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121137.1
Date: 12/6/2009 7:45:43 PM
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So, I have an opponent in the championship who has a very strong Starting lineup, but A significantly weaker second team. (Starters' salaries average around 18k, backups average about 4k). My team, however, has much greater depth, but not quite the same power in the starting lineup (although my SG will probably be the best player in the game).

My question is, what tactics should I use to get his starters out of the game sooner? Are there offense that are more prone to opponents' fouling? Or will playing R&G/FCP cause his players to get worn out and have to go to his backups sooner?

I would love to get about 20 minutes of the game to be my backups against his, but not sure what the best way is to make that happen tactics wise.

TIA!

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121137.2 in reply to 121137.1
Date: 12/6/2009 10:48:10 PM
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if he blow u up by 20 in the third qtr, u will see his backup. XD


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121137.3 in reply to 121137.2
Date: 12/6/2009 10:55:42 PM
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Although if he got 20 points behind then it wouldn't make any difference to the result if his backups played lol. I can't really see anything he can do to limit how many minutes his opponents starters get

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121137.4 in reply to 121137.1
Date: 12/7/2009 4:55:54 AM
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I've had luck with Look Inside -- early in my season, I was using Base and drawing no fouls; changed to Look Inside and drew many more fouls. You should check out his stats and see if his starters average 2.5 - 3.0 fouls a game. I think those guys are vulnerable to aggressive attacks. However, unless quite lucky, don't expect this to work on more than one, maybe two of his players.

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121137.5 in reply to 121137.1
Date: 12/7/2009 9:23:24 AM
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Hassan is right inside tactic should provide slightly more fouls, but the increase isn't gigantic.

Maybe you could make the game faster, i am not sure if it have an impact of the freshness of your and your opponent players but you won't have to give up much for it while playing run and gun instead of motion.

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121137.6 in reply to 121137.4
Date: 12/7/2009 3:55:50 PM
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Actually, Low Post is even better for this purpose. But, it will only work if the opponent's big men are offensive minded and yours are good free throw shooters. Then you can get his bigs to foul out. If they are dissent defensively they will just end up with 4-5 fouls or foul out very late, and that doesn't help you.