CONGRATULATIONS
I'm not sure whether we win another one of these trophies for being the playoff champion as well. Wrapped up a 5-3 victory over "Larry Bird" last night.
The league's draft was three weeks into the season, and stats were applied for those first three weeks. At that point, our record was 5-18-1, so over the rest of the season we were 95-32-1.
The league name was Los Angeles H2H 327165. That and my lengthy career in the print industry, plus a lame TV show of '80s?, inspired the team name.
In accepting this award, I want to thank Joakim Noah for his season-long help in points, rebounds and assists.
Carmelo Anthony had some more spectacular games, but Noah was the consistent rock in the middle that a good NBA team needs.
And who could forget Serge Ibaka. I'm pretty sure there were weeks when he had more blocks than my opponent's entire team.
With an assist, or lots of assists, from Ricky Rubio. He also embodied Team Fresh Print's weak points -- the three areas where we lost in the playoff finals: field goal percentage, 3-pointers and points.
Hats off to a strong, frequently changing supporting cast of players who had big games from time to time. Gerald Green comes immediately to mind.
My ESPN.com fantasy hockey team, Texas Puckin Penguins, didn't do as well. We finished third in a 10-team league.
We led the league in goals and plus/minus, and were near the top in every other offensive category. However, our goaltending sucked. The goalies picked up an extra two points at the end of the season, kind of a participation trophy, because one team didn't have enough goalie starts to qualify. So instead of getting a 1 in goals against average and save percentage, we got a 2. I must have used a dozen different goalies, pretty much rotating a group of five or six on and off the roster. As soon as I picked up a hot goalie, he turned ice cold, recovering only after I dumped his sorry butt. Tim Thomas did even less for my team than he did for the Stars.
Team trophies would have gone to Corey Perry, Joe Pavelski, Henrik Zetterberg (before he was injured) and Matt Niskanen. Every time another Penguins defenseman would return from an injury, ESPN.com's experts would advise dumping Niskanen, but I was rewarded for sticking with him. If only he could have been a goalie, he would have been the greatest Puckin Penguin ever.
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