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hey I appreciate the hard work, i always hope someone from my league does this as a regular thing

3 Clogs (down 1): I really feel for them losing in OT. What makes me place them here is there schedule vs the Great 8. They do have the most favorable schedule for the Big 8 games though which does matter as well. They could still land in 1st.

If it comes down to just schedule, I'm in the driver's seat; I lost to MM and Yuck on the road by a bucket but I get them both at home to close the season. After interconference, in fact, I have four home games, and two of my three road games are against Nome and TTS. A lot of it may come down to Cup concerns - after we play Tuesday, I get the top four teams in the Great 8 back to back to back to back. Unfortunately, teams usually throw their road games, and the two I have in that stretch are against Jack Rabbits, who are already out, and Silverbacks in a TV game.

Of course, home vs. road is just one small component of how things actually turn out. Last season Diorite and I split our regular season series, both of us winning on the road. Yuck beat me at my stadium at the end of last season as well, on equal effort.

The good news for me is that I've got the remainder of the season to try things out with my lineup, and now that Thayer's in acceptable GS I can get a real estimation of how the team will perform come playoff time. In that sense I'm far better off than last season, where I was flailing around trying to get something to work and ended up selling a couple of players off and then going on a good postseason run. At this point I just need to figure out why my turnovers have been so much higher than my average and get an idea of how some of the pieces fit together when I run different offenses.

It's all about how you enjoy this game. I personally like training and owning NT players the most.

Next time we meet you will have HC already wrapped up so you will be resting your players for the playoffs.:)

I enjoy advancing up divisions and training players.

But it seems I will be in a waiting line for awhile in this division. So I will have to turn my attention towards something else.

Getting near time to hit the recycle bin on some of these players on my roster. Most were one season rentals anyway but the injury has hampered my ability to make any moves.

Hhhhmm I feel like creating a poll.

I lost to MM and Yuck on the road by a bucket but I get them both at home to close the season

I'd expect you to beat me at your place, but then again, I might not continue try to train my players during that game also. :)

i run inside ISO, my guards are taking all the jumpers : O
maybe i should stop trying werid strategies

i run inside ISO, my guards are taking all the jumpers : O
maybe i should stop trying werid strategies

The way I've always looked at inside iso is that it gets your best inside scorer the ball out around the three point line and everyone else moves out of the way. If your inside scorer can't drive and doesn't have great handling or passing, it's a dead end.

Of course, I've also been very ineffective with it the times I've tried it and my big guys do have those skills, so I dunno what makes it work well. Yuck's had a lot of success with that tactic, though.

If you have guards with high IS they will become the focal point for the Inside Iso. It can really be a deadly tactic especially if the oppositions guards don't defend well down low. As for the bigs, they perform well if they have some driving and JS on them.

I would tend to agree with Isaiah here from my experiences. I also don't think the offense requires a dominant true pg but a bunch of combo guards that can pass. Passing out of the front court seems to be as important as the back court. It kind of feels like the Gasol/Bynum/Kobe triangle team to me. Kobe and Ron Artest were very good on the block. I don't think it is clear out ISO basketball modern Knicks stuff. There can be a lot of assists to be had. All of that being said, my team is rather clunky on offense so I don't think I quite have the ideal parts for that offense. I could really use a Yi type shooter I think on the kick outs to really make the offense go.

Ever try to get a spot up shooter? Good passing and shooting but low driving to make sure he is a true spot up shooter.