SSBA

can´t wait to see what my team can do.
i am hoping for a 3-3 since i have 5 roadgames and sonics,sixer,magic,bucks and nuggets are my opponents.
very tough but first year i didn´t have to start against the nets  :D

butlload of games right away.. yikes.

Just 6 games,  very winnable.

It will be interesting to see just how much Yao has dropped in offense.

At least it's something to look foraward to anyway - I've gotta be on the move all day, friggin campus tors, academic ssion, and then a party w/ Finger Eleven.

See yu guys at around 2am :)

If you want, you can give me Yao with his decreased offense.  I might be willing to part with Dalembert and Billups  :lol:

Yay!  Less RaptorsGM on the boards!

*me does a dance :bounce:

;)

Ha, you prick :)

Less RaptorsGM on the boards for this week, probably more RaptorsGm after that ;)

And I think I'll keep Yao what with the A+ defense.

Who else has 2 A+ defenders on thier team ;)

Erm.....
*me looks at Nets roster


 :shock:

A+, A+, A, A, B+

Tough schedule coming up.  8 games, 4 home, 4 road.  @ Hornets, @ Magic, 76ers, Clippers.  Hoping for 6-2, will settle for 5-3.

First game of the season i have a nice little visit by the Clippers... :?  :puke:

I have no idea what to expect from this team so i won't even bother with predictions.

tough sim...but im excited on what the results is...this team is not expected to win but to lose lose and lose ehehehh hoping for the lottery pick.... :lol:

Very winnable games in sim 1 for myself.  I play the Hawks, Celtics, Bucks, Cavs, Hornets, Lakers, Suns.  I could go anywhere from 5-2 to 2-5, I don't know how his team will play together

Blazers are opening at Detroit,we'll see be able to watch nr.2 pick Manning against nr.5 pick Houbregs right on start how they'll be starting their season.Tough game,but winnable.
Then Rockets are travelling to Portland.They're going home defeat.
Blazers go on 2 game road trip to Toronto and Minnesota,defeating Toronto would be a great suprise,Minnesota game will be more interesting.
Last 2 games of sim previous finalist are visiting Portland,hopefully home court can get Blazers win at least 1 game.
Expetations : 3-3,hoping for 4-2 start tough.

I think I can probably go 5-2, maybe even 6-1... Usually I am not so high on my teams, but I really like the makeup of this team.

Too busy right now till maybe next week. I've not yet planned anything for my team yet. I hope they can perform well.

Only 4 games in first sim....not enough to judge.  Rockets & Pistons at home; then home & away series with the Suns.

Then it gets killer: 35 games in next 4 sims.

8 games, I expect 2-6 or maybe 3-5 unless some guys play better than their ratings.

nothing like starting the season with 6 straight road games and then 2 home against Indiana.

I'd like to get 3-4 of those 8 games.

That was what the ;) was for, smartie.

Well, 5 games to start off the season, after a pretty disappointing TC.

Celtics @ Golden State
Suns @ Warriors
Warriors @ Clips
Warriors @ Nuggets
Mavs @ Warriors

Not quite sure what to expect, truth be told.  Expecting maybe a 3-2 record, anything more will be a blessing.
First attempt to have Rafael play at a fast pace... But with all my offense and ball handling (Hinrich and Iggy), have to see if he can do it.

2 pages of discussion and the sim isn't even run.  Off season sure brings out the anticipation in everyone.

Nets, do you think you will run it close to 5:00?

spurs: probably.

It's 5:00...  Hope your DC's are in...   :D

I cannot wait to see the Hawks/Sonics boxscore.  Dirk (A-/A-) vs Ivan Strong and his C defense is just a tiny mis-match!

Curious as to how the Clips do, with Kwame at PF and Brand at SF, and Childress at SG.  No doubt they will own the boards.  When your 2nd worst rebounder in your starting lineup is a B-, your probably going to win the battle.


Kwame has become a nice player, now with that B+ inside...

Great start for the Irish: my first sim goes 4-3
@ warriors L
@  bulls W
TWolves W
@ Bucks L
@ kings W
@ Grizz L
Raps W

that last one is long overdue and just redemption for the sweep last year. And for some recent ...  :D

Take some risk with Elliott getting the PG starting nod (after leading all guys in TC), Dre Miller trying to play SG and Darko starting over Jefferson (just to see ...).

Is the sim up?  I cannot see it.

It's in my head. I have simmed up to day 70 so far (your Sonics are 24-28 btw - but only because Dirk suffered migraine headache on day 16 and hasn't recovered so far)

Are you sure he hasn't just suffered from severe depression?

Yeah I know. I am curious myself to how this experiment will work out. My starting lineup is deadly in scoring, defense and rebounding. Question is if Brand can actually play sf.

I didn't want to .. err .. well, talk about that here in front of ... hmm .. well you know the other GMs, you know, like not hurting his trade value and stuff ... but, well, if you ask me directly, so, as you can imagine, no one has a migraine headache for 28 days.

I hope I don't have to be more specific ...

lol  :lol:

I'm thinking Pettit likes playing with a great ballhandling pg ;)

32.9 ppg, 53.4% shooting, 48.3% 3pt, 91.7% ft.

Boykins with 11.3 assists (easier to get with a 33 ppg scorer) and 2 topg (5.65/1)

scored 107 ppg to 89.

Billups about 5 pts in 10 mpg off the bench.

a little disappointed, actually.

WOW..

Dean Drew, my second rounder with C defense averaged 15/5/3 with 2.3 spg.  He's shooting 47% and 94% FT

Mercer is averaging 23/5/8 with 3.0 spg, BUT 5.7 tpg.  Yikes

Chris Anderson is 2nd in the league with 3.7 bpg

Went 4-3, and this was with a weird DC, since the Crawford trade couldn't go through until day 31

Bods, do you know why Hinkle didn't play?  What was the Depth Chart used for the sim?

Your SG's/SF's were comp recommended.

Chamberlain:
8.6 apg to 0.6 topg

Damn wish I had gotten him

Ok, I know it is too early too tell, but what is this guy smoking before the game?  C at D and still manager 2.3 steals is unreal.

Holy Shit! Vince/Vince combining for 60 pts a game, 50% shooting each. 60!!! Chamberlain is a god. We are simply blowing teams out. That trio is simply amazing. Let it continue...

Ok cool.  Actually this probably turned out better, I would have never played Drew.  I still can't get over 2.3 spg with C defense, it's probably a fluke, I wouldn't be surprised if he stinks it up next sim

Pistons go 7-1???  This must be a mistake...  I was just messing around with my DC and thought for sure I would be 0-8...  I mean I was even trying to get my draft pick back from the Hawks...  I just don't know what to say ...

Went 1-7.  1-1 at home, tough schedule though.

I'll be more concerned if I don't do well next sim with more home games and an easier schedule.  

Giving up 106 ppg at slow pace was definitely disconcerting though.

In my first game, both Hinrich and Pierce get hurt...  Just laughable...

This sim told me absolutely nothing...  ridiculous....

Bods, one more thing, was my gameplay reccomended?

Get used to it bud, you don't know the headache he caused for me last season.  Right as the Bulls are clicking, bam, he gets injured.  I hope he stays healthy for you though

4-4 is a rather pleasent sim.  JR Smith had a few nice games off the bench and Jameer Nelson played really well for me.  He averaged 19pts 7rebs and 6asts.  He wasn't great on to's or %'s but he's still been a good addition.  Matthew Marion was also impressive averaging 10/4/4/2 which isn't too bad for a rookies first sim.  Jim Finley averaging 2.5blks and 1.3stls which is what i needed him for.  Ivan averaged 12/8.5 and kept his to's down which was his big problem last season.  JDN averaged 17ppg which is what I need from him.  Overall a much more optimisic sim than I expected.

Got my ass kick around :oops: .  Scored 6 points in one quarter against the Jazz, is that a record or what? :oops: .

I am very happy with my sim (6-1), with my only loss coming to the Nets.
I can't decide whether I should put Martin back as an option instead of Livingston. I might also slow down my pace a little.
Pavel leading the league in blocks was very nice, although it's too early to tell anything...
I am just surprised the Nets lost 1 game, let alone 2  :roll:

It was not Pierce's injury that killed me...  It was Hinrich's.  My team cannot play without him.  My replacement PG averaged 5 topg....   :shock:

My defense clicking, even though it could be an abberation.  1rst in steals, 3rd in blocks, 4rth in points allowed, 4rth in turnovers forced, 8th in rebounds allowed

Even with Mercer's whopping 5.7 tpg, there are 10 teams that are doing worse in the TO department

All I've got to say is - Trevor Wells! 27.6ppg, 4.4rpg, 2.4apg, 2.0spg, 50.3% from the field & 43.6% from 3

Disappointed.  Gonna have to play around..figure out some small changes.

Damn if Mercer had Mikel Chamberlain's assist to turnover ratio he would be god.  That's just amazing

Yeah I know, I just hope he can keep it up and this wasn't some strange fluke.  The thing is Drew is also shutting down the opposing SG's.  Except for Koegan, everyone played horrible, he even shut down Kobe.  At this point, he will be my starting SG over Hinkle, who I thought was going to be my defensive specialist

So much for the 4-3 plans.

Celtics start the season of on the wrong foot. 1-6 with atrocious shooting (30%) and horrible rebounding. Turnovers galore, but I attribute that to the opening sim jitters ...

Guess Darko is NOT there yet. Elliott is soming along, too bad Dre Miller went down briefly throwing my lineup around even more. Curry improved on the board and blocks, but shot horrible too.

Defense was fine though. :wink:

I guess  I have an idea what to change ...

Guess it's almost lucky for you he gets a 3 sim audition.

Surprise team: definitely the blazers.   I mean, I thought they'd be a solid offensive team.  But 114.7 ppg?!?!  Look at telfair, with those attributes, scoring 20 pts, 8 assists and only 2.7 to's.  Just goes to show you the 5 shown attributes aren't anything and must be combined with in-game performance.  I still think starting a B-, C, B+, B, C+ defensive team is going to catch up with him sooner rather than later.

oh no...i had a good start, this is not good.

WHAT???  No mention on the 1st place team in the SSBA???  What a shame...   :bs:  I guess I could take itas he expected me to win...  but I highly doubt that...

Well, I expected you to conted for the 8th spot.  I expected the Blazers to miss out on the playoffs easily.

You're definitely 1a though.

Ahem...

I guess I can live with that...

Kobe averaged 12.6 ppg this sim.  Granted he shot 37%, but I made a bad decision in terms of tempo and scoring focus.  

Sim 1 isn't enough to go on for much of anything.  Consider the following:

Pistons outscoring opponents by 1 ppg on average and going 7-1
Mavs' and Wizards' bad starts

And at the start of last season I was on the exact opposite end of that...  Actually I was outscoring teams by 2 ppg, but had a Horrible record...

damn,Blazers are on Fire ,i was thinking going 3-3 or 4-2 hopefully,eventually ended 6-1 :)

Zach has gone crazy 25ppg 15rpg 5apg 2spg,Telfair 20ppg,8apg,3spg,
Houbregs 15ppg,4prg,4apg,etc. , just need Fox to get some more minutes

Started with Pistons -9 defeat,trashed Rockets with 42 points more,Raptors by 3,Wolves by 11,and finally defeated previous champs Jazz by 6 and finalists Nets by 27 :)

Zach looks like early candidate for MVP already

Pistons : 30p,14r,5a,3s
Rockets : 18p,5r,5a,3s in 18 minutes only
Raptors : 26p,16r,6a,3s
Wolves : 26p,12r,4a,3s,2b
Jazz : 34p,19r,5a,2s
Nets : 17p,22r,4a

just 2 blocks in 6 games tough

With Chamberlain's sensational ball-handling abilities and Vince&Vince continuing to light up the score board, I see no reason not to continue going with a very fast pace. Holton and Tsakalidis playing well too. Although not contributing much on the offensive end, especially Holton, they are grabbing rebounds and blocking shots. Holton is hurt now, though, so Allen has to step in and start. But the main focus, of course, will be around my perimeter trio. Doesn't look like they can be stopped, but you can't always tell much from the first sim...

You might want to look at this guy called tim duncan on the sixers.

Wow...  Duncan's teammates must be cancerous...  How else could the team go 4-3 when his is averaging 40ppg 15rpg 2.5bpg????  Those stats are unreal...

His GM is cancerous, not his teammates. His GM is pretty busy.

Boykins had a game of 16 pts, 16 assists, 0 turnovers :)

Closer look, I'm +4.3 in rebounding (actually thought that would be a bit higher).  +4.2 in turnovers.  That's a tremendous advantage from last year (last year I was in the negative).  Making 3 more 3's/game, even on ft's, shooting 46.3% compared to 40.3% for the opp.  +6 bpg, +2 spg, +4.7 apg.  Nice.

No position outside of pg shot over 40% against me.  And starting pg's only averaged a 1.65/1 assist to turnover ratio against me.  Very good.  Dalembert was shutdown on pf's not named tim duncan.

John Salmons is such a mini-battier it's not even funny.

On a per 35 minutes (to normalize against minutes played):
Battier: 6.9 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.1 spg, 0.99 topg
Salmons: 7.6 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 1.2 spg, 1.1 topg

(Notice particularly the less TO's than steals bit).  Neither of them even contemplate scoring though.

LOL,that's sick,but its one guy playing as it seams,good start for them tough but if they had more guys in the mood they could have go better
Also :
Telfair 21ppg,8apg,3spg, Houbregs 15ppg,4prg,4apg, are also playing great,great FG % of most of the team also,they seem to work very good

Ok, lets' figure this out.

My number 1 option goes for - 30, 14.5 and 3.5

My number 2 option goes for - 16.2, 7.2 and 3.5

My number 3 ption goes for - 4, 9, 1

While TWO NON OPTIONS go for 16,3,3 and 18,9,4 respectivly.

Me must be stupid :)

A little break down -

Very unremarkable first game - beat the kings 84-76. Deng forced A-/A- TMac into 10-28, so that should count for something.

2nd game, Yao fouls out in 30 mins as I get tooled by the Mavs in OT. Rasho with 21 rebounds off the bench.

3rd game, SMOKED by the Kincks. Yao with 32/21/5, but the rest of the team was awful.

4th game, blazers got me by 3, but I gess holding them to 102 points was an accomplishment. Yao with 38/15.

5th game, breaking out of a 3 game slump with a 19 point win over the Knicks. Diddle scores 33 points. What a surpise that has been.

6th game, Yao scores 30, Baron scores 29 and the Raptors beat the C's by 17.


So a great final 2 games fo a 3-3 sim.

Oh and the Spurs go 0-4.

lol just realized that i forgot to list options in my dc.

lol

Alright, experiment over, back to the big lineup.

Well I looked at little more into this and if you don't count the blow-out by the Nets, I am outscoring opponents 105.8 to 99.8...  +6 differential...  I had 1 - 31 point loss and that is why it looks kinda messed up...  I will gladly outscore my opponents by +10 or +1...  Doesn't matter just so long as I win...

went 6-4

interesting how the Nets has me numbered ;)

the sim went way better than i expected. i didn´t care about def and just tried some offense lineups and lost only to the sixers by 1 and bucks.

A short recap of the games:

@sonics: carmelo startede the season strong against one of the better defender with 29/11/6 and JO was his usual dominant, Artest hold as usual Peja in check
sixers: it was a shootout at the PF position TD dominated here but JO also had a monster game 30/16 and 8blks and Jamison scored in 12 mins 10pts from the PF position again matchup with a great defender Carmelo went for 33. reason for the 1pt loss was artest who had an offnight
@magic: JO showed Howard some new tricks.Almost a triple double 39/16/9 and 6 blks. Carmelo continued his great scoring with 23 and artest bounced back and added 19 on 8/10 shooting-
@nuggets: the only defensive minded game. my big 3 showed that they can also do it on the other end.
@bucks: JO with another great performance 38/15/7, Carmelo with 26/6/8
but also with too much TOs
@bucks: my second loss Ferry couldn´t be stopped without any help def.
Carmelo showed that he is still young and inconsistent but foster was the surprise of the night going for 21 and 14 against Ferry.

RJ and Parker played very well as backups both shooting high % and played solid def.
Carmelo did very well at SG against some of the best defenders in the league.

Yikes 3-5.

Pre-Training camp, I was expecting to make a run at the playoffs this year. It still may be possible but I think the rebuilding process shall continue until this time next year...

Even without Hinrich, if my team could have hit a shot, they could have won some games.  37% from the field is just disgusting.
20.8 topg is also terrible, but Hinrich's arrival and Michael Bellamy's benching will take care of that.  But I forced my opponents into 18.4 topg, which is pretty good.
Won the rebounding battle by 7.5.  Just need to start hitting some shots.

Iwas worried about how my too trades looked...but now it looks like I got awesome vaue for Peja, and a top 5, maybe top 3 pick for Mihm. I'm pretty happy.

I should be starting Rasho at PF to offer Yao more prtoection and a chance to play more minutes...but I want to give Fnley a bit more time.

Yikes!  20.8 topg is scary.  And that was with Pierce missing time  :shock:

Of course as a 3rd option Paul did drop his to's down to an acceptable 3.3 per game.

Yeah, his TO's were not out of line.  It was Bellamy...  last year he was excellent as a back-up PG.  And he may still be, but he will not get the chance on this team again.  Longley did not help either, but the double injuries of my 2nd and 3rd options within minutes of each other wrecked my rotation.

Having Hinrich back will bring the to's way down.  He has an over 3:1 assist/to ratio, normally, and his handling went up this year.  And hopefully Mark Byrd will back him up. Running for the first time at a fast pace with my primary ball handler injured was not good...

Kind of like your start last year, huh Bods? lol

Yeah, last year I started off high.  My TO's were high all year, but obviously dropped a bit as the season went on.

Lol.

I just looked at my salary for next year.

Without re-signing Pettit I'm already 32 million over the cap next year.  To put things in perspective, I could let Pettit walk this year, Okafor and Dalembert the following year, and still be 2.8 million over the cap, not having cap space until 5 years from now.

lol.

Battier and Billups last offseason.  Pettit this next offseason.  Then Okafor and Dalembert.  No boring offseasons in Nets land.

I remember...  
Last year I was 8th in the league in topg, and 23rd in forcing to's, making me about even in that department.
I figured I could afford to give up some more to's with Pierce, especially when I added a good ball handler like Iggy to the lineup.

Hopefully I can get some real info this next sim, since this last one was a complete bust.  Only one game with the full lineup.