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Yeah, I tried to play some mindgames and got burned on it big-time. The Motion offense was for two reasons; First, it was to keep you from trying to game-day-prep me (since I used either Base or Look-inside for most games). Second, my team as a whole has shot well from beyond the arc this season (44%), and 51% overall, so the math told me against the average team in this league I'd get more points per shot if I shot more threes than I currently do. Obviously I was forgetting to factor in which specific team I was facing this week. Also, gotta give props for your tactics; they were pretty much perfect for the matchup.

I was actually pretty happy with the game overall, once you consider the fact I totally blew it with some of the tactical decisions. I expected to have a hard time winning even if I DID hit the game-day-prep. Obviously, I'm not proud of the 18% mark from three, but my team hung in there really well for most of the game (it was tied up with about 9 minutes to go and I even had a couple shots to take the lead before my team went totally cold on the offensive end down the stretch)

I agree, AMAZING first game, even from the losing side of it! I hope the next one is just as exciting! Best of luck Saturday!

I'm absolutely amazed i won this series in game two i got both predictions wrong, started my bench and played playoff normal for the second straight game in hopes of having a very high enthusiasm for a strong game 3 outing. I dont know how you lost game 2. With that being said I'm happy i won hopefully i can stay in D3 this time. Best of luck to you in the future sir you have a great team!

Well, I feel like the tactical advantage you gained by playing 2-3 zone (massive rebounding advantage and better matchup for my low post offense than a man to man would have been) played a role, as did the injury to my backup SG early on. And whoever was guarding my SGs in the series did a phenomenal job, holding my starter to 35% shooting over those 2 games. I'm just glad to see I didn't let your team dominate me any of the three times we played this season, honestly. I wish you the best of luck in division 3, but for now it's time for me to start preparing to join you up there!

yall still active?

Well, I'm here most days. But I'm not surprised that the others don't seem to post much; about half of them are either new teams just discovering the game or players who have been here a while and just don't like to talk much.

yeah i am here most days i just didnt talk a lot. im always active

Glad to hear it! I've been thinking for a while that the big issue with this league is there aren't enough active players... That's why the overall level of play around here is kinda weak (for reference, there are 336 teams in higher divisions, and 1024 slots in division 4. So it stands to reason that the average division 4 team has a US ranking in the low-to-mid 800s, and the average league-leader is in the upper 300s. But in this league we only have 2 teams in the top 850 and none above 400.)

Now, none of that is the fault of any particular player here. But the fact remains that only a handful of us, like you, are really trying to get good at this game, and it's making the competition around here boring as heck. If more of us were active, the whole group of us would have more interesting games and we'd be stronger as a whole.

oh yeah i bought 4 phenomenal guys that can work with me at the guard spot while i train Allan Hook. Although Darko aka (Kevin Durant) wants me to put him at the SG and we want to run plays off of him.

5 40+ games already

Yeah, I'm usually active everyday but no one posts much on the forum.

Lol, I guess we all just assumed that nobody else would post around here then?

Anyway, Clutch, Garcia Has been pretty good to you, I'll give ya that. I'll have to pay attention to him next time I play your team for sure.

It's a shame this had to be the season a few of us finally started talking to each other, since for once there's no relegated team from D3, and that means somebody here is actually gonna get promoted for once. (I mean, given how the last few seasons went I don't think any of us are really prepared for D3, but it might be nice to be in a different league)