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[BucksGM]

2-2 this sim.  Really hard sim coming up too.

There are about 10 teams in the East within 4 losses of each other.

[RaptorsGM]

2-2 this sim.  Really hard sim coming up too.

There are about 10 teams in the East within 4 losses of each other.

You-know-who might make it better

[BucksGM]

I think my attempt to trade for Baron has been one of the worst kept secrets of the last 2-3 seasons

[RaptorsGM]

I think my attempt to trade for Baron has been one of the worst kept secrets of the last 2-3 seasons

LOL

We'll see

[PacersGM]

5-0

first sim i tried to focus on def and what a great result.
... cavs,hornets,kings and bulls and of course hawks

blow out the hornets at home by 20 and had a record game against the kings at their homecourt holding them to 65 points. The fans are still upset there  
Of course the offense suffered a little bit but i am still scoring around 100 pts with a normal pace  
the bulls will be pretty happy that we want have any game left..
i swept them already.
against some really great off teams i was able to hold them under 40% from the field.
Like the nets i played most of my games at the road so some home games will be welcomed.
Cato is getting better and better...

[MagicGM]

went 3-3 with Kidd out. but Ray had some 10 and 12 assists performance, IIRC.

[OldNuggetsGM]

My first winning sim of the season, 5-4.  Moving Posey to SG seems to have sparked the team a bit.  

It's a long cry from the days of Boykins, Carter, and Camby, but I'm absolutely stunned that this team is only one game back of 4th place in the playoff standings.  

On a good note, Gadzuric is giving me more than Camby ever did, which is saying something.  Camby had the D and rebounding, but didn't provide the offense that Gadz does.  Cronin also did a nice job starting at Posey's old position.

[CelticsGM]

Another road-heavy sim for the Celtics is waiting, and some tough opponents too.

Starting of with entertaining the Nuggets (who we beat by 28 on the road recently), then we go west to the Jazz and Wolves, return home for a date with the #1 team Nets, and close the sim away at the Hornets and Pistons.

Hope NOT to go 0-6 (wadda ya expect from team #29) and build on my one-game winning streak (season high !). 1-5 is realistic, 2-4 great !!!

Lineup changes were made to improve the most glaring deficiency: scoring. Lenard gets a chance to show his skills starting at SF, Vlad moves to PF and we trap and press even more. Hope the defense is still there and some of my guys finally rediscover their shooting touch ...

 

In the end I went 2-4 and still, complete satisfaction must feel different.

After getting kicked by the Nuggets (could almost smell that I'm in for a loss after beating them by 28 last sim - but not at the hands of Collier going for 27/10 vs. Vlad) and the Jazz, KG did go for 44 on 97% shooting (thanx, Radman) and the Nets again won a close one (tied after 3rd, Gino with career high 15 boards against Petitt). So much for the bad.

Now to some good news. Road wins over the Hornets (at full strength) and Pistons (sans Tinselman) opened an unexpected win streak. With a fairly easy schedule until the midseason point I hope to build on that.

Getting his first start, SF Lenard went off for 22ppg on 50% shooting (against competition like Kirilenko, Battier, Odom and Dunleavy) finally proving his worth. Vlad couldn't defend a mouse on PF but responded with a healthy 15/10 on offense.
Fine team passing (25apg, 4 more that season avg., including all time franchise high 35 vs. Hornets) led to a higher shooting % and about even rebounding and made up for the defensive inadequacies (giving up 101ppg) of this higher-scoring team (100ppg after season avg 88ppg).


Things are chanching for the better here, and with the Celtics just 6 games in the loss column behind the #5 seed a playoff spot is still not out of the equation here ...

 

[NetsGM]

Gonna try Emeka back at PF.

He's been at C since midway through 2006 because I thought getting him closer to the basket will lead to more easy opportunities.  but I want to see if putting him on generally smaller PF's doesn't help, since size is an issue in the post.

[RaptorsGM]

And I'm gonna try a very fast pace, mabe depending on if I get a trade through or not.

James is going to be a welcome addition.

[PacersGM]

Gonna try Emeka back at PF.

He's been at C since midway through 2006 because I thought getting him closer to the basket will lead to more easy opportunities.  but I want to see if putting him on generally smaller PF's doesn't help, since size is an issue in the post.

generally smaller pfs  
i am not sure but most of the PFs in this league are bigger than 6´10..
i am also pretty sure that he will be in foul troubles very soon.

[Str8westcoasta]

Went 3-1 this sim to nudge me over .500

2 wins over the Sonics, 1 over the trailblazers and a tough loss to the Heat. We should have went 4-0 but I'll take 3-1

Hunter Summitt is looking good as 4th offensive option getting 12ppg, Finley still has it and Mike Bibby gets better every sim!

[NetsGM]

Boston Celtics: not sure about starters
Heat: C - Harpring (7'0")  PF - Curry (6'11")
Knicks: C - Nazr (6'10", 250) PF - Sweetney (6'8", 260)
Magic: C - Woods (7'2", 261 lbs) PF - Howard (6'11" 240)
76ers: C - Tanner (7'4", 301) PF - TD (7', 260)
Wiz: C - Maggette (7'2", 249) PF - Amare (6'10", 245)
Hawks: C - Finley (7'3", 307) PF - Strong (6'10", 237)
Hornets: C - Pavel (7'5", 260) PF - Odom (6'10", 225)
Bulls: C - Griffin (6'10", 242) PF - Andersen (6'10", 220)
Cavs: C - Tskalidis (7'2", 290) PF - Holten (6'9", 228)
Pistons: C - Doleac (6'11", 262) PF - Manning (6'9", 234)
Pacers: C - Cato (6'11", 275) PF - O'neal (6'11", 242)
Bucks: C - Ferry (6'11", 238) PF - Okur (6'11", 249)
Raptors: C - Yao (7'6", 310) PF - Finley (6'9", 251)

That's just the eastern conference, but I think I made my point.

Average (for starters in the eastern conference):
C: 7'1", 270 lbs
PF: 6'10", 240 lbs

And last year Okafor's fouls per minute was actually less than dalembert's.  And in the playoffs I have had Okafor guard Dwight Howard and Amare Stoudemire to very good success.

[CelticsGM]

Boston Celtics: not sure about starters
...

Celtics:
C - Kaman (7'0")  
PF - Gasol (7'0")  
SF - Lenard (6'11")
SG - Ginobili (6'6")
PG - Elliott (6'1")

this is a BIIIIIIIIIIG frontcourt ...  

[NetsGM]

Boston Celtics: not sure about starters
...

Celtics:
C - Kaman (7'0")  
PF - Gasol (7'0")  

Kaman 268 lbs Gasol 240.

about average for the disparity in weight