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What a mis-match. The Booshes absolutely crushed me! I had no hopes of winning but did not think it would get that out of hand. Thank goodness for the allstar break. Great Half a Season!

We are back to action after the all-star break and looks like some didn't enjoy their first games as they enjoyed Caribbean beaches during the all star break.

Hawks suffered their first loss of the season against Bangers. 104-91. Hawks were outcoached and players looked exhausted on the 4th quarter. This shouldn't be viewed as a big surprise since Bangers were on the top of Great 8 last season.

Another upset was at Chicago. Cresleys beat Goats. 88-96. Despite a late comeback on the 4th quarter, Goats' losing streak increased to 4. Expect to hear some decisions from Goats management later this week.

Booshers eying the top seed and continue their winning streak. Dragons' terrible 2nd quarter effort spoiled an otherwise decent performance. 81-104. All Dragons can do is hoping someone helps their superstar Bumbul.

After some disappointing losses, Gavno didn't want to risk anything @ Flyers, put more than their opponent and won by 15: 82-67. All of their starters reached double figures.

Tachenko @ Illusion was the highly anticipated and TV'd game of the night but Tachenko decided not to go hard and gave up early: 106-90. Does that mean they are fine with the 4th place and keep their energy for the playoffs? First seed at Great 8 is a matter of point difference and will be fun to watch those 2 great teams fighting for the title.

3rd seed on Big 8 continues to switch between Cleveland and Tachenko. This time it was Cleveland's turn. Win against Knicks was tougher than what the final score tells us, it was a close game till the final minutes: 89-103.

Magic are arguably the hottest team right now. Investors were up by 7 at the half but like most other games, result was decided at the 4th quarter: 102-111. Magic's big three-Ryan, Ketikidis, Holloway- produced a combined total of 89 pts, 21 asts, 34 boards and 5 blocks.

Steppers made a nice start after the all star break. Rip City raised the flag on the first half. 86-77. Steppers are among the 4 teams that have a shot on 3rd and 4th playoff spots.

Player of the day was Markos Ketikidis of Marietta Magic with an all around performance of 36 pts, 8 rbds, 6 asts, 3 blks with no TO.

Among the Tuesday's games Goats @ Cleveland (3rd vs 3rd) and Bangers @ Tachenko (4th vs 4th) are the most important ones for the playoff race in both sides of the Division.




Last edited by karapaks at 2/7/2010 6:17:09 AM

Decisions, decisions, decisions.

I tried to transfer Lorenzo Capps but no one wanted him. So I decided to keep him and he gave me what I expected. A crap performance. I mean, I just tried to get rid of the guy so I can't expect much more than that.

However, Lowell Webber has played horrendous this season and alot of that could be attributed to running a Man defense as compared to our normal 3-2 or 2-3 depending on the opponent.

I'm at a crossroads right now. I want to blow my team up but doing so creates the risk for relegation something I do not really want to do.

Cantrell and Partridge are safe. Webber and Capps are looking to be transferred although Capps is the leading candidate.

I did decide to TIE the Cresleys looking more to build up my enthusiasm for and manage the team's Game Shape for tougher games coming up. I never expected to win, especially considering that with all of the analysis I've managed to do, Donghao, Diehl, and others ... they have some fantastic players but are just playing in a tough as nails conference.

Last edited by kaygdanimal at 2/7/2010 12:00:38 PM

I think the problem is both of your SF have a high physical factor. Hence they both pick up too many fouls. I would just keep trying to sell one of them. I posted Leon twice before he sold so....

I think blowing up your team this late in the season would be a bad idea. Hold out for the year and make some moves in the off season and early next year.

Even if you blow up your team and not win more game-which won't happen- you are going to get the homecourt in relegation series in the worst case scenario. You have nice pieces which will win some games here and there no matter what, so I don't beleive you should worry about relegation. But you are the one who knows this team best and it's up to you to choose the way to go.

That's very true about the fouls. They are constantly picking up fouls. Lorenzo Capps has played a RNG SG most of his career as a Goat and I started playing him as a SF this season even though BB has listed him as a SF since I joined. Lowell Webber is a 6'11" SF that if I could figure out how to train his OD and ID, then he'd be a beast. He shoots poorly majority of the time and his inside scoring is average at best. I really want this team to focus around the PG/SF/C relationship with the SG and PF being complimentary parts.

Moving Capps to SF and bumping Webber down was an attempt to make my bench stronger. I'm going to have to continue attempting to move Capps because of his age and hope I can find a buyer.

I've got a lot of decisions to make during this latter part of the schedule and heading into the off-season.

@Indi - as always, love the recap. thanks for doing it.

@Plotts - How do you know that his SF's have as you termed it a "high physical factor" What does that mean? Is there really a skill I can look at to determine if one of my players is going to be more prone to fouling?

thanks in advance.

It has been stated on this site that there's a hidden "skill" in determining a players physicality. I looked over both the SF's stats and noticed they incur a lot of fouls. It's more educated speculation, but I have owned players with a high physical skill before and fouls are a big tell.

One of the BB's mentioned how it can work to your benefit too. I believe he said they also draw fouls from opposition and that gets you to the free throw line in some cases so...

Booshes is right. I had a guy last year - most of you might remember - a PF who had a horrible penchant for fouling and creating injuries. He was most certainly a physical player.

The Physical Attribute is True. Check out Carmona on my team. He is a stud when he does not foul out. He often has games where he fouls out in 20 minutes or less. The BB guys say that the physical guys also benefit from that as well. Not sure how. But if you want to see the league leader in fouls check out carmona. Also he is near the top in FT attempts so it seems to run both ways.....

Just curious here guys, but what's the stamina of the players being mentioned? My guess is that this is simply part of the stamina factor. This game is essentially one big algorithim and as such must operate within the known variables. It could be that the perceived physicality is a factor of the player's post position skills and that a player who has a penchant for fouling out simply does not have the game shape or stamina to keep up with they player they are matched up with.

I think that explanation is much more likely than a hidden physicality factor. But who knows.