#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

Armando Ortega: Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining. As you know, since the beginning of this league this franchise has been in a state of flux. We have hired many different General Managers over the years and results have been fair if we're being kind. We have poor fan loyalty because of our lack of direction, and our attendance is at a deplorable 68%.



Armando Ortega: There are many times i've pointed the finger at the General Managers for that lack of direction , but in doing some soul searching I realize that I should have been pointing the finger at myself. Lack of direction starts at the top, and I'm at the head of this franchise. After this enlightenment, I took a long look in the mirror and realized maybe I'm not the right man to set direction of the franchise. So i came to a conclusion. I wanted to hire a man that could set direction and build a team that the city of Philadelphia deserves. I didn't want just a general manager, but i wanted a visionary who could lead us in a business and basketball sense. So with that, I'd like to announce the hiring of our new Team President and General Manager: Balls O'Hard.

Balls O'Hard: Thank you Mr. Ortega and thank you to everyone who has decided to join us today. First of all, I want to say thank you to Mr. Ortega for giving me this tremendous opportunity. I am happy to be back and am ready to get back to work. There's a lot of work to do and trust me, I'll get right to it. I think there has to be sort of a three pronged attack to get this franchise on the right track. First I will be evaluating what we have now. I will be meeting with players individually and see if they're long term solutions here or if they're just a moving part. Team pride and loyalty is what we will try and indoctrinate in not only our front office, but in our players.

Balls O'Hard: The second prong in our strategy is to make a plan on how to move forward after our evaluation is completed. So in other words, this is where we set timelines and milestones for the team and what we can accomplish in what amount of time. We will set how we will attack the draft, free agency, and the trade market. This will have to be fluid so we can set ourselves up for success, but not too fluid to where we never take a solid form and are in a constant state of flux. The last prong is execution of our plan. To quote Mike Tyson, "Everyone has a plan until they're punched in the mouth". We know situations will some up where our strategy won't work as planned, and it's important for us to adjust that plan and still be able to reach our end goals. That's a little breakdown on how we plan to attack this opportunity, and with that I'd like to open the floor for anyone with questions. Thank you.

Welcome back and Welcome to the East.

Baron Davis for Ron Artest.

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as a memeber of the TANKlantic I boo this

Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

too much of a challenge probably

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

Balls O'Hard: To be honest, it came down to a few things. Timing and just a change of scenery played into it a lot, and I wanted a new challenge. We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

ballsohard wrote:

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

Balls O'Hard: To be honest, it came down to a few things. Timing and just a change of scenery played into it a lot, and I wanted a new challenge. We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

#shotsfired

Dammit Balls, I moved to the Atlantic to get away from you!!!



(Welcome back sir)

ballsohard wrote:

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

Balls O'Hard: To be honest, it came down to a few things. Timing and just a change of scenery played into it a lot, and I wanted a new challenge. We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

Follow up: More difficult to win a title? I don't follow, and this clown guy isn't helping... Identify yourself, Peck, or get ready to Fryeing rock!

42PhD wrote:

ballsohard wrote:

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

Balls O'Hard: To be honest, it came down to a few things. Timing and just a change of scenery played into it a lot, and I wanted a new challenge. We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

Follow up: More difficult to win a title? I don't follow, and this clown guy isn't helping... Identify yourself, Peck, or get ready to WIGGING rock!

I've always felt that winning a title is extremely difficult no matter where you're at. Where you hash it out from there is semantics. The biggest thing I can do is put us in the right place to compete and hope everything else works out with timing and opponents and such.

The Boston Celtics very happily welcome you to the Atlantic Division.

Henry Gates, Houston Chronicle. Rumor has it the Rockets were interested in you for President of Basketball Operations. Did you meet with the Rockets and if so, what made you go in a different direction?


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ballsohard wrote:

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

Balls O'Hard: We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

Last 3 Champs disagree

Soundwave wrote:

ballsohard wrote:

42PhD wrote:Dr. Rocker from the Cleveland Rocker: Why not the Warriors?

Balls O'Hard: We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

Last 3 Champs disagree

The last one is worthless since I wasn't in the league and we all know the east has been riding wigs coat tails otherwise .. Nothing new here.

78# wrote:Henry Gates, Houston Chronicle. Rumor has it the Rockets were interested in you for President of Basketball Operations. Did you meet with the Rockets and if so, what made you go in a different direction?


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The rockets have been talking about change for years now, and it's hard to work for an ownership group that feeds the media with these rumors. It's also hard to work for an ownership group who doesn't support their front office, so I chose Philly.

ballsohard wrote:
Balls O'Hard: We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

Last 3 Champs disagree[/quote]

The last one is worthless since I wasn't in the league and we all know the east has been riding wigs coat tails otherwise .. Nothing new here.[/quote]
Well, like they always say, quitters are never around to win.

Soundwave wrote:

ballsohard wrote:
Balls O'Hard: We all know the West is more difficult, so I thought it'd only be right to try and balance some things out.

Last 3 Champs disagree

The last one is worthless since I wasn't in the league and we all know the east has been riding wigs coat tails otherwise .. Nothing new here.[/quote]
Well, like they always say, quitters are never around to win.[/quote]

Except I have won ..

So this title is worthless, too? Interesting.

Welcome back! Now if you would just get on 2k so we can play some Park bruh!

Shit getting SALTY

AWARDED 2 POINTS (team centric)! Thanks! (season 03-04)