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think about it... lucky once or twice fair enough.. but I cant be lucky all the time...
you guys make it out like I pull a white rabbit out of a hat every time something big is on the line.

Not putting down your abilities as a manager we know that you are good but it is all stats. Someone must be lucky all the time. There are 50,000 managers, there will be someone who has always had a level 1 doctor and never had an injury and wonders why everyone else bothers and there will be someone with a level 6 who has his whole roster inured every season. It is simple stats.

If you don't roll the dice you can't win. You roll the dice, and that is your skill, the fact that they come up well every time is luck.

You know we adore you!

Koops you didn't pull a rabbit out of the hat!! You pulled a Hare out of ur ass!!!

You pulled a Hare out of ur ass!!!

that sounds extremely painful

well well well there is always two sides to a fable...

1) Season 14... true there was luck, but I put my team in the best possible position to pull off an unlikely series win. I came in the finals with better enthusiasm, better gameshape and some might say better tactics. Meteors might have stuffed up but maybe it was because he was nervous about playing me and that caused him to make a few mistakes that he wouldnt have normally made.

2) Season 15... thats not luck, thats adapting to the new environment and making it work for you. Everyone else knew there were going to be bots that season, they could've planned accordingly to take advantage of the situation too. Not my fault they sold themselves short and lost a relegation series they should've won convincingly.

3) Season 16... again everyone was aware of the bots during the season and they couldve planned for it. They didnt, I did and I came 5th. And whitebeard did not throw the last game of the season... hahah so so exaggerated!! (33057878) "Koopasaurus looked like the only team trying out there." Even if whitebeard played normal or CT, he wouldve lost to me anyways cos of pure "luck" =P Are you trying to open a can of worms here by saying me and whitebeard conspired to get me that 5th spot? kekeke

To keep it concise. its not a case of luck, its just called being smart... if you are being chased in the woods by a hungry bear, you only have to run faster then the slowest guy to escape. That is exactly what I have done in each and every season.

thats why some of the BB'ers call me Koopasoarass.
Look, I'll spend that 100k and change my team name to that if I win the ABBL this season okay fellas.

:O don't steal my grand plan!

Well if having an ABBL team in your conference go bot two seasons in a row isn't luck I don't know what is.

How you adapted to it was obviously sensational but without the bots it wouldn't have been possible.

And the game you calim Whitebeard tried so hard in...

he obviously TIEd.

This was his PG for 48 minutes:

Freddie Stevens (12018849)
Point Guard
Owner: Whitebeard
Weekly salary: $ 3 596
Age: 26
Height: 6'5" / 196 cm
Potential: role player

This was his PF for 42 minutes:

Chet Benaud (12020340)
Small Forward
Owner: Whitebeard
Weekly salary: $ 4 382
Age: 26
Height: 6'4" / 193 cm
Potential: star

And you still claim he didn't throw this game?

I am not saying there was conspiracy, although it would be exciting if it was, he was probably just following self interest, the win meant nothing to him, he wanted enthusiasm and his best players for the SF, but throwing that game was a massive gift for you and him being in that situation where he could, you playing him in that exact round and you being in the position where that one win would save you from the Vicious Sid, you really want to claim all of that wasn't luck?

^ some top quality players right there. i wish i had them on my team

I am the old one out of the bunch after promoting last season then getting sent straight back to Div 11. Atleast I didn't land back in 2.4, 11 seasons was enough in there!

So....Nugget, we come full circle! If you've read all the back-and-forth in this thread (you began) you will notcie a few glaring things:

1. These guys love basketball, the players, the tactics and the history;
2. These guys, in true Aussie spirit, through their playful banter, demonstrate the enjoyment of being a part of the BB community;
3. Lastly, the serious and not-so-serious competitiveness helps to drive our BB experience.

If you have had one or more of the above desires or experiences, or you seek to have them then don't give up on BB just yet. If the three facets listed above have no value to you then perhaps BB isn't for you and we would all wish you the best of luck.

Finally, BB has its ups and downs like all good things in life. The motto of a friend of mine in a former PL league says this: "People always make time to do the things they really want to do."