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Alright, well here is my ad hoc and too brief Finals Preview...

I'm going off of game ratings for this, using the latest five games as they resemble the closest to the team's current rosters.

Cantaloupes vs Upsyndrome... and keep in mind that the Cantaloupes have home court advantage.

OS 8.2 vs 6.7
IS 8.6 vs 11.2
OD 9.5 vs 10.8
ID 9.6 vs 10.7
REB 7.7 vs 8.1
FLOW 8.5 vs 7.5

Of course, these ratings have a lot to do with playing certain tactics, and ECE played a diverse set of tactics over the last five games while Upsyndrome stuck with inside and balanced offenses.

The glaring discrepancy in these ratings exists in YCU's IS vs ECE's ID, which is the only case where one of the team's offense outshines the other's defense. YCU has a wee advantage on the boards, and ECE benefits from a stronger flow.

This looks to be a tough challenge for ECE, who may need to call upon the deep seeded intensity of The Melon Garden's faithful to intimidate YCU into a game 1 loss.

YCU could change things up and go on an outside attack for the first time all season, but looking at their clear dominance inside, why would they? Then again, it could be a means to throw a wrench into ECE's strategist's plans for putting a stop to them.

ECE has a more diverse arsenal to choose from, having enjoyed success from Inside, Outside, and Balanced offenses, so it will be interesting to see which switch they flip against YCU.

Without further ado, may the best team win.

I'm not making a prediction.

I'm not making a prediction.

Me either.

Nice write up.

Good Luck, Fellas! (y)

The much anticipated write up. Great read. +1

Thanks for the warm wishes everyone!

Another old scrub in his late 40s is going to a 1-season-old team in a certain countryfor about $100k. (same country as did this: (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/9138765/history.aspx) recently).
This particular team has never paid over $4k for a player before. Something definitely isn't right on a country-wide level. The same could be said if suddenly there were like 100 USA teams adopting my buying habits / roster makeup. But there isn't.

I'm selling one of my terrible rookies, Jay Wahl. He's almost bad enough to compete with some of your 40 year olds.
He would be honored to join the Lethargy.

ECE has a more diverse arsenal to choose from, having enjoyed success from Inside, Outside, and Balanced offenses, so it will be interesting to see which switch they flip against YCU.

Fun fact, since I could not find any big advantage in gameplanning for one tactic or another, I just picked my top 6 tactics and rolled a dice for what to play this game.

Just to let everyone know, we are officially the cool kids of USA BB. Maybe even all of BB. We have the biggest S32 thread in all of the virtual American BBspace. Our thread is bulging out to over 300 posts. The NBBA doesn't even have 200. Only one DII is over 100. I didn't check DIII though but I can not even.

I must say, I've enjoyed conversing in this Div more than any other.
Only the Mighty Spartans impressive game recaps and predictions back in DIV rival the genius that goes on here.

ECE has a more diverse arsenal to choose from, having enjoyed success from Inside, Outside, and Balanced offenses, so it will be interesting to see which switch they flip against YCU.

Fun fact, since I could not find any big advantage in gameplanning for one tactic or another, I just picked my top 6 tactics and rolled a dice for what to play this game.

...and that led you to the best record in the league. Awesome.

I may try that next season.

Well, that game got interesting.... GG, Bob.

That was about what I expected. I mostly held out hope that Bowens would get injured in the first minute or something. Your team just has too much defense for my guys. I don't have any offensive studs that can overpower.

Let me be the first to congrat you on advancing to the NBBA

+1's for everyone!

I play a game within the game and I try to out post previous season(s). Sometimes I randomly post nonsense just to initiate conversation. I'm not proud of it.