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I am looking forward to beatin gyou again in the round of 16!

Good prediction! Should be a fun one. Maybe I can lose in OT like RIP did today.

next round draw sucks. looks like i'm out and going to lose some cup cash. 3rd time out of the tournament by Torooo and 16th lifetime loss to Torooo coming up!! yes!!!

next round draw sucks. looks like i'm out and going to lose some cup cash. 3rd time out of the tournament by Torooo and 16th lifetime loss to Torooo coming up!! yes!!!

Whew, that means I avoided Törööö for now...

/goes to check the draw

next round draw sucks. looks like i'm out and going to lose some cup cash. 3rd time out of the tournament by Torooo and 16th lifetime loss to Torooo coming up!! yes!!!

you did win against me in season five ...

we all know that season 5 was a fluke guess with tactics and enthusiasm being reset.....
anyone with half a brain knows that's not the case this time.....

Hooray!

Yeah, sorry about that. I watched pretty much the whole game last night with another 7 or so people from Canada. Tough one to lose but it looks like the best team won.

Nice game shape update for me today. So what do I do? Try to win both my games this week? Just try to beat you? Just go after the Rockets? Tank both games?

My head is spinning at the moment.


Last edited by HeadPaperPusher at 1/29/2010 8:44:24 AM

I'm going to have to disagree with this statement.

I agree that the game ratings indicate you were the better team. But you should know by now that game ratings mean basically nothing... The match-up ratings were by far in NEP's favour, I think. I don't have time to look at it right now but that was my analysis after the game. I think the only reason it was close was the difference in effort.

Well, that and the fact that NEP hit just about every free throw and you were closer to 60%.

Last edited by HeadPaperPusher at 1/30/2010 9:49:40 AM

So after looking back at it and actually reading your post, the one thing that you didn't mention was your SG match-up. I think that is pretty much what lost the game for you (if you do not consider free throws). Maybe I am wrong, but my experience is that run and gun puts a lot of focus on your SG in terms of shot selection. Having a really crap match-up at SG really bogs your offense down.

Also, back to the match-ups. As I said, run and gun puts focus on your SG and to a lesser extent your PG and SF (I think usually SF is the least of the three, but it often depends on flow skills and match-ups, too). NEP won the match-up at SG by a significant margin. He lost the PG and SF match-ups, but not by as big a margin. But the biggest thing was he got the most shots from his best match-up, SG.

Diefenbach took the majority of the shots for NEP so I am not surprised he took the most FT shots. I am guessing experience was some factor in his %, I think you took a lot of fouls in overtime when the game was pretty much over.

Anyhow, I think the fact that Infanzón took 17 shots in a run and gun goes to show that your offense had some issues in this game finding the right match-ups.

By the way, a friend of mine crunched some numbers into some prediction thing on the USA NT site. Apparently is gives me a 20% chance of winning tonight and a 15% chance on Tuesday against the Rockets. That was pretty much enough for me to decide my strategy for these two games...

So what did I decide? Well, watch the games and find out. ;-)

Finally, I will agree with you that NEP was lucky to win against you on Thursday. In spite of my previous comments, I think that's pretty much what I said to him in the chat.