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From: Vixen
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Date: 5/19/2011 10:16:13 PM
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My team just survived what has to be one of the most uneven upsets in a long time. After looking through the opposing team's roster and stats, I was expecting a crushing-- so I sat my key players for the game and put in only my backups to work on my teams overall game shape. Despite an opponent with a salary that was astronomically high and the fact that my opponent threw a crunch time at me, I still pulled off a win in over time. Just look at the salaries and the fact that the opponent played Crunch time and the win look baffling. What even stood out more was their insane rebounding advantage and how I somehow managed to stay in the game. In the fourth quarter I was expecting the worst, but a clutch play followed by a rugged overtime ended with a huge surprise!

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/35627864/boxscore.aspx


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185389.2 in reply to 185389.1
Date: 5/20/2011 12:00:27 AM
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Congrats - very nice win...

His guards are in bad GS - he went 2-3 (leaving him with next to no OD) and you had HCA!! So not totally unbelievable but always nice to get a win when you are not expecting one!!

From: CrazyEye

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185389.3 in reply to 185389.1
Date: 5/20/2011 4:53:50 AM
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so I sat my key players for the game and put in only my backups to work on my teams overall game shape


probadly because you did this also the weeks before, the upset isn't that big in my eyes :)

From: Vixen

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185389.5 in reply to 185389.4
Date: 5/20/2011 1:12:11 PM
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This certainly puts a lot in perspective. In this case the choice of strategy combined with good GS overcame a stacked team on CT. Taking on their 17k and 31k sg and sf with a couple 4k players on the outside with better GS is mind boggling. Even the inside had a large advantage with his 13k pf on my 5k scrub. I must admit the 25k center of theirs did give me some foul trouble and take a lot of rebs. Most all players on the team at any position had an advantage. The effort on their part was clearly apparent with the whopping 23 reb advantage. The big stat for them was definitely the 20 TOs. Either way the win was impressive to me and definitely shows the importance of strategy and GS.

From: Yuck

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185389.6 in reply to 185389.5
Date: 5/21/2011 1:53:00 AM
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Second Team:
Yuckville Cass
SF M. Pavinkšnis 53 16 - 32 5 - 14 5 - 8 -6 3 13 5 2 0 1 3 42 5.5
SG E. González Almunia 53 14 - 36 7 - 19 1 - 2 -4 1 7 0 5 0 0 6 36 7.5

Did you watch the game? I bet everytime these two guys shot the ball you were on the edge of your seat. I have had games like this in the past that at your level are just awesome and renew your vigor for the game.

From: RamQ

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185389.7 in reply to 185389.6
Date: 5/21/2011 4:33:47 AM
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Ya dude It feels great to win when you play a better team then you. I narrowly won my cup game this week too. I had an unlucky draw and was facing a decent DIII guy. I was able to pull it out after trailing the whole game. It was the first realy excited game of the season. I sacrificed some of my guys game shapes to average, but I figured I just needed to beat this unlucky draw. I then got a D I team. Lucky me!

From: Fluff

To: RamQ
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185389.8 in reply to 185389.7
Date: 5/21/2011 9:03:52 AM
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i know from personal experience that having higher GS than your opponent's players is a big boost.
I havent been able to quantify it exactly (compared to say HCA or layers of outside or inside skills) but its almost as if every point of GS in your favour adds a "pop" to the players primary skills for the game against his match up.
It keeps things much more interesting for managers :)

From: RamQ

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185389.11 in reply to 185389.9
Date: 5/21/2011 2:47:46 PM
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Ya he put more into it, and the best player on the court would be his Center. It might have been a good idea to still play an outside tactic despite his 3-2 seeing as your guards are your best players and far outmatch his gurads, while his best players are inside and match up better than yours. This is one of those times when you matchthe tactics perfectly up but you didn't play your strength and played into his. The fact that if you put in the same effort you would have won kind stinks but it happens.