Playoffs Discussion

[NetsGM]

No idea if the Sim is going to be run today.  I'm still missing 6 DC's from playoff teams, and I don't want to run a playoff sim like that.  They have until 1:30 to get their stuff in.

[PacersGM]

6 out of 16?
damn...
come on send it 
i want to see if i can loose to Celticsgm 

[BlazersGM]

1 is on vacation, dammit, i woke up with a feeling im gonna lose again in rd1 :'(

[HeatGM]

sent mine just now...sorry for the delay guys  been very busy all week 

[NetsGM]

round 1 up

[WizardsGM]

In normal FBB fashion a few upsets!!

[CavsGM]

Well, that was strange. We took the first two games, on the road, but went on to lose the next 4, three of which were at home. Other then one 16 point loss, the games were pretty close, so my Cavs put up a good fight. The Raptors just had a very balanced offensive attack that my defense could not stop. But the team is still relatively young, so we will only be improving. Just have to look toward next season...

[PacersGM]

  no real surprises imo

clipps are one of the better teams in the POs here and Mavs are relying too much on offense to win it in the PO.
raptors did better than i expected against cavs.

In my series i exeed all expectations:
Lenard completly outplayed marion avg. 25pts with 2.8stls and didn´t miss a FT
JO was even better avg 28.2 and a lPO best 15.8rebs
english is currently second best in ass with 10.4 ass
tanner in only 2 games is leading in field goal % and avg. 22/7
harris did a great job against dirk. he had a 13/16 game in his start and finished the sim shooting over 70% from outside.

now i have to face the difficult task to beat hornets 

[SunsGM]

Gatling and Pettit had a shootout in the deciding game 7 pettit 48, Gataling 46. good series Twolves, now on to the Clippers who are one of the best teams in this league. They had a down year compares to previous seasons, but theyre still dangerous. hopefully it will be a good series, but they have the decided edge in the front court.

[SpursGM-old]

Tough loss to the Clips...with 4 of 5 games being close; less than 10 pts difference.  No one thing did me in.  Beat on the boards badly one game, turnovers another, free throws in another.  Basically the playoff experience of the Clippers came through for them.  May have shot myself in the foot by pulling my rookie from the starting lineup but then the coaches almost always second guess themselves after losing a series.

Looking forward to next season with 10 returning players and some playoff experience now. 

[CelticsGM]

Can't remember if i've ever been that disappointed with a team.

Not that they lost, since the Pacers are on a roll recently, but HOW this bunch of AllStar wannabees go taken care of. This was supposed to be their year and after a decent regular season they did the same choke job like numerous Celtics teams before. The worst part is this was all I had to give.

Antonio, I'm sorry about claiming Marion deserves AllStar consideration. You gave the right answer. After playing a nice little scorer for me for 7 season, and a complete defensive liability, you became an AllStar next to O'Neal shutting down my biggest offensive weapon.


So after a very good first half of the season the team fell apart, barely hanging onto a .500 record since, and the Marion injury late in the season did the rest. The Celtics were never able to regroup, even after Marion returned, and deservedly are due for early vacation now.



depressing
 

[RaptorsGM]

Glad to get by the Cavs, was pretty scared after their giant run to end the season. Lost the first 2 at home, but went on to take the next 4.

The matchup with the Heat will be an interesting one. They obviously have one of the best backcourts in the league.

[BlazersGM]

Damn this was a tough series, i really tought ill lose this one but in my 4th attempt i finally made to Rd2 and will
play shock makers Rockets (Thank You for taking out Mavs, now i have some chances).

Hoffa shot 55 % troughout series for 30ppg and 12.7rpg perfomance, Bosh had 2bpg(finally someone blocked couple of
shots on my team).Williams was sick from 3PT line with 87 %.

Started with a powerful perfomance at home 112-77, Hoffa was amazing, 26/16 4blk 3stl, Buehler added 15/10...and
Clement who did great on offense once more proved to be AK-47's nightmare helding him to 31 % FG.

But Grizz responded with OT win (i tought im done here after losing this one).Hoffa 27/14, Telf 22/6/12 and
Buehler 22/11 were my guys in everything but an defensive game, both teams shoot more then 50 % from floor, i was
poor from 3PT line tough.

BLAZERS STRIKED BACK IMMEDIATELLY with a +22 win in Memphis, Hoffa was FO quickly before HT but Telf, Clement and
Buehler were imspired to lead this team for crucial win.

Grizzlies beat Blazers by 7 to go back to Portland.

Back home thanks to magnificent 48/14 effort from Hoffa Blazers came on verge of winning the series.

....and in Memphis THEY'VE DONE IT ! Another strong perfomances from Hoffa 33/10, Buehler 20/17 and Telf 19/8 but
it was Rookie Freeman Williams who accidently found himself in chance to score a winner with a 0.8 sec left and HE
HAD DONE IT !!


NEXT ON CALENDAR: Rockets, team that made my life easier, but a team that took down West favs 4-2 definitely needs
to be given full respect, on paper we're stronger at almost every position, but Connelly driven Rockets can be very
dangerous and they're not favourites here, so full seriousness must be injected into my players heads or our season
could be over just like Mavs is.

Congrats to Grizz on great series !

[BlazersGM]

Shall be interesting series, we were 3-1 during regular season

@ 113-110 Hoffa 45/12, Williams,Bosh,Telf great, on other side Barton and JR.

99-100 Hoffa 24/11, Elliott 14/5/10, Williams great, Clement poor, on other side  no response for Lewis,BC and JR.

123-115 Hoffa 38/17, Elliott great.

@ 95-92 Hoffa 30/15, Clement fantastic, Telf great, Buehler great, on other side Barton and JR, Lewis very poor.


....obviously all games were pretty close, 2 wins by 3, 1 by 8 and Grizz won by 1.

Grizz have abosuletly no response for Hoffa who shot over 50 % all 4 encounters, and for Telf, on the other side
no response for Barton (him and Telf just played great offense and no defense in all games). Elliott was a suprise
in 2 games he stepped in for Telf, did great in both, he'll be a backup for Telf this matchup for sure.

Obviously PG's are both great but with no defense against each other, they cant stop Hoffa so we'll have to find a
way to stop Richardson, if we do that it should be an easy task, if not it'll be open and could go to 7.

AND I FORGOT TO PUT BACK CUNNINGHAM BEFORE SIM 12 GOD DAMMIT !!  , hopefully Nolan can do some nice defending in 10mpg to replace Cunninghams great offense in those 10mpg.

[MavsGM]

I don't know what to say.  Rockets got three guys playing great D, O'Connell(3spg), JRich(3.2spg) and Lewis(2.7spg) and I have Harris stinking it up with 4.7 turnovers per game.  I think I need a new PG.