SSBA

It's cool we're starting the playoffs the same time as the real NBA. So, i'll make some of the predictions:

East:

Nets over Pacers in 6
Hornets over Raptors in 6
Magic over Wizards in 7
Celtics over Heat in 6

West

Wariorrs over Mavs in 5
Grizzlies over Suns in 5
Clippers over Jazz in 6
Kings over Blazers in 6

As a possible upset i see Wizards over Magic and maybe Blazers over Kings.

Do i smell fear here ????

Nets over Pacers in 4
Hornets over Raptors in 4
Wizards over Magic in 7
Celtics over Heat in 4

West

Wariorrs over Mavs in 4
Grizzlies over Suns in 6
Clippers over Jazz in 5
Blazers over Kings in 7

Do i smell fear here ????


It was a joke to make you more happy. 8)

hahahahahaha, you should get worried over your poor team perfomance vs Blazers this season, im planning a suprise for T-mac called defensive freak, but still havent make up my mind if to let Tmac play and shut the others, or shut down T-mac but then others will have more space, too bad Bosh got injured, if he didnt i would do that for sure and prolly sweep you 4-0.

Chris Bosh guarding Mcgrady would be the greatest SSBA joke of all time.

lols

East:

Nets over Pacers in 5
Hornets over Raptors in 7
Magic over Wizards in 6
Heat over Celtics in 7

West

Wariorrs over Mavs in 4
Grizzlies over Suns in 7
Clippers over Jazz in 4
Kings over Blazers in 6

In the east, each team split the season series 2-2. Pretty interesting. I really think I might get upset by the Raptors.

You guys really don't think the Mavs can win one game :moon:.  I will bet my $70 that my team can win at least one game, who wants to bet?  Just post it here.

I just love being the underdog.

but hey, there are huge changes in my line-up. starters on the bench :D hihi

you drunk again ??? who said Bosh would guard McGrady ???

i agree with this... :)

Round 1 up.

Can't believe the Nets/Pacers and Hornets/Raptors series went to 7 games.  Just shows how absurdly deep the east is.


West was boring.  1-2-3-4 advanced.  Only one "upset" in the entire first round.  Very un-FBB like.

Congrats to the Grizz,good series, good luck the Kings and the rest of the way.

As far as the series, Had a round high 142 py performance in game 5, I just couldent contain/score enough to keep up with the Grizz.

Good luck to the rest of the teams still involved, Hopefully it will be entertaining to see how it plays out on each side.

terribly missed Al Jefferson is most part of the series. nice series, wizards.

btw, damn keogan averaging 47ppg.

beat the celtics...4 games to 1... i should be happy but shultz went down in the first game as emmanuel griffin went down in the first game also :) from there...keogan just took over the entire series....averaging 46.8ppg  :bounce:  bods how many days was shultz injured? can he suit up for round 2?  if shultz was available for round 2...i wont be scared with nets since we've got the season series tied...

Wow, what a series between the Raptors and the Hornets, capped off by a game 7, 100-98 victory by the Hornets.
Some bizarre happenings in that game, with Swift/Piatowski holding Melo to 6-25 shooting, and Gadzuric getting 17 boards in just 21 minutes.

Really it was unexpected performances by Swift and Radman that allowed the Hornets to take this series.
The Hornets are relieved to get out of the 1st round alive.

great series -- marion outplayed pettit in every stats cat but it wasn´t enough
marion finished with avg. of 24points 11reb and 3 stls and 1blk while holding pettit under 40% shooting from the field and 30% from 3...  :tup:

my point guards played lincoln at least even with the surprise play of nate who scored an avg. of more than 8 in less than 15 mins... again lincoln couldn´t shoot at all almost the same % like pettit and snow was even under 20%

Artest lost the rebound battle with mike but played him even in every other cat. Kobe and battier i would say pretty even but i can´t understand how kobe couldn´t get a FT the whole series  :?

boozer had big troubles with sammy even i won some cat in scoring and rebounding ... boozers bad % at C might have been the difference

And now to the MVP of this series.. congrats to Emeka for holding my best player under his season avg. and outscoring him enough to be the difference.

I am very proud of my team which battled the defending champion to a full series.

 :screwy:
this is probably the most depressing series i ever had, easily topping the Cavs debacle from 2 seasons ago. Not that it caught me by complete surprise since I knew it would be a hard fought contest, but it seems like everything that could possibly go wrong did.

First I lose my starting PF and major aquisition Griffin for the series after 9 minutes in game 1 (hey he's not injured anymore so he probably only went down for 6 days or so ... all this after missing 10 games total in his 8 year career !!!!)

Then, I lose the first home game in OT.

Then, and this is the worst, freaking Shultz went down. Unbelievable, of all possible injuries that can happen it's THE one that kills my game plan. I'll explain later.

And fittingly I lose game 4 on the road by 2 and game 5 at home by 3. just perfect.



Now the "Shultz factor": During the season Lenard had lots of fun with Bertram, scoring 32ppg on 60% against his "defense". Out goes Shultz, in comes Holton, one of the few defenders causing problems to Antonio. Big defender and shot blocker. For the rest of the series Lenard gets 22ppg on 45% shooting. But thats not all. Shultz' got 17 shot attemps per during the season and Keogan 23. So what happens now? With the no-offense Holton Keogans attempts climb to 32 per game (after 25 in game 1) and his scoring output goes from 35ppg in the reg season to 49ppg for game 2-5.
Guess it's save to say this injury decided the series in favor of the Heat ...


At least this now ends my speculations if i had enough to beat the Nets in a series, which i believe I do. Try again next year.
 :?

Ooops, sweep! :) The only one in the entire round.

This was just classic melting of the opponent. Won the series by a average 20pts. Blazers never had a chance.

Up next, Warriors again in a classic 2nd round showdown.

Oh shit. God damn. Igoudala to miss the first 2 games. Damn!

Talking about experienced cats, Tracy and Duncan both lifted their perfomance like crazy

Mcgrady 3rd scorer of the league with 33ppg
Duncan 4th with 31ppg

Mike Bibby 10apg holds 6th place and Booth with 3.5bpg at #5.

Great job by the vets.

If it wasn't for the strange letdown in last sim i'd be playin Grizzlies now instead of the Warriors, but oh well..

Game 1

109-99. Duncan 31pts, 8rebs. Mcgrady 21pts, 7as, 6rebs. Igoudala 19pts, 10rebs 7as. Bibby 16pts, 7as, 7rebs. The Big 4 delivers a W

Game 2

118-91. Mcgrady 44pts, 7as, 5rebs. Duncan 28pts, 8rebs. Igoudala 22pts, 6as, 9rebs and Bibby 11pts, 12as.

Game 3

84-60. What a defense. Held them to 28% from the field! Duncan led the way with 33pts and 16rebs. Booth woth monstrous 8blocks and 16rebs performance.

Game 4

114-97. Mcgrady exploded for 50pts, Duncan with 31pts, 13rebs and Bibby with 10pts, 14as, 6rebs.

Wow, great (and scary) series, Mavs....
Awesome for fans of basketabll, with such high scoring games.

Not quite sure what happeend to my team's defense in those three losses, but what a greats series.

And Dirk, to end the series, shows his leadership, going for 51 points in the final game, to win the series.

And now, sigh, the Kings...  The one team in the West that gives the Warriors problems, with their overpowering rebounding. 2-2 during the regular season, but Andre is out for 4 days.  Should be a good series.

A series that defines the future of the Warriors franchise, to be honest...

My team shown a lot of heart cameback from 0-3 to even it up to 3-3.  Went out of gas in the third quarter of game 7.  We will be back.

I have a feeling you'll finally end the skid. Just a bad huntch. :?

Damn you Iggy!

 It may be the Iggy loss that is they key...
Should be a great a series.

However, if the Warriors lose, the rebuild will commence.
That is how important this series is for the squad.

This is probably my last playoff regardless of the outcome.

A truely amazing series. Both of us were unbeatable at home, showing just how important home court advantage can be.

Raptors had some great all around performances, but Melo was shut down. However, Yao was also contained by Swift, making it a battle of depth rather than stars. Max and Billy Joe Kim really stepped up for the Raptors, with Max averaging over 20ppg for the series and BJK getting 12.7 rpg and 3.1 bpg in a great series for him.

Hornets, I tip my hat to you.

f this

Well, in another year I think homecourt, and this series, goes in your favor. Great series  :cheers:

Does not necessarily have to be.

The other three Eastern series (i leave the west alone, anything can happen there) produced 7 road wins, including 2 against the Magic who lost all of 8 home games all year (none to the Wiz) and 2 against my Celts who had 9 home losses (none to the Heat) as well as one vs the Nets (5 all year).

Homecourt does matter little in FBB ...

In the regular season and the playoffs, the home team in the Raptors-Hornets matchup won every game, so it was very important to this series.

I lost game 7 two times in WCF in my own gym. My expirience with homecourt is rather unpleasent, that's why i don't care anymore about it.

I'd say. For both of us, it was ALL that mattered.

i knew it i should have change the damn tactic and put Steve on T-mac, but well im happy anyway, getting to POs with the best record so far and team improving from year to year is enough for me for now, Hoffa unfortunately couldnt do it by himself

Game 1 -10pt Hoffa had 26/20, Telf was good 24/5/9 but except for this two players my team sucks completely offensively.

Game 2 -28pt Hoffa again good 17/17, Telf as well but same as game 1 no help from others.

Game 3 -24pt at home Ouch, Hoffa 19/16, was wasting way too many balls this PO series, shooting pretty bad in all 4 games, the rest of the team was invisible, Buehler did well in this embarrassing loss.

Game 4 -17pt Tmac droped 50 to finish the series.

Congrats to the Kings on a boring series and good luck in your quest for the TITLE !


oh yeah and  :moon:

i won both in Sacramento and got sweeped heh, home advantage has nothing do to with it, at least i believe so.,

Only the Sixers, Bucks and Nuggets had worse home records than away records during the regular season. If there were no difference between playing at home and playing away, then you would expect about half of the teams in the league to have worse home records than away records.

I sincerely doubt that home court advantage is done away with in the playoffs. There are many independent factors that turn an away team into a winner, and pointing to road wins is simply making the mistake of not seeing the forest for the trees.

It would be far more anomalous to see a series where the road team one every game versus a series where the home team won every series.

Round 2 up.

Really surprised at the Grizzlies.  I know they were the #2 seed, but IMO serious underdogs to the two time defending WC champ Clippers, and really shocking they won 4-1.

Hornets just streamrolled in 4.  For a team that won 70 games, I'm really struggling right now.  Pettit (who's typically a great playoff performer) is really struggling.

And this is why its never a good idea to rebuild. Retooling is okay but not rebuilding. I am very suprised at my 4-1 series win over the clippers. But if you look at my team on paper, I do have the talent. I am really glad that I didnt blow this team up the past 2-3 seasons when I easily could have. Hopefully my team can suprise the Warriors in the next series. Good luck Warriors.

Hm.
Well, either my move of Yao to PF was brilliantly anticipated by the Wizards, or the Wizards are just completely nuts and decided to match up a 6'9 B- defender against the 7'6 MVP. I find both to be pretty strange. Maybe he did it to free up Maggette, but...
Anyway, I swept, but most of the games were pretty close.

Now, on to the Nets.

wow...heart breaking  :bash: hehehe a close one..could have won the series if only i won game five....lost only by one point..... molina went down in the first game...and didnt do well without molina for games 2 and 3....when molina suit up for game 5....it was a heart breaking loss by just one point....this could have gone either way... keogan was still terrific... he is still the league's leader in scoring.... and his 24... so there would be a lot of playoffs ahead of this team....

Yeah, nice run Heat. The ironic thing is that you will probably take more games from the Nets than me, and I openly said I'd rather play you.
Nice work.

yeah...coz im 0-4 against you...i cant handle yao...but i was able to contain emeka in some games.. :D i hope we would still improve and wont stop here  :lol:

who does want to play the nets?  :D

I just can't fucking belive, just can't. I'm doomed, that's it. The firts time in 100 years could have played in WCF without meeting the Clippers and i lost 4-3.

Ahhhh...fuckin fuck!

Congrats Warriros

And this is where everything ends.

KingsGM will announce his resign later.

oh balls.

I completely forgot about re-signings.

I'll try to get that tonight.  damnit.

was actually waiting for that. haha

Another great series, Kings. 
I think the Warriors have lost to you about 3 times in the playoffs during this league, so it is good to finally get a series win.
Homecourt advantage was the key, I think, especially for game 7.

James Posey did a great job defending Dirk in the first couple games in the series, luckily Luol Deng really stepped up his offensive game.

Another series where Dirk takes the team on his back in game 7, this time with 35 points, 6 assists, and 4 steals.

2nd ever Conference Final appearance for the Warriors...  Good luck, Grizzlies...

Congratulations to all the teams advancing, these playoffs are really entertaining.

Nets again did it in game 7 (I believe their record in close-out games must be nearly perfect and come with a huge point differential), but hey did the Heat look great too. After seeing what Shultz provided I regret having thought i'd stand more of a chance if he wasn't injured. This is a future title team we see here.

As for the Hornets series, I think the Wiz move (or none-move since Barner played C in round 1 too with big success against Dwight) makes little sense. No way was i expecting the Hornets to move Yao anywhere from C so playing him with a 6'9 and 6'8 guy is truly strange (was Diop injured for the whole series?)

Predicted east finalist: Hornets. Nets seem to have bigger trouble getting consistent output from anyone but Pettit and with Stromile aboard (glad i could assist here ;-)) I see this being the Hornets year.

The Warriors finally did it. Great series, maybe decided by Iggy's absence. Dirk was slowed considerable in the games he played so maybe just maybe this could have been the Kings year otherwise. Does the TD trade look dumb now? Heck no, it worked perfectly, what other goal can you have than a CHANCE at going all the way (before injuries hit you).

Also props to the Grizzlies on continuing their marvelous run. The Clipps didn't impress at all this season so their loss doesn't completely surprise (but having one title i'm sure they get over it quickly and retool soon)-

Predicted west finalist: Warriors. I don't think this series is by any means decided yet and may hinge on a few matchups, but as their GM said: "Never doubt the Dirk" (i know why i worked hard to trade for him last offseason. Schabi is nice an all but the Dirk takes you deep in the postsaeason)


Finally i have to admit I'm pretty glad to be part of a great league like SSBA. It's getting better with the years, like truly fine wine ...
 :lol:

As in you are quitting the league?

Well, yeah.

Why? Your team lost to the 2nd best team in the League.

Not playoff related, but...
I think we are starting to see the rise of some teams, and beginning of the fall of some others.
The Kings and the Warriors have been two very good team for the past 5 years, but I think they have at most 2-3 years left.
The Clippers have another 3-5 years of high level competition, as do the Grizzlies.
And I think the Mavs are about 2-3 years from being the top team in the West.

In the East, the Nets have another 3-5 years of dominance left (until Emeka and Sammy age a bit), and the Hornets are in the same boat (dependent upon Yao and Swift aging), and the Heat, Celtics, Wiz, and Raptors all working their way up, and should be at the top in 2-4 years...

because you lost, you have no time left, or because more of the players are computer generated rather then real now?

Haw.  You must have missed my playoff collapses (I think I lost 2 game 7's in the finals :( )

Up until the finals I'm clutch though  :bash:

cause of fictional players and his oldies will prolly retire now, at least TD, if they stay however he might give another shot, but i hope they retire and so does he :D

Haha, no I meant when I said that I'd rather play you than the Raps or the Wizards.

Correct.

I haven't done the job with my team. Considering the age of my team this was supposed to be the VERY last title hunt with this crew. They were doing great this year as far as injuries are concerned (until Iggy screwed me over), but next year i wouldn't stand a chance. Some of my C's, either Booth, Fortson or maybe even Duncan will probably retire or seriously decline so there's minnimum of chance for getting a title or for some serious playoff run so i don't want to fool myself.

I would stay, but as i said, with all this fictional players coming around and less and less real time players to build a team around, i just don't feel the joy or excitment with that. This is a great league and a great crew but i just don't find any fun in running a team consisted of fictional players. I was hoping for some retro or real time players draft during these years but since that's unlikely i just think this is probably the right thing to do.

But anyway, thanks for great support.

Congrats to the Grizzlies.

As CelticsGM already said, this was a good year by the Clippers, but not much more then that. I have been very very very busy with work recently and I just did not have the time to really concentrate on the league this season. Hopefully I can bring the Clips back next season to where they belong.

Good luck to all playoff teams left!

What would CelticsGM do without KingsGM. :eek3:

I have no idea ... :-(

It would be empty here, quiet and uneventful. Some would call it "less annoying", some would simply call it "professional again", but I'd call it "boring" ...

haha, I think I would call it that too

Congrats to the Hornets, they certainly deserved it.  After 2 straight 7 game series, I was running on luck.  Dropping the first 3 in the series was a hard hole to climb up out of, and the injury of Pettit in game 6 was the straw that broke the camels back.

Of course, had I been able to win one of the first two games on my home court, which I lost by 1 point each, Game 7 would have never happened :(

Both teams did a great job defensively, both teams did a great job holding onto the ball.  Rebounding was just about even.  The key to the series was Dan Gadzuric.

He did a great job on Emeka (particularly in Games 1-3).  Emeka had been my best player the first 3 rounds, and he couldn't hit a shot (although he did drop 30 points in game 7 and had a triple double in game 4 with 19/15/13).  But overall his % was terrible.  Nice job Dan.

I guess this means that the Nets dynasty remains intact... :?

holy crap, I didn't think I had a chance. I even entertained the idea of playing Yao at SF.
I am amazed.
Finally the Hornets have reached the finals. Jeez.

It means I will likely give it one more shot.  I'd like for them to go out as a champion.  But don't build your future plans on Emeka or Pettit being a free agent.  I'd like for them to retire as Nets, one way or another.

Congrats Hornets GM,  it really has been a long time and it's well deserved. and congrats to the Warriors as well. it will certainly be a interesting final round.

Will the Hornets be first to win the titles in SSBA 1 AND 2?
Will Dirk carry his second franchise to the title?
Will Yao finally win a title?

Lots of huge questions to be anwsered over the next 2 days.

couldnt agree more really

No one is hoping Yao gets his title more than me. Of course, he will also be seen as a Raptor though  :moon:

Wow....  Another great series, well done Grizz...
Another 4-3 series... Man, my team is completely exhausted, and I do not have home court against the Hornets...

This hopefully will be a great series...  My guess, it goes to 7 games.. lol

Hornets would most likely be winning the title... congratz to the hornets... no doubt in my mind that the team in the east would win the title  :) GO EAST!!!! :cheers:

Congratulations Hornets and Warriors (as predicted) for your first SSBA final appearance.

I knew the Hornets could do it but by no avail I thought they could take 3 on the Nets home court (after losing 5 at home all year the Nets now entertain a 7-5 playoff home record while losing the first game at home in all 3 series, wow !). Perfect games, you earned every bit of the finals appearance. But all that probably wouldn't have been enough if Pettit stayed healthy.

(Still, that game 4 amazes me and shows what the Nets are capeable of: a HUGE triple double (13 ass?) from Emeka, 10 blocks from Samy, 49 from Pettit, 28/12 from Lord, 55% as a team on the road against the Hornets D.  :shock:)

And more props to the Grizz for going that far, nearly pulling off another upset. Great great season. But Dirk wouldn't be denied. I'm glad for the Warriors to finally make it, they had to endure their share of injury problems in recent years as well. Plus they are one of the nicest GMs around here, always friendly, always a good talk. Great that's rewarded too.
 :cheers:

How important is the Dirk factor? Just look at Deng, who might be the next star, getting 39 one game and 9 the next. Dirk would NEVER get 9 points, even if his shooting % have dropped he is just pure consistency. Thats what true stars do.


Finals winner: Hornets. I have to stick with my East superiorty prediction here. They are just so good from 1 to 5 and nobody can stop Yao.

i think the hornets are the favs because they have the ability to stop Dirk. It would be fun to see Yao against Dirk at Sf but i guess it would give the warriors an advantage.

how about let dirk play center? after all dirk should be playing center for his height  :D

The coolest finals in a long time. Really glad for both GM's, they deserved it.

I'll take the Hornets in 6. Their frontcourt is just too much for Warrirors to handle.

Lol... I tried that once...  And only once ;)

I actually don't match up well with the Warriors. I am more geared defensively towards playing a team that tries to score inside at the PF position. Podkolzine really does well against pretty much anyone he faces there (it was actually Podkolzine who started at PF and played so well against Okafor.)

I don't have any answer for Dirk. Last game we played he dropped 50 on Swift  :(
The good thing is that we were 4th in the league in opponent's 3-point percentage. That should help to contain Hinrich and Deng.
Yao, my top player, actually struggled a lot against Finley in both regular season matchups. Hopefully he can break out of that and put up some good numbers. I will also look to Radman and Livingston to put up some good outside shooting numbers, since the Warriors were second to last in the league in o3pt%.
Homecourt advantage is obviously big for the Hornets.

I needed some luck (well, a whole lot of luck) to beat the Nets, and I think it's going to take just as much to beat the Warriors.

Good luck Warriors.

Yeah, heh.  I realized that today.  Probably actually makes more sense.  Okafor struggles to shoot against height.

Congrats on making it to the finals Warriors. I am pretty upset that I lost. Even I don't understand how my team was able to step it up and make it this far. I think i'll be keeping my nucleus and just add a few more parts. Good luck to both teams in the finals.

Hornets, should be a great series.

In our first game, you had 70 :shock: rebounds against my squad.
And well Yao has not shot well against Finley (he does not have a huge size advantage), but he averaged 20 rpg in the 2 games...

I think if it is a defensive struggle, the Hornets win easily...
If it's a scoring fest, the Warriors have a chance...

Good Luck, Hornets  :cheers:

I actually have a dodgeball finals appearance to make tonight too  :lol:

But then school finals all next week  :(

any way to know the extensions soon? :D

Damn, my dodgeball team lost in the final 3-1. I need my Hornets to come through for me!

Dirk sucks at center.

SSBA might be delayed for a day or two.  I've had computer problems on the computer that the save is stored (don't worry, the hard drives fine, it's a motherboard issue).  I'm going to be working on the computer tonight, and if I can't get it working I'll take the hard drive out, put it in an enclosure I have, and run it from my laptop.  So it'll be done either tonight or tomorrow night, depending on how the computer goes.

Woosh...
OK, thanks for giving us the heads up.  Hope your computer is not in too bad of shape... 

Take you time.  NFL draft this weeken. :cheers:

suspenseful!

Hey, any update on the computer situation?

Yeah.


They suck.

Really, it's the motherboard that's DOA.  Unfortunately, replacing the motherboard is essentially stripping it down, taking everything off, then putting it all back together.  This is probably a 2 hour process, but the thing is you can't just stop halfway through, and leave computer parts lying across the kitchen as your cat plays with it for the next day.  So I just need to find 2-3 hours that I can spend working on it consecutively, and I just haven't had the time yet.  Especially with an exam coming up on tuesday.

Haha, I hate cats.

I've got exams this week to, so I understand your time restraints. No rush.

lol, I have a 22 pound cat that my neighbors often mistake for a bobcat, or minautre mountain lion

That's pretty cool actually...

I don't really hate cats, but I'm allergic to them, so it pisses me off to be around them. I have negative associations. That didn't keep my family from owning cats though.  :x

I don't hate cats, but I'm definitely more of a dog person.  Unfortunately it's not fair to have a dog in a 1 bedroom apartment, so a cat was my concession.

oh the wrath of el gato, he's going to be dragging dead deer to your front door soon

lol, well since you said it, he is a very intimidating predator, he routinely brings birds to the deck for my enjoyment.

Yeah, back when I lived out in the suburbs, we used to have cats that would show up with birds/mice on our porch all the time.  They even learned how to shimmy up the side of the door and ring the doorbell to get us to let them in.  Which got rather annoying at 3 am.

lol, that's awesome

Cats ring doorbell :?: :hail:

Lol...  Had a cat I thought was an indoor cat...
Until the day I woke up, and she had left a dead bird by the side of the bed for me as a present.

Apparently, at night, she would push out the bottom of the window screen, leave, and then come back early in the morning.

She also came back woth voles and copperhead snakes as well..

wow... i didnt know this league are composed of cat lovers  :lmao:...personally i hate cats  :D

Cats suck, dogs are better... :P

My dog is a monster, 11 pounds of pure ferocity... :D

My old old cat used to play the piano (well, walk across it) when he wanted to go outside. That was the only cat we had that I really liked. He was a big orange tabby.

Erm...that's a monster?

When I was growing up (and my mom still has) a 120 lb rottweiler.

Jazz has this big German Shepard, it's like 6'2 when it stands on it's hind legs.  The thing is strong too, it knocks down grown men, probably not 120 pounds though, maybe 90.

6`2 and 90lbs... That thing has an eating disorder!  :lol2:

Only Dobermans for the last 12 years. First one was a bitch, died year ago and now we have 10 months old male.

Had 3 cats (all black) before our first doberman arrived. All 3 of them escaped after couple of months. Dog wasn't interested in co-exist.

Yeah, i have a horse of a dog, it's literally knocked me and my 6'5" frame down, he doesn't know his own strength, but he gets his ass kicked by our other little shit of a dog, who's a shelty/collie mix. Being a German shepherd he's pretty smart, we have teeth marks on many of the door knobs in our house from him trying to open the door with his teeth.

With teeth? Why don't he uses his arms?

Good point. Your dog isn't looking so smart now, is he Jazz?

lol, dogs don't have thumbs, it would be kind tough to grip a goor knob and turn it, right?  I think using the teeth would be much easier.

My dog just jumps to knob with both of his arms and just pulls himself back until the doors don't get open. But i guess it depends on the knob. You can't do that on some of them.

He's so annoying during the nights, he checks everyone. So we're locking our toilet, bedroom and sleeping room doors with keys cause that's the only way to stop him from slaming the doors and stealing stuffs from the house, which eventually ends up somewhere in the backyard in some mud.

Heh, sarcasm doesn't transmit well over the internets...  :(

There are teeth marks all over the door knobs in our hosue too! ... We have no pets...  :screwy:

my goodness, there's little more depressing than a sim league discussion board with no simming activity.

DOGS ! That's all you have to talk for days now? The lowest intellectual pet animal known to mankind? Mindless trained robots running on remote control from their "masters" (IF they are trained at all and only BEFORE that usual "I swear, he's never bitten before" incident happens).

ok, i'm a cats guy, if only because they keep their dignity. Always. You will NEVER be the master of a cat, but you can try to form a friendship respecting each others life and habits. Now try that with a dog ...
 :cheers:


btw, you know the MOST ANNOYING fact about dogs? Their masters themselves. Probably it's because I got little children, probably because i live in a real big city, but half a million people would do a sigh of relief if dogs are banned from the inner districts of this city. Why? First it's forbidden by law to walk around with dogs unleashed. A third of the dog owners give a shit about that (and take into account that about 75% of all dogs outweigh my 4yr old by far). Second, it is ordered by law that dog owners need to clean up the excremental depositions from their beloved animals, yet nobody gives a shit. The whole city, parks, sidewalks, it's like a giant dog toilet wherever you look or go.

Especially with children it's major depressing, as you can't let them run around anywhere it's even slightly green without being certain
a) they will return crying because a golden retriever (if you're lucky)/doberman(if you're not) tries to "just play with them"
b1) they will step into multiple dog excrementals (if you're lucky)
b2) being little children they will fall into dog excrementals (if you're not)

Most US guys here won't understand a bit of all these problems, but european cities are a lot smaller, streets are narrower and that whole law stuff exists on paper only. Dogs have a huge lobby in the legislation and among the police, nobody gets to pay any penalties for violating the law ... until some casualties happen and everyone is caught by complete surprise. Just depressing ...
 :(

I love to talk about dogs. Have them all my life. First retriver (solded to the police cause my brother and i was not very kind to her. We were just a 2 stupid kids), after that we had Scotisch sheparrd (Lessie). The last two are dobermans, and there is no way i would buy any other dog except doberman now. I'm just in love them. Unbelivable character.


I think even you understand how dumb this was and you don't belive in that.

That's a nonsense. Dogs can't be mindless and very few of them are trained. Most of them never had any kind of training in their life.


Dignity? Phew...the most selfish animal alive. How can you respect selfishness?


Off course, cause she'll go anywhere where's food or a warm blanket. Regardless of their master. How can you value that the same as a dog who refuses to eat if his master abandons him? How can you NOT respect and admire that devotion?






Well i see where you're coming from but in the majority of cases masters are the one to blame for, not dogs. How they threat team? How they learn them to behave among people? Do they teach them to be good or vicious? Socialization process is the most crucial when you have a working dog like doberman, german sheparrd, pit bull (i'd ban them), rotwailler etc. If they have been locked and isolated during their first months of life, off course he'll be dangerous later and it could harm people. But then again, you, as a human, would be the same if someone kept you in a basement for the first 10 years of your life. Breeding and quality of the blood (parentage) is the most important.


Yes, as i said i understand. Being a father as you are i can uderstand you. I'm having troubles with parents while walking my dog all the time. Although, my dog is harmless for kids, i can still understand them.

ok, that brainless part was wildly overblown (we all know there's Lassie, the McGyver of dogs ...)
;-)

but

Let me repeat that, I SHOULD R-E-S-P-E-C-T BLIND DEVOTION ??? That coming from a man with a brain? Hey, I'm not in the military or live in a social system of devotion. I respect dignity as I said earlier. From a partner, from a friend and from a pet animal living in my family (mice, hamsters and alike thus don't count, these are short-time guests).

btw, the huge problem with that devotion thing is that way too many dog owners command that from their human partner too, in some way or another, and here it get's ugly ...

furthermore ...

WOW, that's the bullshit i expect from a dog owner. Listen: NO DOG IS HARMLESS, NONE. A dog is a domesticated, hopefully trained animal AND THERE'S NO WAY TO GET RID OF IT'S INSTINCTS. Just not possible, unless you surgically manipulate it's brain. In a crisis situation under the wrong circumstances that animal will go back to it's instincts and do what'S in it's genetic programming.
Fortunately more and more dog owners (hey, we are speaking of <1% here, but it's a start) believe in this and react accordingly, using leashes and muzzles in public (or better whenever someone else is around). I couldn't care less if a dog bites it's master - which NEVER happens - or a family member - which OFTEN happens, mostly little children. They know (or should know) the risk and are willing to take it. Fine. But leave everyone else out of danger.

Exactly. And then they become weapons  - where nobody who wants a dog has to do any kind of education or prove he can handle a dog (i've seen little girls walking Dobermans on a leash that are double their weight. Ridiculous !!!). This is especially true for the fighting races like Pitbulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers and a few others. They should be banned altogether from inner cities.


I know there are som dog owners who are responisble, caring, act the right way from avoiding public littering to not putting someone else in danger. I feel bad for those as they are lost in the majority of irresponisble owners. But that's how life is ...
 8)

I was kidding.

1) Last time i checked devotion is a virtue. Not something bad. You don't expect a devotion from your life partner? Tom, poligamy is not allowed in Europe.  :)
2) Doberman is not a fighting dog. He's a working dog. That's the big diference. Pit bulls are fighting dog. And they don't belong in the same breathe with dobermans.

lol, I wasn't sure if you were kidding or not, but I had to defend my boy

so how's that frisbee-golf going anyway?

haha, mill ended up in the pond on hole 4 today, he swimmed in the shitty lake to find the frisbee and he didn't even find it.  For those of you who never played frisbee golf, it's a damn fun game.

Frolf?

well, apparently our dog caught a bat and stepped on its wings. too bad, the bats wings have holes now. yikes.

magic GM has a really cool dog..the dog's name is Lassie  :lmao:

lol. I guess you haven't been paying attention to detail. I reckon you are afraid of our dog, btw.  :moon:

lol hahaha...Lassie just proved he is macho in biting the bat's wings.... :lmao:
cool dog  :bounce:

what we have 2 dogs now? Last time I checked we only have 1 in the name of Ringo. hihi.

unfortunately, the bat just died today. I took a picture of the bat while it was still hanging on the tree for dear life.

Not to interupt the members of Westminster, but I should be able to run the sim tonight.  I'll update the schedule later.

not to sound strange, but what exactly is a "sim"? and what does it have to do with our pet board here?

btw, I just love the thought of a Philippine dog being "at bat" ...
 :lmao:

It may be called frolf...never heard it called that, it's real name is disc golf, you just throw a frisby into a chain basket.  We have the "World's Biggest Disc Golf Event" this Saturday about 15 minutes from me in Hughesville PA. Anybody who wants to come and challenge me to a game of disc golf is welcome, I'm not that good yet though.

What the f is that?

Lol, all I know about is from the Seinfeld episode.

Don't pay any attention to this post, it's strictly because I will be away from my computer tonight and want to be able to check DJSL, and I need to urls...

http://s13.invisionfree.com/DJSL/index.php?

http://lmamone.atspace.com/

You are Tom's spamming agent.

and you wonder how he got to 4315 posts ...
;-)

R-I-N-G-O and RINGO was his name O  lol

http://www.pdga.com/ (http://www.pdga.com/)

www.ugas.com

Whoa, yeah, you can't do that.

:bods:

 :lol:

Alright, good news.  I grabbed the drive out of my computer, hooked it up to the external drive enclosure, and can read it off my laptop.  i'll be running the sim today.

wow after all the cats and dogstalk...
what is a sim and what kind of we have to expect?
is there a new schedule?
did anyone get the extensions?

lots of question... :lol:

Sim up.

Up 2-1, nice. I'll have to look at it more in-depth later.

looks interesting heheh

Sim has played to home court so far....
6 gamer, I think, at least....

Hmm, I didn't think that Dirk would have that much influence on a series, but he does. Negatively. It's clear that Vlad can't contain Dirk, but that Dirk can't slow down Vlad is somewhat surprising. Otherwise it's business as usual. Fin has some success against Yao, poor Ruffin has nobody he can defend here and Lavar does a great job on Luol.

Right now, Livi has the slight edge over Kirk and that's why the Hornets lead the way.

I see this going to 7 games with two road wins coming. Sorry Dirk, one end of the court doesn't cut it  ...
 :moon:

if vlade can keep scoring over 20 this final will be finished in 5..
it will need more miracel from hinrich to win more game and by the way nice benching of swift  :shock:

I appreciate you letting me have a look at Lavar starting, hopefully now he hits the market....Hawks are going for the defensive look in the new season

Livi has the edge?  Why do you say that?
K.  Hinrich - 24 ppg, 11.3 apg, 3.7 rpg, 1.7 spg, 2.3 topg, on 48.4% (fg) and 58.8% (3pt)
Livingston - 19.3 ppg, 11 apg, 5.0 rpg, 1.3 spg, 3.0 topg on 52.1% (fg) and 40.0% (3pt)

I would give that slight edge to Kirk, imo.

Yao is averaging 29 ppg and almost 15 rpg, with 3 bpg on 50% shooting
J Finley, while playing well (3 ppg, 11 rpg, 4 apg, 3 bpg), just cannot contain Yao.

And Vlad has 21 ppg and 10 rpg on 48% shooting. The scoring is great, but it is the rebounding for him that is important.
Dirk is playing brilliantly offensively, with 33 ppg with 6 rpg, on 52% and 56% shooting... Needs to kick up the rebounding and defense....

It is rebounding that is winning this series so far.  Whoever has won the rebounding competition, has also won the game. 

Sim up.

Congratulations to the new SSBA champions!

Very surprised that the Warriors won, especially after Dirk going down in game 5.  The Warriors played the maximum # of games possible, but ended up winning the championship.

Congrats to both teams.

 :(

Haha.

It's really hard to get too excited for either GM.  I think you're both one of the top GM's, I think you both have deserved it (for years), I think it's great that one of you finally got it, but I think it sucks that Hornets are still without a ring.

An amazing series Hornets...  Great, Great series...
I am boggled that the Warriors went on a winning streak without Dirk playing the final 3 games.
Devin Hinkle played just incredibly in place of Dirk.

The key may have been small, but moving Hinrich up to the 2nd option for the final 4 games was probably the key, especially after Dirk went down...

Just a great series...  Well done, Hornets!!!   :cheers:

WOW,Congrats Warriors you both deserved the title, but its still weird to see the Hornets one of the Marquee franchises in SSBA w/o a title still.

incredible hornets up 3-1 with 2 home games left and lost in 7
the key imo was that the warriors increased their defense after dirk went down and the hornets couldn't defend the arc. great series congrats to both... happy to challenge you next year for the title

Man i'm going nuts!



Congrats to the Warriors

wow. talk about the suns-lal series. hihi

congratz warriors.

Congratz to both GMs.  Great job Warriors, taking the title back to the west. :tup:

I am too pissed to be gracious in defeat. I'm still mad a day later.

Yeah, losing in game 7's are the worst.

If you want to blow up your team, i'm interested in yao.

;)

Think I am going to blow up my team, since I did finally win...
Dirk will be available, my friends...

Honestly, I wish I would have after I won my last championship.  And that's the only reason I'm holding onto them now.  I want them to go out a winner.

Yes, I am 75% sure that I'm going to blow it up. With you coming back next year, the window has effectively closed for this group.
PM me with any ideas.

Oh what a stunning finish to the season. The WEST, yes you read that right, a WESTERN team took it all. Beat my prediction ...  :shock:

Congratulations to the Warriors for going all the way. You deserved it - as much as the Hornets would have deserved it, you both made an incredible job as GMs and are truly nice guys.
 :cheers:


But does ANYONE here think the Warriors would have won the title without the Dirk injury?

I say: Not a chance, this series was done after game 4. Hornets in 6 or maybe in 7 if Dirk explodes for 54 to force a game7. But suddenly Dirk is done, the Hornets lose the SF offense since Vlad suddenly meets some defense and for the Warriors just about everyone steps up big time. Nice turnaround.


But then again, maybe I'm off here since the Warriors apparently HAVE made some change for games 4-7. They only lost game4 by one in OT, won game5 convincingly and games 7 big as well. So this might as well have been possible WITH Dirk, who knows ... at least it's the perfect example why doing the finals on 2 days to allow changes makes sense !
 :tup:


So once again, hail the new champ and let's try again even harder next year.
 :hail:

OK, I am done crying in the corner, and I'm ready to say congrats to the Warriors. You definitely deserved it. I think you are one of the best GMs around, and we had a great series. Congrats  :cheers:

Thanks Hornets...  We had an incredible series...  If it has been real, the TV ratings would have been awesome   :D

Haha, very true... But like the Suns/Lakers, the last game would have been kind of a snooze  :lol:

And I'm 100% sure you're crazy if you blow it up.

Plus, if I win a championship next year, Okafor and Pettit won't be back the following year.