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My personal opinion is you have to have an interesting story or create an interest in your team to be interested in not only your team but teams League wide.

One of the most interesting teams is and would be OKC w Dwight Howard and LeBron James who are off a Finals elimination, LeBron getting hurt and coming back w a vengeance but you'd never know it cause it isn't written about at all whatsoever cause for me personally I'd love to read up on them.

And this is not calling out any GM in particular so don't take it that way KGdobby.

Also I think the parity may have something to do with it, though every team can't win I think some gm's just don't see a light at the end of the tunnel for quite some time or at all and some remain competitive but it may be disheartening to see the Heat w or without Durant destroying peeps or the Clippers picking up from where they left off pretty much.

The thing is guys gotta have faith cause remember last season the Clips didn't even win it all and the Heat came outta nowhere, the Heat may not even win it all this season but for teams w young guys looking to become stars the road may be long and they may not he as engaged as others.

Just an opinion from off the top of my head and I'm sure it could be much easier or more simpler than this.

I've definitely been slacking and I apologize. At the very least I should be throwing up a few more wiretap articles and contributing more to discussion around the league.

I could definitely do more of course. Especially since OKC does have interesting storylines. Much of my posting is done on my phone which is my problem...and so when I post articles they aren't attractive and often don't get much of a response. Again that's mostly my problem I guess.

Good to bring to our attention. The league is what we make of it. I personally have no other teams at the moment, so I really can and should pick up on articles. Outside of that...I really do miss the chatbox...

I think people just need to be aware of other teams rather than their own. Good GM's know exactly whats happening around the league with virtually every player and not just their own team. I think a lot of the times people are too enthralled with their own team that if there isn't a league wide article, people won't really care and won't respond.

I'm not saying to know 100% about everyone's team, but just a little general knowledge that if they write an article about an injury or trade rumor, you can give your 2 cents about the topic knowledgeably rather than avoiding the article all together. For me at least when those types of articles are written, I'll go and look at that team, see what their strengths and weaknesses are etc and that not only helps the league with participation but also makes me a better GM in the long run.

Commenting and promoting discussion is one of the things I feel strongly about. I understand that not everyone's a writer, nor has the time to write a ton of articles, but reading other peoples' and sparking debate and whatnot generate activity,

some random thoughts that could be related to this:

• I agree that we need to have something to write about. The season is not as exciting, I suppose, as the offseason so less articles are expected. I am going through sims - win/lose/win/lose etc. Not much is happening so not sure what to write about. Hoping that we will start to play better and get a few more wins. I want to post an article about Lillard as he is playing great for us. Will do that in asap
• Trying to comment on as many articles as I can. But some I just don't find that interesting. I saw a lot of draft articles recently. I made a scouting request once, had to wait for a while, and then wait some more. Eventually lost interest. So made no more requests so as not to waste anybody's time. So don't even read draft related stuff as I have no interest. I only have a late 2nd rounder this year so I guess it makes sense
• I think there should be more participation in Sim Results. I enjoy reading the posts by NY, NO, MIA - the guys that show their results and add a bit of comments in there. Its brief but effective and I also get some visibility of whats going on in the league. On the other hand I don't like post that simply say something like 'We played crap'. Why even bother to post this?
• How about requiring an article to process a trade? If you want to trade there must be something accompanying it - even a brief Press Release or something
• I agree that we need a better overview of whats going on in the league. Just to have a view of CSL end-to-end rather than your own team only. 
• My opinion as an outsider only but I did not like what happened to the previous DAL and LAL GMs. Not sure why they left but looking at this from the outside I saw two guys that did not even have the game (I think), joined the league, got no formal mentorship (not officially at least), got bombarded by rip-off trade offers, accepted a few, got the shit criticised out of them by everybody else and, of course, left. Does that sound like fun? Again, I don't know the actual reasons why they left but this is what I saw and it was not pretty. I see two issues here: 1) it's not nice for recruitment purposes knowing that we can get a new person to join and they will be treated like that. GMs will write BS like 'Welcome to the league, you're so great, let me know if you need anything blablabla', then the same GMs will go and try to rip-off the poor new guy. Not help them get accustomed to the ratings, the engine etc but offer some crappy deals and hope to get away with it. It does not look like they care that, soon thereafter, there will be another OPEN TEAM post created partly because of them. I thought it was very not nice what our two more experienced GMs did to ex-LAL GM. To a point where the commissioners had to step in and decline these trades. I think there must be a formal single mentor assigned to every new person, to review all moves and make a recommendation. Make sure they new guy really knows what they are doing. Not everybody needs one - BOS GM is very good and does not need anybody to mentor him, but some new people definitely need one. But also, GMs need to have a bit more common sense. We do not need bans or Commishes to reject trades if our GMs understand what impact their actions can have on the league overall 2) Second issue is I do not like the criticisms that some of the people get for their moves. I thought ORL got bombarded with nasty comments after the Vucevic trade. He made a mistake of trying to defend himself (same with ex-LAL GM BTW) and for predators that means more blood in the water. The more defensive he got, the more nasty were the comments, the more he had to defend.... Obviously, we should all be able to express our opinion but I think we have to be a little bit more political about it

Wow, I wrote a lot. Could this count as my Insider/Wiretap articles for the year