Blast to the 'Ship - A Houston Rockets Story

[PointGuard]

Bummer!

[LightningStrike5]

Hey bro, sorry this fell apart. Did you try removing just that single player who was giving the original 2014 file problems? I don't remember his name, but if you try and completely revamp him into another player (thus overriding every single one of his ratings, since we don't know WHAT about him messes up the process), perhaps that'd work...

Either way, you have my condolences. Nothing sucks more about this game than getting into a dynasty and then seeing it blow up.

[Rizzo]

Bummer!

Agreed wholeheartedly with that sentiment.

Hey bro, sorry this fell apart. Did you try removing just that single player who was giving the original 2014 file problems? I don't remember his name, but if you try and completely revamp him into another player (thus overriding every single one of his ratings, since we don't know WHAT about him messes up the process), perhaps that'd work...

Either way, you have my condolences. Nothing sucks more about this game than getting into a dynasty and then seeing it blow up.

There's nothing I can do since I've already entered the draft class into my league. Once the class is entered in, you can't edit it. This legacy is done, unfortunately...

[LightningStrike5]

Notttt exactly true... you can edit the draftees at any point. When the year flips over, all the rookies become regular, editable players in the outputted game file. Export the file, edit that dude, import it. I have a feeling that just might work...

[Myles Nelson]

Lightningstrike is correct.

[Rizzo]

Notttt exactly true... you can edit the draftees at any point. When the year flips over, all the rookies become regular, editable players in the outputted game file. Export the file, edit that dude, import it. I have a feeling that just might work...

Lightningstrike is correct.

So players who haven't been drafted yet are in the database and can be edited? I'll have to check this out.

*EDIT*

LightningStrike, you are amazing! I knew that Rasmus Larsen was the bad apple in the mod file, but didn't realize that you could edit players that were in the draft class through the database before they were drafted. Life saver! This league is back on!

[Myles Nelson]

Should be under TeamID 500.

[Rizzo]

[color="Blue"]2014 NBA Draft First Round Results[/color]

1. ORL - Andrew Wiggins
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2. HOU - Jabari Parker[/color]
3. BOS - Noah Vonleh
4. CHA - James Michael McAdoo
5. PHI - Julius Randle
6. NOP - Jerami Grant
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7. HOU - Marcus Smart[/color]
8. MEM - James Young
9. SAC - Andrew Harrison
10. POR - P.J. Hairston
11. UTH - Adreian Payne
12. MIL - Mario Hezonja
13. BKN - Branden Dawson
14. NYK - Russ Smith
15. LAL - Spencer Dinwiddie
16. TOR - Willie Cauley-Stein
17. ATL - Daniel Diez
18. DET - Glenn Robinson III
19. GSW - Kyle Anderson
20. LAC - LeBryan Nash
21. SAS - Chane Behanan
22. IND - Chris Walker
23. CHI - Pape Amadou
24. IND - Fuquan Edwin
25. CHA - Jerian Grant
26. CLE - Wayne Selden
27. OKC - Sean Kilpatrick
28. MIA - Montrezl Harrell
29. WAS - Rasheed Sulaimon
30. PHI - Aaron Harrison

Sitting at #2 on the board, we were hoping that the Magic made a huge blunder and passed up on Andrew Wiggins with the first pick, but not even Orlando could screw that one up. We settle for the next best prospect in the class: Jabari Parker. He will give us a true PF to play in the post and to give us an already established rebounder off the bench. He will give us a post scorer that our bench lacked sorely last season.

With our second pick in the first round at #7, we were just going with best player available unless a trade came through worth taking. There weren't any deals that suited to our liking, so we took another point guard, this time Marcus Smart out of Oklahoma State. Yes, we have Mike Conley and yes, we have Trey Burke, but we don't have much depth at all in our guard rotation and Smart can play both the point and shooting guard spots. He and Burke off the bench could be lethal!

We engaged in two different trades throughout this draft, both of which were with the Indiana Pacers. The first one came towards the end of the lottery when the Pacers inquired about the availability of Lamar Odom. Since we had drafted Jabari Parker to play PF off the bench, Odom and his $2m contract were expendable. We sent him to Indiana in return for the #52 pick in the draft, where we selected Doug McDermott out of Creighton. McDermott is a three-point specialist for us and will spend some time in the D-League for us.

Our second trade came when we were on the clock at #24. We didn't have a need to add another rookie to our roster and the Pacers came calling again. Trade talks had been fruitful already, so why not extend the love fest some more? They offered their first next year for the #24 pick and we gladly accepted as they selected Fuquan Edwin, a SF out of Seton Hall. Worked out for both teams.

[Myles Nelson]

I can see a 4 guard rotation at PG/SG where Conley and Harden get the majority of the minutes, and Burke and Smart split the backup minutes at both positions. Heck, move Harden to SF sometimes to really free up minutes for them.

[Rizzo]

I can see a 4 guard rotation at PG/SG where Conley and Harden get the majority of the minutes, and Burke and Smart split the backup minutes at both positions. Heck, move Harden to SF sometimes to really free up minutes for them.

That's definitely going to be the four guard rotation for sure. I played Harden at the 3 last season when Royce White was unavailable, so that's definitely an option this season. Since our SF depth is bare with Pietrus, McDermott and Ronnie Brewer the only options, Harden will definitely see some minutes.

My priority is to sign Royce White to an extension now. He want's major money; ~$13m per for four seasons. I'm going to try to haggle him down, but I see him getting paid either by us or another team.