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Ya dude It feels great to win when you play a better team then you. I narrowly won my cup game this week too. I had an unlucky draw and was facing a decent DIII guy. I was able to pull it out after trailing the whole game. It was the first realy excited game of the season. I sacrificed some of my guys game shapes to average, but I figured I just needed to beat this unlucky draw. I then got a D I team. Lucky me!

i know from personal experience that having higher GS than your opponent's players is a big boost.
I havent been able to quantify it exactly (compared to say HCA or layers of outside or inside skills) but its almost as if every point of GS in your favour adds a "pop" to the players primary skills for the game against his match up.
It keeps things much more interesting for managers :)

Ya he put more into it, and the best player on the court would be his Center. It might have been a good idea to still play an outside tactic despite his 3-2 seeing as your guards are your best players and far outmatch his gurads, while his best players are inside and match up better than yours. This is one of those times when you matchthe tactics perfectly up but you didn't play your strength and played into his. The fact that if you put in the same effort you would have won kind stinks but it happens.

I actually think you made the right call using the 2-3. defense. I think besides offensive not playing your strength the only other thing was he put more into it than you did. I use 2-3 quite often aginst people plating inside and I haven't really seen any major problems. I rarely play man 2 man, mainly because I am still in a league that most people don't change tactics that often so I know what offense they are going to use and can plan accordingly. Man 2 man seems like the safe bet when don't really want to guess wrong.

I've seen some really strange results from the zone defenses. In one of the games this season, I played LI against a 2-3 and my center went 13-14 (only miss was last second 3) so he was 13-13 on the inside against a more expensive center. The team I was playing against had a good inside defense rating as well. Maybe his center just wasn't enough even with the added zone. I noticed more alley oops and I wonder if the decreased outside defense allows the perimeter players to move the ball better- leading to more easy buckets. In addition, I read a post stating that the 2-3 zone increases defense on the inside but doesn't help against what he called 'close shots' regarding results from running his game analyzer. Making the argument that it is not worth giving up so much outside defense to only increase some defense inside without having an advantage on close shots.

Here is a link to the game if you are curious http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/32858261/boxscore.aspx

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/35620569/boxscore.aspx

my opponent in this cup match had a 30 k salary center (petho) (btw my best player in team has 8 k salary) and he played patient all the time, which resulted in the center taking the majority of the shots. i played 2-3 zone and pretty much got what i wanted keeping him below %50 and he could only attempt 9 shots.