NBA 2k10: (In other words, "Game none of you care about")
Finished up my first season in this buggy (but not as bad as people say) game with Sacramento. To no one's surprise, I wound up at the bottom of the league, I think I had the fourth worst record.
Luckily I won the draft lottery and was able to recruit one fictional "Ramon Lopez", a Point guard from Puerto Rico who instantly supplanted Kevin Martin as the star of my team because HOLY SHIT he is ridiculous.
I dunno how to describe this beast. He's like if you averaged Derrick Rose and Deron Williams, so you had someone DAMN GOOD at driving (but not Rose good) and DAMN good at shooting (But not Williams good) but with terrific court vision anyhow you slice it. Also, he's got freakishly fast hands on defense and can pluck balls from damn near every point guard in the league. The BEST BALL HANDLERS, to put it another way. Oh, and he rebounds at an absurd clip, too. I almost want to say he was generated because Fake Jason Kidd retired, but he's just... much better than Kidd is. So I basically had my franchise saved by a ridiculous stroke of luck.
I run:
Ramon Lopez, the Absurd
Kevin Martin
Andres Nocioni
Jason Thompson
Spencer Hawes
which, once you give this team an actual point guard, is a pretty hilarious lineup, because Thompson and Hawes are surprisingly good at getting good position inside in this game. And Lopez is a BEAST. He'll give me 30 and 10 a night, with maybe 4 steals and 4 rebounds.
My rotation is
Tyreke Evans (Randomly dropped 9 points in player rating... he's still my sixth man, but I should replace him for optimal efficiency.)
Francisco Garcia
"Kevin Cohen", a Power Forward I drafted in the second round, but I'd be perfectly happy starting him if I didn't have Thompson. Steal of the draft. I'm absurdly lucky.
Sergio Rodriguez, better in this game than in real life
Jason Kapono (Acquired via trade for beans)
Primoz Brezec (fills a hole in my roster)
and
"Rudolph" somethingorother, another generated rookie that I got in the second round that sucks now but is being carefully molded into a defensive supermonster.
I was running a pretty simple drive and kick offense until I got Lopez, and now my offense is more a series of pick 'n' rolls with Lopez and my three main bigs. That is, if Lopez can't beat the opposing point man on his own, which he often can. When that fails, I have Martin or Nocioni bail me out. I was afraid that I wasn't utilizing Martin's great offense until I finished a game and saw he scored over 20 points and I have no recollection of it happening. Makes him the perfect second banana to this rapidly improving team.
All in all, I expect to make the playoffs in just my second year running the franchise. It's amazing how much one lucky offseason can change. I have about 10 million dollars in cap room that's burning a hole in my pocket, but it wasn't quite enough to lure away any of my targets in the offseason, so I have next year to look forward to.