In the previous two games I pushed the win streak to 6 vs fighting Kings (103 : 99 ) and a blowout game vs. Paul-less Hornets, who made a pointless run vs. my reserves to end the game 116 : 108. Looks like another bad year for the Hornets with Paul suffering a season-ending MCL injury.

With chemistry and morale soaring higher than ever this season I am up against the NEMESIS, the LA Lakers. All the off-season moves have been tiered towards giving the Jazz a chance to make it against...

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[There are a few accounts missing - I'll add them later, but I'd like to do this while the game is relatively fresh in my mind.]

Staying at home has been good for the Jazz. Three wins in a row, but now they are headed onto the road for a back to back game against the Portland Trailblazers - and a reunion with former Jazzman Wesley Matthews.

Starting the first quarter the Blazers stay true to their name: While the Jazz are doing okay, the Blazers hit 75% of their shots...

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2-0 on the East Coast trip against top teams of the league - am I getting the hang of 2K11 that quickly?

The Atlanta Hawks are another top team, so I should be able to contain them as well. Thing is: They pose a huge match-up problem for me. Joe Johnson is a 6'7'' guard and even though slightly injured a superstar. Crawford and Evans are 6'5" each - a far cry from my 6'3" Williams and especially my subs of Watson and Price.

So I try to rotate a bit, put Kirilenko...

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With the first game of my South-East Coast trip yielding better results than expected I was quite relaxed for the subsequent Orlando Magic game.

My strategy was to put Jefferson on the 4-spot, leaving the defensive work to Millsap initially. Playing Howard manually and keeping him off the boards (not allowing him to cut, boxing out, etc.) worked well most of the time.

At the same time I set the defenders of the biggest outside threats to "Play Tight" and "Deny...

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After the disappointing ending of the Clippers game the team traveled to South Beach with the game already written off.

The Heat are a time you simply cannot keep from scoring, so the game plan was to abuse their 1 and 5 position and keep in the game as long as we could. Defensively I would try to keep Bosh off the boards in order to limit his effectiveness (wow, he does have some serious range!).

They came out cold and I jumped out to a 33 : 25 first quarter, adding another...

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