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 :bounce:

farthest the team has gone for a while now. hopefully, we can make the finals but the wizards are a tough opponent too.

played just as good as anyone. lucky to have ended on top.
nice series, bulls.

Whoa.... whata series.... 7games and it comes down to a 1point game.

That was a REAL GOOD one, props to the Nets for taking me to the limit.

First game went to OT, and my hero was Tyler with a triple double: 28pts, 12reb and 14blk (!!!). He also held Gminski to 7-26 shooting.
Next game the Nets again stormed back in the 4th to take a 2pt win after tyler was limited to 18min with foul trouble.

Then a blowout in Jersey. Lets forget that one.
Being down 1-2 in the series and facing a 7pt deficit in the 4th quarter, Perry and Chills went to work, forcing OT with a 38pt quarter and later providing the 130-127 win, hitting 6 of 10 from long range.

Tied 2-2 game 5 was a must win, and finally the Celtics didn't disappoint. Tyler with 18/12 and 7 blocks led the way to an easier win. Just 7 TOs show how it's done.

Back in Jersey for game 6 the team finally provided an all-around effort after halftime, scoring 71 pts, shooting a series best 54% and taking home a 7pt victory and the series win 4-2.


Overall in the series Chills, Tyler and Dirk were amazing. Childress led our scoring with 23ppg, 7rpg and 1.7blk, shooting 48% while Tyler finished with 16/10 and 6.7bpg !!! Old man Dirk again shot great, 16ppg on 55% from the field and 53% from 3pt. And he held King to 11ppg on 35% shooting, sometimes it's hard to forget he's 38 yrs of age already ...



Next up: Cavs.
 8)

Celtics went to the 2nd round? What kinda playoffs is this?

Went the distance with the Mavs with the home team winning every game.  Haven't looked at individual performances yet.  But with my starting PF & C both out...and losing another big man (Pollard) for games 5 & 6, this showing give me hope that my team is going in the right direction.

Well, i wont lie, im shocked at this easy win. We were 1-3 in regular season vs Suns, 3 of them were blowouts, but i adjusted the game to tactics from the only sim were we beat the Suns, and ive changed Buehler to guard GP on SG and he went down again for 2 games to make things easier for us a bit as we met for 2nd time, and moved Phelps on SF, gaved Livingston 1st option to lead the team with his as well height advantage and it worked just perfectly with a bit of bad luck from Suns. Boozer worked great as  3rd option.

Game 1 102-94 Livinstone was shining with 28/6/8, Kirk couldnt do a
thing, Buehler held GP on 10-27 while shooting great himself 9-17 for 21 pts and 10 rebs. Phelps added 17/10 and Booz 15/12.

Game 2 GP got injured but game was a really thriller, in the end we came out as 79-77 winners. Boozer 20/14, Livy 19/11 and Buehler 12/9 3blks 2stls led the team to a crucial win.

Game 3 @101-95 ... Shaun 22/8, Phelps 19/11 and Boozer 18/17 cruised us past GP less Suns in Phoenix.

Game 4  84-106 .... GP was back for Suns and with a near triple double we got trashed.

Game 5 @98-97 ....another thriller in Phoenix, Suns had a chance for a full come back, but the BIG 4 did fantastic job and Phelps pulled a 3 pointer with 0:01 to take us to semi's. Buehler once again did great job on Pettit, held him to 9-27 FG and 3-10 3pt. Phelps led the team with 31/6/5 but Steven was the real deal. 24 points, 18 rebs, 2 steals on 11-24 and more important, great D on Pettit. Livingston had 7 steals and Booz ended with 15/13.

Now comes the Jazz, they got 2 easy wins during regular season and we got 2 as well but hard, they were very close.

Almost another early exist for the Mavs.  We played our best game in game 7. 

hey look at the boxscores then you will understand...
nets could have won easy...

exactly. they only would have had to beat me 4 times ...
 :lol2:



btw, Pacers, we don't expect anything more from Ivan, but didn't your posts be meaningful once?

jesus, i just noticed Livingstone has been SG for the entire season and i didnt even notice it LOL. I need new glasses.

I hope this is a rhetorical remark ...
 8)

since the position Livingston is listed on your roster has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with any play action!
I assumed it's common knowledge already the roster is for INFORMATION purposes only, to see how some player WOULD play at certain positions.

yeah, i just found it funny i didnt notice his listed position the entire season.

I'm pullin for the Mavs this year to win it all.

:lol2: My team will have a hard time getting pass the Wolves if we played like that against the Spurs.

good series Blazers, I did have some unlucky breaks, but hopefully my team will be back next season. good luck to everyone left in the playoffs

Wolves defeat Rockets in 7 games.  I won the first 3, they won the next 3 and I won game 7... helluva series... On to Round 2 vs the Mavs.

i made some depth chart changes to try and stop melo and dwight.  i put corzine on dwight and dudley bradley on melo. neither worked and brice did a great job on milner.  my hat is off to the magic, they have a very tough squad.

ooppssss..... i wasnt able to set my depthchart  :D i was too busy with my studies... anyway congratz to the wiz.... :D

Congrats, Tom and the C's. A hard fought series with some nice close games.

Chills had to be player of the series....consistently and efficiently outplayed his counterpart just enough to make wins happen- veteran savvy over youthful enthusiasm. Mike Gminski was in tough with Tyler/Jamal, and battled admirably, but was rendered "less than effective" often enough. Future is still looking bright enough....I just wish there woulda been another round in the present.

Good luck to the Elite 8.

I think Fox at SG hurted your team the most.

Round 2 finished.

whew. we had a scare. mccracken showed his` wares and won't give up his spot to holton, i'll go with a risk :( mccracken deserves this.

It should be a great conference final in the east, I'm think it will be a good series.

Magic in 7 is my prediction, Dwight is too good.

hopefully, but despite berkowitz being down, I still find no holes on their team.

issshhh....great series Jazz ! Buehler went completely nuts few times.

lost 1st in Salty Lake, then won a crucial one, Buehler had 22 rebs in game 2.

Game 3 was amazing, 132-125 win, no defense from either team. Phelps ended with 44 points, Livingstone with 23 and 19 assists + 5 steals. Boozer with 19/19 and Buehler with 15/17.

Game 4 was another thriller, but we came out as winners 119-118.
Steven was fantastic again, 31 pts 17 rebs 2a 1stl and blk, Livingston followed with 29~7~16 5stls.

Game 5 back in SLC was a pure disaster, team shot 30 FG 23 3pts and 65 FT and Jazz came out easy winners 76-96.

Game 6 105-84 Too easy win considering first 3 hard battle wins and we-ve made it to our 3rd CFs.

Another game 7 victory for the Mavs.  My team must be really tired.

It shall be very interesting series i believe Mavs, i just hope it goes 7 in my way heheh. However regular season is scaring me. We won 3 games pretty easily 104-83, 108-92, 117-103, one you played without Emeka, and we lost one in Portland 111-113 without Boozer, like ive said, i dont like it, something stinks in there, it should-ve been that easy, i know its POs, another story, but still. Anyway i just hope my guys can play great road bball like they did in those 2 easy wins in Dallas, if they do it again, we have a chance maybe, if not, who knows, maybe we-ll be swept by Dallas, everythings possible.

We didn't play well until the last three sims, I probably will change some things up when I scout you team more later on.

me on contrary, we played well but as the season was closing we played bad and almost felt out of POs despite holding #2 all season until last sim. Anyway itll be interesting series i believe.

Good luck magic. Should be a great series.

man, i can't believe I lost that series. what a missed opportunity to advance here.

lost 3 tight games in Cleveland, and in ALL THREE the Celtics were leading after 3 quarters. we really should have ended this in 4 or 5 games, especially with Berkowits being out this one is hard to swallow.



Anyway, good luck to Cavs and Magic (especially them, i don't see them beating the depth of the Cavs).

Hey guys,
I'm not going to be able to get to the sim today.  I'm actually not going to be able to make it home due to weather complications.  so it's been delayed until tomorrow afternoon.

No problem Bods, its heavy snow there or rain ?

Freaking ice. It's ridiculous. Almost 80 degrees the other day, and now this crap...

Cavs, what are you talking about i didnt get it ^^?

Ice. Coming down. From the sky.

It hit 99 here in Phoenix today.  I don't miss the Philly weather, that's for damn sure.

It's spring here. Just beautifull.

same shit here, 3 days ago was 35 C, yesterday thunderstorm for 6-7h, today in the morning was 32 C, now its damn rain and its like 14 C. Awful weather !!

man, I'd rather have snow than the heat here :(

well its actually unusual weather here, its maybe hot like that 10 days a year, just this year was like 1 month because of all weather shit thats going on around the world, usually its eternal spring here, rarely above 25 C during the day, as low as 8 C at night in winter and 18 C in summer. Good thing is there-s always wind and beach is just 70km away in the suburb :p

lucky bastard.... i just spent 2hours digging my car out and another hour shoveling today.... its not even snow, its ice....

come to Philippines, its really hot here, I spend 3 hours building my car again after it melted.

Conference finals up.

Next up, games 1-3 of the finals.  Good luck to all.

well shit:( robbed

fuckin Phelps, i precisely told him that he is not option nr.1 but damn boy kept shooting the ball like a maniac and screwed everything up with his 5-25 perfomances, went 3 down, came back to 2-3 and had a chance in Portland for game 7 but Mavs somehow pulled it.

Anyway, congrats Mavs and bring the title back to West, good luck !!

Good series Blazers, I don't know why you don't want Phelps to be your #1 option, he killed us in the regular season.  Now onto the Finals and $50 gm points on the line, hopefully we can take advantage of Antone Berkowitz out for 6 days.

only 3 hours of rebuilding out of scap metals? boy you are a gifted child promil user since birth... :D

Yeah he did, but Livingston was playing fantastic POs and he did even better job during regular season then Phelps, not as many points, but better overall, and Phelps wasted too many balls in this series, i believe we had a better shot if Livingston took more responsability, but anyway thats all past, good luck in finals and bring that title back to where it belongs, and thats WEST !!

Livingston? You put your season in the hands of Livi? Tell me that's not true ...

anyway ...

Just like i thought, the Cavs just used their depth to easily beat the Magic. Howard is nice and pretty much hard to stop, but Humphries is a very underrated defender (no idea where his rating is from) and can play on both ends of the floor. But the difference was Ricky Fisher ouplaying brice badly in games 4-6 and Melo having a subpar series - which is bad when you only have 2 people who can score at all (guess there's a reason why he has so many awards and zero titles).


The finals look to be a good one though. The Mavs have nobody to stop Manning, the Cavs are 8 deep even without Berko, and Robinson isn't exactly Keogans favourite opponent, but if Harris should take care of Fisher and the PF matchup will be even.

So IF (big IF) Tobey can get the better of Adams and Emeka/Keogan provide enough 30pt scoring games (in the SAME game) then the Mavs have a legitimate chance. Otherwise it's all Cavs.

Prediction: Cavs in 5.


It took quite some time to put it together, but the Cavs TEAM is awesome. Not on an individual basis, but as a whole. Their 2nd unit of Griffin/Humphries/McCracken/Meyers/Gomes could probably make the playoffs in the West, that's how deep they are. Marvelous GM job.
  :hail:

Global Warming is throwing everything to the crapper

He took me past Suns and Jazz so why not Mavs as well ? If only Phelps took less shots and gave few of those to Livy or others things mightve gone in other direction, if i knew Phelps would shot that much i would put him on SG and not SF.

Can't argue with a man that's right... :D
Thanks for the praise, let's see if I can make it two in a row...

1st 3 games of the finals have been sim'd.

Nice job so far, Mavs.
They now hold the keys to the title (but just one Cavs win in next 2 games and we're heading back to CLE)

And IF the series moves back, it will be interesting to see what impact Berkowitz can have in games 6 and 7.


Still believe Cavs in 7, but I would love to see a new champ ...
 :cheers:

FYI, the calendar will be updated in a few minutes, draft will be pushed back due to the sim being pushed back.

Finals Finished:
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/playoffs.htm

Congrats Mavs!

Well done Mavs. You beat my team pretty badly. I'll have to get you back for that... 8)

Surprise surprise.

I will now swallow my own words from a few seasons ago: Jeremy Palacio DOES have some value. He slowed down Manning considerably and this might have thrown the Cavs offense out of sync. Of course, Emeka and Tobey killing the Cavs on the boards in Berkowitz' absence didn't hurt either ...

Congratulations Mavs on a true dominant performance ...
 :cheers:



and who would have guessed the Cavs stint on top would be such a brief one. Emmanuel's retirement is huge I believe, and with most of their starters in the 30ies already it will be interesting to see how they can regroup.

Nice job Mavs! You really put together a great team.

Way to go! I told you man! Congrats!

Didn't have time to check boxscores until now and they are gone. :cry: 

Playoffs bracket...? Just because of that, the championship should be stripped of you... :lol:

also, the zip file for 2018 is up already
(i know it doesn't contain the box scores, but I have saved them all ...)

yeah, boxscores are still up, just click on playoff bracket.

They will be in the 2018 zip, I just didn't get a chance to add them yet.

congrats on bringing the title where it belongs :D

sorry to remind you the title went to the West.
Clearly the opposite of where it belongs ...
:-(

If Cavs are the best youve got, poor East :D All teams in West did more headache to Mavs then Cavs :p

this coming from a team that's nearly 2nd seed out West ... and wouldn't make the playoff in the East.
ouch, that hurts ...
 :lmao:

boxes added to end of year archive:
http://files.ssbabasketball.com/files/2018/2018_End.zip

Yeah, i was as near as #7 to #2 :p

West rules, live with it :p

Great job Mavs...  Congratulations!!!