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Ok, whatever you say.

I agree with Miami or any of the top 5 or so teams vs a NT team. I also agree that Bosh is underrated, he is a true 4 forced to play at the 5.

Miami switched up their D in game 6, from trying to protect the paint against Parker and Ginoboli drives. They switched their emphasis to shutting the door on the perimeter. Its obvious that Duncan had a lot more space and better looks, then he had previously, in the series. Their pressure D is crazy good, but like all pressure D (especially without a real big man in the game), that the middles is open when you get to it.

Just browsed through the thread (haven't been paying a lot of attention this year since i'm not a part of it) and i saw comments about everything EXCEPT the topic at hand.

So i'll go on topic:

There are 4 clear favorites remaining this year and none of them playing against each other. And they are BORING. Why are they boring? Because they are essentially the same exact team i.e. they use the same tactics, they built their team the same way and they even get the same exact in game ratings. Honestly, Dionysus winning the B3 for a while was a bit of a breath of fresh air as he actually had a relatively sustainable team. This year? We'll see. It might come down to luck between those 4 teams. But in general i guess VS will buy his way to another title.

As for the off topic stuff:

Salary caps calculated by TV rights, hard caps etc won't work. They will cause more problems than they solve. The only potential solution to B3 and BB in general has to be related to fixing the attendance income for micro nations. But it needs to be done very carefully, because you don't want to make it impossible for them to win in B3.

P.S. Someone mentioned the countries that had 2 teams in the top 32 phase this year. Well, he forgot Macedonia which also had both teams making it to the top 32 phase. Unfortunately, they both lost immediately.

I wasn't necessarily talking about the way he acquired the money to buy those players, i was just talking about his team. On a per week basis, i assume his team was sustainable or borderline sustainable. That's the type of team that SHOULD win B3 each year. His team was perfectly built for the tactics he used, no matter how boring it is. As for him buying players after being developed, at least to a degree, everybody's doing it and for a good reason. It's impossible to train 7-8 great players with great secondaries by yourself. I have no problem with teams training half of their players and buying the other half.

Dino winning was horrible. he used every dirty trick in the book including and not limited to grabbing players for 1k then relisting them for 250k hoping to make a quick buck off of some noob.
There is several dudes doing this now, its like a fad or something. A connection between players trained by noobs and selling 1k players for 250k to noobs.
And that is how his team was 'stable'. Financed on the back of the masses. Trained too.
Also as China NT coach he funneled the better part of their WO team into his team, benefited from an endless army of guys to draft and train players for him, in China and obscure corners of the earth like Pakistan.
Fresh air? What you are saying is that you dislike every car being painted blue so much that you would be happy to see one roll by in the color brown, even if it was just feces spread all over it.

Sometimes I wish you weren't so reticent and would just tell us what you really felt. ;)