Regular Season - Sim 29

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Player Movement:
IND assigns Stokes and Young to the D-League
DEN waives Pierre Jackson

Trades:
Rockets trade Reggie Jackson and Alonzo Gee to the Nuggets for Darren Collison.
Thunder trades Kemba Walker, Josh Smith and JR Smith to the Clippers for Deron Williams and Chris Singleton.

Number Changes:
Deron Williams -> #8
Corey Brewer -> #13
JJ Barea -> #11
Boris Diaw -> #33
Reggie Bullock -> #7
Chris Singleton -> #10

Thanks a lot Mr. Rizzo!

Yeah despite our 1-4 record since the trades, it feels like we're only a tweak or two away from being a really dangerous team.

We close out playing without Horford with a 98-90 win over the Wolves.  Westbrook dominated the game with 28 points, 12 assists, 3 stls, 2 blocks on 11-17 shooting.  The Wolves didn't have an answer for him what so ever, and judging by the box score, it appeared that Lin didn't belong on the floor that night.

We welcome back Horford after surviving his injury with a 13-9 record.  We are still in the thick of things and with Horford back now things should get real interesting.

P.S. I never highlighted this as I've been quite busy, but I would like to take a second here to acknowledge how well Rubio has been playing this year, but Westbrook appeared to be quite upset with all his MVP talk: http://csl.we.bs/Game604.html

Jestor (PHX) wrote:Yeah despite our 1-4 record since the trades, it feels like we're only a tweak or two away from being a really dangerous team.

Agreed. You have put this team together nicely and I knew it was going to be easy to cruise to a win against the Suns anymore.

93-102 loss to the Bobcats. Rose had 39 and 14 assists but really had no help. outside of rose the rest of the team was 2-10 from 3. Also let them get to the line 28 times to our 12.

You can't stop Lebron. You can't even slow him down anymore. Lebron put in yet another 50-point game in the 111-95 win over Philadelphia, Indiana's 8th straight win since stumbling to a 10-12 start.

Lebron, as mentioned earlier, recorded 51 points and 6 assists on 20-35 shooting, making easy work of whichever of Linas Kleiza, Ersan Ilyasova, or Dwyane Wade was guarding him. Dirk and Parker backed him up with 15 points, and 13 points 12 assists, respectively. Brendan Haywood grabbed as season-high 17 rebounds, while his backup Greg Stiemsma put in 5 blocks in just 18 minutes.

Philly was led by Bynum (22/20) and Dwyane Wade (26 points). They held a huge 54-40 advantage on the boards, but shot worse, turned the ball over more, and committed more fouls.

We play Golden State at home, then head out west for a four-game road trip, at Sacramento, Utah, OKC, and Denver. Oh boy.



I'd also like to point out that this was Lebron's third 50 point game in his last five, and sixth in this two-month-old season.

no games for us.

W. vs TOR

We won this game by a margin of 37 and held them to 35 FG% as a team.

I was curious to see how Hibbert/Cousins/Barnes did against a good frontcourt like Gortat/Seraphin/Pierce and for the most part I was pleased. Barnes led us with 33/7/2 and our starting bigs put on a show with a combined 37/32/1 w/ 7 stls and 9 blks. Lowry had 13/2/12 and only 1 turnover.

We are now 1st in the division with a very slim margin for error.

Next up are 2 back to back games vs. the Bucks.

Another loss...Gotta try to shake this up a bit.

win at SA - 116-95

wowo a big road win for us. Lillard almost had a triple double with 32/9/8 and LMA went for 28/11. Great contribution from Meyers Leonard off then bench with 16/9. We struggled somewhat from downtown but shot well from the field and from the line overall. Martin and Udoh were the only Spurs in double-figures as they shot 38% from the field as a team

Nice win over the Celtics in a game which marked Walker and both Smith's goodbye after a short stretch with the Thunder. Eager to see how my new lineup with Deron Williams running the show is going to perform.
Next sim a road game against the Wolves which may be a great test for us to know if that Deron trade will work according to our plans or not.

Beat the Heat at home and it was the Melo vs Durant show. Melo won this battle on his home court and the rest of the team followed suit. We lost Larry Sanders for 9 games with some back issues, but it could be worse.

Our guys were motivated coming off an away loss to Chicago and stole one at home against the Bulls.

Amare has been fighting some injuries and looks close to 100%, so we're excited to have him back.

Higrade (GSW) wrote:

Wow. We BARELY scraped a win against the Kings..unbelievable. We were losing the game by 24 points

Underestimating us. Our team is legitimately good now. We're playing good teams tough and beating teams we never would have been beaten before the trade.

We continue to stink up the place but we're just waiting for the end of the season really.

L: New York Knicks 92 @ 105 Utah Jazz
Ricky Rubio: 24 points, 10 asists, 4 rebounds, 3 steals
Chris Bosh: 24 points, 7 rebounds

We led the game by as many as 13 points, but had an horrible night from beyond the arc (2/11) and that killed all our options.
We also went to the line 43 times, including 18 from Bosh and 12 from Ricky, thanks to Utah's hard defense, but it wasn't enough in the end and their effort paid of.