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OK Mr.Rossow..

We wish you were here. I take that back.  :bash: :bash:

Losing a 30ppg player and still a top three three-four team in the east makes me wonder what could have been if Rossow was here.

not really pleased with the performance so far. lost to the better teams but had a nice run. hector had a new record in assists. http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/19-7.html

Interesting CELTICS notes from presim 2:

Wyatt Funderburke (a poor man's Parker Archibald I called him at draft time) put up 32 points, 4 steals and 2 blocks (+ 4TO) on 13-22 shooting. Against the Hornets. Against Macy. Against the reigning SSBA MVP. Lead us to victory. Preseason, I know, but look out ...
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/2-2.html

Nice statline from Mr. Arizin against the Hawks: 35pts and 3 steals in 19(!!!) minutes. Poor Scoonie Perdue allowed 57 points from Wyatt and Arizin, including 9 of 10 from 3pt land. Harper added a 23/12/15 triple dbl against a NBDL PG for that matter. You gotta love preseason sometimes.
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/3-1.html

Clayton Zollner with a double/double from the bench. Only against some backup C, but nice to know he can actually shoot 14 times in a game, plus rebound and block some shots.
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/4-1.html

Clayton - now starting - did follow up that performance with another career game. 20/15/4 and 3 blocks against Trey Wooten, who is a class higher in the big men ranks. Also, Wyatt played the European Jordan to a pat. Boys, you surprise me ...
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/5-4.html

Wyatt Funderburke's performance against A A- B Marcus Kersey on both ends of the court makes me wonder if he really should play backup. Apart from getting outclassed by MJ on day 1 he pretty much was the offensive spark in our game and the main reason we're 5-1 so far.
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/7-9.html

The revenge of the Scoonie. Somewhat ...  :)
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/10-9.html

Once again, isn't it amazing when you have a big man that can shoot 16-16 from the charity stripe? Munson may be old, but he can still get it done on more than a few occasions ...
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/12-5.html

In his most surprising performance Wyatt carried the Celtics to a rare road win in Canada. Against Mike Woodson he more that held ground and ignited the team. Still, 19 missed freebees from the dinosaurs helped a lot, too ... ;-)
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/14-6.html

A 2nd starter went on IL and the rest of the preseason was more or less a wash. Still, would have loved to find out how Calvin matches up against Sir Charles. I know for sure Cedric doesn't very well, to say the least ...
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/15-6.html

Isiah 0 - Wyatt 1. But who held Earvin to 0-9 shooting? Geiger or Clayton. And this might be the question for starters this season as well.
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/16-1.html

That Cedric Ceballos had 19 points, 17 rebounds, 8 steals and 7 turnovers against Xavier McDaniel might tell us more about Xavier McDaniel than about Ced. Still, the pot seems to be there, the carelessness as well ...
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/17-2.html

Well, now I know how Calvin matches up against Sir Charles: not bad. Nice to know ...
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/18-5.html

Career high scoring from Wyatt (29), career best passing from Embry (16), and a near triple double from Munson. Hey, you got to take overtime road wins when you get them, no matter who's the opponent.
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/19-4.html

And finally, ANOTHER career game from Wyatt Funderburke against MAGIC JOHNSON's Nuggets. 39 points on 16-30, 4 rebounds and 8 assists in a 17 point win. He also held Magic down to 37 ...  :lol:
http://rosters.ssbabasketball.com/boxes/20-2.html


Overall a 12-6 preseason, good for the higher seeds in the East. Wyatt close to 20ppg (and a happy GM finding out he didn't waste that pick), Natt with 18/9 from SF, Derek Harper leading the league in steals at 3.6 per game, and Munson with 12/11 and top 10 in blocks with 2.9 per. I guess the balance is there, now the fine tuning starts ...

... and the wait, as i looks like we'll have a LOT of time to look at those numbers till the real games begin.
 :cheers:

9-4 and we looked pretty good!

Rookie Trent Wright seems to prefer playing Centre and MJ is playing like a man possesssed (not to many TO's either)

A few small tweeks here and there and we're ready to roll

LOL, a pure copy of presim1, again 1-6 at home.

Moby Zollner looks ready to bust out in a pleasant way; Sean Elliot is solid all around (though admittedly I didn't check matchups, so he mighta been roasted often); Dial is a superb backup at the 4/5, so sometime this year I'll start working my young bigs into bigger and better roles; Timmy's TO's continue to bug the living hell out of me; great record. Promising year ahead - and I'm gonna need all the good karma I can muster the way the East always plays out.

Very nice results when playing my starters:

Welp/Corzine averaging 8 blocks a game is tremendous.

Manning improves his scoring for the fourth straight year.

Hawkins looks to have regained his form, and his outside shot.

Pearl Washington (who had a weekly award in the first preseason) is a very good starting PG.

Very high hopes for this team.  Very high hopes.

(Oh yeah, Larry Bird is coming halfway through the season to be a deadly sixth man!!!!)