NBA SIMS LEAGUE
NSL Insider - Winners and Losersby Vitticus, updated on Tuesday, November 08 2022, 11:05 pm EST Winners - 99 Big Bids Bradley Beal � Utah - 99 Jalen Brunson � Milwaukee - 99 Andre Drummond � Portland - 99 JaVale McGee � San Antonio - 99 Dennis Smith � San Antonio - 99 John Wall � Chicago - 99 Montrezl Harrell � Houston - 99 Otto Porter � Minnesota - 99 Isaiah Hartenstein � Toronto - 99  The obvious winner of the big dick bids is JasePitts (Utah) stealing Bradley Beal from Merencio. But after that, I would say the next big winner would be Daz stealing Brunson from Dallas. Now this was a pre-planned move, and I don�t know if any assets were promised. But this was amazing footwork on Daz�s part. Once you get into MLE guys, Drummond is the best 2k player available. Jmac is the winner of the MLE big bids. It doesn�t feel like a big win because it was highly expected. Nobody was surprised by this move. This was Jmac�s biggest bid last year and it was assumed that this would be his big bid this year. Everyone going to respect the champ and let him get his. Well except for Daz. Daz actually bidded 50 points in spite of the champ�s desires, but it ended up being a waste. However, you could argue that Nelso�s big bids were even better. Because he landed 2 top targets: Dennis Smith and JaVale McGee. After throwing a big bid on Dennis Smith, Nels traded 3 future 2nds for 70 GM points so that he could throw another big bid on JaVale McGee. Neither of these guys are better than Drummond, but some could argue that the gap between Drummond and McGee isn�t that far in 2k or won�t be that far after the next tendency update. Winners - Risky High Bids that Weren�t 99 DeAndre Jordan � Oklahoma - 75 Tyus Jones � Oklahoma - 75 Robin Lopez � Indiana - 74 Dorian Finney-Smith � Boston � 71 Bismack Biyombo � New Orleans � 40  Wizkid is the winner here for moderately high bids that weren�t 99 for his acquisition of Deandre Jordan. Most of us knew that there was no chance of us of winning Drummond or JaVale. So we turn our eyes to Montrezl Harrell, DeAndre Jordan, and Isaiah Hartenstein. That�s if we�re trying to land a big. Deandre Jordan is a guy you don�t really want to bid 99 points on but feel like you kind of have to if you really need a big. I could read the temperature of the room and could tell people were scared. Especially through Rootsey�s live rambling that someone (possibly himself) would throw a 99 bid on Deandre. I personally bidded 34 points on DeAndre and then cancelled the bid because I got scared. So major props to Wizkid for sticking with his guns and not cancelling his bid and winning Deandre Jordan for 75 points. I�d like to throw an honorable mention for Leeroy landing Bismack Biyombo. Because Biyombo is a serviceable big and was not on anybody�s radar. He was returner to Phoenix in the NBA, so people just kind of assumed whoever had Biyombo would retain him. But the thing is no one owned him. Leeroy saw this and took advantage. Winners - Small Bid Winners Kyle Anderson � Sacramento - 24 Gorgui Dieng � Houston - 17 Thaddeus Young � Houston - 17 JaMychal Green � Houston � 17 Goran Dragic � Minnesota - 16 Bryn Forbes � Toronto - 16 Taj Gibson � Minnesota - 5  I feel like I (Houston) was the winner of the small bids for most of the night for my acquisitions of Gorgui Dieng, Thaddeus Young, and JaMychal Green for only 17 points each. But Klemm surprised everyone with his win on Kyle Anderson at the end of the night. Kyle Anderson is very deserving of a 99 bid. I actually thought that Klemm was going to bid 99 points to keep him, but I looked at Klemm�s GM points at the beginning of the night and he only had 69 points to begin with. So Kyle Anderson was fair game. People were scared of Leeroy. Leeroy still had a ton of points and people were expecting he would put 99 on Bruce Brown or Kyle Anderson since he had just traded for Wendell Carter Jr. I think that�s why people were scared to bid 99 on either of these guys. And this worked out in Klemm�s favor. Winners � Free Wins Bruce Brown - Memphis PJ Tucker � Indiana Malik Monk - Chicago Blake Griffin � Chicago Patty Mills � Chicago Reggie Bullock - Oklahoma James Johnson � San Antonio Damian Jones � Sacramento Mike Muscala � Los Angeles Lakers Bruno Fernando � Golden State Derrick Jones Jr � Golden State Damion Lee � Orlando Taurean Prince - Atlanta Frank Kaminsky - Charlotte Facundo Campazzo � Brooklyn Wesley Matthews � Minnesota Markieff Morris � Portland Jevon Carter - Toronto  Memphis is the big winner here after obtaining Bruce Brown for free. As I noted in the above column, people were scared that Leeroy was going to put a 99 points on Bruce Brown or Kyle Anderson. So no one bidded points on Bruce Brown. Rootsey won by 1 point. Bruce Brown isn�t really putting up amazing numbers in the NBA, but in 2k, he has better tendencies than 90% of the FA pool. He�s pretty much like Royce O�Neale but with more offense and higher ratings. Not a Loss � Retained Players These are retained players who already had loyalty. So retaining them wouldn�t have been so tough. You kind of already know what you need to bid. I don�t really consider these as wins. They are just neutral moves to keep your team looking the same as it was yesterday. There�s no winners here. James Harden � Portland retained Zach LaVine � Golden State retained Mitchell Robinson � Memphis retained Jusuf Nurkic � Brooklyn retained Bobby Portis � Dallas retained Chris Boucher � Charlotte retained Dewayne Dedmon � San Antonio retained Kevon Looney � Oklahoma retained Serge Ibaka � Denver retained Jalen Smith � Los Angeles Lakers retained Losers � Bidded, but it didn�t even matter Mitchell Robinson � Los Angeles Lakers � 20 and still loss Troy Brown � Los Angeles Lakers � 18 and still loss to a 0 bid Kevon Looney � Los Angeles Lakers � 25 and still loss to a 0 bid Justin (Lakers) is the loser here. He showed that you can bid 18 points on a player and still lose to 0 bids. He would have had to bid 24 points just to beat Klemm�s 0 bid on Troy Brown. But that is how life is when you have such a low win record. But he made some rookie mistakes too. Mitchell Robinson and Kevon Looney were both returners. This meant that they had 50 loyalty already to the previous owner. So you have to bid 50 additional points on top of what you are already bidding. It wouldn�t have mattered with Mitchell Robinson though because Rootsey was already bidding 50 points on top of his 51 loyalty. I don�t think Justin knew about this yet. Don�t feel too bad though. I made rookie mistakes like this all the time my first 3 years. Losers � Low Bids These are losses that could have been prevented if the GM had just bidded the amount of points a normal GM would have spent to retain a player.  Bradley Beal � Chicago loss - 10 Tyus Jones � Brooklyn loss - 0 Injured Players Victor Oladipo (INJ) � Washington retained � 79 Thomas Bryant (INJ) � Miami � 60 TJ Warren (INJ) � Chicago - 41 Dennis Schroder (INJ) � New Orleans � 40 Joe Ingles (INJ) � Sacramento � 15 Gary Payton II (INJ) � Phoenix - 13 Danilo Gallinari (INJ) � Los Angeles Lakers - FREE Delon Wright (INJ) � Cleveland - FREE Ricky Rubio (INJ) � Denver � FREE Andre Iguodala (INJ) � Milwaukee � FREE Danny Green (INJ) � Washington � FREE We pondered how injuries would effect free agency, and looks like 4 of these guys actually got bids. I personally don�t like holding these guys because when a player is injured for a long period of time, their ratings drop and 2k skips them when doing their yearly tendency update. Schroder is the only person here that I believe in. He already has good tendencies in 2k. He will probably get skipped in the tendency update and retain his current good tendencies. His ratings will drop but he will still look the same. |
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