The Godfather
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1- How long have you been doing Sim?
For bout 4.5 years now. Got started thanks to the homie Cloud. One winterbreak I was showing him the My NBA 2K app telling him to download it so he instead popped open an index of the league and I was hooked. Figured FBB was gonna be just like 2K so my first ever FA i dropped big bones on Solomon Hunt which was so bad whole league OKd a free amnesty. Havent won a ship in BSL since 2016 with my twolves runs but have a ton of finals losses tallied up. Have learned a lot in my time here and ready to take the Pacers to a ship at somepoint in this iteration.
2- How do you feel your team is set up for this year? Future?
Im pry more hyped about my players than i should be but think ive really collected some future ballers out here in Indy. Started this league trying to compete and pieced together a nice squad but went too hard tryna make a ship run in 21 n busted my cap space and probably forced a rebuild too early but im cool with the pieces ive got and finally have all my picks back!!! (No thanks to Scott or Jon) Jalen Suggs i am most pumped about with his big ole potential but Killian Hayes is right up there with him as well. Wendell Moore and Isaiah Stewart are already dope and still really young and just acquired stars like Donovan Mitchell, Andrew Wiggins, Dedric Lawson and Ben Simmons (CB). My record hasnt reflected it but think i just need to put together a better DC for this squad and we could have something special.
3- If you can add an under the radar type player who is it and why?
I wouldnt mind adding a shot blocker and if I had to add one who was under the radar that not too many people speak about it would pry by someone like Robert Williams. Just need some lowkey block help
4- Whats your draft strategy now that there is no Scouts?
I actually use a system very similar to Hennys scouting and have used the same system for years. What ill do is sort each of the 6 categories and rate everyone in the league 1-100. I will then go thru and delete certain ratings based off things i dont deem necessary for certain positions e.x. 3pointers for big men or rebounding for PGs n what not. Average them all out and bam. Most of the time my averages cater towards big men so i have to go thru and adjust guards value and maybe also bump up and teens but lately I have also been bumping up players with low potential because its not as important imo. Unless they have like 85+ potential on draft night im under the impression that 65-85 pot roughly can turn out the same after TC.
5- Who is your 1st 1/2 MVP? GMOTY? and ROY?
Giannis
Cold
Pippen
Lets get to know you
6- Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Marko and I live in indianapolis and work at the largest Lincoln dealership in the state and top 20 in the nation. Before working here I lived in NYC and worked for a start-up company that was on Shark Tank for our idea. Was a cool experience because my company was an innovative coat check company and since I was the director of operations i ran all of our high class events and got to see some really cool things in my year in NYC such as working the NBA House for All-Star Weekend, NY Fashion Week, US Open, or just my weekend gig at Space Ibiza New York Nightclub. Glad to be back in Indy tho think theres some really cool stuff going on around here, the city really booming. Before that spent my 4 years of college at IU studying Telecommunication with a Business Minor. Not really using my degree today but making some good $$$ so not too mad about that. In my freetime I watch A LOT of movies / TV shows. Anything with good ratings i usually try to check out to see what all the hype is about and make a decision of it on my own. Same with video games I am also very into them with some of my alltime favorties being the Zelda series, Diablo 2, Starcraft, any Mario games, Overwatch, and madden and 2Ks of course. But probably my biggest pastime is listening to music. I am a music critic and will try to listen to any genre to give it a chance so my tastes ranges pretty far. Some of my favorite bands include Pavement, Belle & Sebastian, Car Seat Headrest, LCD Soundsystem, Future Islands, Destroyer, Tame Impala, King Krule, Ariel Pink, Timber Timbre, Talking Heads, The Tallest Man on Earth, Sufjan Stevens, Slint, Modest Mouse, Thundercat, Parquet Courts, Spoon, Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, The War on Drugs, M83, TV on the Radio, Beach House, Courtney Barnett, Real Estate, Radiohead, Local Natives, Japandroids, Joy Division, Girls, Frank Ocean, Elliott Smith, Flying Lotus, Caribou, The Walkmen, The Strokes, Deerhunter, The Radio Dept., Portishead, Grizzly Bear, The Hold Steady, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fever Ray, The National, Dirty Projectors, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Bon Iver. I am actually going to Denver next month to see my first ever concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater which ill be seeing Bon Iver with Sharon Van Etten opening and I have never been so excited for a concert. I am also into rap but have not been as active in it as of late. My rap artists consist of Kendrick, MF Doom, Joey Bada$$, Action bronson, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul (Ask cloud about the time we almost ran over Ab-Soul before his concert lmao), Smoke Dza, Danny Brown, Freddie Gibbs, Curren$y, Dom Kennedy, Big K.R.I.T., Pusha T, A$AP Rocky, Chance, Big Boi, Andre 3000, The Roots, Raekwon, Method Man, GZA, Ghostface, J cole, Isaiah rashad, Tribe, de la soul and more.
7- How do you like your Steak?
Medium Rare and anyone who says otherwise is a psychopath.
8- Favorite Team/s and Sport/s?
Basketball - Indiana Pacers
Football - Buffalo Bills
Baseball - Don’t really have a specific team I cheer for since indy doesnt have a pro team. Was a Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan as a kid, then switched over to Chicago White Sox for a little bit for some reason. But as a kid, we would go and see Cincinnati Reds games the most. Have always had a soft spot for the Pittsburgh Pirates since we have their farm team in Indianapolis Indians which are mad fun to go see. Also, I do root for the New York Mets for the time I spent living in Queens. I ran a booth at the US Open when I was there and got to be in Flushings every day for 2 weeks. Went to a handful of Mets games since I would get off work and they would be playing night games and the US Open and Mets stadium are practically connected.
Hockey - Buffalo Sabres
Soccer - Juventus (Before Ronaldo im more of a Gigi Buffon fan since I was a keeper in HS)
9- Favorite go to restaurant on a night out? What is your go to dish there?
My favorite thing to do on a night out is to try a new restaurant if possible. Theres not really any food I dont like so im always down to try something new. But if i did have to pick a place to go back to again and again I would pry go with Ale Emporium here in indy. They have a fantastic beer list and the best Wings in Indy (Grilled, Smoked, and Dry Rubbed)
10- Road trip to NYC what GM's you want along for the ride?
Shiiiit gimme them all! Im snagging a double decker and stoppin in all your states or countries. Our first ever live in person sim! Ill start by snagging my boy Cloud here in indy then were making the rounds to pick up all u muhfuckers. Foreman from Michigan, then slide thru to Pennsylvania for Daulten, stop in at Maryland for Chedd, head down to the Carolinas to scoop NC and Brack, bolt thru memphis for that Cat person, run over to Texas and snag G9 and Mentch, make that distance up to Milly for User and pop over to Minny for Gopher, then make a long run thru Canada for all of our Canadian; Super Eberley Brothers, Jon, Hokey, then pop out right around washington so we can run down the west coast folks, first Emac in portland, then Ty and Cold in north cali, No Tail somewhere west coast, and down to Henny in SD, then were off overseas to snag our filipino friend Panic (big excited about this), then Gabe in Israel, and p sure Dwight is overseas somewhere as well, then we mosey back to the states (yes our double decker bus is also a double decker yacht
) and well pop in at Maine to grab Brad, run down to Mass for Donkey, Air, GB and then finally run down to NJ for Scott and then we all going out in NYC for a nice night. Maybe even throw some rocks at players house, who knows! We are 100% making our way down to Coney Island so we can hop on the Jesus Shuttlesworth court and run some games. Maybe put together a 3v3 tournament Gus Macker style.
For bout 4.5 years now. Got started thanks to the homie Cloud. One winterbreak I was showing him the My NBA 2K app telling him to download it so he instead popped open an index of the league and I was hooked. Figured FBB was gonna be just like 2K so my first ever FA i dropped big bones on Solomon Hunt which was so bad whole league OKd a free amnesty. Havent won a ship in BSL since 2016 with my twolves runs but have a ton of finals losses tallied up. Have learned a lot in my time here and ready to take the Pacers to a ship at somepoint in this iteration.
2- How do you feel your team is set up for this year? Future?
Im pry more hyped about my players than i should be but think ive really collected some future ballers out here in Indy. Started this league trying to compete and pieced together a nice squad but went too hard tryna make a ship run in 21 n busted my cap space and probably forced a rebuild too early but im cool with the pieces ive got and finally have all my picks back!!! (No thanks to Scott or Jon) Jalen Suggs i am most pumped about with his big ole potential but Killian Hayes is right up there with him as well. Wendell Moore and Isaiah Stewart are already dope and still really young and just acquired stars like Donovan Mitchell, Andrew Wiggins, Dedric Lawson and Ben Simmons (CB). My record hasnt reflected it but think i just need to put together a better DC for this squad and we could have something special.
3- If you can add an under the radar type player who is it and why?
I wouldnt mind adding a shot blocker and if I had to add one who was under the radar that not too many people speak about it would pry by someone like Robert Williams. Just need some lowkey block help
4- Whats your draft strategy now that there is no Scouts?
I actually use a system very similar to Hennys scouting and have used the same system for years. What ill do is sort each of the 6 categories and rate everyone in the league 1-100. I will then go thru and delete certain ratings based off things i dont deem necessary for certain positions e.x. 3pointers for big men or rebounding for PGs n what not. Average them all out and bam. Most of the time my averages cater towards big men so i have to go thru and adjust guards value and maybe also bump up and teens but lately I have also been bumping up players with low potential because its not as important imo. Unless they have like 85+ potential on draft night im under the impression that 65-85 pot roughly can turn out the same after TC.
5- Who is your 1st 1/2 MVP? GMOTY? and ROY?
Giannis
Cold
Pippen
Lets get to know you
6- Who are you and what do you do?
My name is Marko and I live in indianapolis and work at the largest Lincoln dealership in the state and top 20 in the nation. Before working here I lived in NYC and worked for a start-up company that was on Shark Tank for our idea. Was a cool experience because my company was an innovative coat check company and since I was the director of operations i ran all of our high class events and got to see some really cool things in my year in NYC such as working the NBA House for All-Star Weekend, NY Fashion Week, US Open, or just my weekend gig at Space Ibiza New York Nightclub. Glad to be back in Indy tho think theres some really cool stuff going on around here, the city really booming. Before that spent my 4 years of college at IU studying Telecommunication with a Business Minor. Not really using my degree today but making some good $$$ so not too mad about that. In my freetime I watch A LOT of movies / TV shows. Anything with good ratings i usually try to check out to see what all the hype is about and make a decision of it on my own. Same with video games I am also very into them with some of my alltime favorties being the Zelda series, Diablo 2, Starcraft, any Mario games, Overwatch, and madden and 2Ks of course. But probably my biggest pastime is listening to music. I am a music critic and will try to listen to any genre to give it a chance so my tastes ranges pretty far. Some of my favorite bands include Pavement, Belle & Sebastian, Car Seat Headrest, LCD Soundsystem, Future Islands, Destroyer, Tame Impala, King Krule, Ariel Pink, Timber Timbre, Talking Heads, The Tallest Man on Earth, Sufjan Stevens, Slint, Modest Mouse, Thundercat, Parquet Courts, Spoon, Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, The War on Drugs, M83, TV on the Radio, Beach House, Courtney Barnett, Real Estate, Radiohead, Local Natives, Japandroids, Joy Division, Girls, Frank Ocean, Elliott Smith, Flying Lotus, Caribou, The Walkmen, The Strokes, Deerhunter, The Radio Dept., Portishead, Grizzly Bear, The Hold Steady, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fever Ray, The National, Dirty Projectors, The Cure, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Bon Iver. I am actually going to Denver next month to see my first ever concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater which ill be seeing Bon Iver with Sharon Van Etten opening and I have never been so excited for a concert. I am also into rap but have not been as active in it as of late. My rap artists consist of Kendrick, MF Doom, Joey Bada$$, Action bronson, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul (Ask cloud about the time we almost ran over Ab-Soul before his concert lmao), Smoke Dza, Danny Brown, Freddie Gibbs, Curren$y, Dom Kennedy, Big K.R.I.T., Pusha T, A$AP Rocky, Chance, Big Boi, Andre 3000, The Roots, Raekwon, Method Man, GZA, Ghostface, J cole, Isaiah rashad, Tribe, de la soul and more.
7- How do you like your Steak?
Medium Rare and anyone who says otherwise is a psychopath.
8- Favorite Team/s and Sport/s?
Basketball - Indiana Pacers
Football - Buffalo Bills
Baseball - Don’t really have a specific team I cheer for since indy doesnt have a pro team. Was a Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan as a kid, then switched over to Chicago White Sox for a little bit for some reason. But as a kid, we would go and see Cincinnati Reds games the most. Have always had a soft spot for the Pittsburgh Pirates since we have their farm team in Indianapolis Indians which are mad fun to go see. Also, I do root for the New York Mets for the time I spent living in Queens. I ran a booth at the US Open when I was there and got to be in Flushings every day for 2 weeks. Went to a handful of Mets games since I would get off work and they would be playing night games and the US Open and Mets stadium are practically connected.
Hockey - Buffalo Sabres
Soccer - Juventus (Before Ronaldo im more of a Gigi Buffon fan since I was a keeper in HS)
9- Favorite go to restaurant on a night out? What is your go to dish there?
My favorite thing to do on a night out is to try a new restaurant if possible. Theres not really any food I dont like so im always down to try something new. But if i did have to pick a place to go back to again and again I would pry go with Ale Emporium here in indy. They have a fantastic beer list and the best Wings in Indy (Grilled, Smoked, and Dry Rubbed)
10- Road trip to NYC what GM's you want along for the ride?
Shiiiit gimme them all! Im snagging a double decker and stoppin in all your states or countries. Our first ever live in person sim! Ill start by snagging my boy Cloud here in indy then were making the rounds to pick up all u muhfuckers. Foreman from Michigan, then slide thru to Pennsylvania for Daulten, stop in at Maryland for Chedd, head down to the Carolinas to scoop NC and Brack, bolt thru memphis for that Cat person, run over to Texas and snag G9 and Mentch, make that distance up to Milly for User and pop over to Minny for Gopher, then make a long run thru Canada for all of our Canadian; Super Eberley Brothers, Jon, Hokey, then pop out right around washington so we can run down the west coast folks, first Emac in portland, then Ty and Cold in north cali, No Tail somewhere west coast, and down to Henny in SD, then were off overseas to snag our filipino friend Panic (big excited about this), then Gabe in Israel, and p sure Dwight is overseas somewhere as well, then we mosey back to the states (yes our double decker bus is also a double decker yacht
) and well pop in at Maine to grab Brad, run down to Mass for Donkey, Air, GB and then finally run down to NJ for Scott and then we all going out in NYC for a nice night. Maybe even throw some rocks at players house, who knows! We are 100% making our way down to Coney Island so we can hop on the Jesus Shuttlesworth court and run some games. Maybe put together a 3v3 tournament Gus Macker style.
