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the big three of gilles aitor and wiktor legooo

good luck in the playoffs, you look to have a good chance to advance to the next league. Since I'm building off the draft till I have a large sum of money(and stadium), it may take me longer to catch up with you.

its my teams luck that we lost by a buzzerbeating 3. Oh well, we should still have a good shot at taking the league crown this year.

Might I be so bold as to request that you send me a BB-mail telling me Taylor Stearns' starting skills? I promise I don't want the info for tactical reasons, but he was my #1 draft prospect on my board, and you sniped him before I could pick him. He looks really good and I'm just curious what I'm missing out on.

And you may have a good shot at the league crown, probably better than mine considering I still don't have a PG and allowed my competitive spirit to get me into a bidding frenzy over a pretty mediocre prospect Zhang Ziguo. I allowed myself to be blinded by his height and potential and overlooked his starting skills as I competed in a bidding war with another manager. Now I wasted much of my spare cash and have serious buyer's remorse and still no PG. Not that y'all should care about my stupidity, but it helps explain why my team is so obviously lacking at arguably the most important position. But even despite that, before you start getting too confident, there's this guy on my team named Enrico Tremolada. Anyone remember his stats from last season? I'll save you the trouble of checking:

21 PPG on 56.9% shooting from the field, made 81.6% of his FTs, 4.0 offensive rebounds, 16.5 total rebounds (led the league), 5.7 assists (as I said I have no PG, so that inflates it a bit, but those are hugely impressive for a big man), and 21.0 PPG. 31 out of 32 first place MVP votes last season. And he's only getting better.

But he's not the guy you should be watching. Chinese power forward Ming Chongkai is one of the best young prospects I've seen. He was originally drafted as a shooting guard at 7'0"! Great secondaries for such a big player with the exception of handling. And with his height, his inside skills are rapidly improving. Expect great things from him this year.

With young talent such as Sonney Lindsey and Zhang Ziguo backing them up, this team is stacked inside. If I ever get a true point guard, it could be a very good season for the Lakers.

Btw, no offense gocavs, but I think the team to watch is kbdemons, and I'm not saying that just because they ended my playoff run last year in the first round. Look at their team ratings and compare them to any other team in this league.

Hey you guys, hows it been?

Looks like penny's goin all the way this year.

Yeah I definitely got a bit ahead of myself, everyone is building fast off of the free agents but I want to slow down and be financially stable before I get in to the higher leagues. I'll BB mail you his attributes sometimes soon(don't know them off the top of my head), but I can tell you right now that his potential is at MVP and that he started at average for almost all of his attributes.

I doubt this team does more than lose in the first round of the playoffs but you never know, I'm just happy that I probably have much more money than others because I haven't bidded for a player yet and I have built up my stadium.

Last edited by gocavs at 12/13/2011 6:12:41 PM

Also want to recommend http://www.drivethelane.com to both you and Jay-z. While this game is definitely enjoyable, I think Drive The Lane is a much better made game, the leagues are way more consistent and there is an incredible amount of board activity. It isn't as complicated, but at the same time it takes alot of skill to become a successful coach in the game. If either of you want to make an account bb-mail me, and I can find you a good spot in a league in the same conference as me.

Last edited by gocavs at 12/13/2011 6:13:37 PM

Average in all his attributes? And that's why I wanted to draft him. Sweet prospect. As far as money and arena go, I would recommend you expand your court side seats and luxury boxes. You're not selling out all your bleachers and lower tier so there's no point in expanding those. At the same time you're consistently filling all luxury boxes and court side seats. So that would increase your weekly income. For example, right now I have $633K after paying $570K for an arena expansion. I've trained all my key players since they were rookies. I also make around $85K per week. So I'm doing pretty well as money, probably not quite as well as you but still pretty comfortable. I just need to buy good backcourt players and I should promote in a season or two.

To make a good SF, you'll need to play him out of position at PG and C for single-position OD/passing training at PG and IS/maybe ID training at C, with some time at PF for rebounding. You can train JS and HA/DR at SF, but everything else needs to be trained out of position if you want to single-position train those skills (which is the only way you can make use of his high potential). If you're not planning on trying to promote this season, why don't you do that this season? He's got the skills that he could hold his own at those positions in D.V

I think you both are being a too careful. Its not very difficult to keep up in Division 4, especially financially. My arena sells out just about every game, and my record isn't even great at all. I think, after tanking this season, I'll be able to get in D. III in just a few more seasons.

After Penny Packer leaves this season, I think you two will be able to compete for the championship. Buy some vets for a cheap price, and you'll both be out by the next three seasons.

I think it is more about time. I spend more time on DTL because I like that game much better. So I've been carefull with this team because I don't log on long enough to search through the market for good deals.