Regular Season - Sim 39

Disappointing loss at home against the Bulls. Kemba is responding well with the rotation but the other guys seems not, Time to tweaks rotation to figure out what's best for everyone.

W vs. MEM

Cousins had an off night but Hibbert picked up the slack with 34/14/2 w/ 4 blks and Lowry had a nice game as well (11/4/12).

Next up is Anthony Davis and company, should be a good game.

No games for us.

Big 2-0 road sim for us with wins against Dallas and Memphis. 

Melo and Drummond cleaned up while the rest of the teams played pretty well.  Our defense held both teams pretty decently in check as well, but Larry has been having the yips with his shot lately and I need to work on that.

OKLAHOMA CITY 115 - 95 HOUSTON

Great game at Toyota Center. We managed to win this one by 20 but it was a very hard game. George and Howard were amazing scoring the ball with great efficiency, while Deron was nothing short of extraordinary setting up them for buckets, finishing with a game high 14 assists. Limited their front court playing time by drawing fouls using our Nene - Howard duo down low. Iggy and Gallo stepped up big as they've done since Harden's injury and Collison was amazing in his 23 minutes of play but ultimately they had no answer for our offense as we shot over 50% from the field, from downtown and a whopping 43 FTA.
Thanks for the warm reception as usual Willy, with some Veuve Clicquot bottles all over the VIP section. Sadly I don't drink alcohol but I'm pretty sure every one enjoyed it a lot.
We're going to meet again at the end of the season, hoping that this time you have a healthy Harden. Then we'll see the real potentials of our teams against each other, if we're to play in the playoffs.

GOLDEN STATE 111 - 124 OKLAHOMA CITY

Back at Cheseapeake Energy Arena, we faced off against a great GSW team and won the game by double-digits. Once again George and Howard were great at scoring, but this time Deron, while adding his usual assists, also helped a lot putting the ball on the net. 20+ point game for them all despite poor shooting %s from Howard. Outboarded Warriors by a 15 margin and that was the biggest key in this game. Klay Thompson even scored 26 (top scorer for the game) with 6-14 on 3s but it was not enough, as they had their front court completely owned by Howard and Nene, drawing fouls at them at will.

THE GOOD:
-> Boy we're drawing fouls at will. 64 drawn fouls at only 2 games, with 85 FTA combined. If we stay like that, teams are going to have a hard time against us, because their bigs just can't stay on the court.
-> Deron with a 14 assist and a 9 assist game. That's why I traded for him. Showing he can be an elite-level floor general in this league.
-> George's %s in this sim were off the charts. Had two great games scoring over 20 on very efficient numbers. Seems he has settled down at SG.
-> Outboarded opponents at both games. That's a huge part of our game plan, controlling the tables to have extra possessions.
-> 55% on 3s on both games, 6-11 at each game. Nice shooting performances overall from my team.

THE BAD:
-> There were lots of things I could say here, because we had some flaws at both games. But I cannot talk about anything other than Brewer's injury. Lost Corey for 2 months with a broken foot. He's going to return only in April, just in time to get back on shape for the playoffs. We're going to have tough times without our 6th man, who's different from the others because he mainly excels defensively. Diaw and Hayes are going to see more minutes, as well as Singleton (who'll play some PF, let's see if he can handle the big guys down low) and Bullock picking up Brewer's time at SG. We're confident bench guys will step up for the loss of Brewer, and he'll be back at 100% for the POs.

Forgot to change my DC. Probably still would've lost but it would've been closer.

Lost pretty badly in Vuc's last game.

We had two games today.
Cavs beat Raptors 113-99
Kyrie is proving to us why he deserve that extension. He came out and was 3 assist shy of getting a triple double. He had his usual output of 20pt+ game. Eric Gordon came out and did his thing scoring 20+. Ryan Anderson had another crazy efficient game getting 17 and 10 on only 10 shots. Zeller is looking good in his limited minutes. We might have to push his minutes higher to see what more can we get out of him.

Cavs lost to Heats
Going against the 2 time defending champions is always difficult. What makes it worse was the 5'9 Isiah Thomas grabbing 16 boards on us... you read that right 16 BOARDS! The only Cavs players that showed up to this game was Eric Gordon who scored 35 pts and Tony Mitchell who had a great night out. What I learned from this game is Mitchell will be a great role player and Thomas must auditioning for a Space Jam 2 role.

Thunder 115 Rockets 95


Thunder C Dwight Howard goes up over Zaza Pachulia and Tristan Thompson of the Rockets for the jam

The Oklahoma City Thunder came into Houston defeating the reigning WC champions by a 20pt margin as we had no answers for Dwight Howard who finished with 30pts, 14rebs, and 3blks while F Danilo Gallinari paced the Rockets with 22pts, 4rebs, 2asts, and 2stls. We were without Harden who is scheduled to return in approximately 4wks.


Rockets GF Andre Iguodala flies in for the putback dunk

Well they're a uh tough enough team as it is and we didn't do a very good job preparing for them tonite and ultimately teams like that'll make you pay... We shot horribly from the FT line what.. 13-30 and I don't care what League or what level you play at but when you shoot that badly from the line it's gonna cost you... Well they've made some changes since LeBron and Deron and Dwight are playing fantastic together so once they work out the rest of the kinks if they have any, they're gonna be even better than they've shown but our main concern is treading water to stay in the Playoff hunt... Ok thanks guys...

Next up, Denver who always gives us fits comes to town.

Good game marcos!

W: Phoenix Suns 90 @ 112 New York Knicks
Chris Bosh: 22 points, 9 rebounds, 3 blocks
JaVale McGee: 13 points, 8 rebounds, 4 blocks
Kosta Koufos: 13 points, 9 rebounds in 17 minutes

Our winning streak continues against the Suns, making it 7th in a row now.
Phoenix couldn't do much to battle for the game, specially with Oden playing 30 minutes with a broken elbow.

Even with Rubio playing just 23 minutes due to foul trouble, we managed to still play our game against the slowed down Suns.

Sadly, to the already injured Babbitt we had to now add both Chase Budinger and Joel Anthony. That means that we'll be without any SF for the next couple of games... We'll need to figure out a new rotation.

1-1 sim. Scored 148 at SAC. Tyreke dropped 46 on us but LMA countered that with 39 in 33 mins. Then we went to Denver and lost by 2