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Up.

I'm on a huge roll, have gone 11-5 since the second half of the season started.  Went 5-3 this sim with 2 losses to the Clippers and a close one to the Hawks

Went 4-1, moved my tactics back after few sims of experimenting, i have no idea why i was experimenting at all cause the team was doing fine, but some stupid experiments with tactics, with bosh(completely useless) -cause the team to slip below 40 %, its good to see after putting back
again everything team is doing fine, moved to #7 spot and hopefully till the end of the season only progress and good sims will occur. Even better thing is that 3 games i won away which i dont recall happening in 1 sim.

Game 1 @ Sixers 93-88 Houbregs with 20 lead scorers on his usual 50 % FG/3PT, Shultz added
18/9, Iggy 18/6/5, Telf 15/11 and finally his TO went down to like it was before tactics bullshiting.
Hayman added nice 14 boards and 3 blocks.

Game 2 Hornets 91-116 Didnt expect to win this one as well as the Sixers one and this was my only loss, Iggy and Shultz were the only real players on court in this game.

Game 3 Rockets 111-100 Another nice win, Shultz with 23/5/11, Russell added 22, Telf with 21/5/11, Iggy 19, Haywood with amazing 20 boards.

Game 4 @ Spurs 107-90 Another great away win, Telf 28/13 3 steals 0 TO !, except his TO to go down a lot now, Shultz added 20, Iggy 17/6, Haywood 10/15 5 blk, Buehler 10/13, really nice team work.

Game 5 @ Cavs 100-93 Haywood the man, 16/15 3 blk, when i play my old tactics he regulary collects 15 boards + -.

Strong sim. Went 4-2 but without Hoffa for the first 3 games when i all of my loses came.

Mcgrady is insane...

you-re insane  8)

How come I never see a Nets analyisis of sims anymore?

Anyway, Raptors go 3-2, and somehow are still listed under the Pacers, although my win percentage is higher...but it always works itself out at the end of the year.

Kings 94 Raptors 90 -- Gasol was rendered a non-factor against Fortson, which is dissapointing considering Forston's poor defense at the PF position. Melo dropped 27, and Max had 18 and 10...But the Kings took 12 more shots than us, and in a close game, that spells a loss.

Raptors 126 Mavs 115 -- Gasol, Melo and Max all had 23+ points in the win. Gasol had 28, 8, and 6...Melo had 25, 9 and 6....Max had 23, 13 and 4...those are 3 great all around efforts. Garcia added 17 and 7 off the bench in only 24 minutes.

Knicks 113 Raptors 92 -- Uhhhhh....WHAT?! Got blown out by the Knicks on my own court? Unacceptable. Knicks shot 51% to my 37%. Melo was held to 11 points by Diddle. Truely unacceptable loss.

Raptors 97 Wizards 89 -- Good win, with some great performances. Melo's 29 and 11 led the way, followed by Gasol's 20 and 11 and Swift's 15 and 15. Barner exploded, but everyone else was held in check.

Raptors 122 Lakers 87 -- Good way to end the sim by destroying the worst team. Melo had an unbelivable 36 and 16 from the 3. Max had 16 and 14. Swift had 11 and 18.

Time.

I usually haven't looked at my stats until the next sim is about to be run.

Cool.

It seems that noone wants to talk about the sims in length anymore - must be a busy time of year for most.

Danny Forston is the 6th man of the year, this guy is beautifull. I just love the fatso even more then Mcgrady.

* 23pts, 11rebs and 2 blocks against the Mavs.
* 13pts, 2blocks and 9rebs against the Wolves
* 12pts, 3blocks and 19rebs against the Mavs again.
* 17pts, 15rebs and 3blocks against the Suns.

10.3pts & 10rbs off the bench. Danny is The Man. :)

In other news, Mcgrady was just sick, scoring 36ppg. 38 and 47pts against Lebron, 44 against the Rockets and 36 and 10asists against the Suns.

Individual performance of the sim: Rafael Araujo, 54pts, 15rebs on a 23/32 shooting against the Suns. :)

Btw In a game against the Suns Tmac & Hoffa combined for 90pts ( :lol: ). I don't know if anyone keeps up the track with such things, but is that a record?  Peja & Yao only comes to mind.

Or is DJSL just a coincidence?  :)

Most of us were in other sim leagues before DJSL.

It's just a busy ass time of the year for me.

i talk crap always  :lol:


....and yeah, reading from sim to sim about danny fortson he definitely looks like one of top candidates for 6MOY

BETTER.

4-3 with a 2pt and a 3pt loss ... and a win over the Emeka-less Nets. Back on track !

What?  My team didn't play against you this sim, where you get the stats from?

NVM, I thought this was sim 7. :oops:

ohhhh, i just turned to page 2, so its you coming home like kings as usual ?  8)

Sounds like an average sim for Dirk ;)

Would this be your first "title" in sim leagues then?




 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

no way that danny has a chance with all the starts and by the way boozer is my 6th man  :wink:

horrible sim:

went 3-3
PACERS 102 Wolves 84
pretty easy win; marion with 22/9 and artest continues his great season with 20; miller 15/10/5 and boozer of the bench 13/13/3
Pacers 103 MAGIC 105
i had 20 shots more but was also outrebound by 16..
only rocky and boozer showed some game rocky with 23/9 and 6 stls and boozer of the bench with 15/15/3 and 2blks
PACERS 114 Hawks 69
nice to blow out some teams :wink: Marion with 38/12;JO with 26/10 and Artest with 23/4/5 it is funny to watch this team with all three stars clicking.
Pacers 74 HORNETS 89
here we go again another hard loss; JO played 15mins  :shock: Miller blocked 7 shots from Yao  :?: again i had 20 shots more but couldn´t stop yao and priddy of the boards. rocky with a near triple double 9/10/8
Pacers 124 HEAT 116
a shootout win nice but please keep it more consistent  :lol:
Pacers 89 Grizz 104
huh i lost despite JO having 27/19 and 4 blks and Miller 11/13 and 3 blks

had a satisfying win against the Nuggets with a 40, 15 and 4 by Dwight.

Ernest profit has his best defensive game, evera A 5 blocks perofrmance against the pacers. :D

I could have had him you know...Sonics offered me (i think this is not against the rules cause it pretty much doesn't matter anymore) Dirk for Tracy straight up week before you grabbed him. I declined cause i want to win with Tmac. :wink:

CelticsGM aka The Lord Of The Rings.

Thats like me saying "Sure I could have gotten Yao, but I want to win a title with Antonio Lenard".

Just plain wrong. A sentimental pipe dream but bad GM judgement.

The difference is, Dirk does it better, against nearly any defender (holding him to 25 is a huge thing), and can do it at all three positions in the frontcourt. Plus he's am above average defender and absolut matchup nightmare. Superman ...

TMac can go off sometimes (as opposed to "Dirk can be kept in check sometimes"), plays defense on occasions, and does this all at SG. And he need a sidekick like Hoffa to be successful or is lost like Batman without Robin sometimes ...


But not that Superman has won his parade of titles so far, since lets not forget this is still a TEAM game ...
 8)

Could have (probably)

Should have (defintely)

Top bad... He's a Warrior for life now...  **insert evil laugh here**
Just hoping he comes through in the playoffs this year.
Those darn Clippers keep on getting in the way ;)
(and before getting beat by the Clips last season, The Warriors lost to the Dirk-led Sonics 2 years in a row in the playoffs)

A nice 7-1 sim, with the only loss an absolute smackdown by the Emeka-less Nets.

But, with a jumpshooting team, you are going to lose some games (the Warriors have had a surprising number of bad shooting games this season)

Did squeak a win over the Clips at home... almost lost it in the 4th, where they outscored me 42-23  :shock:

Hey, anyone know what the record for wins in a season is?  Not going to catch it, but just curious...

Another post of yours that doesn't have any sense.  The thing is, if i wanted to, Dirk would be King now. Ask SonicsGM if you don't belive me.

TMac can go off sometimes? Wow.

After Dirk, the guy is probably the best scorer in the game and all that playin along another 30ppg player (Hoffa). Curently, he's at 31ppg, without Hoffa, i think he would be somewhere around 33.

I am talking about taking it to the next level here. Stepping up when it counts.

Take one example, last playoffs. You both lost to the Clippers, with Dirk matching up with Elton and TMac with Maggette. So what happened?

TMac got 27ppg on 42% shooting (down from season avg of 29/48%) while allowing Maggette to score more (+1ppg), on 45% shooting (down from 46%), rebound more (+1rpg) and pass more (+2apg)

Dirk scored 32ppg (2ppg less than season avg) on 46% (down from 47%) but held Elton to 5.5 fewer ppg on 43% shooting (down big from 50%)


TMac is a good player, no doubt. A great scorer (but still held below 20ppg far too often, and that on a team where only he and Hoffa get the ball 90% of the time) but an average defender at best (there's a reason you see guys like Pettit beaming of joy when TMac awaits.)

but he's not in Dirk's class ...
 8)

Can't wait you to find out the mighty Celtics shot 56% against, repeat, the Emeka-less Nets ...

There were more fine storylines this sim. With the change of pace to "fast" the scoring went up by 16ppg, shooting from 42% to 49% and some more trapping gave me 2 more steals and 2 less TOs. Sure, putting a more offensive minded lineup out there with C Thomas and SG Redd had a lot to do with it too.

But thats what the regular season is all about, finding the right switches to make your team gel ...
 :D

First of all, it's not ONLY cause of Maggete (whos very underrated defender btw), you seems to forgot that the Clips are one of the best defensive teams in the league, 27ppg is still a major feat for any player against the Clips.

Pettit? Are you kidding me? Tmac owns him everytime they meat! Only the last time Nets beat the hell out of me and Pettit scored more pts while shutting down Mcgrady. I have no idea what are you talking about.

Kings, there is no possible way that Tmac is better than Petit...and if you didn't do the Dirk for Tmac swap, then that was probably the worst move you've ever made.

I'm talking about head to head matchups. Not overall carrer and ratings (although i find even that very questionable. Pettis is better defender but Tmac is probably a better scorer and doesn't produce that many TO's).


And yeah, i refused to trade him for Dirk. :)

To be fair, after Dirk's first year with the Sonics, I didn't expect him to keep it up.  He had scored 24 ppg the year before.

Somehow, at the age of 28 Dirk was a 24 ppg scorer.  At the age of 32 he's a 37 ppg scorer.

 :?:

Thats why youll never win the title  :lol:

imagine Dirk/Hoffa duo  :shock:

Again, I'm going to stick up for Kings here.

How many offensive rebounds and easy scoring opportunities does TMac create for Hoffa?  

I mean, Araujo is having his best 2-year stint of his career and is the best 2nd-option (offensively, not all-around) in the league.

Actually i have him as 1st option with Mcgrady being the second. And as a 2nd option he's at 31ppg which also makes you wonder what's this guy capable of.

Hoffa might be listed as the 1st option, but McGrady's getting more shots/game (25+ to 22+).

Yes. But he's also playing 5 minutes per game more for then Hoffa.

Hoffa is 34 while Tmac is at 39mpg.

In that case I better hold on to Elton Brand a couple more seasons! :D

I offered you Dirk for Tmac trade in like season two.

Clippers are in cruise control. Nothing really spectacular is going on, but they know how to handle things. (Kind of like the Bulls in 92-93)

Big game this sim was the one @ Warriors. Lost by 2. Lost this game in fouls and free throws.

Kwame has a bruised jaw and was out for 4.5 games. Harrington got his starting spot and he did great. Harrington is of great help. He just fouls like a madman! :)

Maggette is having a career year. His scoring and rebounding is at the highest point til now.

I am very happy with Tayshaun Prince as a backup. He shoots the ball very well and plays good D.

I didn't use Dirk the right way when he was in Dallas that's why he never a top scorer back then.

Now I am curious. In what 'wrong' way did you use him back then?

You should have gotten Larry Brown to make him play the right way! :D

I went with inside scoring back then, I guess he doesn't like contact and prefer to go outside or he pulled a Vince Carter on me and want to get out of Dallas.

I feel bad for you, because I think it is option 2.

And again, good guess but not close in reality.

Dating back to 2008 season there were 10 matchups of Kings and Nets. Nets won the first 5, lost the next 4 and won the last again this year.

During these games
- Pettit got 29.4ppg, 7.2rpg, 4apg on .491 shooting
- TMac got 29.8ppg, 6.8rpg, 4.5apg on .483 shooting
Additionally, Pettit had more steals and TMac had more TOs.

not exactly what i'd call "own"

And even during the Kings 4game win streak the difference wasn't overwhelming. Tmac scored more (34.8 to 27.3 ... on identical .495 shooting), Pettit got more boards (8.0 to 5.8 ) and assists were equal.

Sure, all this doesn't take supporting cast into account, since the Nets wins came during the Kings' "Gooden years" while the strike back happened to start shortly before Hoffa came in. But the direct matchup of these superb players i'd call dead even (with a tiny tiny nod to Pettit for the fewer TOs) ...
 8)

Exactly!

Pay attention to the period when i finally got a good frontcourt. One that can match equally to the Nets frontcourt.

Before that they were almost identical, both at 29ppg. But when Pettit goes inside he runs into Brad Miller and Chris Webber (or Jeromie Mosio). Not exactly a defensive intimidators. But what happened when Mcgardy goes inside? There are 2 best shotblockers in the game Emeka Okafor and Sammy Dalembert. Not to mention the fact that the Nets were so much better team overall then the Kings at that time so it's was even easier for Pettit to have a better stats then Mcgrady.

But! Once when i brought Hoffa (someone who can finally spread the floor for Tmac) and Camby (A defender with 2bpg) look what happened! Tmac outscored him by 7.5pts! His numbers went up by 6 (!) while Pettit's went down by 2! They were "dead even" until the point when Tmac finally gotten some true help, after that he owned him!

u2 are amazing  :lol:

Well, above stats are for all 10 games since 2008, wins or losses. So they are dead even over the complete series.

In the Nets six wins Pettit achieved 31ppg, 7rpg, 4apg on 49% shooting to TMac's 26ppg, 8rpg, 5apg on 47% shooting.


But even looking at the (few) Kings wins I'm not declaring Tracy winner. I agree that TMac runs into better competition in the lane but you can't say that Hoffas arrival had any effect on Pettit ot TMac. Both still shot .495, only Pettit scored less - which might have more to do with the Dunleavy/Battier swap than anything. Last year, TMac was plain unstoppable and kept Pettit somewhat in check. But this year it's reversed again with Pettit (30ppg on 51%) all over TMac (21ppg on 39%) ...



But lets close this discussion now. I'd take both over any SG I ever had ...
 :shock:

what about tower  :wink:

my 2 cents here ...
i like your discussions here. it is always funny to read something else than player A is fantastic and scored....
we are already halfway through the season and the action is really down...
no raptors no sonics trying to make the big trade to win it all :shock:
no trade talk from the kings (even he anounced hoffa is gone  :wink: )

even when i started one with offering marion and the reaction was almost zero. i know many including myself are very busy but keep the discussions at least interesting and entertaining.

Do I read something like "Marion for Tower" between the lines here?

That might finally get me into Kings territory agewise. Right now my top12 add up to 371 years, with Marion it would be 380. And i'm closing in on the league leading Kings with their dinosaurs combining for a whopping 386 yrs of age
(btw, you don't have to be a computer guy to see any correlation between the 386 PC generation and Ivans refusal to accept fictional guys - both horribly outdated nowadays ...  :lol: )


On the other end of the scale are the Raptors (311yrs) and Warriors (313). Not league-leading young as there might be younger teams in the league, but it's not hard to be young, just to be young AND good ...
 8)

of course you do. call me in 4 years again and i will trade you marion for tower. i hope towers contract is big enough then  :wink:

Pacers: There is still something major going on. I would call it a Mother Of All Blockbusters! ....You know who's the King Of The Trading Deadline! :)

Celtics: Meh, i couldn't care less what you say. As i said, i don't find any joy or fun in it, so you can call me outdated, old fashionable or whatever. I don't care. Maybe nerdish factor prevails here. You're a stat guy, i'm not. You see bunch of numbers and you don't care about names and players. But that's not enough for me. I enjoy in my imagination, not in bunch of stats and numbers.

Besides, that's why i have my backup (DJSL) team. To keep me ready for 10+ more seasons of madness! :)

In 4 years? We are roughly in season 2031 then and the son of Jeffrey Jordan will lead the league in scoring. Marions daughter Stacey will have scored 53pts in one of the last ever WNBA games. And Tower will be an assistant coach for the Las Vegas Hawks ...
 :wink:

Yeah i remember. You had Hoffa - Damp frontcourt with Dirk at 3. All you needed was a superstar at 2 to be a dinasty. Trading Dirk was logical move. That was also one of the reasons i didn't want to give you Tmac cause you would have probably been unbeatable. Terry (or Harris, i don't remember) - Mcgrady - Luke Jackson - Rafael Araujo - Eric Dampier + you were the deepest team in the L at that time. Scary...

We might have another one coming very soon. :?:

I think it has the potential to be a big deadline for a few teams, mine included

why du i have a gut feeling you all are hoping to be part of the very same deal.
*lol*

Guess there will be some bitter tears come deadline ...

i believe youre wrong this time  8)