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I understand, Johnny, but I'd venture to say that on a per capita basis, Cyprus does a whole lot better than the USA does. However, in this age of the instant gratification (or not) of video games, perhaps we can understand how well the BB developers have done in creating this game. It's simply hard for many of the new managers (not only the young ones:-) to grasp the fact that this is a long-term—and very addictive—game...

I totally agree with you. I am only in my second season and at first it was easy for me to get upset by the fact that so many other managers have 1 player with a higher salary than my whole team.

But I do realize that it takes time to catch up with everyone else. I am just hoping I have a chance....it is hard for someone who started this late to buy good players since of course they do not have as much money as the top teams and always get outbid by older teams. Also, being in America makes it hard bc you start out in division 5....if I was in some small country I would start out higher and get more money from TV contracts, merchandise, and tickets sales because of a lack of players.

It is a long road even to the third division and will probably take me another 5 seasons to get there.

Well what we did until now it was couz of the hard work of max 5 Cypriot, and 2 hard working Italians. About the games...i am not a gamer. I just love basketball. Every game that i am playing has something to do with basketball btw i miss freestyle so much...

@ Astra Weeks. I got CBBA championship after 2.5 seasons, and i was very excited about that. Then i got disappointed, couz i felt that i was running alone. I am happy that i have 3 players on my NT, but from the other side is sad, couz only 1 of them could play on the strong teams (if) and just as back up. Now my new targer is the bb best, but i need like 3-4 seasons more to be up there

Sorry to interrupt, but I just want to give my 2 cents. When someone said something about the ID of the SF having influence on the defensive tactic, I think you guys misunderstood it. Of course SF with good OD makes a strong 3-2 zone, and a SF with good ID makes a 2-3 zone even better, but I think that, when thinking about using a zone defense against a nornal-focused offensive tactic, the ID of the SF is important if you want to use a 3-2 or 1-3-1 zone defense, and the OD is important when you use a 2-3 defense.
It's like that, because, when choosing a zone defense against a Push the Ball offense, you are focusing your defense in one side, while your opponent is shooting from everywhere. So, in that case, you need to have guarantees, or you will lose the game, for sure. That's why you need a very good defensive and rebounder Center when running a 1-3-1 zone defense, and that's why you need a solid and balanced SF.

You are right but it cbecomes less important, in the last games i played Antonio Rocha(i know you know his skills, for the rest ID 5) as a SF in a 3-2 Zone, and he kicked ass. The 48 min games, with the awesome stats line, and also against an LI i stay pretty healthy with it.

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Last edited by CrazyEye at 11/23/2009 4:36:19 AM

Well, if ID of my SF would be low, I would try to hide that by rather playing zone (3-2) than Man to man. In the letter case he would probably need it more when guarding his man driving inside.

However, in this age of the instant gratification (or not) of video games, perhaps we can understand how well the BB developers have done in creating this game. It's simply hard for many of the new managers (not only the young ones:-) to grasp the fact that this is a long-term—and very addictive—game...

I'm not sure if the web-based manager games had it any better before video games. ;-)

Oh, I'm sure that you're right. I didn't mean to imply that they did. I simply wanted to tip my hat to the BB developers:-)