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13. New York Chickens - 3-8

ignoring conventional wisdom in focusing on building the arena, the chickens are in a relegation battle regardless. i sure wouldn't bet on either them or ballstars beating walnut streets in a 3 game series, so that 6 spot will be critical. they've made some smart moves, investing in youngsters pirsino, sure and delauney, so there's hope here yet of develiping into a successful franchise. on the other hand, they've also invested in players well into their mid-late 30s. can they come up with a win on the road against ballstars? that game will be crucial in determining their near-future.

14. Pearl City - 1-10

well someone had to win last night. i jest, we know this manager knows what he's doing. from the forums he seems pretty bright and his moves have been intelligent. i'm sure the team will be fine in the future. his entire team is a bunch of youngsters so it's hard to single out anyone, but his team has been getting beat by less and less so he's gotta be doing something right.

15. wrexham rebels - 1-10

afk

16. LambdaLambdaLambda - 0-11

the team is in rough shape game shape wise. he hasn't logged on in over a month. that's actually tragic, hopefully he comes back and whoops d4.

Good win Buddy! I knew there was no chance i was getting a W in that game. I do see that we kept it close for a half on the back of Pana, but overall just not enough. I will say i am confident that if I had tommy the game probably comes down to the wire. Sorry you got an injury to a starter... I never like to see that.

On top of that my 19 yr olds try to compete but are NO where near being good enough to play 35+ mins in a competitive D3 game. Now against the relegation teams yeah, but not against anyone with a 30k PF or C... so they foul and foul ALOT so you get a BOATload of FTs which hurts and then they foul out so now my rotations and line ups are thrown off. Plus Marco gets fouls because he's playing tons of post help defense to cover up for them. Basically my guards either have to score 60-70 between them or we lose its that simple right now and thats why its a rebuild. Now lucky for me the teams this year are not championship or bust competitive so i have found my way to 7 wins so far. But its all smoke and mirrors right now. Next year or the year following we will be back to Championship Pedigree.

With that all said I must say Marco Tatti has a bid on him. So he will be moving here in an hour or so. Once he officially sells the team will release a thanks to him, give a recap of his contributions to our team and this league and a small view of where he is going. And our thoughts on what that team maybe looking for by taking him.

Ps if anyone in the league sells a player who's salary is 30k or higher that contributed to our LEAGUE not just their team. I will give a pleasant farewell to that player and look at what the team purchasing them may have in mind.

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! SLOW DOWN!!!!! I'm just trying get a ticket to the dance. I do enjoy the chatter in this league. You guys make it a lot of fun.

idk, new guy seems to put them as best team in the conference

Maybe, we'll see. It'll be some interesting games down the stretch. I think yourself, philly, west side and bucsblue are all players for the cup, and I'll be willing to throw in homeboyz if I see them fare well against some of the top teams. They're a little behind the top teams in terms of team salary, but it's entirely possible his secondaries are better than all the above. We'll see.

Frosty I appreciate the ranking. Its funny as i was reading your insight i never even thought about the first loss to Homeboyz and then our game its NO promise that if Tommy plays i win but there is a way to make an argument that i could be 9-2... UNREAL given the openness of how poor my team is. lol

On a different note dont blame BB for everyone missing on Joe Hilton. he probably showed up to teams that scouted as 19 yrs old 6'10 5 4 star player rating, 3 star potential and A+ rating. So maybe people passed. Maybe no one knew who he was best part frosty is that my first pick was Todd (hes bleeping BRUTAL!) and then at 29th Joe falls me. He had 4 attributes as strong when i got him. But already with training he has had multiple 10.0 rating games already which is rare for 19 yr old. When you're a contender you just always expect to get trash in the draft and just hope to get someone is worth selling for 100k-200k. But you never get anyone worth training and if they are they are never good enough to actually play in D3 games. And somehow the stars lined up and i got a player that i actually can play (minus him fouling so much cuz he's really not ready ready just yet) and worth training.

Overall I like the move by you HomeBoyz. He's young and my guess is most 80k Centers have HUGE inside defense so he will anchor the post. The question is whether his jump shot is any good. Because if it was higher or his handle/passing/driving was above avg BB makes them a PF not a C. Once i see BB label him a center it tells me he lacks a few points in the top 6 categories. But its a great move for sure puts you in the playoff hunt.

I also agree Frosty that on the Great 8 side you want to be 6th seed. 7th seed is gone as walnut will beat them in the series. I will say that the games once we get out of interleague play will be fun as there are legit 5 teams on our side that have "something" to play for and 6 teams on your side maybe 7. So that will be fun.

I am thinking at all star break as i often do with that extra day of no game on tuesday i will give my midseason individual awards and looks. That being top 5 MVP candidates along with an all league team for best player at each position. MVP will have nothing to do with position. Feel free to piggy back it with any other midseason awards for individuals not team.

Also we have 9 Teams still in the cup i believe after all star game we get down to the final 64. It would be awesome if we have 10% of our league still around the final 64! I dont know everyone else matchups. My match up has good post play but my guards should dominate and as long as tommy is healthy by then i will play both Tommy & Pana and i think that is enough to win my cup game.

well... i don't think it's a given that you beat me with tompkins and you playing normal, but i think you become the favorite in that game by at least 5, maybe 7, even if enrici stays healthy all game.

and my cup match is an nbba team so without enrici i really don't stand much of a chance.

Nice job league, to still have 6 teams in the Cup, tops as one of three DIII leagues to have that many teams remaining. I haven't looked at everyone's next games though yet.

Here is the breakdown of DIII leagues and teams remaining:

III.1: 0
III.2: 3
III.3: 1
III.4: 5
III.5: 3
III.6: 5
III.7: 6
III.8: 6
III.9: 1
III.10: 2
III.11: 6
III.12: 3
III.13: 2
III.14: 2
III.15: 0
III.16: 3