SSBA

8-1

Not bad at all.

Still not sure what to do about my SF position.

With Boykins going down Lord's going to get a chance to showcase a little this year.

well, impressive sim with not much offense for me. will have to make changes for offense not having that much players with good defensive ratings.. :S

The Celtics went 3-3 this sim and my (Raptors) pick went 1-3  
:-)

Things are slowly, very slowly start turning for the better. Went 2-0 at home (including an ever so important matchup with the Raptors to even the season series) and 1-3 on the road (where I now have played 28 compared to 21 home dates). So if I can win the majority of my home games until Stromile gets back I have a realistic shot at the post season (and i play 14 of the next 20 - till Stro's return - at home)

If my draft pick is lottery will most likely be decided in the last sim where I travel to Canada twice but hopefully will have a complete lineup again.

Domination continues, 6-1 sim and 21 - 3 in last 24 games  :shock: . 40 - 16 record and NOT enough for first place. Will that damn Wariorrs finally lose some games?!

* First, huge W, + 22 vs the Hornets (without Big Ben i have to admit). Too much of Hoffa (42pts, 13rebs) and Tmac (37pts and 9boards). Bibby with nice 11/11/7 for a easy W.

* +10 against the Magic: Hoffa 38 & 14, Tmac 37, Bibby 10 & 14 & 5, Forston 8pts and 11rebs and Turkoglu with great overall game as he chipped in 4pts, 2blocks and 11 boards. Great sub for Posey.

* +9 against the Bulls: Hoffa & Tmac combined for 55pts (Hoffa with all of his 31 in ONLY 23 minutes  :shock:  :) ). Danny Forston with monstrous 21pts, 3blocks and 17rebs! This has to be 6th man of the league! :)

* Payback time against the Mavs in Dallas. 121-115 W in the heart of the Texas. Tracy was pretty much unstopable with 47pts, 4steals, 7asists and 9 boards. Three headed monster worked prefectly as Hoffa went for 23/13 and Bibby with strong 21pts, 12asists and 8 boards performance. Giricek also had his best game so far off the bench with 13pts, 3/5 from the 3 in 24 minutes. Camby with 16 boards as well. +25 after the first 3 quarter.

* +21 vs the Rockets: Hoffa & Tmac with 77pts and 20 boards combined, end of story.

How this teams plays, without and major injuries, anything else then the Finals should be a great dissapointment. But we'll see, West, and specially Pacific is packed with great teams.

End of story? Back to your old trick ignoring all negative, like a home loss to the powerhouse Pistons where Steven Schmaltz had a lot of fun toying around with Hoffa?

But i'm not completely sold on the "packed" Pacific. You also have the three worst teams (loss-wise) in the whole league in your division so a high win% isn't that much of an accomplishment. Still it's very likely that the Finals team from the West will be decided in the Warriors/Kings/Clippers battle (with the Clippers being least dependend on staying injury-free).
One thing is clear, this 3-team contest (with the drak horse Grizzlies) will be fun to watch as the season moves on ...

Anyway, congratulations to staying relatively injury-free so far.
 :wink:

6-2 sim this time.  And Dirk is out with a strained neck, but only for another 3 days.  The rest will do him good.

Warriors were effective with Dirk at center, but Dirk just could not stay in the game.
Except for the 2 overtime games, he never was able to stay on the court for more then 30 mpg, and typically less.  Looks like playing him there in the future is not the best option in the world.

Was able to win both overtime games aagainst the Clips and the Jazz, so the sim was very close to being a 500 sim.

Back to Dirk at SF, that seems to be his best spot.

1-3 sim as the Celtics alluded to.


lost to the Celtics and Grizz on the road, beat by the Sammy-less Nets.

Poor show, but was missing my starting SG. He came back for my win against the Wolves.

Oh, I do not think you can discount Denver either.  With Berkowitz, Odom, and Butler, they are a team that is quite scary.  When Nugget's offense is on, it is unstoppable.

I give 5 teams in the West a really good shot at the Finals.  Clippers, Kings, Grizzlies, Nuggets, and the Warriors.

Looking at records, you would say there are probably 3 teams in the East ready for a Finals run (Nets, Pacers, and Hornets), but that is not the whole story.  The Heat with Duncan and the Raps with Yao, are both capable of making big runs in the playoffs as well.   The dominant players can make a huge difference in the playoffs.

Home court advantage will likely be key in the playoffs this year.

Well my next strech of games is MUCH easier, as 6 of my 8 games next sim coming against sub .500 teams, and the other 2 being Blazers and Heat. All winnable.

After that, 6 of my 8 the next sim, same deal.

Any team that loses 14 of 19 games over 3 sims kind of falls off the chart. And it's not like they were riddled by injuries, no, despite playing complete for some time now they still lose games left and right (like at home to Suns, Rockets and Sixers)

Like my Celtics last season the still look close due to the great start into the season but are hardly among the top teams anymore ...

They are one of the two teams in the West I would rather not face in the playoffs, primarily because they absolutely shredded my defense in one game. (I am ashamed to say the other team is the Kings.  The rebounding trio of Araujo, Fortson, and Camby make them almost impossible to outrebound. )

7-2 sim.....but can't say whether the young team is coming together or just a much easier schedule than the first half of the season.  

Split 2 one-point games with the Wolves with each team winning on the road.  Split home & home with the Sixers.  Beat the Lakers twice, Magic, Wizards & Bucks...

FINALLY, first time i'm over 50 % in mid-season, more then happy, aim was to get close to play-offs, now it seems very
possible with last 3 sims performances.Moved to 6th position with some really nice wins. Telf earned his first player of the month award.

Telf was the man of first two wins over #7 Jazz (by 34) and and #2 Grizzlies at home.

Lost away to Clippers, Telf was doing great again, but no significant help from others.

Won away at Atlanta, Telf 36/9, Schultz 22/8, im amazed with this guys rebounding, 7.1rpg so far for 6'5 SG, very nice.

Trashed Celtics at home by 28....Schultz 29/8, Telf 19/10.I see how important is to have some depth, all season i have
6-7 guys putting more then 10ppg, with now and then someone going over 30, but its usually the big 4 who post 15-25
each game.

Lost to Warriors by 12...Telf 24/8, Schultz 18/5, kinda disappointed how Russell played this sim, altough being #1
option he rarelly took 10 shots, vs Warriors 100 % shooting, FG 5/5 3pt 1/1 FT 3/3, if i could find a way to get him
more balls, Telf is spending way too many balls as 3rd option. Russell and Schultz are best shooters, but i guess it's
'cause i play very fast pace.

Won at Mavs by 6....Telf 30/13, Schultz 27/6/9 3 steals, Haywood 21/15, Russell 18/5/6

Got my revenge vs #1 Warriors winning at home, Telf 30/12, Schultz added 19, Hay and Steven rebounding nice :)


6-2 this sim, it was a toughest schedule so far so i'm delighted...i was hoping for a 4-4 before.

Why would you be ashamed for saying that?

Dont count you'll pass Blazers that easy, we're rising from sim to sim (only last one wasnt good 'cause i was experimenting something).

And i Portland all of the top teams have failed, so i see you going defeated
 as well.

Because giving you more to brag about about is like giving a pyromaniac  a set of matches and a gallon of gasoline as a present...

Something that the pyro wants, but that is bad for everyone else :D

Hehe... :)

All of them?
 :wink:

and because it sounds funny (and not completely confident) when a team sitting atop the standings is a bit scared of a team that's substantially back ...

Kings... congrats on your recent winning streak. Kings is hot team!

But let me tell you this about getting to the finals. Over the years I have learned that regular season does not mean much. Of course you need to 'make' the playoffs, but other than that.... playoffs is many times like russian roulette!

I completely agree, and I think the re-sim is evidence enough that plain LUCK is playing a major part in FBB ...

or how could the Warriors turn a 6-7 sim into a 12-1 sim using identical game settings, not changing anything (and neither did their opponents)
 :?:

I'm not predicting a win, I'm just saying my game against you is winnable.

It is no doubt an interesting matchup, with Haywood on Yao. I look for Dickau to have a big game, but it certainly wouldnt shock me if you beat me.

Hence my not so raging confidence in my team's ability at this time. :)

My big hope is that Dirk does his usual SSBA Playoff thing, and just absolutely dominates.  What was it, 2 years ago he must have averaged 12 rpg as a C+ rebounder...  My boy steps it up come playoff time.

3 games of that turnaround was the injury to Don Ruffin.  I went 1-3 without him in the lineup.  The rest, pure luck.

Just when we were on a roll, Harris went down. :x .  I will be without Harris and Jackson for next sim.

Well i'm sure if i have went for 15-0 you'd surely find somethin to brag about. Hey guess what? Sixers beat the Nets by 11. I guess that makes the Nets not so serious team afterall, right? :roll:

Yeah, well it will depend who'll do more in the game, your frontcourt or my backcourt.

Oh yeah, i forgot about you, you're the only one i beated just once in 3 seasons.

My backcourt is not poor defensivly. Check the first game we played, where I beat you 98-80. Telfair had 18 and only 2 assists on 8-22 shooting. Shultz had just 12 points.

As for my team, it was very much an all around effort. Haywood held Yao to just 23 and 7, but everyone else chipped in.

Yeah i know, but my tactics there were completely different, that's why it was pretty balanced game, but with current tactics i think Yao will destroy my frontcourt this time, but my backcourt will be much much better then last time due to changes i made in my gameplay tactics, we'll see anyway, strange things happen...it might be pissed off Perry who'll decide the game  :lol:

8-2 only lost against the nets

@nets L first time ever i hold pettit under 5 pts still couldn´t beat them but it was a close game
hawks W behind 43 from marion and great defense hold the hawks under 40%
suns W one of my best games this season JO 45/12 Marion 32/9
@lakers W Marion 34/15 JO 28/13
@nets a blowout only positive i could force pettit again to a bad shooting night
sonics W a monster defense game held the sonics to 72 points and 30%
cavs W a solid win with JO 25/15 Marion 33/14 and Artest 25/5
nets W time for some revenge - this time i dominated the game in almost every cat. hold the nets under 40% wiht marion again dominating pettit
with 37/10 and 5blks JO 31/13 and 3blks and Rocky winning the point guard battle with 23/8/8 3stls and 0 TOs
@bucks W another solid win lead by JO 36/13 and Marion 32/10
@hornets W wow what a defense battle with surprising help of the bench
fisher had a perfekt shooting night went 6/6 for 13 pts and JO 19/18

i finsihed my series against the nets with a 2-2 record. All home wins and each team had a close win and a blowout.

Wow, I've never seen that done to Pettit.  In fact, I can't remember the last time hew as in single digits.

Yeah, Matrix likes to do that to the opponents guards...just ask Tmac :P

I have no idea what the hell happened to my team.  Ever since the re-sim, the team has stopped playing the way it did earlier in the year.  Nothing changed, so I'm not sure what's going on.  

My dreams of the SSBA Finals appear to be slipping away....Funny how the re-sim affected the Warriors in the complete opposite way.

Yes, an injury that did not happen (Don Ruffin) and Dirk playing very, very well during the re-sim really helped.

I was still in first in the Pacific, though before the re-sim (Kings techincally were first, but I had a higher winning percentage, he had just played more games.)