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Can the red hot Kings continue with their crazy ride? I hope so. Jerome James and Steph Marbury are back and Drew Gooden is playing his best ball as a King. The playoffs are aproaching fast and this team is looking for a 1st seed in the West.

Kings @ Suns
Warriors @ Kings
Timberwolves @ Kings
Kings @ Nuggets
Kings @ Trailblazers
Mavericks @ Kings
Knicks @ Kings

The Mavs are coming to Arco Arena and i really expect a showdown. Dampier vs Jerome James, Brad Miller vs Dirk, Lebron vs Gooden and Snyder vs Tmac. Major battle at the PG spot, Jason Terry against Steph. Interesting matchup.

Just NO More Injuries Please!

The Raptors have a fairly light schedule, only playing 5 games.

Look for a 4-1.

THe Wizards should be a win.

THe Hawks should be a win.

THe Mavs could be my loss.

THe Pacers could be my loss.

The Heat should be a win.

im going against tough team this sim... i expect a 3-3 sim but i want a 4-2 sim... :lol:

Supersonics@Jazz
Trailblazers@Jazz
Bucks@Jazz
Spurs@Jazz
Grizzlies@Jazz
Jazz@Trailblazers
Nuggets@Jazz


6 outta 7 at home, I could very well go 6-1, but I'm going to go a little more conservative and say I'll go 5-2 this sim

Uh-oh.  Warriors ain't gonna be happy.

Booyakasha respect. The Cavs go 5-4 with a bad team. That's what I like to see... :)
Gotta look into things, but it doesn't really matter too much, anyway.

Hoff tears his ACL (105 days) :shock: .  Ivan is a turnover machine, not sure how to bring that down.  C handles at for a PF is pretty good.  He did have a 26 pts 22 rebs game.  Iggy didn't quite workout at pg so I'll have to move him.  I think Iggy will be dealt soon.

I just want this season to end...

My team sucks

The decent group of veterans seem to be holding things together. Miller is the leader, playing rather well. Ostertag and Joe Smith played very nicely, rebounding and defending the ball. And Fletcher is a just an tremendous offensive force. If he can improve defense/rebounds in the next couple of training camps, watch out.

4-1, just like I said, as Yao continues his descent back down to earth. Don't understand why he is playing so little minutes and getting so little shots, but as long as I keep winning I won't be changing anything.

Nice sim:
@Heat = 32 pt win (131-99)
Celtics = 55 pt win (115-60)
@Hawks = 23 pt win (115-92)
Warriors = 25 pt win (109-84)

Overall.
Me: 117.5 ppg, 52.4%, 57.1% 3pt
Opp: 83.7 ppg, 38.6%, 32.6% 3pt

Rebounds: +5
Steals: +4
Blocks: +4
TO's: +5.5
3pt/g: +5
FTMPG: +7

Pettit: 35.5 ppg, 6 rpg, 6 apg, 2.75 spg, only 2.5 topg, 50% shooting, 48.5% 3pt, 100% ft (21-21)
Billups: 21.3 ppg, 10 apg, 2 topg, 57.4% fg, 77.7% 3pt
Okafor: 22.5 ppg, 12.7 rpg, 2 spg, 2 bpg, 56.6% fg
Battier: 8 ppg, 2.75 steals, 0.5 to, 54.1%, 50% 3pt
Dalembert: 10.7 rpg, 2.5 bpg
Barbosa off the bench gave me 8 ppg and 6.5 apg in 21 mins

Just a great, great sim.  11-2 in last 13.

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Outside of all the vacationers (although I think a few are slated to come back shortly), very good attendance.

lol at bods' 55pts win.

anyway, I went 5-3.

Dwight has a 22, 14 and 4 blocks performance against the hornets.

A 20, 10 and 4blocks performance against the Wiz.

Has a 26, 11 and 2 against the Cavs while Allen scored 41pts.

Roseau has his 1st double double with the Magic with 11, 14 and 2 blocks.

Well, quite a fascinating sim.

only 4 games, 4 road games. A double overtime loss to the Hornets, two wins over Knicks and (in a very important battle for the final playoff spot) the Wiz. And than a game I'm not willing to discuss at all.

so another "non-losing" sim at 2-2 is decent (I really have to get that losing mentality out of my mind soon - like being proud of every winning sim. These have to get standard ...)

Big surprise: Lenard getting the starting assignment over Radman and immediately leading all scorers at 19ppg (as 3rd option !). He didn't quite stop anybody but held his own against KMart, Prince, Walker and Battier. Curry was his usual self (18/10) while my PF tandem of AJ and Darko (10 caroms per as backup) stopped anybody but Amare.


The road ahead doesn't get easier, lots of road games remaining but with my depth I feel i can beat any team now (as I said I'm not willing to discuss THAT game any more)

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Went 5-2 as predicted, don't quite have an answer for Telfair even when I beat the Blazers. I had an overall good team effort, found out Declerq is a B+/B- def/reb ratings at Center so his trading value might improve for some teams looking to finalize their DC's, but for now he's moved into my 3rd center spot over Murray. Other than Eschmeyer's 13 pt. 19 rebound game, there wasn't many surprises. I am scoring more now that I put Meyers as my backup for SF and SG and Kirilenko's numbers keep gradually improving as the season goes on.

Another stellar sim. Went 5 - 2 but still not satisfied. Beat all the teams i'm supposed to beat and lost to 2 great ones, Dallas and Denver.

Jerome Moiso really amazes me;

17pts, 13reb and 4 blocks against the Suns
17pts, 12reb, 6asists, 2 blocks vs Araujo
12pts, 9rebs vs Wolves
16pts, 8rebs vs Knicks

Tmac droped 46 on Blazers.

Steph had a couple of nice games too;

23pts and 11asists vs Knicks
19pts, 8asists vs Blazers
10pts, 10asists vs Wolves

and Brad Miller almost had a triple double vs the Knicks. 19pts, 9asists, 9 rebs and 5 blocks. Solid.

And although i have 4th best record in the league and 3rd in the West I DO NOT LIKE this current playoff standings. I don't want to play vs Nuggets in the first round. Period.

P.S. Golden State: Man, i feel sorry for you. That really sucks.

Oh, come on, let's discuss that one!

Hehe...

lol, 55 points.

ANd the Celts were only down 1 after the 1st Q.

You wanted it, so I'll jump over my shadow here...

First of all, this is the 2nd road games at the Meadowlands in consecutive sims. Lost the first one by 15 but even held a slim (1pt) fourth quarter lead there. Unfortunately Radman picked up his 5th personal late in the 3rd and my offense just stalled therafter.
Curry OWNED Meka that game, going 13-22 for 30, holding Okafor to a moderate 13. But in a sign of things to come, their reserves gave me fits ...

Now to the rematch I entered with great expectations only to
- shoot 29% (including 23% after the 1st quarter)
- gave the ball away on 7 (seven!) consecutive possessions in the 2nd
- have Meka show Eddy who's the boss
- and allowed the Nets to go to the line 39 times (on my 23 fouls - calculate that ratio yourself)
- no one, and I mean not even the bus driver - had something going that night (he missed a right turn and the team bus ended up taking 2 hours for a 3 mile drive to the hotel later that night because of an accident-closed highway)

You can imagine what happened in the locker after that debacle - and my squad responded the right way.


So with a 2 game winning streak running, let's get this to four ...  :lol:

of course I fired the bus driver ...



... and we're winning now !

Well obiviously it was a defensive slaughter.

19 Celtics TO's and 11 blocks by the Nets.

But the Celtics team get's no love from the media anyways. Need prove ? How 'bout this:

18-9-4   :shock:

WAT'S THAT ?
We won 27 games ... and 18 times an opponent player was named "Player of the game" (9 times one of my guys won that award). And this happened just 4 times for US during the 30 losses.

On the other side, it proves that this Celtics win through a true TEAM effort (like the current Baby Bulls) !

And I value team chemistry as much as a good defensive effort ...




 :P

That might have been one of emeka's better games of the year.

37 pts (11-15, 15-22 ft), 18 rebounds, 4 steals, 5 blocks, held Curry to 38% shooting.

That's really a lousy effort by Emeka. I wonder does this kid has a heart and love for the game. :)

Not that good of a sim, lost twice to the clips and Peja had 19 rebs game against me :roll:

The race for the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th spots in both conferences is very tight, a lot could still happen especially with some trades surely brewing across the league...

Haha, I never even noticed that. THat HAS to be a record for non-post players.

Well, Emeka should be under investigation right now...  Many people heard him say to Araujo, after he took him out in the game "You will never take my title as 2nd best center in the league, fat boy...  And this will teach you to use those Brazilian sex tricks with my woman"

I will be requesting a further investigation later...   :D

Well, my championship dreams are shot...  Big Jake has played well in Araujo's absence, but no one can replace Big Basketball Papi...

BTW, next time someone complains about an injury (except for the Bulls, who just has bad, bad luck), I am now reserving permision to say shove it up the orifice of my choice....   :shock:

Bucks went 4-3 as expected.  The road games have now evened out and I'm at 500, 7th in the East.

Cleveland's sim put the pick at 8th.

And I can't believe the Hawks have lost 26 of their last 27.  That's staggering, no matter how bad your team is gutted.

If there's an invesigation it should be on Araujo if he indeed took steroids during the offseason. :wink:

I'm sure he did, I heard about that.

But the department of health agents now not only have McD burgers under investigation but Wendy's and BurgerKing's too. All are said to contain that stuff, just look at the people walking around in there shops ...


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i can't believe it either.  I didn't think I was that bad, It's like a reverse Twan or something.

this is disappointing.  How can this team, after dealing 3 role players for a stud center, continue the downward spiral?

Hopefully things will turn back around.

some of my worst games were when I had both Kirilenko and Marion...sometimes your chemistry is thrown off or takes a bit to work itself out while you change your settings.

it is funny but you posted the reason for this sim. in every team you need role players. look at the cavs they had a very solid sim with their new lineup. there are maybe 5 guys in ssba who could be stars but also role players. One is maybe Deng on your team but nick and Z will have their problems. If i remember right Z had also his problems with martin in the old days with the cavs :wink:

Steroids.... Nooooooo...  He did take some "Health Supplements", but those are perfectly legal... :?

Don't get frustrated too quickly Sonics.  Last year Jazz got off to a terrible start and were seconds from blowing things up.  Then they won the championship.  This year they were once again frustrated to the point where they were going to blow things up.  Now they're 39-24, 12-3 since the all-star break.

They get the "move of the year" 2 years in a row by not doing anything.

:lol:

Plus Sonics, there may be a playoff spot opening, depending if Big Jake can hold down the center position for me...

Oddly enough, the Warriors won the 2 games after Araujo's injury vs. 2 very good teams, the Rockets and the Hornets...

I agree with the (earlier) Jazz statement and with the Pistons here. Chemistry and team play has to develop and that takes some time. Too few teams care about the team play anyway (and don't understand losing therafter).

And while I agree that waiting is somewhat difficult with a 31yr old center (you couldn't with an even better 33yr old center) it a) won't take years and b) Z is a durable guy anyway so c) you got the future right before your fingertips ...

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