Post by TrayWithAnA on Jan 11, 2014 12:11:32 GMT -6
Time to open up Presser Season!!!
Welcome everyone to the Palace at Auburn Hills for the 1992 Preseason Presser. I appreciate all of you making the trip out here to discuss Deeeetroit Basketball.
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For starters we want to take a moment to discuss another season full of moral victories. We ended the year at 35-47 and last in the division, but we played very well when healthy and would have probably tempted with a .500 record and a possible playoff birth with a little better coaching and managing of the depth chart. In the end, we were eliminated from playoff contention in the final week after a blitzkrieg of better play after the all-star break.
Would like to take a minute to congratulate the fellow Central Division, Atlanta Hawks, on their back-to-back titles after what was an exciting NBA playoffs this year. Us Lottery teams really enjoyed a great show from all you guys.
After a very lucky draw of the #3 pick in 1991, our lottery pick and the Nuggets lottery pick we acquired in a trade both stayed pat at #7 and #13. Before the draft, we had conversations with the Dallas Mavericks about acquiring the future Hall-of-Famer, John Stockton, but our #7 draw meant that we would have to wait and see what was available before considering any moves. In the end, we got a little luck and had PF Christian Laettner fall into our laps. After being forced to play SF Ken Norman at PF all of last year, it was nice at the time to have a legitimate PF to pair with Reggie Miller and Steve Smith. Laettner has all of the skills needed to succeed as a big in this league and we are excited to have him on the team.
At #13, we drafted a combo guard in David Wesley. We would have liked to address our other starting big, but unfortunately the best targets were already gone, and the next best Center would have been a stretch there. Don’t get me wrong, we are very excited to have Wesley. He has extremely high upside as a PG when you look at his potentials and we should be able to take our time to bring him along. We aimed at him being our 6th man before Free Agency. We’d like to welcome David Wesley and his smoking hot wife from the future to Detroit.
Going into Free Agency, we were focused on signing one of four targets at Center to help reform our front court. After submitting first round bids that included a max deal for Elden Campbell, two of the guys we viewed as the top 4 centers available in free agency this year, Andrew Lang and Chris Dudley, signed 3-year deals with us. Obviously this was sort of a shock to us here in Detroit. We hoped for one of them to pair with our rookie PF, Christian Laettner. We will adapt to the good news quickly and use the 96 minutes in the frontcourt and split them between Dudley, Lang, and Laettner. We see Lang starting at PF, Dudley starting at Center, and having more than a third of the minutes assigned to Laettner. Look for a 30-30-36 split. Welcome to Detroit, Andrew and Chris.
Lastly, in what was a whirlwind of an offseason, we realized our folly in extremely undervaluing Michael Adams and gave up what we had to bring him back. What essentially became a complete reversal of last years trade, we gave up Ken Norman for Terry Catledge. Before free agency, we saw Ken Norman as a key player on our bench. Unfortunately for Ken, we filled up the frontcourt minutes quickly after the draft and free agency and Ken would have been limited to 10 minutes or less in his contract year. Terry Catledge should be able to fill that role pretty easily.
The key piece to this deal was Michael Adams. After a stellar draft and free agency period, it was obvious that our weakest point was the Point. Adams spent a year with rival Bucks trying to make a championship run. Unfortunately for Milwaukee, the injuries to their team really hampered their playoffs and Mr. Quail decided to rebuild a little. We happily took Adams back since there were very few options for us to get his caliber of a player at the position. We would have went to battle with Dawkins if it came to that, but we are extremely happy to have Adams back on this team.
In the end, our expectations have risen exponentially. There have been very few times in our sim league history (and future) that I have heard GMOY thrown around this often at this point of the preseason. I assure you, our coaching staff has a lot to prove in order to earn those accolades. We have very rarely been able to figure out the gameplan for consistent periods of time. All we can hope as an organization is that our coaching staff can put it together with the tools they have been provided. Needless to say, we are excited to get this season started.
I’m going to open up the floor for questioning.
Welcome everyone to the Palace at Auburn Hills for the 1992 Preseason Presser. I appreciate all of you making the trip out here to discuss Deeeetroit Basketball.
For starters we want to take a moment to discuss another season full of moral victories. We ended the year at 35-47 and last in the division, but we played very well when healthy and would have probably tempted with a .500 record and a possible playoff birth with a little better coaching and managing of the depth chart. In the end, we were eliminated from playoff contention in the final week after a blitzkrieg of better play after the all-star break.
Would like to take a minute to congratulate the fellow Central Division, Atlanta Hawks, on their back-to-back titles after what was an exciting NBA playoffs this year. Us Lottery teams really enjoyed a great show from all you guys.
After a very lucky draw of the #3 pick in 1991, our lottery pick and the Nuggets lottery pick we acquired in a trade both stayed pat at #7 and #13. Before the draft, we had conversations with the Dallas Mavericks about acquiring the future Hall-of-Famer, John Stockton, but our #7 draw meant that we would have to wait and see what was available before considering any moves. In the end, we got a little luck and had PF Christian Laettner fall into our laps. After being forced to play SF Ken Norman at PF all of last year, it was nice at the time to have a legitimate PF to pair with Reggie Miller and Steve Smith. Laettner has all of the skills needed to succeed as a big in this league and we are excited to have him on the team.
At #13, we drafted a combo guard in David Wesley. We would have liked to address our other starting big, but unfortunately the best targets were already gone, and the next best Center would have been a stretch there. Don’t get me wrong, we are very excited to have Wesley. He has extremely high upside as a PG when you look at his potentials and we should be able to take our time to bring him along. We aimed at him being our 6th man before Free Agency. We’d like to welcome David Wesley and his smoking hot wife from the future to Detroit.
Going into Free Agency, we were focused on signing one of four targets at Center to help reform our front court. After submitting first round bids that included a max deal for Elden Campbell, two of the guys we viewed as the top 4 centers available in free agency this year, Andrew Lang and Chris Dudley, signed 3-year deals with us. Obviously this was sort of a shock to us here in Detroit. We hoped for one of them to pair with our rookie PF, Christian Laettner. We will adapt to the good news quickly and use the 96 minutes in the frontcourt and split them between Dudley, Lang, and Laettner. We see Lang starting at PF, Dudley starting at Center, and having more than a third of the minutes assigned to Laettner. Look for a 30-30-36 split. Welcome to Detroit, Andrew and Chris.
Lastly, in what was a whirlwind of an offseason, we realized our folly in extremely undervaluing Michael Adams and gave up what we had to bring him back. What essentially became a complete reversal of last years trade, we gave up Ken Norman for Terry Catledge. Before free agency, we saw Ken Norman as a key player on our bench. Unfortunately for Ken, we filled up the frontcourt minutes quickly after the draft and free agency and Ken would have been limited to 10 minutes or less in his contract year. Terry Catledge should be able to fill that role pretty easily.
The key piece to this deal was Michael Adams. After a stellar draft and free agency period, it was obvious that our weakest point was the Point. Adams spent a year with rival Bucks trying to make a championship run. Unfortunately for Milwaukee, the injuries to their team really hampered their playoffs and Mr. Quail decided to rebuild a little. We happily took Adams back since there were very few options for us to get his caliber of a player at the position. We would have went to battle with Dawkins if it came to that, but we are extremely happy to have Adams back on this team.
In the end, our expectations have risen exponentially. There have been very few times in our sim league history (and future) that I have heard GMOY thrown around this often at this point of the preseason. I assure you, our coaching staff has a lot to prove in order to earn those accolades. We have very rarely been able to figure out the gameplan for consistent periods of time. All we can hope as an organization is that our coaching staff can put it together with the tools they have been provided. Needless to say, we are excited to get this season started.
I’m going to open up the floor for questioning.
credit loco for photoshop
