buck is still the star here, but Nance is showing up and showing out, too. Also, all of us seem to have forgotten about Dr. J who is off to an incredible start for the Bullets. All in all, they did a Doug-level rebuild this offseason and seem to have built a playoff contender, well before their future stars' prime.

I give them a solid B. ...I wouldn't have done all that re-tooling, but I can't deny that Nance pick-up neither.

[BigDaddyd8720]

I'll go with the Bulls.

Coming off a 28 win season, it looked like this team would be in rebuild mode for a couple of seasons and possibly fighting for the #1 pick in the 84 draft. But holy hell did they make all the moves this offseason. They basically traded for the Celtics team that made the playoffs last season, then added English, Marques Johnson, and Ray Williams and now they look like a real contender in the East. It was almost as quick of a turn around as the Bucks had last offseason. And they got off to a great start with a top 10 offense and the #1 defense. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come this season for them.

Overall, I give the Bulls a A+

[Mike Lowry]

I'll aim some light at the Celtics who I think are making some solid moves.
I admire the fact that they are the first successful salary dump team.
Especially with the amount of teams tanking it's surprising that they are the only team getting points for contracts.
Also, I liked the timing of the reset.
I know they are on record saying they didn't want to compete last season but their pick situation forced their hand.
I'm guessing they either misjudged the market and missed an opportunity to land more solid pieces in UFA, Leavell and Johnson are just okay for the situation their in, Toney was pretty solid, or they swung hard for the top talent and struck out. In either case it put them a little behind on stacking talent and in a pretty solid tanking situation, which might have been the plan all along, and is not the worts time to be there.
We'll see where they land in the lottery.

For this past offseason I'll give them a B-

[Mike Lowry]

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