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From: J-Slo

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Date: 1/9/2011 10:45:33 PM
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Congrats, to the deserving winner of a great finals matchup!

And now the countdown begins as we all await tomorrow's offseason processing :)

From: Fella

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Date: 1/9/2011 10:49:18 PM
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see you buddy best of luck to ya.

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Date: 1/10/2011 12:43:12 PM
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Crossing my fingers I promote back into III.4




From: Fella

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Date: 1/10/2011 10:04:49 PM
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don't see ya buddy..................bummer

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Date: 1/11/2011 5:00:42 PM
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Well, I got relegated to IV.63 but managed to snag two of my better draft choices, Robert & Stevie. I'll post more next post.

Robert Ocampo (Pick #3, Choice #1)
Power Forward
Owner: Chicago Goats

Weekly salary: $ 4 213
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: average Handling: atrocious
Driving: average Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: average


Stevie Ocampo (Pick #19, Choice #5) -- no relation to Robert
Center
Owner: Chicago Goats

Weekly salary: $ 4 487
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 0
Age: 19
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: awful Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: pitiful Handling: awful
Driving: awful Passing: atrocious
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: atrocious Free Throw: awful

Experience: pitiful


Clark Coley (Pick #35, Choice #9)
Small Forward
Owner: Chicago Goats

Weekly salary: $ 2 268
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 0
Age: 19
Height: 6'5" / 196 cm
Potential: starter
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: atrocious Handling: atrocious
Driving: average Passing: average
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: atrocious
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: inept

Experience: atrocious

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Date: 1/11/2011 5:15:54 PM
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Alright, Clark is most likely gone.

The addition of Stevie looks mediocre but his potential looks promising. However, the recent acquisition of Sidre Castrofeito, the outstanding flash of potential that Paul Wiles and Matthew Craven has shown at the 4-5 spots, and the very fact that I still have Francisco Candia because no one decided to purchase him to relieve me of his cap hit this season, makes this a VERY, VERY crowded frontcourt. Not to mention that Stevie has another Ocampo to deal with, his brother-from-anotha-motha, Robert.

Robert looks to have a skill set that I am absolutely salivating over and makes the idea of letting Francisco Candia just hit the streets even easier. I have absolutely no issue with training bigs but the problem I do have is I still have no backcourt.

Keepers:
Sidre Castrofeito - short term answer while I train; excellent passer/rebounder, makes for a good transition
Paul Wiles - shown plenty of moments throughout Season 14 of becoming a star
Matthew Craven - excellent backup option, unafraid to snag the loose ball; needs to be a more consistent shooter or passer
Robert Ocampo - young, HoF potential, excellent starting skill set .... he's the future while Wiles is being groomed for SF

Gone
Francisco Candia - age & salary ... combined with my division, he'll possibly dominate but I need to do this the right way
Stevie Ocampo - a too crowded front court makes for an early exit, he'll be hitting the free agency wire very soon
Clark Coley - Not a good prospect, has a weak starting skill set, his chances are slim to none that he'll stick.

Fringe
Lowell Webber - Listed as a SF but at 6'11" and a mediocre skill set, doesn't give me much advantage at this position. Still he is the better option

Titus Harvey - Have had Harvey for two or three seasons now and never really shown me much other than he's a solid backup plan

Teddy Titus - a mid-season switch to starting 2 proved fruitless, excellent off the bench, nothing more

Lawrence Coyle - stuck around this long, has a solid set of skills but never shows me much to keep him as a starter; good enough to be a fill-in starter anywhere between 2 to 4 games but nothing more.

Clinton Cantrell - his skill set does not belong in Div III. Excellent passer, nothing more. Could never get his shot going and without a true backup, his numbers declined. Moved to SG late in the season to allow new acquisition Drzislav Radeka playing time and to see if the new offense would flow any better with Vernon Partridge having moved onto greener pastures.

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Date: 1/11/2011 7:15:07 PM
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You know you will be bored in DIV with all your vast amounts of info. lol

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Date: 1/12/2011 7:16:36 PM
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Yeah, I'm actually training Radeka, Wiles, Craven, and now R.Ocampo. Wiles trains well at the 1-2 spot so he's worth keeping and from what i witnessed in all of his games, he played quite well, being a hell of a rebounder/scorer. Craven needs to show me something this season but I'm going to attempt to train Ocampo into a well-rounded PF. Craven should be my future C if I can train properly while Radeka is already a good passing Guard that needs to become a better outside shooter and defender.

My Training plans are:

When Guards
PG: Radeka/Wiles
SG: OCampo/Craven

When Bigs
PF: OCampo/Wiles
C: Craven/Wiles

I gotta figure out a plan though for possible Single-Pos training. Those are four players I would love to keep around as my future starters so any ideas? I'll post Radeka's and Castrofeito's stats later tonight. Castro is not a trainer but rather a starter ... possibly my starter for the Cup and that's it though if I decide to focus solely on training.

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Date: 1/12/2011 8:42:55 PM
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I think you gotta single position train only (or it's not really worth keeping Ocampo when you could just sell him for 2+ million), which means you need to bite the bullet and decide on just three to train.

I'd probably one position train the guard skills this season and next with Radeka, Ocampo, and either Craven or Wiles (or even Stevie Ocampo- it's hard to say without knowing everybody's skills, but frankly Wiles/Craven have only 1k more salary than S. Ocampo, and they're already 20 yrs old while he's only 19). Then, switch to one position inside skill training and just train 'em up. Radeka can stay at guard and end his training career at that point, replacing him with a new inside trainee, or you could give him some inside skills too if you wanted to round him out a bit.

So Radeka/Ocampo/Ocampo for 2 seasons of guard skills. Then inside skills for as high as you can afford to train them; hopefully your team will be doing well and moving back up the divisions as your guys grow so that you CAN afford to train them as high as you'd like, and you end up with a nice guard, nice center, and special PF.

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Date: 1/12/2011 8:53:23 PM
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Stevie Ocampo's ratings suck in comparison and last season Paul Wiles progressed quite a few times in a nice round manner that did not cause his salary to jump so high (thankfully). In the past, I would have overtrained him (see Vernon Partridge) on the inside skills and would have been useless outside and at the charity stripe. I'll show Wiles and Craven as well. I like both players better than Stevie. I'm going to see about grabbing some easy screen shots and posting those instead of copy/paste (hard to read). I'll be back in a bit.

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