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Sorry to hear. Hope you have a quick recovery!

I’m happy to have finally made it to the NBBA so figured I owe it to myself to at least make an intro post. Had a previous team that sniffed D.II once before focusing everything on the national teams before I left the game for a bit (RIP California Knights). Retuned to the game with a plan to get here about 3 years ago now and roughly stuck to it, as one does with any long term BB plan, and it actually paid off! Competition has been tough (no pun intended) so I’m looking forward to seeing how my squad stacks up and doing our best to hang up here. Good luck all!

Well, I'm the converse of Coach Shnuffy, I definitely took a step back this off-season as far as competitiveness is concerned.

I think our game was close enough that if I hadn't cheaped out on my PR guy then I might have scraped by with a 1 or 2 point win. At the last minute I picked up this 33 year old Frederic Owstien, (46977157), to shore up my roster. He was sitting at 110K with a few minutes to go, and a TPE that is still between 300-400k. A couple other bidders showed up but I'm still pleased to have him for the $195,000 I ended up paying. But... if I was going to buy Owstein, and pay him 70k a week, why would I cheap out on that last 5k for a crowd involvement guy? Honestly, because I thought Owstein would be enough. I took it out on Resmi, but I didn't even look at him until after the match, or do much else in the way of scouting or intangibles. I'm just frustrated because if I pick up a win there, then maybe I'm looking to keep Owstein and add a guy when people tend to start loading up, instead of trying to flip him into someone that can get me back to being competitive. It's those little things...

RIP to Harold Miner's gallbladder. Gone, but not forgotten.
Hope you're feeling better my dude!

Regarding A Warrior's post, I really like these buzzerbeater stories!

Mine is similar. I played the game once before (maybe twice?) and I remember having a perennial all-star trainee that came with my team (back when that meant a little more than it does now, even though it was never that great) and he basically led me to DII in a very exciting manner. Of course, he capped out and I didn't plan ahead for what I would do in DII if I did make it (plus, there might not have been promotion money back then, but don't quote me on that). So, realizing I would have to tank, I quit. Now I'm back and I played the long game. Basically, all I want to do is win just one championship and I'm good. Like, I get that it won't make me considered great or anything (and heck, I still don't understand anything about the game engine), but if I could win just one championship, I'd seriously consider either retiring from the game or just training NT players after that.

Unfortunately, it looks like I made some hasty moves and built my team around a concept that I thought MIGHT work, even though it wasn't part of the current meta, but clearly is not working. After seeing how they're struggling this season against teams I would have thought I should beat handily, plus seeing how Mountain Eagles's roster construction basically has me in a box, I'm going to have to figure out a way to retool.

In the word's of Greg Popovich, "it's not supposed to be easy" :)

what drugs did your men take before scoring 147?