Regular Season - Sim 8

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NOTES:

Trades:
NOP & CLE - E. Gordon & R. Anderson for D. Jordan, D. Waiters & J. Calderon

Player Movement:
HOU - sign SF Mike Miller
TOR - sign SG Malcom Lee
IND - recall Warren & Jaiteh
MIN - sign Joe Jackson
NOP - sign Mickael Pietrus

Name Change:
Adetokunbo --> Antetokounmpo

Coaching Changes:
DEN - fire Larry Drew, hire Mike Dunlap

Number Change:
Marcus Smart: #19 --> #1

I love you for the 9:00 PM sim Rizzo

Jake0890 (MIN) wrote:I love you for the 9:00 PM sim Rizzo

I like to get it out of the way early. Definitely won't be before 10PM EST tomorrow though...

We had to play the Kings without Ben McLemore and Willie Cauley, and thankfully, we still pulled it off. Austin Rivers killed us with 24 points and 12 rebounds (wut) but Lin matched it with a near double double of his own. Love is getting back on the right track with a 22/12 double double on over 50% shooting, same for Bogut. All around team effort. Our team shot 53% from the field and 43% from 3, while the Kings shot 40% from the field and 33% from 3. In the end, it was a whole team effort against a bad team. We're one game behind Denver for 2nd in the division, and only 2 games back from Utah in the #1 spot.

Next sim we've got the 3-7 Dallas Mavericks at home. We need to continue this winning streak against them.

Jake0890 (MIN) wrote:
Austin Rivers killed us with 24 points and 12 rebounds (wut)

Umm Austin Rivers had 0 rebounds? Glen Davis had 12 rebounds maybe you got the two mixed up.

So much for trying to get the ball away from Anthony Davis...he still nearly put up a triple double again. To make matters worse we got torched by Vasquez & Smart, rendering our plan useless. At least we held down home court against Dallas though, barely. Time to take that zone strategy far far away.

Dylan (SAC) wrote:

Jake0890 (MIN) wrote:
Austin Rivers killed us with 24 points and 12 rebounds (wut)

Umm Austin Rivers had 0 rebounds? Glen Davis had 12 rebounds maybe you got the two mixed up.

Oops, was looking at his FTA. My bad.

FIIINALLY two wins. But let's not get overhyped by that fact. We're still 2 games behind .500 ball and we have to improve a lot.
Still, great games, and, with many changes to come, we hope this trend continues.
I'm gonna try to do extended reviews for my games from now.

1st GAME: MIL 104 - 123 OKC
Playing at home, our team did well enough to give our fans some hope.
Paul George showed the world why I trusted him a max-deal by going for 34 + 4a and 7b. While he turned the ball over 6 times, can't say anything negative about him as he shot 11-17 (2-3 3pts) and was huge for us.
Howard and Hibbert combined for 38pts, 19 boards and 10 blocks with huge % numbers. Can't complain here too.
We defended pretty well and did even better at offense. If not for Faried having a monster game, Bucks would have problems scoring against us, because, other than him, everybody else did poorly at offense.
Nice win overall, improving to 4-7, but with a lot to overcome yet.

2nd GAME: OKC 103 - 85 MEM
Playing at Memphis, we stole a game from them. Nice win, and I'd say more.. Much needed win.
Lowry lead all scores here but the best player on the floor was Howard hands down. D12 managed to score 18 with 17 boards and 9 (!!!!!!) blocks. Also, 3 steals, 2 assists and great FG%. Not even his 4 TOs could take away from that amazing game.
George did not shot well but he still was 2-4 from 3pt range in route to a 18/11 game. Also, 1 turnover only helped raising his stock a lot.
Derrick Williams made the most of his opportunities off the bench in both games, but specially on this one. 16pts and 4 boards, even blocking 2 shots and sinking a 3. Nice game overall, if he keeps producing like that he could well earn himself to that high minute stand he lost earlier the season.
Brewer was atrocious on offense but he did his work defensively. He seems to fit well with that starting team so we're maintaining here for a little bit more time to see how it goes.
We improve to 5-7 to end the sim and give us a much better monday night.

Tomorrow more important games to come, we're gonna do everything in our power to steal that Clippers game.
But the main thing is that we're not giving up in hope. We'll always believe!

Marcos_Beck (OKC) wrote:FIIINALLY two wins. But let's not get overhyped by that fact. We're still 2 games behind .500 ball and we have to improve a lot.
Still, great games, and, with many changes to come, we hope this trend continues.
I'm gonna try to do extended reviews for my games from now.

1st GAME: MIL 104 - 123 OKC
Playing at home, our team did well enough to give our fans some hope.
Paul George showed the world why I trusted him a max-deal by going for 34 + 4a and 7b. While he turned the ball over 6 times, can't say anything negative about him as he shot 11-17 (2-3 3pts) and was huge for us.
Howard and Hibbert combined for 38pts, 19 boards and 10 blocks with huge % numbers. Can't complain here too.
We defended pretty well and did even better at offense. If not for Faried having a monster game, Bucks would have problems scoring against us, because, other than him, everybody else did poorly at offense.
Nice win overall, improving to 4-7, but with a lot to overcome yet.

2nd GAME: OKC 103 - 85 MEM
Playing at Memphis, we stole a game from them. Nice win, and I'd say more.. Much needed win.
Lowry lead all scores here but the best player on the floor was Howard hands down. D12 managed to score 18 with 17 boards and 9 (!!!!!!) blocks. Also, 3 steals, 2 assists and great FG%. Not even his 4 TOs could take away from that amazing game.
George did not shot well but he still was 2-4 from 3pt range in route to a 18/11 game. Also, 1 turnover only helped raising his stock a lot.
Derrick Williams made the most of his opportunities off the bench in both games, but specially on this one. 16pts and 4 boards, even blocking 2 shots and sinking a 3. Nice game overall, if he keeps producing like that he could well earn himself to that high minute stand he lost earlier the season.
Brewer was atrocious on offense but he did his work defensively. He seems to fit well with that starting team so we're maintaining here for a little bit more time to see how it goes.
We improve to 5-7 to end the sim and give us a much better monday night.

Tomorrow more important games to come, we're gonna do everything in our power to steal that Clippers game.
But the main thing is that we're not giving up in hope. We'll always believe!

Yeah I saw that, Dwight almost a triple double!

Question though: Are you running the single post offense? I noticed you switched a few sims back I believe. If so my opinion is you won't get the most outta your guys running it even though you got some W's.

No, I'm running with Ball Moviment right now I think. Just to counter the huge amount of zone defense we've been seeing..

Marcos_Beck (OKC) wrote:No, I'm running with Ball Moviment right now I think. Just to counter the huge amount of zone defense we've been seeing..

Thought it was still single post looking at Dwight and Hibbert's amount of offensive production, namely Roy.

I'm not sure it's completely the players although you have alot of high rated SCR'ers and the wealth is being spread around which is cool, I'd lean more towards having an alpha male pecking order type of offense/ strategy/ rotation to maybe be more successful.

You have too much talent to play a spread the wealth offense, not a critique but an outside observation from studying your players stats like FG% and FGA's etc.

You and Phil Jackson'll slowly figure out what you need to do.

W vs. SAS

We beat the Spurs by 36 and once again it was a collective effort on the defensive end holding their team to 41 FG%. Cousins and Duncan battled down low but in the end big Cuz prevailed with 36/13/3 w/ 3 stls, 2 blks on 11-19 shooting. He went to the line 21 times and held Duncan to 8/4 w/ 2 blks on 3-10 shooting.

Kemba chipped in 20 off the bench.

The Pacers bench may have been completely depleted- the only healthy reserves were three second-round rookies and a second-year TJ Warren. However, that didn't stop the starters from all having big games to beat Chicago 119-99.

Lebron James recorded 46/8/8 starting at PG, limiting Derrick Rose to 9 points on 4-17. Kobe Bryant went for 24/6. Dirk had 21/9 and 4 steals, and shot 10-14 from the field. Marreese Sprights had a double-double and Lance Stephenson flirted with a triple-double with 7/8/7.

The Bulls' balanced scoring (nine players scored 8 or more) simply couldn't match the firepower of Lebron James.



Note: Greg Stiemsma was supposed to start a center, with the injured Brendan Haywood going to the reserve- however, Greg Stiemsma was apparently left off altogether.

Lost a close one too GSW. I think we're just too clustered right now with three bigs playing at the same time. Mayo continues to light it up and every one else has solid games. DeMar getting closer to coming back though. 17 more days.

Lost to WAS. Can't seem to figure them out.

Beat BOS. Needed a win.

Tyreke has been out, but that's no excuse. Looks like we're a .500 team. That's not good enough in my book. We'll have to make moves to right the ship.

Beat the Spurs but definitely not too high off the win considering Kawhi is injured so we'll take it for what it's worth cause I know what they're capable of.

I am thrilled with Harden scoring 53pts and regaining the scoring lead and definitely thrilled with Biyombo putting up 12pts 18rebs 6blks against the Spurs frontline.

Bismack showing up big in these showcase games!

Win at home against the Cavs 122-109. Chris Paul and Nene Hilario at the fore front in scoring with 32 and 24 respectively. We had 23 steals and forced them to 30 turnovers. Deron and Andris were still recuperating from their injuries.

Watch out!

Orlando on a 2 game winning streak!

Magic now 4-7

Boston 103 @ Orlando 105

Giannis puts up 21 points, 6 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks. Wiggins keeps pace with 20 points, 4 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks. All of that and it's Shane Larkin with the double double, putting up 19 points and 10 assists, with only 1 turnover in 35 minutes of action. Boston shoots 50.0% from the floor but their 21 turnovers does them in.

Next up…

@ Detroit

Cyrisnyte (ORL) wrote:Watch out!

Orlando on a 2 game winning streak!

Magic now 4-7

Boston 103 @ Orlando 105

Giannis puts up 21 points, 6 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks.  Wiggins keeps pace with 20 points, 4 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks.  All of that and it's Shane Larkin with the double double, putting up 19 points and 10 assists, with only 1 turnover in 35 minutes of action.  Boston shoots 50.0% from the floor but their 21 turnovers does them in.  

Next up…

@ Detroit

Was a great game Jeff.. Really exciting. We were up 1 after a Hayward layup but with 7.5 left on the clock greak freak drove to basket and kicked out to wiggins who nailed the corner three. Next game will be closer as we missed a Key player with Schröder. Without his Defense larkin just put up a Show against our Rookie Micic.

Hayward scored efficient 24 points and continues to shoot above 63% inside. He really need to stop racking up three after three..

Len is maybe the most rawr Rookie, but he already impresses. So far he shoots 54% from the Field and 71% from the FT line. 17p/9r/2a against Orlando.

Young is just a Beast. Averaging 15.5 rebounds per over the last 4. 12p/10r against Orlando. 17 boards against Charlotte.

Micic 11p/8a/4r against Orlando, 11p/10a against Charlotte. Though he still struggles to protect the Ball.

win vs Brooklyn - 93-117

LMA led all scorers with 29 and also grabbed 14 boards. We played well only turning the ball over 8 times and holding the elite Nets below 100. Finally a decent performance at home. Lillard struggled with fouls but still scored 20 with 7 assists.

andrei (POR) wrote:win vs Brooklyn - 93-117

LMA led all scorers with 29 and also grabbed 14 boards. We played well only turning the ball over 8 times and holding the elite Nets below 100. Finally a decent performance at home. Lillard struggled with fouls but still scored 20 with 7 assists.

Congrats Andrei, good win. I don't know why Brook make great or poor games ramdomly. The key of the game 23/24 in FT% by the Blazers, no nervous team, hahaha. Rondo 17 pts, 15 ast.

W: Toronto Raptors 94 @ 124 New York Knicks
Ricky Rubio: 24 points, 15 asists

Win at home against the still winless Raptors.
We forced Toronto to 29 TOs while only turning the ball 8 times, and that was the main key of the game.

Rubio collected another double double with 24 points and 15 dimes hours after inking his new lucrative deal with the Knicks.

Sun Scorched (CHA) wrote:Lost to WAS. Can't seem to figure them out.

Q owns you!

are we all starting to get similar signatures? I see Jamal, goikiri and Rizzo with the same format. I feel left out