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I agree that the Coaches are stupid. I had to TIE with by backups vs Teckendo becasue my coach will play Carmona for 46-47 minutes. What a pain in the arse.....

I knew it was a bit of a risk to play 1-3-1 v Look Inside, but I wanted to see if I could slow the attack to keep the ball out of Chow's hands. Chow is a problem because he's a great passer from the post, and I believed that if I could try to keep the ball in the hands of other players I'd have my best chance to win. I was up late in the 4th but couldn't shoot the ball down the stretch. Oh well. Its one of the few games I can say I was happy to lose because I learned a lot from it. Still he played TIE and I played Normal, so I've got a ways to go to be truly competitive.

Time to make some moves and see if I can rearrange the rotation a bit? Maybe I'll move to inside training. . .not sure yet. Should continue to be interesting down the stretch. There's a lot of teams in that 5-6, 4-7 range and we all kind of look alike at this point.

Thanks everybody.

Hey Indi -- I'm coming for you! (without my best player, that is)

does that mean you will CT against me? LOL

Not sure what it was but my team played like a horses ass. Geesh.

lol!

I was kinda hoping we could both just kinda look at this game as a preview to the all-star game. You know, no D, the players just out there loosely having a good time. A few nice dunks and, in the end, the star-studded team wins out but nobody gets hurt.

Okay, I know why we played the way we did. It's a case of setting my roster when I was dead tired so late in the evening and failing to followup later the next day since I was out the next day.

This is the second time I've done this too. I started let SG/PG TEDDY Titus play the backup at PG/SG and PF instead of putting Titus HARVEY in as my backup PF.

Then the Goats proceeded to play like crap instead of playing like expected.

Personal Fouls
Starters shooting 0.317
Coach failing to put Lorenzo Capps into the game while Lowell Webber continued to play like hell


I think I'm going to have to dump either Titus Harvey or Teddy Titus. Their names are giving me fits right now.

Let me reiterate: I figured we'd lose but not play the way we did. I figured we'd play better but still come out losing.

Last edited by kaygdanimal at 1/25/2010 12:31:42 PM

Down 30 after 3????

You couldn't play your scrubs or TIE for me? wow.

maybe you did and I'm just that bad

And I don't understand why Prov would CT me at home with a road game versus Booshes next up? I don't feel too bad TIE'ing on the road and only losing by 14, especially since he went CT.

I TIED man. LOL

What a crazy evening it was. A lot of action and some crucial games.

Cleveland @ Illusion: 73 mins of basketball, 5 0T, 290 FG attempts, 368 points total and home side won the game 186-182. 7 players scored 30+ points. It's hard to analyze such a weird game but one number tells it all. Illusion's 93 rebounds against Cleveland's 52. However 25/50 behind the 3 point line for Cleveland is remarkable. Another interesting fact is only one player was fouled out in a 73 minute game. After the game fans were like it can't get any better than this.

This crazy game shouldn't overshadow Booshers’ great victory against Gavno at Indiana. It was a battle of different strategies. Gavno was up by 6 at the end of the first half but Booshers' second half performance handed Gavno first home loss of the season. Gavno is an extremely strong team with a lot options on the court but their record against other contenders (1-3) is disappointing at this point. Booshers new signing Mercan -despite all his talent- looked tired and seemed to be suffering from jet lag.

Upset of the day -some might not call this an upset- was at Chicago. Magic pulled out a great victory against Goats: 74-92. Although Goats TIE'd and Magic went normal this is still huge for Magic. Goats fans have every right to expect more from Partidge, Capps and Cantrell, especially on the offensive end. The interesting fact was despite using a low post strategy, Goats tried 18 3 point shots only 2 of which went in.

Steppers benched some of their starters including Mina, both teams TIE’d and Hawks won by 18 at Charlotte. 72-90. Rumor has it, Billon requested to stay home for this game and was mad at being named as a starter. He was benched through out almost entire second half to get the rest he needed though. Problem will be addressed once the team returns to Indianapolis.

Investors don't want to give away any home games; CT'd against Rip City and got what they wanted: 88-74. They are currently sitting on the 4th place.

Knicks are not in the winning mode now. Flyers, lead by Matan Saadon, grabbed an easy win: 44-120. Flyers management gave the players one day off to party in Manhattan, as a reward for their great win.

Tachenko took back the 3rd place after an easy win against Dragons. 80-105. Coach didn't let his players, who are waiting for the Thurday's cup game, lose focus on this game. Their back up Center Redick Jansen achieved the 4th triple double of his career.

Cresleys hold on to the game until the last quarter but Bangers made no mistake: 119-97. Cresleys still suffer behind FT line, this time they missed 14 of them.

Player of the day was, Statovci of "The Illusion". Although 66 mins of playing time inflated his numbers; 40 pts, 9 asts, 30 rbds, 2 blocks with only 1 to were impressive.

Game of the Saturday will be between Illusion and Hawks. Gavno @ Magic might be an interesting one as well. With the way they played this week, expect Magic to give Gavno some hard time.

Good luck to Tachenko and Gavno in their cup games on Thursday.



Last edited by karapaks at 1/27/2010 10:12:46 AM

Yeah, Goats fans were seen rioting in the streets after the game because of this two game losing streak. I thought we played remarkably crappy. Just looking at the numbers, I think Partridge might've played better than Dorman but the perimeter of Cantrell, Capps, and Webber (our normal rotation from the previous seasons) were given the FAIL Award by the Team President.

Capps is shooting his way out of Chicago right now. Reminds me too much of Ben Gordon at times and I cannot play effective basketball playing the RNG all the time which is where he excels at. With Partridge and Capelo at Center, I have to take advantage of the offensive edge they give me. Otherwise, it's not money well spent.

The other problem we're having is when we get to the free throw line, we're not taking advantage of those either. Goats have always been a crappy free throw team but I'm going to save the Free Throw training for later in their careers. Right now, I've got these young post players that need focused training that I can't waste it on free throws.

On the Hot Seat:

Lorenzo Capps - our RNG days are not over but they're non-existent this season as I wanted to take advantage of my post players. I moved Capps to SG for this game and put Webber back at starting SF and the Low Post offense went to hell.

Lowell Webber - I think I have too high expectations for Webber that he's underperforming in my mind but when I did my analysis of all of his games, he's actually my higher performing player along with Cantrell. Apparently Webber and Cantrell are my two most consistently high performers.

Clinton Cantrell - He's not really on the hot seat because without Cantrell running the offense, my offensive production drops. However, he's supposed to be a pretty good three point shooter but he's hitting his threes at a 0.217 percentage right now. It is his third time to shoot below 0.300 on the season for three pointers but this is his lowest since Season 7 when he shot 0.250 from the arc. He went 0-6 from the arc and had a 1:1 assist:turnover ratio. Not a good night for Cantrell, one that can definitely be improved upon.