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Now look, you've gone and caused a sell-off by BCGS. The Pacers used the Blue Collar Gold Swagger as their marketing motto for the last several years. I'm not sure it was well advised there either.

I can't think of the last time I used a box defense, but they're occasionally good for more than a pun. Scouting his roster and game ratings made it a uniquely, if unlikely, good option. Both of my last two opponents should be easy to beat for their next few games so long as they're scouted at all. I'm happy to give suggestions to any of their upcoming opponents. If I'm going to keep having successive opponents CT me while I've got a collective salary 41K under the average, hopefully they'll still only break through 50% of the time (and only by pushing through double OT). Maybe it doesn't make them the dumbest for the week, but it'll play out over the duration.

Had no idea about the Pacers. Not a team I follow much I guess. I'll forward my critique on to their PR when I have a moment.

Not the first CT of the season by the good man. But gotta love the ballsiness to go RnG/FCP/CT and pull out a double OT win. There's a team that's all style and no enthusiasm

Player of the week: Josua Elarmo (30254698). Not a player with flashy stats, but this guy is getting it done this week in leading his team to 2-0 with two 17.0 rating games. Averages of 17/4/4 on the season and 50% FG from the PG position go a long way to making your team better. Slow and steady winning the race here.

Stupid team name of the week: "Eloping Cantaloupes" Hoo boy, where to start.... First off, neither word has anything to do with a location, basketball, some animal mascot that may or may not possibly be intimidating, halfhearted badass bravado, or really anything to do with anything. Nope, it's just a lame bit of wordplay. Not the slightest thing to do with anything. Wordplay, mind you, that's not a pun, an alliteration, or even rhymes. So not even good wordplay, just two words that don't even rise to the level of a sensible knock-knock joke. I'd go on about how dumb this name is but it's so sad that it's not worth any more effort. Just a sad, sad team name.

Tip o the hat: To the Demon Hoosiers and the Rallies for being the first to lose in the cup. Both to IV teams that didn't even CT. Thanks for making it less awkward when the rest of us bow out earlier than we hoped.

Last edited by Bob at 9/20/2016 11:29:18 PM

So much for stimulating discussion in the league. Given up on that, but for my own amusement and no one elses here's a mid-season handicapping of the MVP race.

Mitchell Benson (30650876) Dude leads the league in points and boards, 2nd in blocks. Plus the MVP balloting is biased toward bigs, so you gotta say Benson is the front runner. The drawback is that he's on a middling team which will hurt him somewhat, but how much? Are there quality bigs on better teams? Well, yes, but no real standouts since Eclypze shipped out Nunez a few weeks ago. His replacement Kostas Sissovitis (30944956) shows some promise but with only a few games played so far it's too soon to tell what the MVP voters will think. Francesc Bohigas (31827686) makes a good case for being the #2 big in the league with his 19/13 average, but being on a seeming relegation leaning team puts him well behind Benson.

The best wings in the league happen to play for top teams. Can one of them make a case? Aljaž Dolšek (33258822) of lakey sports 24/4/3 averages and a shiny 15.6 rating. Julius Kirkpatrick (29556098) of the Flying Leopards is an unusual case as he's only been a starter in the last 5 games, but has been tearing it up with 24 and 10 averages from SF in those games. A slow start, but maybe he'll sneak up to MVP by season's end?

The highest rated player in the league is also on the Leopards, PG Josua Elarmo (30254698) averages 16/4/4 with outstanding shooting %s. PGs are even tougher than wings to get MVP consideration, but who knows?

I like your post but Benson is pretty good ;-)

Training so pushing weird lineups out there. My best player barely plays - Choi - because he's capped and I've been busy training out Ken Perry and they play the same position. Kirkpatrick is back in the lineup because of being out of the cup and being able to push my weak trainees into scrimmages. I did notice that my starting team is essentially the starters on the all star team, so that's interesting.

Nice chuck of cash for Nunez there, that should help a bunch in DII. Although suppose Nunez could have helped in DII also

Yeah, sometimes I don't really get what skill configurations make an offense player work well or not. The case on my team is that my starting backcourt has super similar JS/JR/HD/DR skills, but one is 49%/39% 3s and the other 40%/35%. Aggressiveness, IS, position, stamina, height, trash talk ability, whatever...too many factors I guess to really have a player work out exactly as you figure he should I guess.

Seems a number of playoff teams training and not playing games at full strength. Could mean an unpredictable playoffs.

I'm just over here planning my take down as we speak......