SSBA

Up.

The good:
I'm 5-3.

The bad:
I'm overachieving across the board.  If my backcourt continues to average 50 points and 14 assists, I'll eat my boxers on a public webcast (not serious)

Interesting rookies:
Shane Wedge, 19th pick, averaging 20.1 and 11.

The top scorers are, for the most part, later picks.  Shane Wedge, Zach Profit, Mike Mitchell, Mo cheeks, Freeman Williams
(most of whom are still bad defenders).

Jermaine O'neal playing like he's 24.

Rex Mehta playing like a flat out superstar.  He turned from Dan Gadzuric when he was drafted into Emeka Okafor now.

LOL @ eating the boxers...I once declared the same thing on RealGM.

Probably the most interesting stat is that the 6-0 Raptors are .5 games back in their division.

Disappointing 3-6 start but then the injury bug bit my team again.  Lost Al Jefferson after 4 games (played 6 min in game 5) and Van Exel in the middle of the 6th game.  Good news is that neither injury is long term.

After seeing who I played, I am not suprised I ended up 1-7...  Pacers(x2), Raptors, Celtics, 76ers, Hornets, Warriors and the Mavs(only win was against the Mavs)...  The teams I played have a combined record of 37-11... 

Whoo!!! 2-6!!! Better then last year when we won one game per sim :cheers:

Bird,Marquez,Boozer ovibusly put up their points. I think we have the worst defense in SSBA tho.

Bird for Rookie of the year... So I get back to Back of them :D

+23 point differential, lol... I will have to see if I need to work Swift and Radman into the lineup, because I'm afraid my rotation might be a little too tight. But you can't argue with success.

That's what happens when in 5 games you hold your opponent to under 90 points, two of them under 70, including myself... :(
But I am proud to say that I was able to hand you your one and only loss... 8)

Man I hope this isn't the same story as last year...Raptors start the season 6-0, the only unbeaten team after 10 days. Leading the league in scoring, and top 6 in defense, a nice combination.

A quick glance through the starting lineup tells you all you need to know...

C Robert Swift - 16ppg, 12rpg, 1.7bpg, shooting 53.2% from the floor.

Sim 1 Highlights:

3 double doubles
21 rebounds, 5 blocks aganst the Spurs
21 points on 9-14 shooting against the Lakers
28 points on 12-18 shooting against the Knicks


Pf George Boykins - 26ppg, 9rpg, 49.6% shooting, 71.4% from downtown

Sim 1 highlights:

10th in the league in PPG
39 points in 32 mins against the Cavs
Averaging 26 and 9 despite a 15 and 1 showing against the Lakers

SF Luke Jackson - 14 ppg, 7rpg, 55.6% from 3 pt land

Sim 1 Highlights:

17 and 11 on just 9 shots against the Cavs
17 and 10 on the Lakers

SG Josh Childress -17 ppg, 8 rpg, 2.7spg

Sim 1 Highlights:

Among league leaders in steals
22 points against the Pistons
19 and 13 on the Cavs
22 and 9 on the Knicks
3 double doubles

PG Max Guiterrez - 17 ppg, 12 apg, 52% 3 pt

Sim 1 Highlights:

Among top 3 in league in apg
29 and 17 on the Pistons
20 and 15 on the Knicks

Yikes!

4-4 with a bit of a dodgy depth chart.

Things are fixed and hopefully we can pick things up for next sim.

I played some pretty good teams this sim for a 5-1 record, giving the Pacers their only loss (a 22 point throttling at that), and losing my only game to the 6-1 TWolves. 

Mehta averaging about 26/18/4 assists and 5 blocks was stunning, and he was player of the game in 5 of the 6 games.  Tobey's averaging 17/9 in 27 minutes, including 33% from 3.  And I was 5-1 despite Arenas shooting 39% for the sim. 

Definitely encouraging.

poor 4-3 start, played 5 games at home, won 3, got demolished 2, lots of work ahead.


Hawks +9 ...always had difficulty playing them, dunno why. Hoffa opened his 3rd Blazer season with 30/17, my rookie
Williams started bad.

Heat -32....OUCH, terrible defeat at home.Only Buehler was satisfying, Williams after 1-6 FG now went 1-8, terrible start.

@Jazz -10...another bad offensive perfmornace, Bosh did great tough and Williams started to get used to NBA style of
play, 15/5 on 5/8 2/2 and 3/4 shooting.Something you must expect from a A- guy.

Lakers +9... That wasnt a tough one, and man can we jump, Hoffa 34/17, Buehler 21/15, Bosh 16/12, Williams with another
great perfomance, 15/8 on 7/8 FG and 1/2 3pt.

Sixers +2...Williams again, after disastrous 2-14 2 game start this rookie is heating up.

@Rockets +13...Hoffa dropped 45/12, Williams was great again, its a tough choice between him and Clement but for now ill
give rookie advantage.

Celtics -21...OUCH again, Williams terrible like first 2 games combined, stupid coach went in the game with 2 PGs.


LOTS OF WORK AHEAD !!

i believe he is a pretty good defender tough, if im not wrong he's B+, but as i moved him to SG before sim his defense that he gained in TC dropped so its tough to tell, but he's going back to PG and B+ now, and with SUPER tough schedule in sim 2 playing Nets, Hornets, Raps, Warriors...etc....we'll see how'll do against some top players in the league.

ahhhh...nvm....i found it, he aint B+ still :(

Celtics started the season 4-2 which isn't all too shabby but doesn't tell the whole story.

Led the Pacers (who started the season like men possessed, despite fielding the same mediocre team from last season) by 10 after the break in game 1 when starting C Sampson, my major FA aquisition to replace Booze, went down for 55 games. Just great. Forget the Allstar game, Jamaal.

Took me some games to regroup and work the Magloire/Roof tandem into the rotation but ended the sim on 4 nice wins. Still, rebounding will be a problem until sampson comes back.

Otherwise a fine entry to a long season.
 8)

Shane Wedge is dominant ... 20ppg and 11rpg, with B+ defense.  Let's just hope that D potential is false.

By the way, is this draft preview going to stay put?  Or will there be a new set of rookies-to-be?

Went 6-0 then lost two straight, overall a 6-2 sim.  A.J. Dial was an excellent picked up he put up good numbers as a backup and he probably won the starting PF spot of Munson.

the draft preview is not what we'll be using.

8-1
with wins against Celtics twice, Wiz and Nets (okay they are playing without Okafor and Pettit - is that called cheating? :rulez:) Don´t take me serious here, just making fun but i wouldn´t like to win a title like this. ok i am as far away from a title like you are without pettit and okafor  :lol2:
JO is currently 3rd in scoring and rebounding shooting 54%  :hail:
Lenard is avg over 14pts in 22 mins while shooting over 50%

I am pretty sure that i won´t last long but at least i can enjoy my wins against Celtics where his frontcourt has no idea how to stop JO.

I am more than surprise right now. lol

man never thought that you would miss your ALs so much.

not just that. but this is a weird sim 1. my players are well below their average. not to mention Dwight improved on rebounding but an 8.8 rpg? lol

Rex Mehta is a beast.

yea he was the only one who kept JO somehow under control.
IF JO can keep this pace he would destroy all his career records at age of 30 something  :lmao:

commish is tanking.  :shock: :bods:

First look at the 1st sim of the season..


HUH?  :bods:


The league should check the players for steroids..  :D

There are alot unknown guys who are suddenly having Mike James kind of year.. Could it just be a 1st sim bug?

Anyway..

What a stupid mistake made by me again in the depth chart. Last time I made a mistake like this, it cost me not the 1st round in the play-offs. This time, I only put wells and george johnson as my scoring options. Only 2 of them.. No wonder my team did struggle in their offense.

I think they can improve in the next sim. I expect MORE from them in the scoring end. Defensively, they are doing a good job. Jaime Ruiz is averaging 9rpg and 3.6bpg (no steroids) while Wells, Erving and Johnson did a great job in steals and shot blocks. If their scoring can improve, which I believe they can with the high percentage they are shooting, I think that we can reach the kind of level I was hoping my team will be playing this season..

Looking forward for the next sim..

yeah..it should have been the sim 1 bug...there are a lot of surprises in the league... including a very nice pickup by bods in Antonio Seymore... if he's playing like that for the rest of the season than he is definitely the most improve player ever  :D from a bench player who hasnt played a single game all season long....and now becomes 22ppg and 8apg player  :D very nice pickup by bods....and rex mehta....wow...he is a beast...iv never seen an NBA player averages like that...if this isnt a first sim bug than its very surprising....otherwise...we all know sim1 stats doesnt really tell everything of a player....

anyway.....i think my team can still compete in the playoffs...il keep this roster intact for a while...  :D

Rex also found time to put up 29/12/8 blocks that game too while fouling JO out.  I hope it wasn't a Sim 1 "bug" :D

If I had more than 3 games in Week 2, Mehta might have been player of the week.

uhm, i realized i also made some silly mistakes in DC, now that i changed everything like it should've been, now i have doubts about PACE again, but still ill change it to Slow next sim, its a super tough sim so if it works out around 50 %, ill keep it, if not, ill try again with FAST but with same DC as in Sim2, as Sim1 had few mistakes that ive made postins rotations and IL i didnt even post like i should.

Well, I could not be more pleased with the Warriors performance, but I some of the guys are shooting way above their normal abilities...
Andre Iguodala has been great as a first option, scoring 25 ppg with 6.7 apg from the SF spot.