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Looks like I'm going to be leading my side this season. I want everyone on the great 8 side this season to go as hard as they can against the big 8 and finally end with a winning record against them.

haha, you a funny dude.

I actually just lost Clinton Cantrell for at least a week now. So that leaves me without my starting PG and C for the next 1 to 2 weeks.

I just HAD to talk smack, didn't I?

Word of Advice: Make sure to only acquire players with names not already on your roster. I made the mistake of setting my roster versus divinedragons with my backup PG/SG Teddy TITUS as my starting PF all because I thought I had chosen my PF TITUS Harvey. So I took the court with a small lineup.

PG Clinton Cantrell - 6'2"
SG Lawrence Coyle - 6'3"
SF Lorenzo Capps - 6'3"
PF Teddy Titus - 6'6"
C Vivencio Capelo - 6'10"

Clinton Cantrell gets hurt either before or just after the half. I can't really remember.

That left me with Titus (SG/PG), Coyle (PG/SG/SF), Webber (6'11" SF/PF), Capps, Hiatt (7'1" PF), and even Harvey filling in at the point. Thankfully Hiatt and Harvey rarely filled in at the point but let's just say I was practically screaming at my coach before I had to apologize later when I realized my goof.

Then Lawrence Coyle was injured (apparently for the remainder of the game so he'll be available next week it looks like) so that left Teddy Titus swapping back and forth on the court at PG and PF which caused Webber, Hiatt, and Harvey to swap with Teddy Titus whenever they were on the court so that left me with weird lineups.

Alright, so now I am without Cantrell AND Partridge. All I need now is for Capps, Titus, Capelo, and Webber to get injured. I spoke a while back in the Help section of the boards about how I have been fortunate enough to not experience injuries since the 5th season when Capps was finding himself injured. Lo and behold, Season 11 rolls along and my Skill Level 5 Team Doctor with his ability to tape injuries lets two happen within the first two games.

Injuries are definelty a crap shoot. Whenever you feel you are fortunate that you haven't had a lot of injuries you know one is coming, and when you think injuries can't get worse, you REALLY know injuries are gonna keep coming. Anyway, good luck to you goats in your time of injuries and be thankful they came at the beginning of the season (provided you don't also get injuries later on in the season). At least you got the win against dragons, but after selling smiley and not having purchased any players since they weren't exactly the toughest players around.

No surprise at all on Day 2 of D III.4. Cresleys gave real hard times to Booshers, but couldn't avoid the loss at OT. Booshers are easily the best defensive team of the league so far. Tachneko (2-0) is keen to turn things around and to become a contender again. High-Flyers put a great effort against Hawks in the second half reducing the 36 pts. gap to 13, but it was too late and they are heading home with empty hands. Magic and Cleveland both played with inside focused strategies and the game was more like a battle of centers. Cleveland won at OT, giving heartbreak to Magic, whose current standing shouldn't reflect their real capacity.
Illusion defeated Investors with ease on the highest scoring game of the day (121-108) They are the team to beat on Great 8. Goats, busy with injuries, keep on winning. Dragons (0-2) should find a way to replace Smiley. Gavno reminded us what kind of a team they are with their awesome 3rd quarter performance against Steppers.
Player of the day was Jose Ramirez of Junior Knicks. Spanish center was the leading actor on their 109-94 win against Bangers with 27 pts and 15 rbs.
League will continue after a Cup break, and two teams will suffer their first loss as Booshers host Tachenko and Illusion host Junior Knicks on Saturday. These 2 games are gonna be a real test for the teams.


Last edited by karapaks at 12/23/2009 8:15:00 AM

Yes my hat goes off to a very tough Marietta Magic team it seems we always have close games. He has an incredible inside presence with Sean Ryan and that Moshoeli guy rebounds are hard to come by and I have a decent rebounding team. His center and my center basically evened out Ryan had 19 boards and 20 points while my Center Knez had 17 boards and 24 points. I think the difference came down ultimately to turnovers as Marietta had 28. I must say that is not like the Magic so I am not sure what happened there? Anyways the magic are one beast of a team and I don't look forward to playing them at his place any time soon. My game against the Booshes was TIE'd with the realization that his team and mine on equal enthusiasm and them playing at home probably would not have come out any different had I CT'd him soooooo the TIE was on. It did cost me in my attendance this last home game with nearly 4200 empty seats but you got to do what you got to do. Good luck to all on Saturday and I hope to introduce another big man to the Cleveland fans real soon. We will see!

I hope to introduce another big man to the Cleveland fans real soon. We will see!

with the possible addition of another big man you might have hell of a frontcourt.

Yeah, I felt blessed that despite starting SG Teddy Titus in the paint instead of my actual PF Titus Harvey, suffering another devastating blow to my starting lineup (down 2 starters now), we still managed to pull off the victory.

However, I'm grounded by the very fact that he really only had Braden helping his team out. His Center was doing a fantastic job on the boards but outside of Braden, he wasn't getting much in help scoring. Overall, it was an odd game for the both of us. I'm definitely going to be very afraid of what the dragons bring to the table next time I see his team.

And, the irony is that I did not play CT, I went normal, and STILL lost by only one in OT. Why my team did not foul in the last :20 is beyond me.

I don't think I'll have too tough of a time against the Junior Knicks, after all they are just the juniors.

LOL well I would like to think another big man would help. I primarily train guards so I usually buy my big men. Yeah I know I am strange most train big guys but I like the challenge.

Well done, Cleveland. The Magic are unfortunately struggling again early on. Any more losses like this and I may have to just blow up the team and start over.