SSBA

Up

worst sim. 4-3.
unacceptable. bright few spots are jefferson and profits performance.

5-1 sim, very very good. Only loss was to the Hornets in N'awlins

I went 4-4 this time. I have to say I am really disapointed in my teams performance this season. Our defense is improving but the rebounding needs  to get better. I have been trying to make some deals pretty desperatly but nobody seems to be interested. It looks like this will be my team for a while.

7-1 sim, with a single loss to the Celtics in Boston.

Luol Deng had an off sim, but Nowitzki racked up (2) 9 assist games.  

Jackson Finley was very effective off the bench at PF and C.  I may start him next sim, to see how he does as a starter.  

But my teams rebounding improvement this year has been excellent, led by Luol Deng's 8 rebounds from the SG spot.

Hmmm...just got back from getting embarrased in intermural bball (61-16), and I need a bit of a pick me up. That being said, lets look more in depth at this sim:

Raptors 116 Wizards 99 -- Melo lead the way with 36 points on 13-19 shooting, which is amazing. Max added 27 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds. A bit of a worrisome stat was Childress' 1-14 from the floor against Quincy Mihm.

Raptors 102 Heat 100 -- Tight, tight game. Melo again led the way with 25, and Gasol added 23 and 13. Max flirted with a triple-double, getting 9 points, 7 rebounds and 13 assists. Childress redeemed himself with 16 and 10. Swift did a great job on Dunkin' as well.

Hornets 116 Raptors 79 -- Hmmm...a 37 point loss is a bit of an embarrasment. This time against his former team Yao flourished with 39 and 13. However, against his former team, Melo shat the bed shooting 6-27 for 18 points. Brutal. Shot just 36%.

Raptors 99 Pacers 97 -- Huge win over a great team, proving that I can beat anyone at home (have beat Pacers, Nets, Hornets at home). Melo had 27, and Alvin Schenk had an amazing game in his first start of the season: 23 points, 8 assists, 4 rebounds. Damn I wish he was tradeable...best LLE signing ever!!  Swift grabbed 17 rebounds which helped.

Raptors 111 Celtics 104 -- Carmelo had 38 points and 8 rebounds against Giniobili. Gasol had a strong 24 and 13, and Max came back strong with 19 points off 9-16 shooting. Team shot 52.9%.

Raptors 128 Heat 115 -- A good ol' fashion shootout at the ACC. Dunkin' exploded on me for 37, but Gasol's 36 pts, 13 rebounds and 7 assists outshadowed TD. Melo added 35, meaning Gasol and Melo combined for 71 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists. Max had a strong game with 17 points and 13 assists. Swift also played very good with 17 and 12. Shot an incredible 57.3% from the floor and 50% from 3.

Boy oh boy, it's interesting how quickly things can turn.

After riding a 5 game losing streak into Sim5 with another heavy schedule looming (including the next 5 on the road) I was hoping to reach the AllStar break on a .500 record.

And now this: Starting off with an expected loss to Hornets my Celtics took the next 4 road contests (Mavs, Hawks - my new arch rival, Heat and Blazers), then another one at Spurs and inbetween a sweet home win over the Warriors. A 7game win streak.
In a close home loss to the Raptors (too bad Manu can stop Dirk but not Carmelo) and another one to the Hawks (all 3 games so far were road wins) we simply ran out of gas, but 7-3 overall is a sim i take any second of the day.

Leading scorer Lenard was hurt in the 4th game but I still went 5-2 without him. Manu and Strong stepped in big. Schabinger finally proved that th SG spot is his to lose. Chauncey was very solid again (89 ass, 25 TOs for a 3.6 ratio), even holding his ground against the great white hype Massimiliano Guti.


So some more tough road games are waiting next sim - unfortunately without LENARD who will also miss the All Star Weekend - but at least I'll have played 25 of my 41 games on the road in the first half of the season then.
 8)

Well, well well...so that's how the story goes? You just have to threat them that they're going to be traded and all of a sudden they play good ball.

What's up Hoffa? You poor bastard, you're going to be traded anyway!

....and back with the vengance!!

After the all critisicm around the league bloodthirstie Kings responded without a mercy!

+40 mayhem of the Clippers: Tmac had a enough and was so pissed that he went for monstruos, maybe the best individual perforamce of the season: 55pts, 8asists and 10 boards. Hoffa added 34/14 and Danny Forston, the ONLY true hustler on this team had his usual strong performance vs the Clips with 20pts, 4blocks and 10 boards from the bench.

Next up, spanking of the rude kids from Oregon! +27.

+18 against the Nuggets. Hoffa 38pts, 24boards and 4 blocks

+22 against the Mavs. Tmac 42pts & Hoffa 30pts and 11rebs and Tinsley with nice 19pts, 8asists and 7boards game.

Went 5-2, moved to 4th in the West.

But regardless, blockbuster on the way...

yeah yeah  :roll:








j/k

And yeah, West is just horrible.

What's up with 'offensive key player'?

I want Gordon to take more shots. Even in the game against the Mavs, when both Brand and Brown did not play due to injury, and Gordon was option number 1, he only took 10 shots while Perry took 15, Chandler 20 and Maggette 28. My offense is balanced, but that is not the reason I think, because Maggette is getting way more shots as a third option than Gordon as a second or even first option!

The kid doesn't have what it takes. :)

Oddly, enough, sometimes it seems like good ballhandling skills makes  players shoot less, since they are more willing to give up the rock and get assists.

he did have 9 assists in that game against the Mavs.

I guess it depends on the players.

PG Billups is horrible, shooting wise and passing wise, if he is NO option. He plays best being third option, by a landslide.
PF Stromile is shooting horrible when being made option. He works best, most efficiently when a non-option.

Just two examples but it shows that every player has his specialities.


And in case you wonder, FBB sometimes puts up weird offensive options when you use recommended, like people who are on the 3rd spot in DC or not on the DC at all.
After wondering for so long i tend to believe now that there are teams working best when actually only 1 or 2 guys are made option and the rest just works in the flow of the game, without carrying the added pressure of having to score. I might be wrong here but being commish sometimes opens different views to you ...
 :wink:

I went 3-4 this sim, but Damp was out 3 games in which I went 0-3. When healthy, the last 2 sims I have been 8-3 which is much better then ever before.  Moving Mason to the bench seems to have been great for the team as he is a spark off the bench that can really score and force some turnovers.  I'm 2-1 against the Celts (my new rival, as dubbed above) in the last two sims.  Antonio Lenard has his way with Jeremy Palacio the in the 1st 2 games, which we split, but in the rubber match Lenard was hurt so I won't count that one too heavily.  Another good thing was Charles Phelps won again torched the Nets and Petit, this time I came out on top though.  I'm convinced that Phelps is the best rebounding guard in the league right now.  Troy Havlicek is slowing coming back down to his old form but I expect him to average around 20 and 8 this season which is right where I need him to be.  Overall this is the most optimistic I've been in a long time, I just hope I don't get let down the next sim.

2-6 sim...very disappointing.  But then I lost my starting SG/3rd option halfway through the first game.  He didn't come back until the last game.  Still I lost 2 OT games and two other games by 2 and 3 points.


In regards to the key players and shots....some players are just shooters and others aren't.  And it doesn't matter if they are first option they still may not shoot.  While others even if non-starters will come into a game and jack up a shot every time they touch the ball.  That was one of the reasons I wanted to trade Chris Mihm when I had him.  They guy was a black hole...the ball went into him but never came out except towards the basket.  Not a bad thing if you shoot with a decent percentage but in this case the team had much better shooters.

Some teams, I am sure.  I think that would highly depend upon your squad, though.
My squad works very well with 3 options, and 2 of them (Nowitzki and Hinrich) are also good ballhandlers and distributors for their positions.

The worst sim i had in 3 seasons i believe, lost all 6 games, but considering the teams ive
 played it was prolly the toughest sim also, well - the Bulls (no offense)....so i guess
it was just a bad week, teams tactics remained same but i hope Iggy coming and Finley
departing havent made some unrest at Blazers locker-room.
Maybe a difference was also that i moved Telf out of scoring options despite his great
perfomances recently and mostly all season.


Game 1 Magic 88-100 Magic are a tough team to beat this season but losing at home always
hurts, Iggy made a fine debut leading in scoring with 19 on 8-10 shooting in just 25 mins,
Telf added 18/13, Haywood 15/15 with 4 blocks, Buehler with 15 boards in 27 mins, he-s
trully amazing for his size. The other newcomer Bosh was spectacular with 0-8 shooting :)

Game 2 @Kings 87-114 I guess the repeat of last sim, this time vice-versa, now it was them
who completely shutted down mostly everybody, Iggy again leading scorers with 22/5/8 in 27
 mins on 10/16 FGS, seems a good deal.

Game 3 Celtics 93-98 Now this was somewhat suprising loss at home, Telf went rebellious
with 32/5/10 3 stl, the rest of the team sucked big time.

Game 4 @Nets 101-106 Losing to Nets in last 2 mins of the game isnt such a big deal, esp.
 in Brooklyn, Houbregs had a fine night with 30, Iggy added 21, Telf 20/6/10.

Game 5 @Mavs 96-117 Except for usual Buehler/Haywood many boards, team completely sucked
 this one.

Game 6 @Bulls 106-108 This one was a real killer, the only one that made me pissed off :P

I must agree, i never had a good ballhandler at SG/SF spot, now that Iggy came i put him as 3rd option and he was leading scorers or 2nd best on 8-10, 9-12 kind of shooting game, he indeed gets 20ppg and wastes only 10 balls + - but gets a fine share of assists,rebs and steals as well.

Not looking forward to tonight's sim at all.

Play 8 games, 4 on the road, 4 at home.


Of the home games, should be able to beat the hawks, grizz and Buck. Will probably lose to the Warriors.

However, my road games are: Mavs (13-7 @ home), Pacers (15-1), Hornets (18-3) and Warriors (15-2). Impossible to win a game. I see this sim as a 3-5 at best.

Back on track. Only loss was a 4 pointer to the Nets.

Wow, what scheduler would schedule our games back to back, with a 4 hour flight involved...  Bastard!!!   8)
Hey, at least you immediately get to try and get revenge for the loss  :wink:

Man, im not looking forward too much either, but this sim will prove this
team is good or ill continue to slip towards lotto pick after a disastrous last sim.

What a weird schedule, playing jazz,warriors and mavs home and away + lakers and nuggs.
Im hoping for 5-3 or 4-4, hopefully ill win home games vs nuggs,jazz,lal and mavs and 1 upset Warriors at home or Mavs away would be perfect sim for me.

Or who knows maybe i go 8-0  :lol:

I did not eevn realize...  Glad I am starting Finley this sim...  Hopefully he plays well against his old squad ;)

 :shock:

Assuming you mean me, we'll see about that  :)

I think he is talking about me, not your poor fellas  :lol: