SSBA

No idea if the Sim is going to be run today.  I'm still missing 6 DC's from playoff teams, and I don't want to run a playoff sim like that.  They have until 1:30 to get their stuff in.

6 out of 16?
damn... :bash:
come on send it  :moon:
i want to see if i can loose to Celticsgm  :hail:

1 is on vacation, dammit, i woke up with a feeling im gonna lose again in rd1 :'(

sent mine just now...sorry for the delay guys  :D been very busy all week  :D

round 1 up

In normal FBB fashion a few upsets!!

Well, that was strange. We took the first two games, on the road, but went on to lose the next 4, three of which were at home. Other then one 16 point loss, the games were pretty close, so my Cavs put up a good fight. The Raptors just had a very balanced offensive attack that my defense could not stop. But the team is still relatively young, so we will only be improving. Just have to look toward next season...

  :lol2: no real surprises imo

clipps are one of the better teams in the POs here and Mavs are relying too much on offense to win it in the PO.
raptors did better than i expected against cavs.

In my series i exeed all expectations:
Lenard completly outplayed marion avg. 25pts with 2.8stls and didn´t miss a FT
JO was even better avg 28.2 and a lPO best 15.8rebs
english is currently second best in ass with 10.4 ass
tanner in only 2 games is leading in field goal % and avg. 22/7
harris did a great job against dirk. he had a 13/16 game in his start and finished the sim shooting over 70% from outside.

now i have to face the difficult task to beat hornets  :cheers:

Gatling and Pettit had a shootout in the deciding game 7 pettit 48, Gataling 46. good series Twolves, now on to the Clippers who are one of the best teams in this league. They had a down year compares to previous seasons, but theyre still dangerous. hopefully it will be a good series, but they have the decided edge in the front court.

Tough loss to the Clips...with 4 of 5 games being close; less than 10 pts difference.  No one thing did me in.  Beat on the boards badly one game, turnovers another, free throws in another.  Basically the playoff experience of the Clippers came through for them.  May have shot myself in the foot by pulling my rookie from the starting lineup but then the coaches almost always second guess themselves after losing a series.

Looking forward to next season with 10 returning players and some playoff experience now. 

Can't remember if i've ever been that disappointed with a team.

Not that they lost, since the Pacers are on a roll recently, but HOW this bunch of AllStar wannabees go taken care of. This was supposed to be their year and after a decent regular season they did the same choke job like numerous Celtics teams before. The worst part is this was all I had to give.

Antonio, I'm sorry about claiming Marion deserves AllStar consideration. You gave the right answer. After playing a nice little scorer for me for 7 season, and a complete defensive liability, you became an AllStar next to O'Neal shutting down my biggest offensive weapon.


So after a very good first half of the season the team fell apart, barely hanging onto a .500 record since, and the Marion injury late in the season did the rest. The Celtics were never able to regroup, even after Marion returned, and deservedly are due for early vacation now.



depressing
 :?

Glad to get by the Cavs, was pretty scared after their giant run to end the season. Lost the first 2 at home, but went on to take the next 4.

The matchup with the Heat will be an interesting one. They obviously have one of the best backcourts in the league.

Damn this was a tough series, i really tought ill lose this one but in my 4th attempt i finally made to Rd2 and will
play shock makers Rockets (Thank You for taking out Mavs, now i have some chances).

Hoffa shot 55 % troughout series for 30ppg and 12.7rpg perfomance, Bosh had 2bpg(finally someone blocked couple of
shots on my team).Williams was sick from 3PT line with 87 %.

Started with a powerful perfomance at home 112-77, Hoffa was amazing, 26/16 4blk 3stl, Buehler added 15/10...and
Clement who did great on offense once more proved to be AK-47's nightmare helding him to 31 % FG.

But Grizz responded with OT win (i tought im done here after losing this one).Hoffa 27/14, Telf 22/6/12 and
Buehler 22/11 were my guys in everything but an defensive game, both teams shoot more then 50 % from floor, i was
poor from 3PT line tough.

BLAZERS STRIKED BACK IMMEDIATELLY with a +22 win in Memphis, Hoffa was FO quickly before HT but Telf, Clement and
Buehler were imspired to lead this team for crucial win.

Grizzlies beat Blazers by 7 to go back to Portland.

Back home thanks to magnificent 48/14 effort from Hoffa Blazers came on verge of winning the series.

....and in Memphis THEY'VE DONE IT ! Another strong perfomances from Hoffa 33/10, Buehler 20/17 and Telf 19/8 but
it was Rookie Freeman Williams who accidently found himself in chance to score a winner with a 0.8 sec left and HE
HAD DONE IT !!


NEXT ON CALENDAR: Rockets, team that made my life easier, but a team that took down West favs 4-2 definitely needs
to be given full respect, on paper we're stronger at almost every position, but Connelly driven Rockets can be very
dangerous and they're not favourites here, so full seriousness must be injected into my players heads or our season
could be over just like Mavs is.

Congrats to Grizz on great series !

Shall be interesting series, we were 3-1 during regular season

@ 113-110 Hoffa 45/12, Williams,Bosh,Telf great, on other side Barton and JR.

99-100 Hoffa 24/11, Elliott 14/5/10, Williams great, Clement poor, on other side  no response for Lewis,BC and JR.

123-115 Hoffa 38/17, Elliott great.

@ 95-92 Hoffa 30/15, Clement fantastic, Telf great, Buehler great, on other side Barton and JR, Lewis very poor.


....obviously all games were pretty close, 2 wins by 3, 1 by 8 and Grizz won by 1.

Grizz have abosuletly no response for Hoffa who shot over 50 % all 4 encounters, and for Telf, on the other side
no response for Barton (him and Telf just played great offense and no defense in all games). Elliott was a suprise
in 2 games he stepped in for Telf, did great in both, he'll be a backup for Telf this matchup for sure.

Obviously PG's are both great but with no defense against each other, they cant stop Hoffa so we'll have to find a
way to stop Richardson, if we do that it should be an easy task, if not it'll be open and could go to 7.

AND I FORGOT TO PUT BACK CUNNINGHAM BEFORE SIM 12 GOD DAMMIT !!  :bash: :bash: , hopefully Nolan can do some nice defending in 10mpg to replace Cunninghams great offense in those 10mpg.

I don't know what to say.  Rockets got three guys playing great D, O'Connell(3spg), JRich(3.2spg) and Lewis(2.7spg) and I have Harris stinking it up with 4.7 turnovers per game.  I think I need a new PG.

The series was very competitive, but I managed to pull it out (despite my doubts in my team).
I was scared of the Yao / Mehta matchup, but I figured that as long as I broke even there, I would be ok. Mehta held Yao out of the top 10 in scoring, and Yao's minutes really plumeted, but in the end, I just had more firepower than the Bucks.
McGrady played well against much smaller players (Baron Davis and Jameer Nelson) at the SF position. That was a tough matchup for them.

Tsakalidis also ? GOD DAMN  :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: im screwed completely.

without tyler the sixers has a weak frontcourt...I'm happy with the win  over the sixers  :D i was out rebounded throughout the entire series...

raptors is up next...much more tougher than the sixers...they have a balance team...inside and out... i hope i can still win this series..  :D

Woohoo!!!

After seeing the Mavs regular season record and being dazzled by their back-court, I was extremely sceptical about my teams cahnces...

But then I saw their frontcourt and thought we may win a game or 2... didn't realistically think we would run out 4-2 winners but what the heck!!

Abdur-Rahim was huge and as the Mavs GM stated my guards played some tough D.

Blazers is a completely different kettle of fish, with their front-court being their strength...

I'm soo proud!

Good series Mavs!

 :bounce:

we're very balanced Rockets, i would say backcourt is even stronger with Telf(Elliott,Bird)-Clement(Williams)-Buehler(,Houbregs,Austin), frontcourt is strong with presence of Hoffa, and Bosh but its weak on bench, only Nolan is there as both Cunningham and Tsakalidis cant play(my stupid mistake), so chances are 50-50 %, if i didnt forgot to put Cunningham and Ricardo in sim12 i would give you 25 % chances as Cunningham is my strong offensive power always(and sometimes defensive) when Hoffa is on bench, and Ricardo is great also, but without them my frontcourt is very week now.

hahaha, you whiner. Nobody is down for you and you almost sounds off like Hoffa went on IL for the season.
 :lmao:

And now you lucky bastard play the Rockets instead of the Mavs.
man, sometimes people just fall on the lucky side of life.
 :moon:

Now that's even better !!!!
 :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

But don't worry, that's just the inexperience of your first season in sim leagues. As the years go by (and the Caipirinha evaporates from your brain) those stuff will become automatic ...
 :tup: :bounce: :hail:

hahaha, i completely forgot sim12 rule, yeah im lucky Mavs are gone, but if Rockets could take down Mavs just like that, why not me ? if Hoffa goes down who'll play C for me ? Nolan, ok, who'll be his backup ? Bosh and Buehler LOL, Tsakalidis wouldnt play lots of minutes, but he would be there just in case with his good defense and rebs, but Cunningham is important for those 10mins when Hoffa sit down or those 20 mins when his fouled out after 20 something minutes, he's always around 45-50 % from floor and occasionally goes nuts and grabbs some 15-20 rebs together with some nice defence, so yeah, i miss him a lot, maybe with him i would sweep Grizz or for sure lose 1 less game, like this i have to pray Hoffa plays 40mpg and Nolan remaining 8, but then again its my own fault they're not there so i wont whine about it, after all my only goal this season was to finally pass round 1, i did that, anything more will be a great achievement for me.

Nolan really bothers me, he is shooting like 15 % (Cunninghams B+ is big help off bench), cant rebound (Cunningham can when given more minutes), and he even managed to be fouled out in 12 mins, that must be a record.


DQ are disqualifications no ??

Round 2 up.

Outside of the blazers series, all series went 7 games.  wow.

Pettit is Mr. Playoff

:(

WOW, a lot easier then i ever imagined. Sweeeeepppp.



87-79 Bosh led with 18/8, Hoffa 17/23 on 23% from floor LOL. 6 players with 10 or more pts.

112-97 Hoffa 36 and only 6 rebs(that must be his record), Clement 16/7/5, Telf 15 assists but another poor offensive
perfomance.

@119-112 Hoffa 38 and again just 8 rebs, Telf great with 18/6/12, Nolan did great of bench. Did anyone play defense
here ?

Blazers 56 % FG 60 % 3PT 75% FT
Rockets 50 % FG 39 % 3PT 78% FT

Hellooouuu ????


@Rockets 93-70 .... like Blazers just saw what i was writing, GREAT D ! Hoffa 2nd straigh game fouled out, still
got 18/18 3blk, Nolan stepped in great grabbing 13 boards 1blk and shooting 50 %, Telf another great perfomance in
Houston after 2 poor perfomances in Portland.


NEXT: Suns......i give them advantage but im really lucky so far, i wanted to avoid Mavs, i did...now i already saw myself losing to Clippers in CF but now i saw im not playing them (they trashed me 3x this season), so its Suns, i couldnt make a better wish.

im basically 0-4 against Suns, ill need to make lots of changes to have any chance of winning.

Pettit less Suns beat me at home 100-111 and trashed in Phoenix 84-111. We won then 99-88 in Phoenix.

Then the new Suns with Pettit won 101-98. Actually best perfomances was given here by my team, which gives me hope
i can beat Pettit's Suns easier then Pettit-less Suns who were beating me easily and for which i didnt have response
in frontcourt either, now frontcourt has lots of room, and so do Buehler and Clement in trying to stop Pettit.

Whew that was lucky....Fully meant to change my DC, but had a huge party after work last night, got home at 430am and just got up  :bods:

Homecourt made all the difference for me as I beat the Heat by 2 in the 4th Q of game 7 to win.


Series started very promising with a 30 pt homewin....Boykins obliterated Gasol with 30 and 22...and Swift added 20 and 18. Butler also clearly outdueled Keogan.

2nd game was a poor shooting performance by everyone on the team not named Max or Butler. Won the battle of the boards by 16, but Keogan caught fire from 3 and made the difference.

Lost game 3 as well to go down 2-1 in the series. Keogan dropped 37. I had meant to move Chills to SG to help shut him down, but I guess the way I left it worked out in the end. Max had a big game with 18 pts and 15 assists but Keogan and Shultz were too much.

Won game 4 by 5 pts, obviously the turning point in the series. Boykins was Massive with 33 and 16. Keogan dropped 34 on me, and Shutlz and Khoury had 20+, but no other Heat had more than 4 points.


Big win in the pivotal game 5. Held Keogan to 25. Chills matched Keogan's 25, and Boykins dropped 21 and 15. Turned the ball over 20 times compared to 11 from the Heat, but rebounds were key again as I was +10 on the glass.

Heat held on in game 6 despite a huge charge by us at the end. No idea how I lost this game, shot a better percentage and had 15 more rebounds, 9 more assists, better 3 pt and FT %s. If I had gone on to lose game 7, game 6 would have left me shaking my head.

Lucky really to sneak out game 7. Shot a miserable 37% from the floor, compared to 47%. Had only 16 assists as well...but got to the line 29 times compared to only 4 (!!) from the Heat, and there you have the difference in the series.


Bring on the Hornets. If anyone can beat them, I think it will be me.

No team of mine has ever made it this far in the playoffs in the history of SSBA. The series with the clippers was a back and forth series with no team winning back to back games until my guys took games 6 and 7.
Pettit was outstanding, and so was Ben Gordon for the Clipps. Now its on to the Trailblazers, who as he mentioned previously our series was 3-1. but we only played once since Petit came over, and that game was very close. hopefully my guys can step up to make this series competive. the Blazers are definately a tough team, they led the pacific for most of the season, but i think i have a very good opportunity to win this series. Great series Clippers, and good luck to all the teams that are left in the playoffs.

Now it's obvious why the Heat tried that hard to get rid of Gasol, he's a joke now, costing them the series (on both ends of the floor). But I still give the upper hand in the CF to the Raptors, since the Hornets are basically Yao and TMac and I see the latter getting shut down enough to enable the Raps some ugly 83-79 decisions (sure Yao will average 38 but if Pavel can't keep Boykins from getting 25ppg on his own the stingy ones are in trouble)

Congrats also to our little sweeping whiner, who will find out why the Warriors made the Suns my silent fav to go the distance this year. Chip, you can do it, this will be the year of the Sunrise !!!
 :cheers:

(but then again, what a missed opportunity for the Celtics this season, seeing how weak the league has gotten after those dynasty years)
 :?

Well Tom, "the sweeping whiner" agrees with you, i think Suns have about 70 % chances to win this series, but ill try to find some solutions so that my 30 % chances prevail, its tough to say based on season series as they completely trashed me every time with old team, but after they traded for GP500 it was a close game that they won by 3 and where Williams and Clement did good job on stopping GP500 while Williams was unstoppable for GP, he shot 9/10 from floor. However now its time for some deeper thinking to see who'll play and at which position, so far ive made only some bench little changes and slight gameplay, but now i have to think about maybe replacing 1 or 2 starters or moving them to other position.

Lol...  they do have two of my starters from my multiple years of excellent play...  Oh, I still miss the Hinrich!!!

it's not Hinrich i'm talking about ... and never forget you didn't TRADE him but lost him as punishment for trying to resign him cheap
;-)

who were you talking about then ?

Big bad Don Ruffin....
One of the better PF defenders in the league...

oh yeah, i remembered now he was yours, i think i even tried to get him, well i just sent my DC and i can only pray as no matter how much i was thinking about my DC i found my chances of winning this series very slim, it'll probably go 4-2 in favour of Suns.

If i wasnt so stupid and forgot to remove Cunningham and Ricardo (Bird as well) off my IL list in sim 12 i would have lots of options, but now having only 2 centers and only 1 true PF available im really screwed, im pretty sure chances would be 50/50 if i didnt make that mistake, like this my chances are super low, but i wont complain, this is my biggest achievement so far and im really happy ive made so far. Next season shall be our season with newest trade, if TC doesnt screw up everything we can go all the way, but for sure these more or less oldies are now ready to make big things in next 3-4 seasons before i go into rebuilding process.

ok season is over
couldn´t steal homecourt advantage from the hornets and even it was a game 7 serie it was never close enough. I really hoped i had a chance to steal one of the first games hornets played without pavel but dan proved he is a better defender than pavel against guys who can shoot midrange jumpers like JO.
Not sure what to do with my FA as long i don´t know if JO will retire or not.

Conference finals up.

Congrats to the Raptors and Blazers.  I wouldn't have picked them at the beginning of the year, that's for sure.

i can only say WOW.

what a weird series CHRIS BOSH and CARLOS CLEMENT FOR MVP !!

cant believe i did all this with only 1 center(2 if Nolan counts as one) and 1 PF, i can only wonder what would
happen with 3 main backups i dont have in PO's.

Congrats to Suns for great series and special congratulations to my team, you guys made me proud.

It didnt start promising with 21pt loss in Phoenix. Bosh had best PO perfomance with 23/17, Hoffa 22/10 on 50 %
and Telf 16/6/12, Clement was good as well...however Buehler couldnt do anything to stop Roan and neither Clement
and Williams to stop GP500 who dropped 51 on my team.

Then came a promising 105-101 win, Bosh again was best player on court 24/6 on some 63 % from floor and 100 % FT.
GP500 unstoppable again with 39, and again Buehler couldnt do shit defending Roan...but WE WON.

Suns then demoralized my team with 15pt win in Portland, Hoffa woke up dropping 31/17, Bosh and Clement were great
but again no answer for GP500(37) and Roan(23).

Finally in Game 4 we saw some good defense, my team was leading 48-25 at HT but Suns almost won this one with a
great 52-35 2nd HT perfomance, 83-77 for us in the end. Clement and Buehler finally stopped GP500(19) and Roan(19),
Hoffa and Buehler led Blazers with 19/14 and 19/9, Bosh was a true revelation of this series, 17/12 3blk this time.

Another easy win by Phoenix 109-96, Hoffa had a shoot out 13-33 for 36/14, Buehler 15/13 on 60 %, Bosh another good
game.

WHAT A DEFENCE !! Clement shot down GP500 for only 8pts on 3-24 from floor, AMAZING ! 92-80, easy win, great D.
Hoffa was monstrous 30/23, Buehler 23/7 on great % again.

AND WE DID IT !! Roan we couldnt stop in single game, but Telf did great shuting down Hinrich couple of times and
Clement was the guy that decided the series, he shut down GP500 again, he was 8-26FG and 1-7 from 3PT this time.

Hoffa 31/18 2blk, Buehler 21/14, Bosh 19/19 and BABY BLAZERS BLAZED INTO SSBA FINALS !

Wow....I've never made it to the Finals in my FBB career...which is probably about 25 seasons, most as a playoff team, many as a contender.

It's a great feeling to know that the changes I made led me to defeat the best team in the league. I made my 3 options my 1 2 and 3, and made my focus outside. I also trapped and pressed more often than usual.

Great series Hornets. And Good Luck to you, Blazers. Was 2-0 against them this year. I'll also have homecourt.

WE're 0-2 with 2 easy wins by Raps during the season, so ill just pray here to win 1-2 games and that'll satisfy
me for my 1st finals appearance in SSBA.

You're so modest.  :lmao:

Gonna be an interesting series.

We should get Bods to run it now instead of waiting  :bounce:

yeah we should :P

Congrats to Raptors ... who surprised me DESPITE my prediction declaring them winner, since they did it without any Boykins contribution (stopping him i thought is the only hornets chance), but the Hornets simply didn't have enough offense and Yao was at least slowed down.

And congrats to the Blazers ... who found a way to stop Pettit often enough to prevail.

I just feel sorry for the losers here.

Hornets, who fell short yet again, after their big midseason move didn't pay off. Marvelous regular season, but the individual matchups were just not in their favor (hey, tell ME - Marion-sucker - about matchup problems).

And Suns, who I had penciled in for the title ... but their season was ended as soon as Billy joe Kim went down in game 4 (I NEVER EVER would have believed to write these words about Kim). He was one of the big playoff surprises and Hoffa only started to score big after Kim was gone (and the Blazers winning 2 of 3 to advance). No wonder when you look at the replacements: 34yr old (B-/C+) Jake Tsakalidis started and 39yr old Dampier played meaningful backup minutes. Ouch. The clearly didn't deserve a season ending that way ...


Title game: Raptors in 6.
The Blazers simply can't match the Reptiles depth and scoring power.
8)

man raps are lucky. they could do something i couldn´t do win a game 7 against hornets but it was without t-mac and swift went for 29/18 against yao  :shock:

I wouldnt call it lucky that I did something that you couldn't do...I was a better team than you.

Congrats to both the Blazers and the Raptors. Especially the Blazers. they came out and proved they were the better team in this series. I knew that this would be a tough matchup, but playing 3 game 7's really took it out of my guys i guess. hinrich and pettit will be back, as will ruffin and Roan, so i have a good core to try to make it back to the conf finals. GOOD LUCK TO BOTH TEAMS!!
 

Nice job Raps... I really haven't had much time to devote to this recently, and my computer is broken, so that hurts things too. I was going to move Yao to PF, but I got a bit disorganized with my submission times and got caught up with my studies.

Good luck in the finals.

yea you are in the finals so i can´t prove you wrong but it is luck that t-mac a 25+ scorer went down in game 6 and couldn´t play in game 7. That is a major hit to any team.

you forget im playing this PO's without my 3 main backups, basically with 1 center (i have Nolan yes) and with only
1 PF (i have no sub for Bosh) because of my mistake in Sim12 where i left them on IL.

and well i disagree with Kim's big influence...Hoffa didnt play that bad as you say

in Game 1 he shoot over 50 % for 20/10, Bosh had a big game with 23/17 so Telf was pointing more at Bosh then Hoffa,
all 3 had similar FGA.

Game 2 Hoffa got into foul trouble yes, but still he shot over 60 % again for 19/9 effort in 19 mins, again Bosh
had a big night like game one so why keep sharing the ball with Hoffa when Bosh is hitting everything, it was Telf's
intelligence. We won that one.

Game 3 Hoffa in 38 mins shot 13-23 for 31/17 effort.

Game 4 That was Hoffa's only bad game, 7-25 from floor but still led team with 19/14.

And we were 2-2 after those 4 games with Kim, after Kim went down they won next one but then in my opinon game 6 and 7 were decided THANKS TO ONLY ONE GUY: Mr.Carlos Clement


Now where's your point that Hoffa played bad all 4 games ?? 2 games he played great, 1 he played great but got
quickly in fould trouble, and one both teams played good defense and he still led team to 83-77 victory, i just
dont see your point over Kim's importance that much.


Roan we couldnt stop in any of 7 games except that Game 4 where both teams played good defense. And Hoffa had bad
games after Game 4 also.

I think most crucial thing did Clement, in game 6 he completely shut down Pettit who shot 3-24 and 1-6 from 3PT
for just 8pts and game 7 when he held him to 8-26 from floor and 1-7 from 3PT. Clement made the difference with 2
fantastic games when it was most needed, hopefully he can do the same with Raps SG.

Honestly I doubt the Yao to PF thing would have worked out well...he doesn't play well there.


Anyway good series to you, I'm sure you'd still admit you brought your best lineup to the table and we went the full 7.

Great playoffs so far...
And two excellent teams in the playoffs right now.
This should be a really great series...  Well done to all the teams who made the playoffs this year.

Games 1-3 up.

both teams won easily home games, ill have to put some more effort and change few things otherwise home court advantage could be decisive here.

Game 1 -16

Hoffa had 27/21 but shot miserably.
Buehler was excellent with 24/15 on 10-19
Bosh did great grabbing 14 but like Telf was miserable on offense.

Game 2 -22

Similar game
Hoffa 26/13 on little better offense.
Telf, Bosh, Williams and Buehler with a nice game but Clement screwed things up shotting 1-10 FG and 1-5 3PT

Game 3 +12

Back home we played great

Hoffa 34/16 on high %, Clement added 16/5 but obviously has problems with Butler(so does Butler on offense,both
defend each other great)
Buehler is playing great so far, another good 14/13 on 50 % perfomance.

And one guy will start now, he might be my chance to pull one away, he plays good on offense and defense.

Man, the play-offs are great and everything...  But who else can't wait to see how Pissed KingsGM gets when the Lotto gets simmed and he ends up with the #2-4 pick and can't get Magic???  Now thats excitement!!!

Agree, im waiting for that day to see his crying face since he announced rebuilding process

Lol...  Awesome...  the rants should be magnificent....

As good of a start as I could have hoped for. Dominated the two games at home, got dominated in the 1 game on the road, but with Swift fouling out early, I had no answer for Hoffa.

Blazers play some tough defense, there is no denying yet.

Unfortunatly if the sim is run tommorow at the regular time I will be gone by then, and wont know until the 12th whether or not I have finally acheived my goal  :cheers: :bash:

i sent my DC few hours ago and if you did yours, if Bods appears i guess we'll have a winner, honestly i must confess it'll be you(home court advantage seems cruical so far), but i have some little chances if someone goes nuts also so lets see, let the better win !!

in the finals homecourt seems to be a disadvantage otherwise i wouldn´t have won 3 in row in DJSL

Yeah mine's sent. I was kinda hoping Bods would be able to run it before I'm gone, but that's 3:45 from now so I doubt it will happen.

May the best man win.

usually is, not the case here yet tough

yeah, let the better win :)

finals up.  Congrats Raptors.

Draft Order will be up later tonight.

Congrats Raptors .... it's about time :cheers:

Congrats to Raps first, as many predicted(including myself) series went 4-2 in their favour. I gave instruction to
players to trap often and it showed lots of improvements, but we had no luck and i've made a mistake giving Williams
a starting role, in crucial game 4 loss he couldnt do absolutely anything to stop Butler and Raps won by 1pt.

Game 5 was same story, Williams screwed things up but this time we won by 1pt.

Game 6 they won by 4.

I can only wonder myself if it would be any better with Juan,ricardo and Bird on roster as all those games were
within 4pts, i can just wonder if they would make difference in our favour.

And obviously my biggest mistake was taking out Clement and putting Williams in, Clement wasnt good on offense but
he did much better defense on Butler in first 3 games and Butler made the difference.

Once more congrats to Raps on great finals, we'll be back next year, stronger then ever !

 :cheers: See you next year in finals again  :cheers:

Congrats to the Raptors and a very admirable showing by the Blazers.

Conrats to the Raptors for winning it all. You have deserved it for a while now. Also, good job Blazers. Its good knowing my 1rst round exit was to a finals team.

Congratz :cheers: Raptors.  Good to see former Mavs Boykin gets his ring.

Congrats Raps!

nice win raps i'm ready for the lotto AGAIN

Congratulations, Raptors, for finally getting the ring.
One of the best GMs here (and over there) you deserved it like few others !!!
 :cheers:

(still, i feel you could have gotten it like 6 seasons earlier with i believe it was Peja and Yao, but on the other hand Yao is still waiting on his first - after 8 MVP awards and 463 POTG no less, so maybe you were right going young later)

will yao be the next tim duncan? a SSBA hall of famer without a ring  :shock:

Congrats to the Raps...bridesmaid for so long but finally the champ.

Blazers in the Finals?! Wtf!?

Something you'll never achieve here.

Thanks so much guys.

It's been a long time coming. I haven't had much of a chance to look at it as I am still without internet (currently stealing someone's wireless signal but it's very weak).

I'll have more to say aboutit once I get my internet hooked up.

Congrats Raptors...   Now it's time to see if you can set up a Nets-type Dynasty :)

maybe in 2 years if he keeps this team.

c'mon, give him a break.

Raptors now won ONE title, and hardly on dominance. They went 6 games in two series and 7 games in the other two. Won both games 7 by 2 points.

There's a so much luck involved with the league currently being pretty even we won't see another dynasty for a long time ...
8)

Well, only one of the Raps starters is over 30, so there are still quite a few good years left in that squad....

same on mine, only Hoffa and Curry are older then 29  :bounce:

It's nice that your squads are young but the discussion was if this is the beginning of a dynasty. And youth alone is hardly an argument. I just haven't seen that much consistency from any of your players (like Pettit and Emeka did show during their peak years) that makes me believe in a growing dynasty.

In fact, Blazers state Hoffa is their only 30+ guy. Fine. But Hoffa IS the Blazers, without him making the playoffs would be an accomplishment. And the Raptors rely on phenomenal team depth, which is a great and will keep their regular season record among the best for years, but is probably the main reason as well they lost 10 games during the playoffs.

(looking back i wonder why nobody started the discussion when the Sonics went 15-0 a few years back. Only because the Nets were primed to be that dynasty then or was it because they broke up soon thereafter ... and haven't recovered since.)
:?:

How awesome was that team?    :tup:

in FBB there will never be a dynasty imo.
in DJSL i had 14 wins in a row. not games i mean PO rds  :lol2:. still i felt i could be beat by most of my opps. Nets had the making of a dynasty still the lost half of their finals.

Dirk was playing his heart out an you accomplished that unbeaten record that imho will never be broken. I still remember that jaw-dropping stunning finals performance as huge underdog, which you had to see to believe.

I hope you framed those box scores somewhere, it's really special ...
 :cheers: