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I took Georgia lightly last season, and received a beatdown for it. They're my pick to win that conference. Ballus is an old team, they won't be winning this league unless they add some new players.

Thanks man that means a lot coming from your team. I hope I can live up to the hype lol. I actually had to go back and re-watch our game, and honestly I probably should have lost the rebounds by way more than 4. Btw do you train bigmen or centers?

Because I've been trying to work Shot blocking into my training and could use another manager to bounce ideas off.

Cheers!

My original plan was to put a strong emphasis on shot blocking for Hobbs and Aponte and see how that worked out with the revamped system. However, I kept track of all the big men in the age group and they were two of the best, so I decided to base my training on trying to get one of them on to the U21 team. That means they need to be real close to a 13 in IS, ID and rebounding by the end of this season.

So, that's what I'm working on for my training. And that means I had to scrap my shot blocking plans, though I'm still going to try and work some of that training in there as well. Their rebounding is fine, so everything I do the rest of the way will be single position center training.

I'm jealous man. I'm doing two position training. So, I have to buy trainees that have good SF/SG skills and then train them into PFs. Rather than just build my own players.

I really thought shot blocking was nicely revamped in the new system. Since my best center was averaging like 6-7 blocks per 48 mins last season, for the first few games. I also tended to notice that the higher SB my players had (even at the SF position) the more often I saw in the play by play that they "altered their opponent's shot".

Yeah, before there would be like 1-2 blocks a game total.

Damn it...I've been using TIE so I could try and win my Cup game, but that backfired. Now I'm 1-3 and eliminated from the Cup.

I feel like training big men in this game is not as valuable as training guards because an amazing gaurd is usually a lot more valuable than an amazing big man.

Like for example I can always get a decent 40 or 50 k big at age 24 for around 500k.

But to get a 40k pg at age 24 you are looking at around 750k and up.

I don't know, I think I'd rather have a great big than a great guard. From my experience it just seems like big men are harder to slow down. That's why Look Inside is such a popular tactic. I know that's pretty much the only offense the U21 team has run for a long time now. Things might start to change though with the improvement of shot blocking.

Hello league. Wiz gave up?

Headed to DV. Need a streak to fix my financial situation, and this league is entirely too competitive. Hoping a downgrade will help me fix things.

or I may get stuck in DV forever again. We'll find out. See ya gents, still hate all of you!

Congrats to Bret Pollard on breaking the league scoring record with 79 points in a game. Glad to get Matias out of there.

Also, a shout out to the Cliff Hangers for surpassing their win total from last season. They're playing tough defense, and I'm looking forward to watching them host Ballus in a couple weeks.

Speaking of Ballus, I think I've exposed their weakness in my victories against them, but I'm not sure how many teams have the personnel to stop them. I know they would smoke me in a Finals series right now. I'm working hard to remedy that, but not sure if I have enough time.

Last edited by Dangrel at 1/31/2014 8:38:04 PM

How can I not respond to a shout out?!

I second that congrats to Bret, I too wanted someone to steal it from that scoring-god-disguised-as-Matias.

It's an interesting season, and I'm glad to be mixing things up (I was notably absent from a certain someone's preseason analysis!). The top 4 teams right now (though who knows who'll be top by season's end) have a combined 5 losses. Three of them are against each other, two of them are against Rogues. They find a way to win, which is an intimidating skill come playoff time. I'm really pleased with my defense this season (league-leading!), but it's hard to ignore that Ballus isn't too far behind in that category but is rolling me in PF, for a big advantage in PD. With Towson beating the Ball Boys tonight, and a big game for them against me Tuesday, its hard to say what the field will look like in a few weeks, but I'm confident it'll be a great game against both Towson and Ballus in the coming weeks.

Ballus is definitely an intimidating team up there on the mountaintop, but part of the intrigue this season is that he has to beat me on my court, if he doesn't and we have the same record for the rest of the season otherwise, I'll have homecourt through the Finals. So, through luck, he has to come through me or I have to stumble in the regular season, both of which may happen, haha. But I wouldn't ship him the chip just yet.