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Re: Official 2K12 Rate My Trade
After playing a couple of associations where I didn't change the Celtics' (my favorite team) roster around much, I am now playing one where I am going crazy with trades just for fun. I am trying not to trade for superstars, though; I have specific things that I love to see in basketball teams, so I am just doing trades that acquire players whose styles that I like. So far these are the moves that I have made:
Celtics trade: Brandon Bass, Mickael Pietrus, Marquis Daniels, Sasha Pavlovic
Rockets trade: Samuel Dalembert, Courtney Lee
Reason: I like big, defensive-minded, rebounding big men, which is exactly what Dalembert is and Bass is not. I also like wing players who are strong defenders and shooters, which Courtney Lee is. I like Pietrus a lot (both in game and in real life), but Lee is younger and will fit in better at the SG spot while Pietrus was stuck behind Pierce and Green and SF and seemed slightly out of position at shooting guard. Daniels and Pavlovic are scrubs.
Celtics trade: Keyon Dooling, E'Twaun Moore
Pistons trade: Ben Wallace
Reason: I like Dooling a lot, but since Rondo plays so many minutes it is almost a waste to have a great backup when I could just slide Bradley over to point guard while Rondo is on the bench. Moore is a surprisingly good NBA prospect in this game (somehow even better than JaJuan Johnson seems to be), but with Ray Allen starting and Lee/Bradley (both fairly young) coming off the bench, I didn't see him contributing any time soon. Wallace is ancient and will almost certainly retire at the end of the season, but he is one of the best defensive and rebounding big men in the game.
Free agent acquisitions: Keith Bogans, Eddie House, Renaldo Balkman, Theo Ratliff.
Current roster:
Rondo/Bradley/House
Allen/Lee/Bogans
Pierce/Green/Balkman
Garnett/O'Neal/Johnson
Dalembert/Wallace/Ratliff
With Greg Stiemsma in the D-League (I'd love to have him on my roster, but he is SO hideous in this game that I can't stand seeing him). I really wanted to acquire Reggie Evans to fill out my roster instead of Theo Ratliff, but I was unable to due to difficulty matching salaries and the Clippers seeming to overvalue him (even though my trades/team assembling has not been realistic, I have done everything without forcing trades).
After the first game of the season, the Nets offered me Deron Williams and Anthony Morrow for KG and Avery Bradley, but I declined because I already have a star point guard in Rondo and didn't want to lose my only good post scorer in KG.
I haven't done a crazy association like this for fun since NBA 2k11, so it'll be interesting to see how long it is before I lose interest.
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