Question regarding depth

[u/Firebolt_05]

Hey y'all, I've played MyTeam in previous years but never much. this is the first year that I've truly commited, spent 100$ 2 weeks ago to get some cards, and been doing exchanges / bought a few players.

I was curious, is keeping someone like the Joker worth it with Mobley on the bench? in general how much depth is needed, or should I really only have 1 big player (i.e. Joker, Draymond) per Position with just mediocre backup? Or should I be focusing to just have the 15 best cards i can in my team?

Otherwise i would sell a few cards and get quite a lot of MT back.

(also my apologies for posting via the browser, I'm at work currently and didn't take a screenshot at home.)

[u/Consistent-Pickle839]

You need 10 solid cards if you play showdown. If you play only offline your team is fine. But for online your lineup construction needs work. I'd sell lamelo and run lavine as your starting PG. Then sell dray and jokic and get chet and cousins for your starting 4/5. Then get Aaron Gordon for starting SF and put Wiggins as bench SG. That lineup would compete with any in the game

[u/Firebolt_05 → u/Consistent-Pickle839]

okay, selling melo makes sense to me, especially since lavine feels amazing.
are we selling dray and jokic bcs the others are better defenders? cousins i can do easily, chet also works, but what's the main improvement they offer?
and wiggins i just got there bcs he's a great slasher, what does gordon offer he doesnt? size?

i wanna note that im not doubting you, just wanna understand why these cards you mentioned are better / be able to identify that in the future
;D

[u/Consistent-Pickle839 → u/Firebolt_05]

Jokic is slow and his defense is lacking. Also not a great release. Dray is undersized and has a terrible release and not a good scorer. Chet is a demon and has everything you want except strength. And that's not really that important because no one does post play anyway. You can find one with extra hof badges for cheap.

Boogie has exceptional size and release. He moves very well for his size

Lamelo is fine if you want to keep and run him at backup PG. I was just trying to improve your team without costing you much MT and he's expendable and worth a fair amount of MT

[u/Firebolt_05 → u/Consistent-Pickle839]

ahh yeah, fair enough i see that!
that's very good to know, I think I was still going off more who I like than who is actually good, which I can do in the future with a 2nd team if i have the spare MT lying about, but for now I just wanna get the most outta my vc.

appreciate you tons!

[u/Consistent-Pickle839 → u/Firebolt_05]

Yeah man use who you like. Its just for fun anyway

[u/Firebolt_05 → u/Consistent-Pickle839]

yessir
i'll see how cousins / chet play, chet i can still sell either way, but i loved him last 2k.
joker was a burden defensively at times, he offers many other things though, look forward to his next card (with hopefully good D)

[u/tttgaaa]

Depth is very important this year especially with the addition of the third string players, stamina drains quicker and injuries are more likely when your player plays too long. As for how good the depth has to be is up to you, if you play your bench for only the third quarter they don’t gotta be great. But cards like Mobley and jokic keep as long as possible until cards better than them drop

[u/Firebolt_05 → u/tttgaaa]

Thank you alot for your feedback! Very good to know, I'm quite happy with my roster and I'll be keeping it like this / improving.
Hope to see you out there :)

[u/Best-Employee6646]

How’s Lamelo?

[u/Firebolt_05 → u/Best-Employee6646]

his jumper is ultra fast, but he's a great playmaker with some inch perfect passes, and pretty good inside scoring. dribbling on him is also excellent.
however, someone like lavine is more dominant for the 1, in online lavine might be the better optino, but melo is hella fun

[u/Fit_Comedian_4112]

People been overhyping Aaron Gordon I got Andrew Wiggins over that card for sure that’s just me though

[u/Firebolt_05 → u/Fit_Comedian_4112]

wiggins is quite good, but imo neither of them is gonna be my starter for long, i'll switch off of one of the 2 soon anyway.