Regular Season - Sim 16

No games for Dallas but DeMar has one day left on his injury. Can't wait for his return!

Another win vs the Grizzlies who has won some games against excellent teams. Without Howard and Kemba we won't be winning any games easily in this league, so, I'm taking a 13 point win.
-> George once again led us with 22/8, committing just 1 foul and 2 TOs. Seems to me that he's settling down and it is helping him become more efficient.
-> We knew Thornton and Young could score and they went for 50 combined. But we managed to stop the rest of their team and deny 3pt shots, and came away with a strong defense, allowing 40% FG only.
-> Our offense has been doing pretty well so far. Both Smiths are not shooting huge numbers of attempts and still managing to score. 5 guys in double digits won't hurt any team also.
-> 10 TOs to 17 assits. Barea's addition is proving to be the right move as he's assisting well and turning the ball less. Not only him but the rest of the team.

We improve to 12-8, 60% winning percentage. Very nice considering we're 9-1 in our last 3 games and 3-0 after those 2 trades.
Next one a road game against a really good Warriors team. Remains to be seen if Howard is going to suit up for the game, we're going to write an article about today's shoot around later.

Wow, lost to Orlando 99-116. We never led the game. I always lose the games I shouldn't.

Love put up 21/8 and Lin had 20/6, but McLemore shot 3/13 which absolutely killed us. They shot 52% and we just couldn't slow them down.

Next up we have have Charlotte on the road. It's a must win if we want to stay with the pack in the NW Division.

W. vs MIL

Kyle Anderson dropped 12/4/8 on us, glad to see him developing his outside shot (41 3P% for the season), and Faried/Teague had pretty good games as well.

On our end Parker really took control with 26/4/8 on 10-18, he's really taken off this month. Hibbert/Cousins dominanted with a combined 40/23 w/ 4 stls & 3 blks. Hibbert had no fouls and played 36 minutes while shutting down Bargs. 

Next game will be CHI, they beat us on opening night on their floor so hopefully we can defend our home court and contain their bigs.

Good road win against the Wiz. Deron and Nene shouldered most of the scoring as Paul had a game to forget.

Damn, Lakers weren't happy with Harden...knocked him out of the game in 3 minutes. But....Rockets still prevail, with Iggy leading the way 24pts, 7reb, 5ast...BOOM. Him & Gallo picked up the slack big time.

Harden out for 13 days though...sigh of relief IMO, I expected it to be season ending of some sort.

Increible much, i neverthink that coud win in new york with six injuries, three starters but dirty game 86-79 only did two tactics changes but they were good.
The way is hard.

Pacers tear apart the Nets 106-84 for 10th win of the season.

Lebron missed a triple-double by an assist, and finished with 34/13/9/4/4 while Kobe Bryant had another very efficient game with 24 points (10/14 shooting). Speights had 16/7 off the bench, Haywood had 10/4 in just 11 minutes and Greg Stiemsma put up another good game with 6 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 blocks. I think I'm sticking with Greg as a starter despite Chris Kaman's return from injury. Dirk has been uber-struggling though. Another terrible game, 4 points, 5 boards in 23 minutes though it does appear he held Booz to 5-15 shooting.

I need to figure out Dirk's role on this team ASAP. He was looking like a great fit, but nothing I've tried has worked so far.

Lakers 91 Rockets 92

Rockets SG James Harden sits on the court after injuring his calf

After only 3mins of basketball, Rockets SG James Harden was done for the evening after injuring his calf during the opening of the Rockets homestand against the surging LA Lakers. An MRI revealed it to be a bruise that will sideline Harden for about 2wks.

On the court, the Rockets were led by do it all GF Andre Iguodala who netted 24pts, 7rebs, 5asts, 2stls, 1blk, F Danilo Gallinari's 22pts (3-5 from downtown), and Terrence Ross who chipped in 17pts, 3rebs, 3asts, 1stl, and 2blks. The game also saw FC Tristan Thompson and PG Reggie Jackson limp off the court with injuries (a sprained toe and sore back respectively) that will also sideline these players for 9 and 4 days as well.

Maybe Harden's remarks during shootaround in an interview with Rockets Report were a precursor to him knowing how his body felt.

At any rate this is the time for players to get a chance to log more minutes and show that this is a true team as shown in the 1pt victory over LA.

Denver Lucky, lost by one in Denver

Win at PHI – 99-88
Ugly win against Philly. Lillard (7-27) and Aldridge (6-15) struggled mightily but we got some other players to step up. Korver and Harris shot 9-16 from downtown. Leonard/Henson/Dalembert each blocked 4 shots. Leonard also grabbed 15 boards. We could not buy a basket in the paint while Sixers dominated there with Bynum going for 27/13 and Wade also scored 31. Ugly game offensively for us but we manage to stop most of the support players for PHI and get a much needed road win

L: Utah Jazz 86 @ 79 New York Knicks
Ricky Rubio: 14 points, 11 asists, 8 rebounds, 4 steals
Chase Budinger: 14 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals

Awful game for us at home. It wasn't our night offensively, as could be seen by only scoring 79 points.

Started the first quarter badly, trailing 16-32. We tried to come back from then, winning the next two, including a 21-10 third quarter (yeah, we let them to just 10 points in a quarter and still lose..), but couldn't complete the comeback in the forth.

So bad game in general from all the players. Only Courtney Lee had any excuse, as he got injured in the game. Anyway Rubio got 2 rebounds shy of another triple double.. but it wasn't a good game for him either.

Our 5 game win streak comes to and end in maybe the only game we would have bet to win for sure

Just saw Utahs injury List. What the hell is he playing?! 10 Full Court, 10 pace, 10 Def. Intense, 1 Zone ?!

Dennis (BOS) wrote:Just saw Utahs injury List. What the hell is he playing?! 10 Full Court, 10 pace, 10 Def. Intense, 1 Zone ?!

Hey dennish! This sim i change a few.

Zone 1 is correct
Pace low than 10
Full court before 10
Fefense low than 10

Got the loss on the road against the Bulls. They play a heavy zone and Jameer went 8-8 from 3 point range, but Melo had his second underwhelming game in a row, which isn't going to help our team.