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157471.32 in reply to 157471.20
Date: 9/27/2010 1:32:32 PM
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I played PON because my enthusiasm was already 11 and I wanted to make a deep run. Figured that the home court advantage would dissolve your CT.

I expected my outside game to be shut down, that's why I went inside with my 56k, 97k, and 90+k big men against your 42k, 19k, and 13k guys. And yet they were somehow 17-45 shooting even with 2 guys having stupendous and marvelous IS. If you had told me I'd have been -3 levels in OD rating vs. my OS, but +5 levels in ID vs. my IS, as well as +1 in my OD vs. OS and +3 in my ID vs. IS, I would've taken that every day. Not to mention the 3 level rebounding advantage.

I just think it's a flaw in the game if a good outside defense can shut down an entire team's offense (and we had the same OD rating!), a good outside offense is impossible to stop, while a good inside offense and defense is useless because it supposedly can be somehow stopped by a bunch of little guards? This is basically how the Heathens have become a top 5 team in the world and won the NBBA title last year. They had nothing but insanely high OD and dominated. Just don't think it's realistic at all.


The thing is, I don't think high enthusiasm effects each part of the game equally. I think SB had high enthusiasm plus Playoff CT, which means his defense was going to be really outstanding.

As the playoffs progress and enthusiasm drops, defense tends to erode.

Playing high enthusiasm vs. high enthusiasm will yield a different game than average enthusiasm vs. average enthusiasm, IMHO.




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157471.34 in reply to 157471.33
Date: 9/29/2010 6:45:16 PM
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Enlightening first game of the playoffs. Slater out for the balance of the playoffs and yet, his SF partner Brown had the game of his life. I was surprised by the margin of victory, but then maybe my enthusiasm was higher? I thought Balls had perhaps playing PO-Normal...

Oh well, big weekend ahead!

Good luck Ginger!

Steve
Bruins

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157471.35 in reply to 157471.34
Date: 9/30/2010 2:14:52 AM
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That was a rough first game, hopefully my guys can recover from such a sound beating.

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157471.36 in reply to 157471.35
Date: 9/30/2010 7:50:05 PM
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Yeah...I was really surprised...I have a history of choking...maybe my players are saving that for games 2 & 3!

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157471.38 in reply to 157471.37
Date: 10/3/2010 2:33:42 AM
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Thanks...good luck in your finals!

Loved competing with all you guys...good luck next season!


Steve
Bruins

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157471.39 in reply to 157471.38
Date: 10/3/2010 8:32:09 PM
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Bruins,

Good luck next year in Div I. You are well-suited to compete there. You were clearly the class of this division, the toughest dII, this season.

Peace and good riddance,

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157471.40 in reply to 157471.36
Date: 10/3/2010 10:01:57 PM
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Finally!

Congrats - cool to see SD repped twice now in the NBBA.

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157471.41 in reply to 157471.39
Date: 10/5/2010 1:38:51 PM
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Bruins,

Good luck next year in Div I. You are well-suited to compete there. You were clearly the class of this division, the toughest dII, this season.

Peace and good riddance,

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Yeah, I used to think that people from this division were just complaining about it being the toughest, but I recently looked at the rankings of our top teams: my conference 10, 19, 20, 56....the other conference 25, 21, 17, 50. Then I looked at the top teams in the other three division II's... 12, 15, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33. Clearly, there are good teams in the other divisions, but not nearly in the same number.

Good luck to you guys remaining in the division...

Steve
Bruins