SSBA

merry christmas to everyone.

My team played awful so i think its time for some drastic changes. I am going to replace Raul Doleac and Chris Cho in my starting lineup with Jesus Risen and Rob Williams who should provide better or equal defense and much better shooting percentages. I think pairing Cho with Lord really hurt my teams defense so upgrading from B- to B+ at defense will help hide Lord's C+ defense.

On a positive note, Lincoln Lord is still playing amazingly on the offensive end.

Happy holidays everyone!

5-0.  Team seems to like outside focus.

mediocre sim, and Hakeem got injured. Damn.

Played 8 of 10 games against playoff teams and went 6-4. Can't complain about that. (then again 8 of 10 were also at home)

Switched up my backcourt positions, with MikeRob at PG and Zeke at SG, seemed like they like those spots better:

MikeRob: 16.7 PPG 6 RPG 9.1 APG 3 SPG 2.8 TPG
Zeke: 27.5 PPG 4.4 RPG 4.5 APG 2.3 SPG 3 TPG

I've accepted the fact that Zeke in this sim is not really as much like real Zeke as he is a higher percentage shooting Iverson, and that's more than fine for $10 mill a year.

Person should have been ROTM both months....he has by far the best rook numbers. having 3+ 20ppg scorers is working out pretty nice in Toronto....would still like to give Ransey a new home where he can play SG and really excel.

Very good results moving the focus to outside.  Overall the team went 5-0.  I did play 4 of 5 games at home, but the last 4 games were against very good competition.  Wins raptors(14-11), @celtics(18-13), Hornets(19-8), Bucks (19-11).  Those teams are a combined 70-43.

Overall I scored 106.2 ppg on 47% shooting, 1.27 points per shot.
I gave up 88.6 ppg on 38.8% shooting, 1.05 pps.
+17.6 ppg against that competition is still very good.

Ralph still got his with an outside focus.  27 ppg, 15.6 rpg, 4.6 apg, 1.2 bpg, 1.2 spg, 48% fg%
Munson is turning into a great second fiddle, and a great compliment to Sampson.  I really don't think Barkley and Sampson would be playing this well together.  Munson had 20 ppg, 11.4 rpg, 4 blocks per game, and shot 38%.

The biggest beneficiary of the outside focus was clearly Brice.  17.4 ppg, 10.2 apg, 2.6 spg and only 2.4 turnovers per game, with 50% 3pt shooting and making over 3 per game is tremendous for a non-option.  Blackman's also turning into a nice 3rd option, as he averaged 14 ppg on excellenct percentages (57.1% 3pt this sim), while playing A defense.

Even pressley did well.  8.2 ppg, 6 rpg, and 2.2 spg isn't bad, considering who he's playing with.  And Wu's 7.2/7.2 in 22 minutes off the bench is very appreciated.

I'm not sure if changing the focus helped defensively, but they were fantastic.  I switched Blackman over to SF, and the results were good.  Pressley I found out is a much better perimeter defender than post defender, and he was getting abused defensively in the post.  Blackman was not.  he held his opponents to 37.5% fg% and only 12 points per 35 minutes.  Brice was also fantastic, holding his man to 35.1% fg%, and Sampson's man didn't do squat against him (24.5% fg%).

Very excited to see how the team plays with these changes going forward.  I think I can compete with anyone in the east.

man, i can't believe how many ways my team finds to lose games.

lost to the Knicsk at home by 3, to the Pistons at home by 16 (in a game everybody sucked on O at the same time), to the Nuggets at home by 1, and at Indiana after scoring 116 points.

Still won 5 including an important matchup at Miami.

But this team still leaves me shaking my head more often than not ...
 :?

well the Jazz have really been hit with the injury bug this year.... only 5 players have played all 30 games for me, Theus is out another 4 and a half sims with a broken leg, and Thomas is out with a broken Jaw for a little over a sim. These seasons seem to be when I finish best though, so as long as I keep in the playoff picture, I should be alright.

Well, if SSBA is a "Christmas Carol", FBB is my Ebinezer Scrooge -  injuring Milner again leading to a disappointing past sim and likely one in the future.

Merry Christmas to you too, FBB  :moon:

Anyways, more details later....I think my oldest just fell asleep and I need to hide out in the living room to try and sneak a peak at Santa.

Happy Holidays, gentlemen - and Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. And if any of you others have kids, hope you have a fun morning  :cheers:

Or evening. We celebrate Christmas Eve here in most of Europe.

And our children's eyes seeing the Christmas tree for the first time each year is something so full of joy and amazement, I think it would beat even winning an SSBA title ...

but then again, how would i know ...
  :moon:


HAPPY CHRISTMAS / HANNUKA / (and whatever is celebrated in different religions/parts of the world) !!!
 :cheers:

Merry Xmas all, its snowing here for the 1st time on Christmas in some 15 years, its a wonderful feeling, but due to climate change problems lately we had some Xmas with 22 C (more like summer), so this Xmas at least here in Croatia is the 1st real Xmas since 1990 or something like that. Just beautiful.