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Look, you are talking about this game, which you clearly don't know how to play.

First of all, you ain't beating anyone with inept gameshape players. Think of it like this: your players get tired if they play too much minutes over the week. They need 48-66 minutes. That means roughly, you can play them two games as starters, or one game starter, two games backup. For trainees one game 48 min, second game backup.

Managing minutes is actually one of the fun parts of this game. After each training update at Friday, I take a look at my three upcoming games, and set lineups so my players play reasonable minutes. I scout my opponents, and decide which players will play in which match. For stronger opponent, I put my best lineup, for weaker opponents, I put weaker lineups.

It's fun, and resembles real life basketball coach decisions.

After that basic concept, you'll need to figure out how the economy works. You'll need to build a financially strong team, which will enable you to bring better players, which will bring you more money, then more better players and so on.

GDP? It's the least of your worries currently. Yes, it's probably not the most ideal solution, but it's good enough. Let's say they managed to fix zones somehow, and that GDP wasn't implemented. If you don't have a versatile team, and you keep playing let's say motion and RnG, your opponents will play 3-2 zone. The effect is same as with the GDP.

Anyway, my point is, when you learn to play this game, GDP won't pose you much of a problem.

Look I already know what your saying about managing line-ups and game shape. But GDP, is a problem to me in a sense that i will suffer penalty for playing always normal focus. That is what I dont like with GDP. I like to play a balance offense, outside shots are also important, as well as inside shots. but with gdp, I cant play anymore like before. by only prediction, i will suffer penalty only because I love to play normal focus. that's unfair, always playing at a disadvantage because of GDP.

I know for you that your enjoying the benefits of GDP so have fun.

i agree on all those statements. cheers!

That is why I said earlier that you guys "have fun with GDP," Anyway it's your game. But it's not mine anymore.

I just looked at every one of your games this season. If not for the GDP, you'd be 4-6 instead of 5-5. All but one of the teams you played against predicted wrong or, much more likely, didn't predict at all. And the one game where someone predicted correctly against you: (66007484). If this is the game you're mad about, I can assure you: you were playing against a much stronger team and would have undoubtedly lost anyway. And what about this game, (66007493)? He predicted incorrectly, you predicted correctly, and it went to 2OT; you would have lost without the GDP.

Last edited by ______ (NZ National Team) at 1/29/2014 8:42:42 AM

Your right about that. I had upset that team who is much, much higher rank than me, because of GDP. In that game, I really had won that because of GDP, and not because that I overplayed him. That is what I am talking about the effect of GDP. As you had observed my games. I only used the GDP three times, and then I stop using GDP, because it's unfair. I only realized that after I encountered the team Fantamaniacs. As I scouted his previous games, his team can only use the Normal Focus, meaning balance offense, balanced outside and inside shots. If other teams in our league have also observed that, that team will always be in handicapped with the GDP. I dont know why is he only using that type of offense focus, maybe he cannot afford to use other focus like outside/inside focus, or he just dont want to use them. As for me, I really like to use balance focus because there are times when you really need to shoot from the outside, and there are right moments to go for inside. But with GDP, I will be always in handicapped if I used normal focus in each game, and that is really unfair.

The problem why LI becomes a very powerfull and unstoppable offense, is that the zone defense here dont work very well. Zone defense is the solution to inside game, its the counter-measure for the LI. But zone defense here dont work at 100%. Just try playing zone defenese like the 2-3 zone in the next game. In the 2-3 zone, the inner zone must be occupied by the forwards and the center, the must stay in the inside zone guarding their post. But what happens when you watch the game, the forwards or even the center, sometimes foul players that are shooting outside shots, even the three pt shots. How can that happen if they are playing zone defense?? The purpose of the zone defense is to guard their respective inside area in order for the other teams to be forced to shoot outside, because they cannot get shots from the inside. In order to break the zone, outside shots are used, and in order to break man-to-man, pick and rool and low post plays are employed. That is how basketball is played. I used the 3-2 zone almost everytime, and that is why I observed a number times that my center is fouling a guard for shooting outside, sometimes blocking shots of guards as they shoot from outside. this is ridiculous, because if my center is playing in the inside zone, he wont do that kind of thing, unless my center is exchanging zones with guards, or unless he is not obedient to his role. If zone defense is actually working as it is, that will be enough to limit the Li. I believe that zone defense here must be fixed.

I believe that in order to limit or counter an offensive play in basketball, right defense must be used. but now with GDP, you can afford to just play man-to-man and the depend on the GDP. That is not anymore a basketball for me. Basketball is not a game that needs to be unpredictable or versatile in order to win but its a game of team effort, both in offense and defense. In basketball its not uncertainty or being unpredictable, it is mastery, that is the right way to win basketball games.