SSBA

62 Kings @ Jazz
63 Kings @ Bulls
64 Kings @ Suns
65 Kings @ Celtics
66 Kings @ Nuggets
67 Kings @ Cavs
68 Kings @ Spurs
69 Spurs @ Kings
70 Warriors @ Kings

Nice schedule.  :?

you're not the only one with a tough schedule, my friend.

61 Celtics @ Bucks
62 Celtics @ Suns
64 Celtics @ Wizards
65 Kings @ Celtics
66 Pacers @ Celtics
69 Celtics @ Trailblazers
70 Clippers @ Celtics

Going 3-4 would be an great result, but not even the Blazers game away is a given here. Actually looking at such parts of the schedule I have no idea where the 25 wins I'll need for a playoff birth shall come from.

But after underachieving the whole year it's about time the Celtics start to get their act together and start winning.
No excuses, no prisoners, just do it ...

 8)

Sims probably going to be later tonight.

probably 8 pm or so.

Finally some sleep.

Can't wait...anything to get my mind off this Canadian Studies/Political Science reading that I'm doing... :(

Don't worry, soon you will be learning US studies / political science, along with the rest of the world  :twisted:

LOL

That is quite ironic since after I'm done with my CA101 and my PO110, I need to read for my HI114 (Problems in US History) ;)

My team went 4-3. Pretty good

What?

It hasnt been simmed yet...

Lol, was about to say the same thing.

:lol: just kiddin

wow....

my defense just went to hell.

1-3 sim.  30% of my losses for over half a season came in 4 games.

I went 0-5, probably the most embarassing moment of my ssba career the Raptors beat me 130-76 and Yao had 69 points on me, unbelieveable

Holy crap, that is crazy. I forget what the old record was, must have been under 60. Yao is amazing.

As for my team, I went a very nice 3-1. "Slowed down" the pace to fast, and my three wins were all with under 100 points. They all were against pretty good teams, too. Wolves, Kings, and Grizzlies. My loss was a blowout with the Heat. 80 points can't be happening, though.

i went 4-3 winning all my away games and losing all my home games, go figure. Shabinger played very well as a non-option and my scoring really skyrocketed scoring 140 points against the Sonics. Curran had a 7 block game. Kaman isn't giving me too much, i'll try and get a comparison of him and Booth in a few minutes. Beardslee played well as a 2nd option for the first time and Dickerson really played well with added minutes (Kaman fouling out). ONE more sim without Kirilenko and I have still, to this point, managed to keep my first place spot. Hughes also had a nice 41 point game.

LOL
owned. :D

Really not a bad sim for me, considering my schedule:

61 Hornets @ Nets W
62 No Game
63 Hornets @ Wizards L
64 Hornets @ Supersonics W
65 Hornets @ Timberwolves L
66 No Game
67 Hornets @ Mavericks W
68 No Game
69 Hornets @ Nuggets W
70 No Game

I did lose the top spot in the central division, but that's to be expected. I am 5 games ahead of the Magic for the 3rd spot in the conference though.

Now, I played some solid teams, but I lost 2 games at home which was very disconcerting.

My defense was poor.  gave up 46.9% shooting, 37% from 3 pt.  But I still had more points per shot than mjy opponent (1.15 to 1.13).  So what happened?

I turned the ball over like crazy.  I was -5 per game in turnovers.  17.2 is unacceptable.  Earl Boykins had a terrible ballhandling sim.  8.8 assists to 3.5 turnovers.  That's not what i signed him for.  And it completely negates his offensive production (23 ppg, 50% shooting, 38.5% 3pt).

Pettit was good (28.5, 4.3 assists, 48%, 44%).  Okafor struggled with his shooting (17.3 ppg on only 37% shooting, a season low 0.88 pps), but did collect 13 boards and 4.5 blocks, and held starting pf's to 37.6% shooting.  he's the only starter that can hold his head high defensively.  Dalembert held his own defensivley, and did a great job on Hoffa (16 pts on 6-20 shooting) and Biedrins (6 pts), but let guys like Swift, and ben wallace shoot far too effectively.  

Bailey did chip in 2.25 assists in only 7 minutes off the bench.  Darko had 2 solid games (10 pts in 11 minutes one game, 6 rebounds the other), other than that didn't do much.  

I guess when I turn the ball over like that, I will lose.  But damn i'm upset with some of my guys defensively (particularly Battier and Pettit, who just didn't get it done this sim).

Well, some good news, some bad news.

The Good News:

Yao's 69 points against the Hawks. Shatters the old record of 58 or 59.

My team finally caught up wth Yao. 6-3 sim.

The Bad News:

My pick is now 4th.

The Sprs pick is now 13th.

as promised...(based on games since arrival on respective teams)

Booth:

30.4 mpg, 10.3 ppg, 9.7 rpg, 1.0 apg, 0.67 spg, 2.7 bpg, 1.1 TOpg

Kaman:

29.6 mpg, 7.9 ppg, 10.7 rpg, 1.3 apg, 0.62 spg, 1.4 bpg, 1.6 TOpg


Booth +0.8 ppg, -1.0 rpg, -0.3 apg, +0.05 spg, +1.3 bpg, -0.5 TOpg


ADVANTAGE BOOTH, however I don't need Kaman's scoring, so it's good that he's rebounding better, and I have Curran getting more minutes to make up for loss of shotblocking. I'm tempted to start Curran at C, since it appears Kaman will do roughly the same as a backup and I could get more PT for Joe Smith, however, I don't know how much I like having a 6'9" center.

You keep saying "your team is catching up to Yao".

Do you realize that Opposing starting C's are shooting nearly 4% higher against Yao than they did last year?  That their points per shot has gone from 1.06 to 1.14 points per shot against yao?  That yao's fouls per minute have gone up?

That's ok.

I went 6-3.

Domintated most games.

Beat the Magic twice, the Kings and the Mavs but lost some tough ones against the Rockets (twice, first game by 1 point), and the Heat.

So decent sim overall, went 4-3 but should have been 6-1

Lakeshow is on the up-and-up

What is that, your first winning sim all season?  While you've "waited to catch up to Yao" (who's not playing as good of defense as last year despite going UP in ratings), you've gone from a 60 win team to a team that won't be .500.

working like a charm :tup:

Rebuilding year.

I could play at a normal pace and probably sneak into the playoffs as the 8th seed, lose in 4.

I'd rather try to find a style of pace that could lead me back to 60 ins next year.

How does a 7'6 310 lb center crack the top ten in minutes played running a very fast pace?

Man, I need to get that 5th seed, right now I'm 1.5 games back of it.  I match up really well against the Magic

so you say you could win more games by running a normal pace but you say you're trying to find a pace that best fits your team?

:confused:

(I know that isn't a real emoticon, but I should find one for it)

He's the best player in the league, that's how :)

Believe me, I'm shocked that he likes the fast pace.

I think that I can win more games next year if I can build a team that CAN succeed at a fast pace, yes.

Just looking at things on a per minute basis.

Yao's points per shot are exact same as last year.

His minutes are up.  If you extrapolate his points/minute and rebounds/minute up to the minutes he's playing this year, he'd be averaging 34.5 and 14.5.  In otherwords, 3 points less and pretty much equal rebounds.

His increase in points can be attributed to an increase in shots, the lack of peja.

His defense has gotten worse despite being a higher rated defender.  And your team is losing despite your pg getting older.

:stillconfused:

It's not all that confusing if you really, really want to think about it...I shouldn't sa much else though.

Oh, I know.

You want your draft pick.

Yup.

I'm kinda pissed that it went to 4th, bt I obviously can't tank, it's against the rules.

I want that top PF.

remember that tanking is a subjective measure, and saying things like that probably isn't good publicly.  the rules page lists possible things that indicate tanking, they're not the only thing.

hm, there's that fine line again

I know.

But I'm clealy not tanking. I wouldn't b playing Yao if I was :)

Raps aren't doing anything wrong IMO

I'm looking to the future, thats what you have to do in a rebuilding year.

I'm going to make my pace "very fast" this sim to see what happens, it's just an experiment, and I see nothing wrong with it.

well, now that he is admitting that he is going after the pick, and that 'experimenting' is just pretense... The line may have been crossed.

How?

Where does it say that I can't experiment? Where does it say that I can't play around with settings to see what works best/will work best next year.

I must have missed that part.

going 1-5 wasn't too good.

I would figure my team would be better suited for a slow pace, given that I have strong offense at all 5 positions, and it'd be easier to stop the floodgates defensively.  

But apparently all it did was up my fouls and create even fewer TOs.

So I guess I'll try the exact opposite conditions this next sim.  And if that doesn't work, it's probably trade block time.

it appeared to me that you were admitting that your true purpose was not 'experimentation', which I think is fine. It looks like you're saying that your real purpose is chasing those top PFs.
I won't nominate you,     but I agree with the Nets that you probably shouldn't have said that publicly.

I think someone needs to set a precendence about this and it might as well be public knowledge.

What IS tanking?

WHO decides what the best DC/settings are for each team?

IMO, the only thing that can truely be called tanking is not playing best players.

Tanking is purposefully losing primarily to get a higher draft pick.

It is defined in the rules page who decides what tanking is.

It is impossible to define what tanking is because everything's up for interpretation.  Think of us like Supreme Justices.

Intention is the clearest definition of tanking.  HornetsGM is right, any team can develop a pretense as to why you're doing something.  But it's your true intentions that determine if you're tanking.

Well, obviously it's up to you guys.

My primary reason is to see what settings work best for me. The draft preview really isn't that great anyway :)

check-in updated:
http://ssba.phillyarena.net/files/check-in.htm

Actually, now that I think about it, "primarily" can be left out.

this is what law school does to you :(

Want to read 30 pages of "The group of seven and the tourist landscape of westen canada" instead?

YES  :cry:

lol.

I'd read about anything else right now.

oddly, the home team was only 8-12 during games on days 61-62...

huh?

wow.

someone's bored.

Might as well trade me emeka for deng and my pick :)

^^^^That might be a decent deal for you Nets, just so long as he keeps "trying to get a higher pick"...

that is the line where it is tanking imo. i agree with the nets and hornets that the goal of each team should be to win as many games as possible.
your experimenting is clearly a goal to loose as many as possible.

And another point is you traded rasho and didn´t change your lineup  :shock:
I can´t remmember you did ever a fault like that for two sims in a row.
now demarr Johnson is playing backup C,Pf,SF,SG etc...
you remember the time the sixers tried to tank with a bad lineup. he started to win some games like you now  :wink:

7-1 sim i like the way my team is responding to my schedule.

had a record game against the knicks at madison garden with 138 points..
5 guys with almost 20 points: JO 40, RJ 19, Ron 18, Melo 28, Fish 20

Derek exploded this sim: avg. 15pts up from a 8pts shooting 60 from the field and 3

increased my point differential, my steals avg and ass.
Damp is earning his mins and i have a tough decision between him and Cato for the starter job.
Parker is the surprise of the season: He is leading the league in Fg% and is a very nice backup for the moment. If he increase his def he will start next year for my team.

went 2-4. There are still needs to apply regarding my trade.

but it was a good deal IMO. But I think I played my starter too long in the court.

Arenas, to begin his Magic career, started off with an impressive 9 out of 13 in FG's while shooting 80% from downtown during that game. to top it off, he ended up having 29points.

next game against the blazers he didn't shoot very well, but him and kidd combined with 9 steals.

against thw wizards, unfortunately a lost, Kidd almost went crazy being 2 steals away from a very rare quadruple double with 19points 10 rebounds 11 assists and 8 steals. damn it! damn Vince Davies should have played wrecklessly.. :D

Arenas has toned-down a bit with his tunovers though.

i went 4-3 winning all my away games and losing all my home games, go figure.

 :lol:

"We try to treat the road like it's a home game. We ain't got no fans at
home, neither." -- Pau Gasol of the Boston Celtics.

I agree partly.

It reminds me of my first year here when winning wasn't as important as seeing who of my kids can play and what play setup suits me better. Could I have won more games always playing the best lineup? Sure. But I wouldn't learn anything from it.

So this "experimental" linups were part of the rebuilding that made my team now (no need to comment on my "success" with that strategy now, guys). I hope you get the point.


Just one tiny difference.
It looked a lot better with my team since I DIDN'T HAVE MY 1ST RD PICK ANYMORE ...

 :lol:

Hey, I'm CELTICS not HAWKS !

 :wink:

lol

actually I got that quote from Dion Glover of the atlanta hawks ;)

So the first sim after my (probably) last big deal of the season. Snow and pet project Darko are out, Chauncey is in.

http://phillyarena.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2802

Now what happened?

First I lost all home games (Pacers, Clippers and, unacceptable, Kings) and won all road games (Bucks, Suns, Wizards, Blazers). Opponents shot 51% in losses, held them to below 40% in wins.

Switch to inside focus cost Lenard and Gasol some shooting%, but Jamison (63%), Billups ( 8ppg/4apg on 58%) and Elliott shot way better. For the sim my team was around 47% which is fine.

What puzzles me though are two things: In the losses my opponents got hot from SG: TMac 16-27, Maggette 12-19, Carmelo 13-22. Wasn't I supposed to have some D there? And though my PG defense was great this sim with Elliott/Billups here comes Starbury for a monster game (12-15, 7r, 8a, 2st, 1bk).


So all in all the way up continues for the Celtics, but the playoffs more or less depend on getting a hot streak soon and avoiding any extended losing streak. Need to go 23-17 or better the rest of the way to even have a slight chance, so the experimental things will stop now.

 8)

you missed a big point. you tried a lot different lineups and strats. The raptors aren´t even trying this. Or can you explain why wright is getting any playing time? why he never tried to play yao maybe one sim at PF?
why he didn´t change anything after lossing all games after a sim? Only reason: it is against his goal.  :!:

PacersGM, your missing the BIGGEST point : You're not the RaptorsGM, and you have no business telling me how to experiment with my team. It isn't up to you if I play Yao at PF. I'm not open to suggestions regarding how to run my team, I'm experimenting with my own plan in mind.

Heh, I forgot to take out Rasoh, big deal. I won 6 games last sim. That makes me look pretty good after losing 5 of 6 last sim. It proves my theory that my team CAN win at a fast setting.

BTW this is the New and Improved RaptorsGM laying off this comment so as to avoid an argument.

Obviously, you're drunk.

First time you've ever made me laugh out loud before, Kings.

That struck me as hilarious.

And yeah, Kings are rebuilding. All offers are welcome.

heh i never tried to tell you how to run a team. i just made my point why i think this is a very thin line you are going and i think it is a form of tanking.
And i already posted that you win last sim. but not because of your superior settings. you win because it seems that in FBB there is something that will give you an advantage if you play lineups like the sixers did a view seasons ago. In your last sim you had no backup for your C or PF . so a SG/SF played there.
Biggest question is how demarr is off the IL without your knowledge since i can´t see a depth chart where you posted it.

You talked about Wright not playing.

You talked aout Yao playing PF.

That sounds to me like you are telling me what I should be doing.

No, he's telling you why he thinks your actual objective is different than your stated objective.

It's his opinion.

I would give my left nut to study Political Science (pretty obssesed with politics, reading all the time). It was my wish for years to study politology but i had bad grades in high school (back then i lived in illusion that one day i'll play in NBA) so i couldn't have signed on University of Political Science.

And now i'm stuck at something that doesn't have any interest at all; Agronomy!  :?  :?  :?  :?

7-2 sim...but haven't had time to analyze it.  Moved into the 8th seed in the west (14th or 15th pick BTW Raptors).  

Played 2 1/2 games without my starting PG and the last 3 without my backup PG.  With one of those games overlapping...still beat the Kings though with a rookie SG playing 43 minutes at the point.  But that victory could be explained by this:

Ray Allen 37 pts, 7 reb, 9 assts
Chase Russell  28 pts, 9 reb, 7 assts

This is WHY I traded away Arenas....
Russell over the past 15 games:

15.5 pts, 6.3 reb, 5.3 assts, 1.7 stls, 55% FG, 47.1% 3PT

That's not so rare these days...

Nets Gm pointed out that Yao is not doing better and you are losing at the same time. He was confused that no goal seems to be met with your current strategy. Here is the rest of the conversation:





Not playing your best players is not the only way to tank, as has been stated numerous times.
In these statements, it appears to me that you are trying to lose, and that your stated purpose doesn't match your real purpose.
In fact, you say as much in your response to the Nets, "Yup".

Went 4-3 and still drop one spot in the standing. :roll:

lol, I know, I'm surprised nobody has noticed my home record yet, it's so pitiful, I need a big time guy here to help my attendance and hopefully home win %

Don't think attendance matters in FBB, but if this is STB you are in trouble my friend.

for anyone who thinks i'm going to stay a top 5 pick, heres a little food for thought. I've now won 7 out of my last 10 and we're firing on all cylinders. It may be wishful thinking but i think I can finish just a few games under .500.

Hey, I'm not one to think about feet, but that's just me... :lol:

lol i just fixxed it.