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291206.39 in reply to 291206.38
Date: 3/2/2018 9:54:08 AM
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That's really interesting. I love the idea of doing something out of the box, although you seem to have set yourself up for perpetual frustration with the GE's hatred of all outside offenses.

What do you shoot for on OD, PA, and SB with your guards? What kind of builds are you aiming for with your post trainees?



I would have liked more OD. They're all at 15 OD, and getting there was a slog because it took so freaking long to get the JR and then the SB. They're at like 8, 6 and 3 passing, and that was because my draftee started at 1 PA as well as I think 1 SB. One of these times I'm going to learn to not keep a draftee and actually buy all three trainees, but I always seem to value the idea of keeping one of them if they're close to what I'm doing. So that's the starting three guards. My backup guards are all highish JR guys but with less JS by far (one's 8 JS/19 JR) and 14 or higher OD.

I still waver on the bigs. Half the time I'm thinking I'm going to just say screw anything but ID/SB/RB and take those as far as possible, with maybe 16 or 17 RB and the other two hopefully into the 20s. Sometimes I think I may instead try to get some JS and JR on them since big men tend to shoot much better from outside than they should, at least, they did with my princeton-focused team before I finally aged them out and started the rebuild that brought me here ever so briefly. I'm still debating whether or not I'm going to bother trying to put more OD on them, too - here again, I have coincidentally 8, 6 and 3 (like the guards' passing), and again it's the draftee at 3 (though at least there was no training).

At this point, yeah, the frustration is real. My team shoots better from 3 than from 2, by design and statistically it holds up. But the engine doesn't care - I think I've literally had games where I've made more threes than twos, but they still won't shoot more shots from three to compensate.

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291206.40 in reply to 291206.39
Date: 3/18/2018 9:47:20 AM
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Exciting TV game last night, with the Springs hosting the Super Sonics. Charlie Fortune was hot from beyond the arc, making 8 of 12 attempts and 62% overall from the field! The game came down to the wire with a clutch 4th quarter performance from Felipe Urbano, who iced the Sonics' 3-point barrage with a pair of midrange jimbos and put up 22p/5a in 40 minutes. Here's the final minute recap of the match.


4 0:59 114 — 110 A. Rózsa (A) attempts a three-point shot from the wing, guarded closely by N. Stajić (H). Scored.
4 0:59 114 — 110 30 second timeout called by Sandy Springs Basketball Club.
4 0:53 114 — 112 F. Urbano (H) fires from the top of the key off of a nice pass from S. Mir (H). Scored.
4 0:53 114 — 112 The shot was assisted by S. Mir (H).
4 0:41 114 — 112 C. Fortune (A) attempts a three-point shot from the wing, guarded closely by S. Mir (H). Shot missed.
4 0:41 114 — 112 N. Stajić (H) grabs the defensive rebound.
4 0:41 114 — 112 N. Stajić (H) now has a double double.
4 0:25 114 — 114 M. Markelj (H) threads a pass through the defense and finds F. Urbano (H). F. Urbano (H) attempts a jump-shot from the wing. Scored.
4 0:25 114 — 114 The shot was assisted by M. Markelj (H).
4 0:12 114 — 114 B. Vytiv (A) attempts a jumper from the elbow, guarded closely by M. Markelj (H). Shot missed.
4 0:12 114 — 114 N. Stajić (H) corrals the missed shot.
4 0:00 114 — 116 N. Stajić (H) threads a pass through the defense and finds F. Urbano (H). F. Urbano (H) attempts a jump-shot from the wing. Scored.
4 0:00 114 — 116 The shot was assisted by N. Stajić (H).
4 0:00 114 — 116 A buzzerbeater for F. Urbano (H)!
4 0:00 114 — 116 End of period.

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291206.41 in reply to 291206.40
Date: 3/19/2018 11:03:51 PM
Super Sonics
II.1
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Why not let the guy with hot hand shoot, but instead give my PF and C the ball.

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291206.42 in reply to 291206.25
Date: 3/31/2018 9:43:46 PM
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Good luck in this series man! Considering you won our regular season matchup, I'd definitely say you're the favorite, but I'm hoping for a tightly contested series!

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291206.43 in reply to 291206.42
Date: 4/1/2018 2:56:03 PM
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Thanks, good luck to you too. I don't think my team has much left in it, but its great after all these many season to finally be in the finals for this division. I see this as a three game series with you winning it.

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291206.44 in reply to 291206.43
Date: 4/1/2018 7:34:57 PM
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We'll see, this could go a number of different ways, just hoping not to be swept here. Definitely think we'll have some entertaining close games

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291206.45 in reply to 291206.43
Date: 4/2/2018 2:23:18 AM
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Congrats on making it as a 4 seed. Should be a pretty evenly matched series.

Your team definitely plays better than their record suggests. All that off-position training hides how good your team really is.

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291206.46 in reply to 291206.45
Date: 4/4/2018 11:35:10 PM
Balls of Steel
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Balls of Steel will drop down do D IV...AGAIN. I bought some players and tried to make stay in III.4 Surprised myself in winning some games, but lost some that I should have won (on paper).

Anyway, I hope to keep the team together and kick some butt next season and who knows, might be back next season. I have cash to buy players I need.

Good luck to all.

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291206.47 in reply to 291206.46
Date: 4/5/2018 6:01:50 PM
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This was a very balanced two-tiered league this season. There weren't any games to take off for the bottom tier, that's for sure. I know I was CT in a couple of games I had marked as must-win just for relegation series seeding.

GT slow-played this season perfectly, and is in the driver's seat for taking the title. Burns should win MVP based on results in games that matter.

Last edited by bsopchak at 4/5/2018 6:02:04 PM

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291206.48 in reply to 291206.47
Date: 4/7/2018 10:00:20 PM
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Congrats man! Sucks that Agnelli got injured during the game but I'm confident you would've won anyway. Good luck in D2!

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291206.49 in reply to 291206.48
Date: 4/7/2018 10:23:58 PM
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Thanks. I really did not expect this going into the playoffs. Good luck to you next season.

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