2030-31 Offseason Questionnaire

[Joe]

TL; DR: More free RP for a quick post! Prob wait til after FA to fill it out but up to you.

In addition to Team Awards, GMs can earn a quick and dirty 125RP by replying in this thread and filling out the below questionnaire - not required, but why not? Copy down the questions in a reply post and fill 'em out. Can be serious, can be funny, whatever you want. Get it done before season tip.

DO NOT claim your RP in the RP thread - we will calculate it separately before the season turns over and if you posted you will receive credit.

2030-31 Offseason Questionnaire

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?

3. Thoughts on TC?

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic:
Central:
Midwest:
Pacific:

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.

Bonus: add a pic/gif of how you feel about your season

[jwoo]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.

We’re juiced up about TOMARRI who I think is going to be a hilariously fun player based on the scout I got back. Thought this was a pretty fun draft with a lot of guys who could be really good with TC luck. I liked Devantrey Parker who was my second choice for this spot. Heir Jackson will be good. Liked Ockerman. Excited to see how the top names all develop. The theme of this draft was kind of TC jesus take the wheel, I didn’t feel like there were many truly safe picks but there’s a lot of upside!

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?

Might look into a trade or two. Need to find some bench pieces with Otto retiring. We should be in the mix again though, would be sweet to go back to back but that shit is very difficult

3. Thoughts on TC?

Hoping my younger role guys develop. Tomarri pls learn to rebound

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: Magic, I think Scoot Dick and Edey are really reliable
Central: Raptors, but the Pacers and Bulls should both be a lot better and the Cavs and Bucks are still solid
Midwest: Spurs until someone else in this division makes a damn move
Pacific: Lakers - Shai and Rui is a sick duo but GX will still need to build out the rest of the roster

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.

SLN GMs as Greek gods

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?

Ndudi Ebi no question

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.

I plead the fifth

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?

Nique or Toumani

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).

Bears are having the luckiest season ever, I’m here for it

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.

I recommend touching grass for the holidays and wish I could do so

Bonus: add a pic/gif of how you feel about your season

[SoNicks]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.
a lot of sleepers this year. deep draft, lot of role players and potential number 3s. Moo Moo. Brad Pitt. Doc Ock

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?
poor. Lame. Timid

3. Thoughts on TC?
Send help

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: nets, good team
Central: raptors, wemby not jwoo
Midwest: spurs, good team
Pacific: kings, good team

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.
Each GMs best and worst draft pick. Compare and contrast each GM to Sam Bowie.

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?
Pierce Paul

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.
Jawanna Mann

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?
Ausar

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).
Chiefs still on life support

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations
White Noise

[Wes]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.
Heimer told me he was 98% taking Braylan Davis at 1 so I was excited for Jacky. I guess he lied to me but am still happy with Davis. Was very close between him and Moudouyi. Hope the PG TCs hit Braylan hard.

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?
We have a good chunk of cap (but so does like 8 other teams) so hoping we can poach 1-2 guys we can flip for some value. Plan is to suck hard again this year

3. Thoughts on TC?
Would like to see Flory and Braylan have nice TCs along with the other young guys. Would be big if Alex Alex in the NDL can grow a bit of a tush this TC so he can be our C of the future.

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: Nets, they have a AD sized hole to fill in the front court. If they can find a trade for another big I think they'll take it again. Magic are close behind
Central: Raptors, they have the best player in the league and amazing complimentary guys.
Midwest: Spurs, Lamelo/Murray/Sengun is a great core. As long as Murray doesn't have a bad TC they should repeat. Mavs will be feisty too.
Pacific: Lakers, Shai and Rui will be a problem.

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.
Someone would need to do a lot of digging but Top 10 craziest things that have happened outside the boards. For example, scoops and I were close on a Tim Duncan deal back in the day. At one point I sent a counter offer to him and he didn't respond for days to multiple follow-up texts, so I said I'm going to rescind this offer because another team is very interested too. He said some choice words to me and said he was consulting with Jesse about how the trade would affect his cap sheet. Then I decided to trade Duncan to the Griz and he did not like that.

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?
Austin Reaves who we spent our sorry kid you're going on. He got massive gains in the NDL and even won MVP his final season in it. He was a solid 6th man for a year or two and then TCs really fucked him over. He had to be close to A+ outside but sadly his shooting regressed hard in TC.

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.
Tid Dees

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?
Anthony Edwards

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).
All DC professional teams are choosing to tank at the same time. Thankfully Maryland bball star, Pharrel Payne, didn't suffer a season ending injury and should be back soon. Hoping they can be frisky and get a tournament bid.

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.
Task was great. The Studio was entertaining too.

[GX.]

Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.
Seemed like a deep draft, lotta cool profiles, wasn’t super tuned in besides the crazy lotto. Go Hawks

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?
Very sad AG retired. Had some juicy deals starting to lineup to fill out the rest of my roster. Now we gotta scramble a bit to fill this out but I’m very happy with the Rui trade. Gave up a good amount but gotta pay to get good players
3. Thoughts on TC?

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: Nets, Luka’s a dog
Central: Raps, Wemby a dog
Midwest: Spurs, Jordo’s a dog
Pacific: Lakeshow, we’re goated

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.
I’ve been thinking of doing some analysis on the true turnover percentage of blocks. Think people over value them quite a bit and want a quantifiable number for how often blocks actually turn into TOs

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?
Rob Dillingham, had high hopes and consistently went negative in TC

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.
Lee Knover

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?
Cavs Thompson twin. Dudes a stud on like 8 mil?

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).
Arsenal gas, bears gas, blackhawks gas

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.
Halt and catch fire, pretty dank tv show

[Schmagel Steinbagel]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.
Heimer told me he was 98% taking Braylan Davis at 1 so I was excited for Jacky. I guess he lied to me

that 2% hit

[Matt]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.

Didn't look at the draft except a cursory look through the draft profiles - which is a shame because it looks like ashes is absolutely in his bag. Super fun names, super fun stips - very excited for the future of the league.

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?

Free agency will be very important for us! Lots of guys we need to retain. Mostly though just hoping for any kind of random TC bump for Nate Ament and excited to get Beckham Black up to the big leagues.

3. Thoughts on TC?

Would be great to see some positive movement for Nate the Great! But Beckham Black should get like +20 in NDL gains so hopefuly he can be elite in his first SLN season.

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: Nets, intertia
Central: Raptors, dynasty
Midwest: Spurs, GMOTY snub revenge season
Pacific: Kings, Jesse

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.

I think we have enough seasons of data where it would be cool to do like "SLN by era" and compare different eras of SLN based on like team stats and output

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?

Prob jimmer lol, i had high hopes

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.

Smorgasbord Jones

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?

Idk some butt making $1m somewhere

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).

The bears have won a lot of football games in the National Football League this season. Nahshon Wright is probably my least favorite Bear in 20 seasons and he leads the league in interceptions. Wild season, so much fun to actually win the close games instead of lose them in heartbreaking fashion every week. The bill is about to come due though now that we're finally going to have to play some good teams.

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.

Have never seen Interstellar and have been saving it for the right occasion - may just knock it out on my flight back to Chicago tomorrow

Bonus: add a pic/gif of how you feel about your season

[pacers]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.
really excited about both guys i drafted! think Kashin will be good and Moudouyi looks sick. Very curious to see how this draft plays out, a lot of high upside low base guys. Also curious to see if all the "good upside" notes end up being true or if there area lot of red herrings.

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?
Have a lot of hard cap room to play with, need to figure out how to use it! Want to break 50 wins this season and not be in the 6-8 seed grind in the east.

3. Thoughts on TC?
Can't wait for Cerdan's supercamp. Really hoping Gohier takes a jump this TC after he basically went nowhere up or down last TC. A lot of young guys on the team, hoping it's a solid TC.

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: Magic, a lot of good players in their prime
Central: Raptors, but really Pacers
Midwest: Spurs!
Pacific: Lakers

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.
anything pls!!! more content!!! i would love another "GMs as" article!

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?
Danuel House, huge waste of 2400 RP, FU

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.
Harry Kane

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?
Probably still Ausar... but really Dan Jake DA GOAT

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).
Not the right day for me to answerthis

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.
Newest Lincoln Lawyer book is good!

[nolan]

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?

3. Thoughts on TC?

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic:
Central:
Midwest:
Pacific:

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?
OBI TOPPIN

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.

Bonus: add a pic/gif of how you feel about your season

[Merv]

2030-31 Offseason Questionnaire

1. Draft thoughts? Sleepers, busts, your draft, other drafts, whatever.
Hyde ya kids. Hyde ya wives. Deuntrey or whatever is gonna be a good pick for the Mavs

2. How do you feel about your offseason, and what are your goals for this coming season?
Win 50 until we can’t

3. Thoughts on TC?
Would be fun if scoot improved

4. Who wins each division and WHY?

Atlantic: Magic, scoot szn 2
Central: Pacers, end the Dinosty
Midwest: Spurs, Jamal
Pacific: Lakers, Rui

5. Come up with a creative article idea! Might do some kind of Article of the Year RP award if we get some more content.
SLN GMs as Greek Gods. I think it could be really funny

6. Who's the most disappointing NDL project in your franchise's history?
Sun Yue. He and Yi were supposed to guide us from the ZW depths

7. Make up a name for a draftee that would have made the top 10 names in this draft.
HIngle McCringleberry, PF. Penn State

8. Who's the best non-rookie deal, non-max value-per-dollar player in the league?
Rui is pretty freaking good. I haven’t looked around enough but I’m not sure you can beat Ausar

9. Thoughts on your real life sports team(s).
No

10. Movies, TV, books, games, whatever recommendations.
Black Rabbit was not good, idk if that’s a hot take. One episode into Death by Lightning and I think it’s very promising.

Bonus: add a pic/gif of how you feel about your season