Anonymous
Years ago
If you were 36ers GM/Coach,
As Free Agency is approaching, i thought it would be interesting to see what people would do if they were 36ers GM/Coach in regards to next seasons roster.
Try to be realistic with salary and within the points cap, what would your line up look like, including imports, for the sake of the argument lets say D-leaguers and others around various NBL-level Euro leagues are gettable, and college seniors, who would you target.
For the sake of the argument lets say guys like Cedric Jackson, Gary Ervin, Donta Smith, other top level imports who are no longer in the NBL (or likely to demand big bucks elsewhere ie Jackson) are unavailable, but D-leaguers are guettable as they only earn something like 30k (i think).
My team would be
STARTERS
C - Schenscher (SA born and bread, been one of the better players on playoff teams his whole career, including college)
PF - Johnson (people say he is internationally a PF like Nielsen and Andersen, so happy to play him at PF, he is quick enough to play PF also imo, not a great defender but could fill the Ballinger type role as a jump shooting, fairly mobile big)
SF - Weigh (could easily start Creek here, but guessing the coaches will start Weigh, was one of our better rebounders needs to step it up offensively and gain more consistency/confidence in his shot or Creek will overtake him very quickly)
SG - Anthony Goods (IMPORT),gone with a import shooter, as we will need some shooters with our big guys inside, played D-league with a stint in Italy, shot the 3pter at above 40% in the 2011-12. His Career D-league averages are 14.6 pts, 2.2 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 39.8% from 3pt range. 6'3 not huge for a SG but big enough for the NBL IMO, Lisch is around that size from memory. Could have easily gone with a import big, to rebound, but decided we needed the shooter more as Schenscher and Johnson will play the bulk of the big man minutes anyway.
Anyone seen much of him?
PG - Curtis Stinson (IMPORT), was 2011 D-League MVP, his career D-League averages are 14.9pts, 8.1 ast, 5.4 rebounds, judging from a few quick youtube vids and stats, appears to be a fairly athletic, drive and dish PG, offensively similar to a Jackson, couldnt tell anything about him defensively but hopefully can hold his own, good size at 6'3, doesnt seem to take many 3-pt shots given his career average this is a good thing. 29 years old, so may be happy to take a 150k import salary instead of tinkering around the D-League. If nothing else he is bigger than Warren and would definitely average more assists and be a better play maker. Anyone seen him play or know much about him?
BENCH
C - Trueman (offer him a few more mins and $$ if available than he is getting in Perth, seems to be a hard working inside player, who will be a good compliment to Schenscher and Johnson)
PF - Dowdell (Another hardworking player inside, good team man, not likely to demand huge $$ or mins), if we have the $$ or points available chase Larry Davidson instead as our 3rd big, playing most of the back up mins (obviously Truemans role would change if we got him, but went with Dowdell as not expecting to be able to afford much else.
SF - Creek, play atleast 20 mins sliding between SG and SF, push Weigh for starting spot, given the toughest defensive assignment when on the court.
SG - NG, another shooter and good to have another SA local on the team,
PG - Crosswell, good veteran playmaker
Anyway thats how I would recruit and think it would be a fairly strong team, depending on how good the imports turn out.
What do people think? What would your line up look like?
