big 8 swept Great 8 today.
Yeah, I'm waiting for each team to have played against once, but the it's safe to say the Big 8 is really big, and the Great 8 is not so great.
the way it stands now, our number 8 drafts after your number 4. And having the more competitive conference usually is a disadvantage. Means we can lose games to eachother, where as in the other conference, there usually is one or 2 teams who are clearly above the others, and thus the weaker conference often ends up getting the HCA for the finals ( and HCA is SOOO important at that stage).
pretty surprized that the top 2 of Great 8 didn't win there games. Tho Tool Belgium at the 6th spot is greatly exagerated.
Tuesday showdown between 2 big defensif teams ( AnA vs TBS)
big test for my side. if i can win this one on the road, without the help of Marichal, then i'm liking my odds for the PO's :D
Definitely two great defensive teams there. And it's not only because of the slow pace either. You both allow less than 35% shooting percentage to your opponents. He may have a little better outside defense, although that might be because he faced easier competition in our conference, but you should probably own TBS inside, notably on the boards.
That said, I take the bet that
TBS will shoot more FT's than you, and IF he makes them (big if) it will be close.
FT's are gotten true mostly bad match ups or faul happy guy's. i've got a couple of those, so i wouldn't be surprized if he got more FT's. This said, i've got a couple of players who should put some pretty bad match-ups that should play out in my advantage. I haven't got a single true C on this team. Both Baudoux and Bari are infact PF's. you could say that my entire team can attack both way's. I've been training or bought guards who got a high Is lvl, and i've bought bigs who are high on JS, HA and DR. This means that when i play outside, i don't need to overpower the opponent with my guards, cause most teams have bigs with low OD and my bigs will abuse that. And i don't need overpowering IS on my bigs, since my guards got a lot of it and they will get easy baskets that way, or they'll earn a trip to the faulline. a guard with IS 10 or more when playing LI gives you about 8 inside shots. Assuming the opposing Guard has Id 7 ( which is a high Id for most) you'll get about 4 or 5 of those 8 baskets, or you'll earn trips to the FT line.
So my ratings in offense never will be very impressive, but i don't need em to be. Most opponents just look at ratings to determine their opponents power. Do that against me and you'll be paying the price.
And as i mentioned, i already played another tactic against Thomas Cook :P without Marichal, my team becomes a lot more unpredictable as i mentioned :P
Well, you knew he was likely going to play 2-3 zone, so it wouldn't take an oracle to predict you would play an outside offense ;)
i didn't play outside because of his 2-3 zone :P if i had played LI, the result would have been the same. I checked his team and of his bigs, i only have found one who potentially had some OD. And to play a 2-3 zone, you need bigs with OD. So if i had played LI, my DR would have cut right thru his zone, forcing his bigmen protecting the rim to chose, either step forth to meet the guard, or give him a uncontested free short jumper. In the event that the C steps out, he needs OD to intercept a potential pass to the big behind him from the penetrating guard, or he needs OD to defend against the jumpshot.
So RaG, LI, Motion, LP, it wouldn't have mattered. And it's not the first time i've played Thomas Cook. it's the 5th time :P took the data of previous games into account too. Despite using the 2-3 zone pretty often, he never used it against me in the previous 4 games. So i wasn't expecting a 2-3 zone.