The Contenders:
Dallas, Kyle, & Auk:
These teams are the clear favorite to finish in the top 3rd of our league come playoff time. Both Kyle and Auk will advance to 5-0 by Monday and Dallas will fall to 3-2 (only because he played Kyle). Auk’s team comes as a surprise though and I believe his team is the most likely of the bunch to fall out of the first 3 seeds due to his PF (points for). He had scored 3,504 points so far which ranks 4th in our league and Mark is a close competitor in this regard at 3,461 PF. Kyle seems to be the leagues favorite but all 3 teams have been engaged in some preliminary trade talks — looking to send young talent for one more premiere player to help them make a push toward the summit.
The 2’s is Who’s? Idk
Eric, Mark, Mitch,
All three of these teams are 2-2. I, personally, don’t love the roster construction of any of these teams. Not that the talent isn’t found when perusing through these rosters but the longevity surely isn’t. If My Man Mitch set his lineup every night he may actually be 3-1 and if Eric didn’t have the hospital on speed dial his team could have a better record as well. Marks team is admittedly pretty good but the age factor will be a large part of his teams successes and failures.
Rest, will be a huge part of marks season in my opinion as some of his veteran players have been banged up this season and LBJ is old. Eric had the depth, Mitch had the stars, and Mark had the supporting cast to all be serious players in this years playoffs. But I truly think Eric and Mitch are a couple of losses away from rebranding via trade. Eric still has zero draft picks in the first round through 25’.
To Be, Or Not To Be’s
Luke, Alec, Brent, Colt
Do they compete and wire there way into 6th place or should they tank for WEMBY? Alec, for one thought he was en route to a tank job as beautiful as a SCWARBOMB until his young studs started to truly perform. He quickly retooled his complimentary pieces around PB, dame, Cade, and THE Lauri Markkanen and just as he had his roster ready to compete Pauolo and Cade both went down with an injury inhibiting his newly trusted process. I am not sure where he will go next and I don’t believe he is quite sure either. 0-5 may make that a little bit more clear. Luke is trying to compete but his team isn’t good enough even after making offseason deals that gave him much needed balance. Alec and Luke hold 5 23’ 1st round picks which is encouraging. They have acquired J. Smith, PB, Davion Mitchell, and Cade Cunningham in recent drafts. They will look to continue this trend and potentially battle for Wemby. As for Colt and Brent, the storyline isn’t the same. Brent was set to retool and conquer the league with his many young acquisitions last season including; A. Edwards, J. Brown, Booker, and S. Barnes (to name a few). He is set to potentially win this week and improve to 2-3 but this isn’t where he saw himself coming into the season (at least I don’t think so). Colt… Colt has been brutally attacked by the injury bug. LaMelo (x2) being the headliner for that camp. He also has made some trades that haven’t fully panned out over the last year (Booker, DLO). If his team is healthy, they are better than. 1-3 record as it stands. He is set to beat Eric this week and improve to 2-3 even with LaMelo out.
The dynasty 