SSBA

I'll start up the chat. I am playing against the clippers, rockets, suns, and cavs. I can see myself going 4-0 or at least 2-2. I am giving Jeff Robertson some more time. Hopefully he can get 25-30 mpg as my key backup. I also made carter my #1 option to see what he can do. At this point I am happy with my team but could use some more shotblocking.

I'm bringing Griffin back into the starting lineup, I think I'm done with my 'all defense' experimentation.  Griff should give me the offensive boost I need.  I tinked a bit with the pace, hopefully I can find the right settings for my team soon

Hoping for a 3-1 sim. That would make me 10-6, on pace for a 51 win season.

I have two games against the Nets, so there's two losses right there  :x

Experimental sim for me, seeing how Nowitzki does at SF, and Deng at SG, along with a starting assignment for Ruffin.

Sim up.  7-3.  Went 2-1 vs. the Hornets.  Got slaughtered by the Kings and lost to the jazz.

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

Man... Not pretty AT ALL...

I had a damn hard sched though, Played the Nets 3 times, the Clippers, Pacers, Raptors.  I wasn't expecting more than 1 or 2 wins max

Expect some changes soon..

Wow... i dont know what happened to my team... I started off the season 7-1 and now have gone 1-13 in the last 2sims... Coldest team in the league...

Look at the # of games you've lost by 5 or less recently, OUCH.

Think I found my new lineup...
8-0 sim.  Very surpised.  Everyone played well.

The defense and rebounding of this new starting lineup is very pleasant surprise.

Tell me about it...   :(

Pettit was his usual great self.  Boykins was solid, Dalembert rebounded and blocked well, but still can't shoot (36% this sim).  Okafor shot better as a hole, but had games where he was brutally off.  Still, 21.2 ppg, 14.2 rpg, 2.8 bpg is a good sim.

Lord with 9.5 ppg, 3.5 apg in 19.8 mpg for the sim.  

Sammy held C's to 32.7%.  Emeka PF's to 35.2%.  The rest of the team could have done better defensively.

2-2 sim, happy enough, took a beating from the Warriors and also lost to the Nuggets. 5th in the East right now.

Expect a change before next sim.

Celts, whats up with your team? You tired of winning?

impressive.

Dwight came up with 2 big games.

had a career high of 23 rebounds and 18 points against the Wiz.

and 45 and 15 against the rocks.

I like this lineup but I'll have to find a better lineup than this. This team is a young team with tons of talent, hopefully this team can be somewhere top 3 :D

Yeah, right. Just beat on the ones lying on the ground.
;-)

No, actually I'm just short announcing us winning again. Just give my guys a breather, keep in mind i'm currently riding a mile high injury wave ...
- starting PF Gasol out since game 3
- starting PG Billups out since game 10
- now starting SG Ginobili out another sim
- backup C Duncan out for 6 games
... so us still winning anything is a little surprise. (btw, i won as many road games already as anyone but the Pacers, Bucks and Nets in the East)

This last 3-7 sim was played with my two rookies Reed and Perry playing at PG. And they did ok, Reed in his first start got me 20/9 with no TOs, a steal and a win (and a triple double to Boblinger, but who cares *lol*). He already gave me a 15ass game, defends, and doesn't turn the ball over, until Chauncey comes back.
Also in his first start, Ivan Strong got me a solid 13/9 this sim and played very solid defense too. Now Stromile will take over there but Ivan is ready for a bigger role ...


yo, i'm not too happy about my record, especially losing to the Cavs twice (would have put me at 5-5 otherwise, i know i'm better than that !) but the season is long and after next sim i will have played just 8 of my 26 games at home, so its way too early to worry ...
 8)

I agree. Look at how ur team did last season. :D

celts i need you to lose more games badly  :lol: every lose makes my pick even more valuable  :lol: i hope injuries would continue to rain on your team all season long.... :lol: that's in my christmas wishlist that i gave to santa this christmas lolz... :lol:

First, it will be an extraordinary pleasure to beat you next sim even without my complete starting backcourt of Billups and Ginobili ...

And second, remember two seasons ago when the Sixers didn't have the guts to deal my pick. I told them for weeks to get rid of it, when it was #1, later #3, later #9 and finally ended up #21. Hope you learned a lesson here ...
 8)

i agree the celtics are one of the worst teams to start in a season but keep finishing strong. Maybe it is because their gm is always a little laid back in the offseason after one successful season and forgot that you have to work even harder to prove that you are for real  :roll:

oh man, such quotes will cost you dearly ...  :twisted:

I believe i'm one of the harder working people here constantly looking for improvement. But i'm a bit trigger-shy and it has cost me. Now if only I had the luxury of starting with a team of Ron, Tinsley and JO ..
 :wink:

Well, a little more analysis shows some good defensive basketball.

Jim Finley - 6.8 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 2.3 bpg in 31 mpg.  Opponents shot 38% against him. (Exactly what I need from Finley, rebounding and defense. And the combination of Finley and Rubini was able to hold Yao to 8 of 23 shooting)

Don Ruffin - 11.6 ppg, 12.6 rpg, 4.4 bpg, 2.5 spg, in 37 mpg,  held opponents to 35% shooting.  Mr. Ruffin, sorry I never started you before.  Absolutely incredible on defense.  If he stays anywhere near these numbers, Emeka might actually have a challenger for DPOY

Dirk Nowitzki - 30 ppg, 7 rpg, 3.9 apg, 1.8 spg and 44% shooting, held opponents to 44% shooting.  Dirk, no matter where you play, you are the man.  Excellent play at the SF spot, although his percentages could be a bit higher.  

Luol Deng - 17 ppg, 6 rpg, 3.5 apg, 1.9 spg, 1 bpg in 34 mpg, held opponents to 40% shooting.  What a great surprise.  Excellent play from Deng at the SG position.  Hs ability to defend SG's is a huge bonus for the Warriors.

Kirk Hinrich - 22.1 ppg, 8.9 apg, 6.3 rpg, 1.8 spg, 46% and 54% shooting, held opponents to 36% shooting.  The leader of the team for years, now enjoying being 2nd offensive fiddle to Nowitzki.  Scoring is up, and assists are slightly down as a 2nd option this year.  Has to be a top 3 point guard in the league right now.

And Phillip Rubini, Granville Arande, Dean Springs, Daniel Holt, and Posey played well off the bench, giving the Warriors 17 ppg, 16 rpg, 5 apg and 3 spg from the bench.

Nice analysis, but pretty useless. One word is enough:
DIRK

take your whole team as it is and replace Dirk with, let's say, Q (sorry Jerold) and what you get? A playoff team maybe, unless Kirk gets injured, then you get the current Celtics ...
 :lol:

COuld have dealt it if not for the project that kept me busy with HeatGM which landed us the 4th place in our whole university. :D

But yeah, could have traded the pick but no one gave me a good offer.

You're still one of the most hardworking GM i know, even back when Jemagee was our commish. I have no time to compute all those stats.:D

Believe me, ANY offer would have been better than what you get past #20. (and while it's easy to lament after the event) even dropping the pick would be better than paying Edward "Ed" Norwood three more years !

if i remember right i started also with jackson and this team really sucked. i think the record of the previous gm was somehting like 20-62.
After i took this team i never missed the POs. And it is not like you started without an Allstar or lotto picks  :wink:

Well thanks.  :)
Only takes about 10 minutes to put it together.  I was pretty surprised at my team's play this sim, so I wanted to find out what seemed to be so effective.

Celtics...
Dirk and Kirk, you are right.   8)  My team has always collapsed whenever Hinrich was injured, and I am sure the same is true this year for Dirk.

last sim was a little confusing...

marion kept his good performance from last sim and had an avg. of 30/10
but JO only avg. less than 30 mins and against warroirs sit down after 25 mins without foultroubles   :shock:  :?:
My team is still leading the league in scoring but now i will see if this team can also play some defense.
The guard play is solid. Low TOs and hig % shots but the ass could be a little better.
The C play is very inconsistent.
first Foster had a 18/20 game against the clippers and after that both magloire and foster had troubles to stay on the floor.

next sim i will face the nets for the first time this year and also the mighty celtics  :roll:

Plenty of optimmism in California these days. Went 5-4 without Hoffa for most of the games including 2 great wins over the champs and surging Nuggets.

Highlights;

vs the Hawks: Tmac with 35pts/11boards, Hoffa 27/18 and Bosh contributed nicely with 13pts, 11 boards (bastard is playin like he knows he's going to be traded...you just have to warn the guy to start playin for real or he's out!  :) )

vs the Blazers: dismantled them 90 - 66 as Hoffa 34/16, Tmac 26/6/9, Bosh 18/2/8, Bibby 6/16/5 and Camby with 15 boards. Held them to 30% shooting.

vs the Nets: win of the season as the Kings crushed the champs by 21 and held them to only 77 points on 36% shooting. Tmac gave young Pettit a lesson just to let him know he still has long way to go :) .  39pts/7 boards holding Pettit at 23. Bosh had a great all round game with 6pts, 2 blocks, 4 steals, 7 asists and 13 boards. Great win. Without Hoffa as well!

vs Heat. Another W on the road. Tmac with 32/6/5, Hoffa 18/13, Bibby 22/9, Bosh 8/10.

Then without Hoffa for 3 straight games i lost all 3 of them! :? That's unaccetable!

Last day of the sim huge win over red hot Nuggets. Danny Forston (god i love this man!) with monstrous 21/22 game, Tmac with 30, Bibby 15/5/7, Camby 13/13/5/3.

Good sim, defense is actually looking very good. Allowing only 91pts per game and outrebounding most of the teams. Once Hoffa gets back i ecxpect some serious winning rows.

Nets, you forgot about my Steph - Tinsley deal. Something wrong?

Man, West is 2X better then the East this season..

Has to wait until day 41.

 :moon: I've been doing that for the last 20 sims, except more in depth, and noone has ever commented on it :(

Nobody likes me....


 :D

Nice 3-1 sim with the young guys getting serious minutes.  Benched Jefferson who is on his way out.  Started Uner & Schabinger in the backcourt.  First game jitters resulted in the only loss.

Then beat the Kings twice (once with Hoffa) and the Wolves.  Shot 46.6%, 47.5% & 44.1% in the 3 wins....52.6%, 60.0%, 72.7% from behind the arc while averaging 15 attempts per game.  Also had some of my best games ever as far as turnovers: 10, 6, 7.

Uner: 16 ppg, 9.3 apg, 6.0 rpg, 1.5 to, 47%FG, 60% 3PT
Schabinger: 11.3 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 1.8 spg, 65.5%FG in only 24 minutes

I'm glad, thanks!

but we will have the title for seasons to come, all thanks to the Nets :lol:

3 of the 4 losses the Nets have had came from Western Conference Teams, including the frontrunning Nuggets...

Just thought I should mention that  :wink:

Well, that's why we play.  The Sonics beat the Nets 2 years ago, and the Raptors took the Nets to 7 games in last years playoffs...

yep, they are the best on paper, but who knows, maybe Dirk wants revenge and the Warriors will make a run at them, or even the Pacers, led by Marion and JO could knock them off early.  some other stuff about the Nets we can get into later (trade not accepted) may be fun to discuss.

Oh, I don't know, ask the Sonics if I'm unbeatable.  or the Jazz.

BTW, I think the top 4 teams are:
Nets
Hornets
Pacers
Warriors

In no particular order
then the next group I have nuggets and clippers.

So I don't think the West is 2x stronger.

No, I didn't forget anything.  You forgot to check when he could be traded.

The Nets and Hornets now dominated this league for some time, i'm glad some fresh teams like the Warriors - the only West team i give a legit chance to go all the way - and Nuggets are coming up now.

(yes i know the Clippers also had great regular seasons for some time now, but that came by virtue of playing so many mediocre western team. One team HAD to have a great record even in the West)

So keep it up, western guys, we need you ...


 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

The east is more top heavy than the west but overall the west might be slightly better, but the Hornets and Nets have dominated the league for a while but I really like the Pacers as a contender in the east this year and in the west, I think a few teams, Clippers and Nuggets might be a piece away from the title, but the Warriors and I like the Wolves (but I always have) are both ready now to make runs

Honestly, if I win this year, I will probably break up my team.

and i'm ready to collect the shattered pieces ...
 8)

Glad to get some burn.  I don't think my team is as good as the record suggests so far, but in the SSBA, Dirk seems to reach another level in the playoffs.   That is what I am hoping for.
I think the Nuggets are seriously legit, and if Berkowitz gets any better, we may all be done for.

BTW, is Alphonse Butler possibly the biggest steal of any draft?

Actually, I am looking forward to day 39, when the Warriors play the Nuggets.
very curious how the two teams match-up.

No

I just looked up my draft file. Butler had the 2nd best differential between college ratings and college potential only half a point behind ... Max.

And he was picked #15 so that's not steal range. That's just bad judgement (or analysis) by some GMs picking the likes of Novoseltsev ahead of him. And he was the third SG taken behind Will Brice (not a bad one himself) and the aformentioned Royda ...

Maybe, but he was taken 15th, which isn't that late. But of course, if the draft was done all over again he would be a top 5 pick for sure. But if we're talking the biggest steal of any draft, Chamberlain was a mid 2nd round pick.

We shall see...  If Butler gets his TO's under control, and keeps up the incredible shooting percentages, he could end up as the best point in the league.  

IMO, 15th pick for a franchise player is a steal.  But we shall have to see how he develops.  He shooting percentages are just amazing to me...

Went 1-7.  I would advice you guys not to try never on press/trap strategy.  BTW, how many minutes in OT, the clips scored 31 points in OT. :shock:

Actually FBB recommended "NEVER" for my team *lol*

And 31 sure looks like a triple OT result ...
 :wink:

One positive from the 1-7 sim was Armando Thompson.  Fill in for Harris and Terry at pg.

48min 12-17FG, 2-4Three, 1-2FT 5REB 4A 2ST 4T0 27PTS

On the season he is shooting .759% 22-29.

Fab is showing why I had the confidence to trade Mercer based on his potential.  His last sim numbers (8 games):

15 ppg
6.5 apg
4.7 rpg
1.7 spg
0.75 tpg
53% FG

He doesn't turn the ball over and his FG% is downright amazing. Just a great all around player.  

Amare also played like a beast, averaging 29/11 on the year

Hopefully my team picks it up with Gasol

Glad to hear no one is counting n the Kings once again. I will prove everyone wrong.

Just got home from the cinema. Man, Peter Jackson is a genius! He even made a great movie out of King Kong. I love it!

I went 3-5 but Mason Mercer has a fairly optimistic sim...

24.6 points
9.25 assists
4 rebs
2.5 steals
4.5 turnovers

Still a lot of turnovers but his points assits and defense really make up for it, he's a very good player, maybe not worth Amare but Traylor and Palacio added in really made it worth it....Palacio's stats this sim were...

17.4 points
3.2 assits
3.5 rebs
1.5 steals
.5 blocks

Palacio is showing some promise as a good young wing player to go along with Kobe and Mercer.  His all around game is decent and he can put the ball in the hole.  Hopefully his numbers don't drop off too much when Kobe is inserted into the lineup

Mercer was on fire vs the Bulls, he lit up his old team for 41...

lol, he had 12 assists that game too, he had a game of 26 and 16 too, a few big games inflated his numbers a bit but 5 out of the 8 games were big time games for him this sim, I'm not expecting all huge games but I expect him to stay along those averages too.

Went 6-2, probably the best sim ever, hehe, beat the Nuggs,Pistons,Suns,Hawks,Rockets,Sonics and lost to Kings and Bucks.

My outside is a killer, and front is doing their job.

Not Denver, since we didn't play.

Went 4-3, which is alright.  Butler had an 8 TO game which led to one loss (25 team TO's will do that), and Berkowitz had a 2-16 night that led to another loss (considering everyone else shot well and the team was up 3 going into the 4th quarter).  

We'll see if moving Butler to option #2 decreases his TO's.  Hopefully, it won't affect the other aspects of his game.

A tough next sim, with 5 road games vs. 3 home ones.  I hope the great start isn't a mirage.

Went 2-2 this sim, and it was brutal on Yao as for some reason he could not stay on the court. Here's hoping Garcia works out this sim starting at PF, and then Jefferson can start from then on.

Here's a look at the stats:

C: Yao Ming - 32mpg, 29ppg, 11.5rpg, 2.25apg, 2.75bpg, 0.75spg, 2.75topg, (9.5FGMpg, 19.5FGApg = 48.7%)

--Wow, probably his worst sim in the last 4 years. Could not stay on the court, getting just 32 mins a game. This will hopefully improve with the addition of Garcia at PF, as he is a better man-defender than Holman. Yao needs to get back on track.

PF: Gregory Holman - 30.5mpg, 6.25ppg, 7.5rpg, 1.5apg, 2bpg, 0.25spg, 1.5topg, (2.5FGMpg, 8.5FGApg = 29.4%)

--Holman has just taken himself almost completely out of the rotation. He is going to have to play amazing as a backup for me to want to have him in the rotation when Jefferson arrives. Terrible stuff.

Reserve PF/C: Leocadio Garcia - 25.75mpg, 7.75ppg, 6.5rpg, 0.25apg, 0.5bpg, 0.25spg, 1.75topg, (3.25FGMpg, 8.25FGMpg = 39.4%)

--Certainly not got numbers, but better than Holman's. I am hoping Garcia can put up 10 and 9 with a block in starter's minutes.

SF: Roberto Dickau - 28.5mpg, 11.25ppg, 5rpg, 2.25apg, 1.25bpg, 1.5spg, 1.5topg, (4.25FGMpg, 9.25FGApg = 45.9%)

--Another starter that had a hard time staying on the court, but overall, not bad numbers. Pretty happy with Dickau as the 3rd option.

SG: Darius Perry - 37.25mpg, 11.5ppg, 6rpg, 1.5apg, 0.5bpg, 2.25spg, 0.75topg, (4.5FGMpg, 10FGApg = 45%)

--Perry doesn't do anything exceptionally well, but he does do everything good. What more could I ask from the kid - while his fellow starters are shitting the bed, Perry is giving me many solid minutes.

PG: Max Guiterrez - 36.25mpg, 18.25ppg, 6.25rpg, 7.5apg, 0.25bpg, 1.5spg, 0.75topg, (7.5FGMpg, 14.5FGApg = 51.7%)

--Playing alot of minutes with backups for teammates, Max's assist numbers predictably went down while the scoring numbers went up. Still, 18, 8 and 6 is border-line all-star numbers, and to think, the kid is 21 years old.

Reserve PG: Darius Arbogast - 11.75mpg, 5.25ppg, 2.25rpg, 2.25apg, 0bpg, 0.25spg, 2.25topg, (2FGMpg, 4.25FGApg = 47.1%)

--Great numbers in reserve, translate these numbers into staters numbers (36 mins) and you have: 17ppg, 7.3rpg, 7.3apg, and, well, 7.3topg ;)

I am experimenting with my froncourt to see what combination plays best. I haven't been able to do much analysis, but it looks like Swift is a pretty good man defender... scratch that: a ridiculously good man defender.
However, this is just going by eyeball. The only ugly part was giving up 18 rbs to KG.

I also moved Melo to SF and put Jackson into the starting lineup. I'll have to wait another sim to see how effective that was.

I had 3 losses in that sim, which is disappointing, but two came against the Nets. The T-Wolves just really outplayed me. It was embarrassing.

oh yea, 5-2, i always confuse sim days with 0, and forget they start with 1  :lol: