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the first 3 games are up. in 12 hours i will do the rest.

won both at home without howard but lost with howard  :o

defense is okay but my guards are pretty much playing subpar so far. adams is a nice addition for the POs and will get more PT in the next sim.

well, up 2-1 but needed a road win to accomplish that.

Nice that Tyler figured out how to defend Samspon once we hit the road. Gutierrez twice with a near triple double. My playoff MVP so far.

Now let's get the right DC for the rest of the games ...

3-0. Hasn't really been close yet.

Up 2-1. Being a mediocre road team is going to give me heart troubles. We took care of business at home. Dampier had 13 assists in the first game. Only scored 76 points the 3rd game, Evans' first back. Hopefully its only because its a road game and the team gets back to its normal high scoring ways now that Evans is healthy.

Nevermind my prediction that the Sonics-Warriors series would go seven games.

Golden State is dominating, and there's no chance of a comeback for Seattle.

Time to start figuring out what I am going to do with $40 million of spending money.

Kyle Macy is playing out of his mind with 40 ppg. :hail:

We held the TWolves under 100 points in all three games when they averaged 102 in regular season.  Moving Pressley to PG and inserting Curry at SF improved our defense.  It's good to see Wootten played well in playoffs and played great D on Sabonis. :tup:

OK.

Can we please stop bringing him up?

Kyle Macy this, Kyle Macy that..... :bash:

 :bods:

BTW, I'm not a fan of being down 1-2 in the series and getting absolutely blown out at home by 26 points in the first game. In fact, this whole team is kinda bugging me....

Michael Gragg is really handing it to Dudley Bradley - which I can't say I like either....not so much that I'm changing my DC....just that he really needs to step up.

this is why I'm struggling lately.  I don't have the patience for a Kyle Macy.  After his 5th year when he averaged 12.8 ppg, there's no way I would have offered him that contract.  Unbelievable. 

Close series between the Celtics and I.  no game decided by more than 6 points.  Quincy Peters is killing me.

We were going to stop talking about Kyle Macy, remember?  :?

ouch... lost one game by neary 60 points!!  That is just ridiculous!!

If a GM put his chips in for every guy who averaged 12.8 ppg in his 5th year he'd stink, and if he sat on every guy who averaged 12.8 ppg in his 5th year he'd stink.

I refused to trade Drexler and what ended up being Johnny Newcomb for Macy. It's not like I had sage-like patience, I just had luck. Then again, I believed the contract the Blazers gave him was reasonable at the time.

Again, he struggled at the two when I moved him there his last year (and after acquiring Milner of all people). I still maintain - based on where he was at the time - that the length of the contract Blazers offered made sense, but the dollars were still high - and I wouldn't do it differently if I had to do it again.

Up 3-0 in the series with the Sonics...
Darren Rice has been great, with 20 ppg and 8 rpg.  Quite a surprise for his B+ offense...

Sonics are doing a pretty good defensive job...  I expected better offense from both squads...

Man oh man I dont have the patience for the 12hr wait, let alone 24hr wait ;)

http://forums.ssbabasketball.com/index.php?topic=7589.0

And you wish you have this guy on your team.. That might have made the series close..

sorry guys for the delay. work and some illness caused me to need some sleep yesterday.
rd 1 is done. not a great series for my team tried a different lineup to get more defense but didn?t helped me at all until the last game. next up are bucks. i will change my lineup again to adjust to their guard rotation.
i will let you guys decide if we sim in 12 hours again or postpone it for 24 hours.

Disappointing end to the Celtics season.

somehow we were up 2-1 and managed to shoot 39%, 34%, and 39% in the remaining games (after shooting 44%, 42%, and 46% in the first 3 games with the same settings). You won't win a lot that way and we didn't.

What's especially bugging me is that
- we came within a point of being up 3-1 (though i doubt it would have changed the outcome but you never know)
- Sidney let me down big time against someone called Greiner.
- And after failing to shoot 50% against Maxi in any of the first 5 games Brice explodes for 25/4/13 on 11-14 shooting (!!) in the decisive game 6. Some stuff is hard to explain ...
:-(

On a positive note, we did what we could. Nobody could stop, contain, or even slow down Sampson on a regular basis. I'm simply not built for that challenge. Rick Mahorn with 16/14/3blk in the final 3 games did what i expected from him. Heck, I might have lost 0-4 with Wedge.


Good luck against the Hornets, Bods, let's see who of you has the honor to end the Pacers title dreams.

Congrats, Bucks. Convincing series win.

don'T worry todd, if feel like i'm the lousiest GM here by a landslide.

year after year my team has a decent season, only to fail in the playoffs. Over the past 8 seasons i was 2nd seed three times, the 4th seed twice and an 8th seed. 2 first round exits and 5 second round failures, that's what's my record (at least you got to the CF twice).

 :bash:

well after round 1 i am defintly not dreaming of a title. instead i have a lot to worry about the play of shultz and dwight both held under season avg.
bucks are already a tough matchup but at least i match up well against their guard attack.
hornets pistons should be a great series. hope sampson is ready for his former team :lol:

I'm shocked I won 2 games let alone the series.  Not a single game among the 6 were within 10 points.

I shifted my lineup a bit against the Nets, but it was more to get the turnover machine Gragg at 2 and start a real 1 in Marquez, relegating Harris to the bench.  And I moved Mehta to 4 just to be bigger up front by starting Lanier, something I didn't do all year.  I guess the moves worked out great (though of course Milner and Tobey still got theirs).

Mehta and Milner both had triple doubles in Game 5.  Mehta 15/14/13 blocks. 

Good series Nets. 

Well after being blown out in game 3, we came back and beat them by 20 and 15 in games 4 and 5 to take the series. Happy with the way we bounced back from that loss, winning by 20 on the road. We have a much tougher opponent coming up in the Spurs, this should be one heck of a series. To win, we will need Magic to be able to shoot much better than the 39% he shot in round 1. We will need the regular season version of Evans as well.

Hornets-Pistons should be a battle. This should be the start of Manute Bol proving himself to be a smart move or not.

Stats from round 1:

Kleine - 7.6/7.0/1.4/0.6/1.2
Borgmann - 9.4/10.2/2.2/1.0/2.6
Collins - 24.2/5.6/1.2/2.6 (shot 51.7%)
Magic - 21.2/8.6/5.2/2.4
Evans - 16.7/5.7/7.7/3.7/1.0 (54%)
Zollner - 8.8/6.4/0.8/0.4/2.4
Fuqua - 3.6/3.6
Dampier - 8.0/2.2/7.2/1.6

Yup, this should be interesting. Sampson definitely got his during the regular season. It'll be a tough matchup for Stockton as well. Glad I have homecourt in this one.

Bol actually held Sampson well below his season average during the regular season, but Sampson did double bol's production.  Macy absolutely destroyed me.  Brice actually outperformed Stockton, and I think that will be the key for the series. 

Bods, how in the world could you win our series with that ease ? I'm really mad at you, especially after it would have been my first ever try to beat the Hornets with homecourt advantage (i fighted for all season).

I honestly have no idea.  I didn't make any chances for the second sim.  I just got stops and cleaned up on the glass.

then i'm even more sad ...

WAAAAAAAHHHH, FBB, GIVE ME A BREAK !!!!!
(and not a break to my season)

Congrats Hornets. That was an epic beating.  :shock:

Ah well, mark it up to playoff experience -- you've done a great job in getting an historically mediocre (to say the least) team to the playoffs two years in a row.

Is round 2 going to be simmed today or tomorrow?

Kind sentiment, but no it wasn't.
We stunk.  :bods: