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(6) Legendary Goldfish vs. (7) Farfrompukin
The Goldfish made their bed here by purposely losing the last game in hopes of earning some extra postseason income and training. They're going to get what they asked for. I was fairly confident in my own chances of handling Farfrompukin with a home court advantage, and the Goldfish are pretty similar to my squad, with excellent defense and enough scoring to keep people honest. I think Farfrompukin is more talented than they showed in the regular season. They can pull out the stops and make a surprisingly good show of this series, but that in the end they don't quite have what it takes to get the two W's.

Goldfish in 3, because they tank game 2.

(6) GuitarHeroesIV vs. (7) Airballers
I can't figure out how GH fell to the 6th spot with a former-NBBA squad that can competently run any tactic. This is a particularly tough matchup for Airballers because GH has the size to compete down low and developing guards to present matchup problems on offense. Speaking of developing guards though, the Airballers have won some games recently with guard play of their own. Although this should be more competitive than the other relegation matchup, I don't see where Airballers will get the scoring to survive.

GH in 3 close ones.

Anyone expecting any upsets? Because apparently I'm not

Even though I improbably got the number 1 seed, I still can't see myself winning the league...

Great write up, it will be interesting to see how close your predictions are to reality. I set my team up for growth rather than just this season explosiveness and my team has NEVER been an offensive juggernaught, even when Jairo Alejandro Renteria was the man locking down the middle for me. It has usually been about good defense, good rebounding and a slow sledgehammer offense. I have lost every game to almost the exact same tactics, extra effort, a 2-3 and run and gun. Will have to see if I can shut that down because I really do not see anyone in this league challenging my big men on purpose.

In my experience, upsets rarely happen, so your picks should be pretty safe. Home court makes far too much of a difference in this game, especially in the playoffs. It helps your cause that I'm 1-10 historically against da Beach. I wish he'd friggin promote already so I can get a beatable rival

Last edited by Tracy Marrow at 6/15/2010 12:58:10 AM

Well, congratulations on shooting yourself in the foot? MB wasn't winning this season anyway though.

In other news, really strange game between Rice Eaters and Blue Crazys, a nice PO-Normal win by UH, and a confusing starting C choice for GuitarHeroes.

Congrats to the First Round winners, I wish I had been a little more competitive but with Bdeir out with an injury my bench options were limited. Good luck guys!

cws

Shooting myself in the foot? Speaking of that ... I spent too much time at the beach over the past couple days apparently and forgot to set my scrim lineup. All my starters played well over 100 mins this week. Grats to UH on their win Saturday as my game shape takes a rhinoceros-sized dump

Ya never know, he may go with another PON and risk the upset.

He's made that mistake with me before ;)

Don't ask what happened with me, I wasn't around to set my lineups against Vikings, I purchased a National Appeal PR Manager for the game and everything... wasted my money.
I thought I had a pretty decent shot after picking up Stephane but oh well.. now i'll be stuck with high team salaries next season.