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168951.99 in reply to 168951.98
Date: 4/9/2011 2:18:58 PM
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Wow, i chose a terrible time to forget to set my scrimmage lineup. Hooray for 9 form drops!

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168951.100 in reply to 168951.98
Date: 4/10/2011 3:49:10 AM
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Just my opinion. I have been wrong before. But in general, if you didn't think that you could take Albany with lesser enthusiasm, I don't think you would TIE, which brings me back to my point, you must have felt pretty strong about your chances. And if you didn't, then, I wouldn't call your move a "calculated risk" but rather something else.

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To clarify, I just think that it is better to play in Finals and lose, than to consciously play against your odds in Semi-finals and never reach Finals just on account that otherwise your chances to win the whole thing are at bare minimum.

Last edited by Mr. Hyde at 4/10/2011 4:12:38 AM

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168951.101 in reply to 168951.100
Date: 4/10/2011 5:08:21 AM
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That's how risks work, you take take a risk and you succeed, you look like a genius. However, you take a risk and you lose... well, we all know what Discipline thinks. From past experiences, risks have been working out for me.

Perhaps the regular season game against Albany was a fluke, but I tie'd on the road and still won. That kinda explains my reasoning behind my enthusiasm. Also, I don't think enthusiasm would have done it, my tactics and my inability to win key games to get home-court advantage is what made me lose.

Oh yea, nice win by Albany. It was really a horrible 4th quarter for Albany, but he hung in there. Finals should be fun to watch.

Last edited by czobo001 at 4/10/2011 5:12:02 AM

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168951.102 in reply to 168951.101
Date: 4/10/2011 7:33:36 AM
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In that regular season game I had just sold two good players-my PG and a PF. My backup PF played most of the minutes.

And I have since bought a new, better PG, and my last lineup is my best.

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168951.104 in reply to 168951.101
Date: 4/10/2011 3:34:23 PM
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That's how risks work, you take take a risk and you succeed, you look like a genius. However, you take a risk and you lose... well, we all know what Discipline thinks.

Well, that was not my point at all. I believe that we were discussing your confidence level going into that game against Albany, not whether or not taking risks in general is something smart. Or stupid, if you wish.
But let's start from the beginning.
In my original post I comment that you got "a bit too overconfident." You responded how that is not true. Which is fair. The discussion should have probably end right there, but I made a beginners mistake and wrote another comment trying to explain why I thought that you were, and now we're discussing a completely new thing where you're emphasizing risk-taking opposed to my emphasis of your confidence.
If you're willing to read my previous post one more time, you'll see that my only point was that you must have felt strong about your chances, because if you didn't then you can't call it "calculated risk." Well, not the one with favorable outcome, that is. On that note, everyone can take a risk, and succeed from time to time, but only genius is genius.

Last edited by Mr. Hyde at 4/10/2011 3:36:07 PM

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168951.105 in reply to 168951.103
Date: 4/10/2011 5:33:47 PM
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I understand what you're saying and agree, but only to a degree. In whole honesty, I don't think there is a right or wrong way to go about this.
In an example, sometimes I'll apply the first option (CT without real chance to win the whole thing) and sometimes I'll apply the second (TIE with a hope that I can advance and then win the whole thing). It all depends on situation and %'s.
In a case of A&M, unless he felt pretty confident that he can get away with TIE, I don't think it was all that necessary for him to do that, but that is exactly the thing, he must have felt pretty confident about his chances and that is why I comment that he might have been "a bit too overconfident."

Last edited by Mr. Hyde at 4/10/2011 5:58:15 PM

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168951.106 in reply to 168951.104
Date: 4/10/2011 6:54:44 PM
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Well there is two possible reasons why Discipline is so passionate about my tactics. He probably just wants to here me say, "yea, you're right, I was over-confident." However, my favorite logical reason behind his passion is that he is a huge fanatic of Ambitious and Misunderstood. Therefore he is so upset that the coach ruined Discipline's chances to see his favorite team (Ambitious and Misunderstood) to make it to the finals.

Regardless, my move against Albany was fairly ambitious, and I don't need anybody to understand that... excluding TP, you can understand it.

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168951.107 in reply to 168951.106
Date: 4/11/2011 2:58:54 AM
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Well I would like to understand it as well..

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168951.108 in reply to 168951.106
Date: 4/11/2011 5:40:21 AM
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Yes I am actually; I am a big fan.

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168951.109 in reply to 168951.108
Date: 4/12/2011 8:22:14 AM
Deronimo
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Where are my fans?

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