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oh wow if I'd known I could totally change the team name and location I would have moved the Spurs to Laguna Beach and called them the "Mystic Arts"
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DeimosRising posted:Raptors VERSUS THE MAGIC aka THE PITTSBURGH PIPERS because I live in Pittsburgh. We're doing a half and half home game scheme, it's truly revolutionary, the team is also owned by the people of the two cities and they share them with love and kindness and post capitalism Good analysis. That one was almost a toss up for me, I think I picked the Magic because they felt more solid as a unit
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Jul 28, 2017 07:21
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IcePhoenix posted:Let's consider the Rockets roster for a moment: otoh curry and giannis are gonna ball all over you and everyone else will just do their job and play defense and rebound and hit open shots so
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Jul 28, 2017 09:20
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All but 3 of the teams I voted for made the playoffs, can I get a job at The Ringer?
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G-Hawk posted:otoh curry and giannis are gonna ball all over you and everyone else will just do their job and play defense and rebound and hit open shots so It's like you didn't even read the first two parts smh e: nvm I forgot you're rockets owner was and was on my phone IcePhoenix fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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DeimosRising posted:Raptors VERSUS THE MAGIC aka THE PITTSBURGH PIPERS because I live in Pittsburgh. We're doing a half and half home game scheme, it's truly revolutionary, the team is also owned by the people of the two cities and they share them with love and kindness and post capitalism OK> I agree with some of this but Whiteside is actually pretty good at stopping Gobert as a roll man. In the two times they played Gobert scored a combined 18 points. And Whiteside is one of the few players who can bang with him. In terms of match ups the Raps will just run PnRs at the Ryan Anderson/Lillard 1-4 combo. Anderson and Lillard are is both very bad defender and the fact that Millsap has range and can dribble drive past him on a close out means Gobert will be faced with a lot of 2 v 1 situations. And I'm confident that my guys will excell at that because it can mean Batum gets a 3 or Whiteside gets an easy dunk. Realistically both our backcourts aren't great defeinsively but mine is more active and has more experience with aggressively switching and rotating. Brogdan is a very inconsistent player and Lilliard is just bad. To me it comes down to the fact you have 2 bad defenders at somewhat important positions where I have 2 quite strong and versatile players. Whiteside is just good enough to keep Gobert tethered to the net which will leave a lot of opportunities for open outside shots after Anderson and Lilliard get owned in a pick n roll. On offense Lilliard will get his buckets but the Jazz have shown that making a big effort to run plays for Gobert really slows things down and isn't ideal. The 1-5 PnR will be really good for you but I have more faith in Batum/George Millsap to recover than I do with Chandler/Brogdan/Anderson. I'm also very confident in my second unit. The second Golbert leaves the game there is a big hole and I have just the grinders to get in there and take advantage of it. BWV fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Jul 28, 2017 14:11
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To those voting a ridiculous 15-4 for Spurs against Kings you are all that is wrong with this voting system. YOU. THE VOTER. This man, this trash tier GM, has only drafted a singular player. Not only is that player not Lebron James or Kevin Durant, he's a known ball hog that destroys his chances of winning with his gaudy play style. His front line can't even measure up to my front line, or back line, or middle line. SHAKE MY HEAD. Vote me out now, I shall have my revenge in the NBA2k sim.
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Jul 28, 2017 15:13
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Doltos posted:To those voting a ridiculous 15-4 for Spurs against Kings you are all that is wrong with this voting system. YOU. THE VOTER. This man, this trash tier GM, has only drafted a singular player. Not only is that player not Lebron James or Kevin Durant, he's a known ball hog that destroys his chances of winning with his gaudy play style. His front line can't even measure up to my front line, or back line, or middle line. SHAKE MY HEAD. Your team is built around a guy on a minutes limit that might break if he gets hit by a stiff breeze and a guy who's only been in the league two years and has people starting to question his development.
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Jul 28, 2017 15:29
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For everyone voting for the Jazz, Wow, ya'll really like Jingles huh? Who else is on that team? Weak-man Kevin Love? 10 other lovely white dudes and D'Russell Angelo? Hmmm...I think you're all voting by post creativity and not by talent! (which I can respect, that was good poo poo brolic).
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Jul 28, 2017 15:34
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IcePhoenix posted:Your team is built around a guy on a minutes limit that might break if he gets hit by a stiff breeze and a guy who's only been in the league two years and has people starting to question his development. yeah but injuries are turned off in the sim homphgomph posted:For everyone voting for the Jazz, Wow, ya'll really like Jingles huh? Who else is on that team? Weak-man Kevin Love? 10 other lovely white dudes and D'Russell Angelo? I voted for you. The Jazz have the most creative post in the thread, which is tough, but their team is also trash, which isn't so tough
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Jul 28, 2017 15:35
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the bottom 2-3 of each conference is a crap shoot. There really were no good choices 6-8.
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Doltos posted:yeah but injuries are turned off in the sim By popular demand they're being turned on. homphgomph posted:For everyone voting for the Jazz, Wow, ya'll really like Jingles huh? Who else is on that team? Weak-man Kevin Love? 10 other lovely white dudes and D'Russell Angelo? CJ McCollumn is very good and so is Kevin Love and also he has Dirk. I mean, I still voted for your team because I can't imagine Love and Dirk sharing the floor very well and Paul and Beal is a nasty combo with Ibaka as the third man, but there you go.
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homphgomph posted:For everyone voting for the Jazz, Wow, ya'll really like Jingles huh? Who else is on that team? Weak-man Kevin Love? 10 other lovely white dudes and D'Russell Angelo?
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Bird Boys vs the Jizz is a tough one to call. The Jazz are running a really nontraditional set up with lots of players playing limited minutes. Their two highest minute guys are both bad defenders, and they're going to have to run a wide variety of lineups with that minutes distribution, which on the one hand keeps the other team on their toes but on the other hand weakens cohesion and risks getting you stuck with a bad one on the court and no convenient stoppages. You really want McCollum and Bradley on the court at important moments, but that's a very turnover prone pair if they have to share point duties. Pels have the best player on the court and maybe more talent but their lineup is really ill fitted. Serge playing the 5 full time? Wade guarding 3s? A mediocre second year player in the starting lineup? And while the Jazz have some very respectable bench guys, the Pels have three rookies, two of them from the back of the second round, two old guys past their expiration date, maybe three, and a couple of guys who are gonna float back and forth between the D League and the bench their whole careers.
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DeimosRising posted:Bird Boys vs the Jizz is a tough one to call. The Jazz are running a really nontraditional set up with lots of players playing limited minutes. Their two highest minute guys are both bad defenders, and they're going to have to run a wide variety of lineups with that minutes distribution, which on the one hand keeps the other team on their toes but on the other hand weakens cohesion and risks getting you stuck with a bad one on the court and no convenient stoppages. You really want McCollum and Bradley on the court at important moments, but that's a very turnover prone pair if they have to share point duties. Pels have the best player on the court and maybe more talent but their lineup is really ill fitted. Serge playing the 5 full time? Wade guarding 3s? A mediocre second year player in the starting lineup? And while the Jazz have some very respectable bench guys, the Pels have three rookies, two of them from the back of the second round, two old guys past their expiration date, maybe three, and a couple of guys who are gonna float back and forth between the D League and the bench their whole careers. Also there's a lot of white boys on his team IcePhoenix posted:By popular demand they're being turned on. That's gonna be funny. By the end of the season Embiid may legit be my PG considering how the computer controls injury lineups.
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Doltos posted:That's gonna be funny. By the end of the season Embiid may legit be my PG considering how the computer controls injury lineups. I'm manually adjusting the lineup for you guys whenever an injury happens, out of the goodness of my heart. The CPU would gently caress everything up big time if it tried to handle lineup changes since a lot of you have unorthodox lineups in the first place Speaking of the sim, Week 2 is about to go live Cool Buff Man fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Jul 28, 2017 17:10
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BWV posted:OK> I agree with some of this but Whiteside is actually pretty good at stopping Gobert as a roll man. In the two times they played Gobert scored a combined 18 points.... Anderson and Lillard are is both very bad defender and the fact that Millsap has range... Couple of last minute counterpoints: I don't think 2 regular season games with a different lineup and head to head numbers is a good way to judge a matchup, but Gobert isn't really there to score in bunches anyway. If he gets 10 that's fine as long as he gets them going 4/6 with a couple trips to the line. His offensive skill is in getting shots for other players. Anderson actually does have some very real defensive value, in a way he hasn't been able to show in a number of years. He's an inconsistent but not awful one on one post defender and a great rebounder. Keeping him out of PnRs is as easy as putting him on Whiteside, who won't be able to resist chucking every time he touches the ball in that scenario, which will turn the Raptors' offense into a mud puddle. And there's no hole when Gobert sits - Ian Mahinmi is a great defender, which is widely forgotten at the moment because he got paid 16 million or whatever. I'm paying him less than half a million a year, which means he'll go right back to being lauded as an amazing value and a critical backup piece. Edy Tavares is basically the Gobert of the D league, too, which is probably sufficient to put in 2-5 minutes of good rim protection against dimwits like Monta Ellis and geriatrics like Arron Afflalo
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Jul 28, 2017 17:21
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Who the Hell is voting for the Trailblazers over the Clippers, the Trailblazers literally have 2 even slightly good players lmao
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Jul 28, 2017 17:25
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Paul Zuvella posted:Who the Hell is voting for the Trailblazers over the Clippers, the Trailblazers literally have 2 even slightly good players lmao I suspect some of the voting is complicated by our tendency to think of playoff matchups as best of 7 series. Kyrie and Butler would go off and win a couple of games so it messes with your clarity of focus
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Jul 28, 2017 17:28
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The Pistons might be a better all around team than the Cavs in some peoples opinion, that's fine. This is a playoff series and Lebron is going to be playing 46 minutes per night. He is the best in the world and will carry his team to the 2nd round easily. New Starting Five: Tyreke Evans Robert Covington Lebron James Marvin Williams JaVale Mcgee MKG, Frye, Napier, and Derrick Williams first off the bench. Trust 7, play 9.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:31
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Paul Zuvella posted:Who the Hell is voting for the Trailblazers over the Clippers, the Trailblazers literally have 2 even slightly good players lmao I voted for you, but this has serious upset potential.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:31
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Paul Zuvella posted:Who the Hell is voting for the Trailblazers over the Clippers, the Trailblazers literally have 2 even slightly good players lmao I don't remember who I voted for but when your starting lineups are on the floor the Blazers probably have the two best players on the floor (well, two of the three, Hayward is pretty good) and you have Reggie Jackson as your point guard taking away touches from the actual good players.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:35
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Week 2 is up for you simmies. Good luck to all
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IcePhoenix posted:I don't remember who I voted for but when your starting lineups are on the floor the Blazers probably have the two best players on the floor (well, two of the three, Hayward is pretty good) and you have Reggie Jackson as your point guard taking away touches from the actual good players. Derrick Rose is their starting shooting guard and literally has to guard Klay Thompson or Gordon Hayward. His starting Lineup is Kyrie/Derrick Rose/Jimmy Buckets/Amir Johnson/ And something named Salah Mehiri Also if you're gonna comment on Reggie Jackson using up possessions... Uh... how about Derrick Rose starting shooting guard? Paul Zuvella fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jul 28, 2017 |
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Jul 28, 2017 17:42
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Paul Zuvella posted:Who the Hell is voting for the Trailblazers over the Clippers, the Trailblazers literally have 2 even slightly good players lmao Jimmy Butler is a True Alpha. You can't beat that.
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Jul 28, 2017 17:45
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Paul Zuvella posted:Derrick Rose is their starting shooting guard and literally has to guard Klay Thompson or Gordon Hayward. Maybe you should have effortposted  I knew I wasn't gonna win against the Rockets but I have as many votes as Daltos does against a one man team (they're better than that but still) and I assume it's because some people read mine and were like "oh yeah, I can see that happening" I think most people are just skimming the roster page when they vote, so they see Kyrie and Buckets and are like "hell yeah I'm voting for that team"
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Paul Zuvella posted:Derrick Rose is their starting shooting guard and literally has to guard Klay Thompson or Gordon Hayward. Maybe you should have bid on an Alpha?
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Jul 28, 2017 18:01
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Here's a funny thing that happened. Owners voted on the seeding The same owners are voting for who will win in the playoffs You're probably not getting more votes in the playoff voting if you already got a worse seed
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tadashi posted:Here's a funny thing that happened. Lots of factors: the straw poll is open to everyone not just owners, matchups are different from regular season predictions, opinions change, and the different series are not getting the same number of votes as one another so clearly they aren't coming in in lockstep.
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Jul 28, 2017 18:37
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Michael Corleone posted:The Pistons might be a better all around team than the Cavs in some peoples opinion, that's fine. This is a playoff series and Lebron is going to be playing 46 minutes per night. He is the best in the world and will carry his team to the 2nd round easily. I picture it being much like the first GS/Cleveland matchup, in Lebron carries a pile of junk to a win or maybe two but the superior team pulls it out (that would be the Pistons, in this case). Lebron will average like 45/10/10 and Cleveland will still struggle to score 80 points a game. I also don't think you have anyone who can really guard Cousins at all (MKG can probably handle Lowry to some extent, but that's even a maybe).
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Jul 28, 2017 18:44
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I voted for the blazers because the clippers always lose in the first or second round
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Western Conference Voting: Rockets (1) vs  Spurs (4)Vote Here: https://strawpoll.com/wh6zreee  Jazz (6) vs  Clippers (2)Vote Here: https://strawpoll.com/5z1y8akz ********************************************************************** Eastern Conference Voting:  Bulls (1) vs  Magic (5)Vote Here: https://strawpoll.com/3fp5w76r  Wizards (2) vs  Pistons (3) Vote Here: https://strawpoll.com/pfchxw41
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not even posting the results, for shame
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Do you guys want to have shorter voting or longer? I can either make the deadline like 9 PM EST or 2 AM EST. Up to you guys. I guess we don't have to wrap up everything today with the CBM thing running at the same time, makes for a less rushed end product. Anyway, the 2 AM thing is just so the westcoast dudes can be in here before midnight so let me know. Fun fact: Clippers and Pistons only won by one vote at the time of deadline. Close games!
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IcePhoenix posted:not even posting the results, for shame Yeah I forgot that I should do this until after I was done, but most were pretty decisive except the Clippers and Pistons series which were only decided by one vote (also you can look at them via view results I think).
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We'll never know the details of Russ' triple double and the MONSTER Joffrey game (5 points and 2 rebounds in five minutes) to finally pull ahead of the terrifying backcourt that is Jeremy Lin and Victor Oladipo
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my strategy to beat the Rockets is to look up their roster. immediately close the tab. hand the basketball to Russ. point at the hoop. and say "GET IT"
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The fact that I have the best white guy in the league should make me heavy favorites against the Jazz. However, remember that this is the fabled matchup. Friend Vs. Friend. Jingles Vs. Gordon Hayward. Will their friendship survive?
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I voted late so you might just want to subtract one from all of those, sorry, wasn't on the forums much last night.
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Rick posted:I voted late so you might just want to subtract one from all of those, sorry, wasn't on the forums much last night. Nah I had all of the 1st round up at the deadline time so if you were before that it's good, if not it wasn't seen regardless so it's okay Rick!
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