Playoffs Discussion

[HornetsGM]

The series was very competitive, but I managed to pull it out (despite my doubts in my team).
I was scared of the Yao / Mehta matchup, but I figured that as long as I broke even there, I would be ok. Mehta held Yao out of the top 10 in scoring, and Yao's minutes really plumeted, but in the end, I just had more firepower than the Bucks.
McGrady played well against much smaller players (Baron Davis and Jameer Nelson) at the SF position. That was a tough matchup for them.

[BlazersGM]

Tsakalidis also ? GOD DAMN  im screwed completely.

[HeatGM]

without tyler the sixers has a weak frontcourt...I'm happy with the win  over the sixers  i was out rebounded throughout the entire series...

raptors is up next...much more tougher than the sixers...they have a balance team...inside and out... i hope i can still win this series.. 

[Str8westcoasta]

Woohoo!!!

After seeing the Mavs regular season record and being dazzled by their back-court, I was extremely sceptical about my teams cahnces...

But then I saw their frontcourt and thought we may win a game or 2... didn't realistically think we would run out 4-2 winners but what the heck!!

Abdur-Rahim was huge and as the Mavs GM stated my guards played some tough D.

Blazers is a completely different kettle of fish, with their front-court being their strength...

I'm soo proud!

Good series Mavs!

 

[BlazersGM]

we're very balanced Rockets, i would say backcourt is even stronger with Telf(Elliott,Bird)-Clement(Williams)-Buehler(,Houbregs,Austin), frontcourt is strong with presence of Hoffa, and Bosh but its weak on bench, only Nolan is there as both Cunningham and Tsakalidis cant play(my stupid mistake), so chances are 50-50 %, if i didnt forgot to put Cunningham and Ricardo in sim12 i would give you 25 % chances as Cunningham is my strong offensive power always(and sometimes defensive) when Hoffa is on bench, and Ricardo is great also, but without them my frontcourt is very week now.

[CelticsGM]

Tsakalidis also ? GOD DAMN  im screwed completely.

hahaha, you whiner. Nobody is down for you and you almost sounds off like Hoffa went on IL for the season.
 

And now you lucky bastard play the Rockets instead of the Mavs.
man, sometimes people just fall on the lucky side of life.
 

[CelticsGM]

... as both Cunningham and Tsakalidis cant play (my stupid mistake) ...

Now that's even better !!!!
 

But don't worry, that's just the inexperience of your first season in sim leagues. As the years go by (and the Caipirinha evaporates from your brain) those stuff will become automatic ...
 

[BlazersGM]

hahaha, i completely forgot sim12 rule, yeah im lucky Mavs are gone, but if Rockets could take down Mavs just like that, why not me ? if Hoffa goes down who'll play C for me ? Nolan, ok, who'll be his backup ? Bosh and Buehler LOL, Tsakalidis wouldnt play lots of minutes, but he would be there just in case with his good defense and rebs, but Cunningham is important for those 10mins when Hoffa sit down or those 20 mins when his fouled out after 20 something minutes, he's always around 45-50 % from floor and occasionally goes nuts and grabbs some 15-20 rebs together with some nice defence, so yeah, i miss him a lot, maybe with him i would sweep Grizz or for sure lose 1 less game, like this i have to pray Hoffa plays 40mpg and Nolan remaining 8, but then again its my own fault they're not there so i wont whine about it, after all my only goal this season was to finally pass round 1, i did that, anything more will be a great achievement for me.

[BlazersGM]

Nolan really bothers me, he is shooting like 15 % (Cunninghams B+ is big help off bench), cant rebound (Cunningham can when given more minutes), and he even managed to be fouled out in 12 mins, that must be a record.


DQ are disqualifications no ??

[NetsGM]

Round 2 up.

Outside of the blazers series, all series went 7 games.  wow.

[NetsGM]

Pettit is Mr. Playoff

[BlazersGM]

WOW, a lot easier then i ever imagined. Sweeeeepppp.



87-79 Bosh led with 18/8, Hoffa 17/23 on 23% from floor LOL. 6 players with 10 or more pts.

112-97 Hoffa 36 and only 6 rebs(that must be his record), Clement 16/7/5, Telf 15 assists but another poor offensive
perfomance.

@119-112 Hoffa 38 and again just 8 rebs, Telf great with 18/6/12, Nolan did great of bench. Did anyone play defense
here ?

Blazers 56 % FG 60 % 3PT 75% FT
Rockets 50 % FG 39 % 3PT 78% FT

Hellooouuu ????


@Rockets 93-70 .... like Blazers just saw what i was writing, GREAT D ! Hoffa 2nd straigh game fouled out, still
got 18/18 3blk, Nolan stepped in great grabbing 13 boards 1blk and shooting 50 %, Telf another great perfomance in
Houston after 2 poor perfomances in Portland.


NEXT: Suns......i give them advantage but im really lucky so far, i wanted to avoid Mavs, i did...now i already saw myself losing to Clippers in CF but now i saw im not playing them (they trashed me 3x this season), so its Suns, i couldnt make a better wish.

[BlazersGM]

im basically 0-4 against Suns, ill need to make lots of changes to have any chance of winning.

Pettit less Suns beat me at home 100-111 and trashed in Phoenix 84-111. We won then 99-88 in Phoenix.

Then the new Suns with Pettit won 101-98. Actually best perfomances was given here by my team, which gives me hope
i can beat Pettit's Suns easier then Pettit-less Suns who were beating me easily and for which i didnt have response
in frontcourt either, now frontcourt has lots of room, and so do Buehler and Clement in trying to stop Pettit.

[RaptorsGM]

Whew that was lucky....Fully meant to change my DC, but had a huge party after work last night, got home at 430am and just got up 

Homecourt made all the difference for me as I beat the Heat by 2 in the 4th Q of game 7 to win.


Series started very promising with a 30 pt homewin....Boykins obliterated Gasol with 30 and 22...and Swift added 20 and 18. Butler also clearly outdueled Keogan.

2nd game was a poor shooting performance by everyone on the team not named Max or Butler. Won the battle of the boards by 16, but Keogan caught fire from 3 and made the difference.

Lost game 3 as well to go down 2-1 in the series. Keogan dropped 37. I had meant to move Chills to SG to help shut him down, but I guess the way I left it worked out in the end. Max had a big game with 18 pts and 15 assists but Keogan and Shultz were too much.

Won game 4 by 5 pts, obviously the turning point in the series. Boykins was Massive with 33 and 16. Keogan dropped 34 on me, and Shutlz and Khoury had 20+, but no other Heat had more than 4 points.


Big win in the pivotal game 5. Held Keogan to 25. Chills matched Keogan's 25, and Boykins dropped 21 and 15. Turned the ball over 20 times compared to 11 from the Heat, but rebounds were key again as I was +10 on the glass.

Heat held on in game 6 despite a huge charge by us at the end. No idea how I lost this game, shot a better percentage and had 15 more rebounds, 9 more assists, better 3 pt and FT %s. If I had gone on to lose game 7, game 6 would have left me shaking my head.

Lucky really to sneak out game 7. Shot a miserable 37% from the floor, compared to 47%. Had only 16 assists as well...but got to the line 29 times compared to only 4 (!!) from the Heat, and there you have the difference in the series.


Bring on the Hornets. If anyone can beat them, I think it will be me.

[SunsGM]

No team of mine has ever made it this far in the playoffs in the history of SSBA. The series with the clippers was a back and forth series with no team winning back to back games until my guys took games 6 and 7.
Pettit was outstanding, and so was Ben Gordon for the Clipps. Now its on to the Trailblazers, who as he mentioned previously our series was 3-1. but we only played once since Petit came over, and that game was very close. hopefully my guys can step up to make this series competive. the Blazers are definately a tough team, they led the pacific for most of the season, but i think i have a very good opportunity to win this series. Great series Clippers, and good luck to all the teams that are left in the playoffs.