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If I would have Dwight as a starter and Shaq as a sub at C I would prolly put in Stojakovic to play that C spot in end game situation. But hey that's just me.

Yea, you say that now, but in a real life situation you probably wouldn't do that, or if you would, you probably wouldn't stay a head coach for too long. But what is interesting to me is that you pick Stojakovic who is 6'10" and who could, in a case of an absolute necessity, cover that position fairly well due to his size.
But nevermind that, let me ask you this. If you had on your roster both Stojakovic and Nowitzki, which one out of mentioned two would you rather have to cover C position? Stojakovic still? I don't think so. And that is exactly my point, assuming again that substitution which happened in my game was absolutely necessary, I had much more suitable players to cover C position than Iliev. As I have mentioned a numerous times by now, I had both Preseren and Ðurovski sitting on the bench at that moment, and they both have much better combination of inside and outside skills than Iliev while still matching Iliev's FT shooting skills. Same stands for Vujicic, but I'll leave him out this time on account that his FT shooting was an issue.

If you had on your roster both Stojakovic and Nowitzki

Why would you compare a starter (and one of the absolute best players in the nba right now) to a bench player (perhaps he has better luck in Toronto if he is traded there). I picked stojakovic just because I saw an end game situational substitution Stojakovic for Okafor. He was brought on the floor just to shoot those FT's. BTW he missed one of them:) Still that was not enough for Dallas to win it (who also had all shooters on the floor).
Perhaps Iliev with the same FT skill level had better sublevel, better game shape, he certainly has the best seasonal FT% currently. Perhaps any of those could of been the tie breaker. I've already provided the options your coach could have used to preserve the lead and later on with the win not threatened any more, switched to walkover tactics. Obviously it's hard for me to search for the answers without knowing the skills. Ofcourse it's easier to cry out "bug" every time something happens that you can not understand yet. Yes the end game sometimes is a substitution frenzy and some silly fouls occure, but I'm pretty sure BB's think that this is not a bug.

And why couldn't you just answer my question? Did you notice the IF part in my sentence? Can I speak hypothetically or is just you who has that right? I mean, seriously, man. Just as you had a reason to pick Stojakovic over someone who is undersized and with no inside skills, I had a reason to pick Nowitzki. And by the way, I actually explained myself right after I made that comparison, but whatever; I should know by now that any intelligible discussion with you is impossible.


Last edited by Kumboky at 11/23/2010 6:52:58 PM

I would put both of them on the floor in FT shooting situation. In the real word you do not have to categorize who plays witch position. For example, Dirk constantly guards the opponent C's. Why, because they are usually crappyer scorers compared to PF's. He is not a great defender so this way he get's that foul protection.

Just as you had a reason to pick Stojakovic over someone who is undersized and with no inside skills, I had a reason to pick Nowitzki.

So if you can't pass to Dirk are going to let Dwight Howard or Shaq take those FT's? Your comparison is like: If you need a 3 pointer made, will you pick Ray Allen or Jason Kapono. You would pick one, I would pick both. If you need someone dunked on, will you pick Lebron or Shannon Brown (for whatever reason you need someone dunked on)? Obviously the beforementioned players are better overall. But if you need something specific you trade something on the floor for that. Just like with few seconds left in the game, you switch in your biggest player to limit the visibility for the inbounder (switching in Yao and putting him infrond of inbounding Kidd).
I'm sorry to say that with statements like "I've never seen a situational substitution" you show you actually never have played a basketball game on a decent level or even understand the game to have a discussion about it.

In todays' scrimmage I had a wrong starting formation.The players that I had chosen for replacements in positions 1-2-4 started the game and the starters stayed at the bench.As a result,I had a wrong time distribution.Is there anything to be done?

You need to play strictly follow depth chart, otherwise your coach could decide to change the starting 5 sometimes.

I think the my substitution pattern of strictly follow depth chart is actually depth chart until 4th because the trainee which I set to play one full game always got substitute out at the 4th quarter and never get to play at all for the 4th quarter, these is some of the game>(26629554), (26629536), (26629507)

Is it a bug or this is actually the way its suppose to works?

Please do notify me if there is any changes made as I'm trying to have all 3 of my trainee to get full training minutes per week, as for now I'm trying other substitution pattern to get a better result.

I'm trying to have all 3 of my trainee to get full training every week, but the trainee which I set to play a full game for the 1st game of the week always sub out of the game at 4th quarter which ruin the training minutes that I'm trying to alllocate, therefore instead of getting full training minutes for all 3 of my trainee, only 2 of them manage to get full training minutes.

Last edited by Vandar at 12/7/2010 5:37:05 AM

I mean what I set is strictly follow depth chart...but it looks like it is depth chart until 4th, I didn't set depth chart until 4th before.

Ya I actually did set only 9 players for every match, and I place the 48 guy as starter, backup, and also reserve, does it mean that my problem will be solved if I leave the reserve slot empty?