How's Your Association Going? (2K11)

[DJ]

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Control both! I love how 2K lets us control all 30 teams at once.

And when Anthony does get traded, you could switch teams.

I was thinking tonight that instead of choosing between the Nuggets and Thunder, I'd pick the Nets and make a trade for Melo.

[Buckeye]

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Well the Cavs got handed their first loss on a horrible offensive performance. Anthony Parker was the leading scorer with 17 while Moon had 15. Mo Williams had 14 points 12 assist and 2 turnovers. Antwan Jamison had 7 Points and 11 rebounds while Varejao had 8 Points 4 rebounds. Sessions was shut down completely in this game so it looks like they will be playing the Nets next after getting handed their first loss of the season.

[kirby5]

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I'm 2-0 in my miami heat association the first game was close against boston until the end wade closed the game 101-94 next game at philly Big Z was beasting the post lebron wade had good games bosh was mediocre. he only had five rebs but when big Z was out of the game my bigs just let people dunk on them. i was down in the 3rd qt but lebron got us back in the game with scoring an dropping dimes. with the whole sixer team having a slam dunk contest i had to trade for a big the plays defense

Heat get
birdman

denver gets
joel anthony
juwan howard

i nervous to keep playing cause if in the next roster update they have da 'sean butler an dexter pittman i will have to start over

[Buckeye]

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Well looks like I will be restarting my franchise since I found the rosters that were missing everybody and I guess controll all 30 teams.

[Ninja Tactic]

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Just commenting for easy follow

[ggsimmonds]

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Do you have the shooting foul sliders maxed out? I am having a hard time getting enough foul shots, I am last by a heap in makes and attempts in the team stats page. Need more cpu fouls because i seem to have no trouble sending them to the line.

Not maxed out, but I have raised it quite a bit. But I would like to see an increase in non-shooting fouls. That is always low for me.

My problem is actually quite the opposite of yours. I seem to get to the charity stripe a decent amount of time, but the AI team routinely shoots half as much FTs as I even though tendencies are identical for both. This is probably due to the emphasis I place on preventing penetration though. Rarely are there fouls on perimeter jumpshots on both sides.

It could just be my imagination, but since I started going for layups and lowered the dunk abilities I seem to be getting more calls. Don't know if it is true or not, but I think fouls may occur more frequently on layups. Could be due to the contact animations being more likely to trigger a foul.

[ggsimmonds]

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Starting Five

PG: Ben Gordon 77 OVR 27 Yrs Old A+ Pot
SG: Rip Hamilton 77 OVR 32 Yrs Old
SF: Tayshaun Prince 77 OVR 30 Yrs Old
PF: Charlie Villanueva 71 OVR 26 Yrs Old A- Pot
C: Shaquille O'Neal 77 OVR 38 Yrs Old

Sixth Man: Jason Maxiell(PF) 71 OVR 27 Yrs Old B+ Pot

Bench

Rodney Stuckey(PG) 74 OVR 24 Yrs Old A- Pot
Will Bynum(PG) 71 OVR 27 Yrs Old C Pot
Greg Monroe(C) 67 OVR 20 Yrs Old A Pot
Von Wafer(SG) 62 OVR 25 Yrs Old B- Pot
Avery Bradley(PG) 65 OVR 19 Yrs Old A Pot
Austin Daye(SF) 60 OVR 22 Yrs Old B Pot
Glen Davis(PF) 67 OVR 24 Yrs Old B- Pot
Doug Martin(SF) 61 OVR 24 Yrs Old C+ Pot

Big Baby has been hurt the past two and a half games, but I am now 2-9. About to take on the Lakers. I kind of hurt myself by not paying attention and trading both my 1st round picks. So I traded away both my 2nd round picks and Will Bynum for the Grizzlies 1st round pick and Troy Allen.

I wish I hadn't screwed up my picks so much. I have been thinking of trading Hamilton since he's old and Gordon can take his place. But I won't have any solid backup or Gordon. Plus, I like to keep the old Pistons around in Prince and Hamilton.

Why I never trade my first round picks until after the break if at all. If you are running with a team that can already contend for a title it is fine to trade for that one piece, otherwise I treat 1st round picks as gold.

If you continue to be last in the standings and your original pick ends up being a top 5 you will hate yourself. And I will playfully lol at you.

I would consider the possibility of trading Gordan. He may have A+ potential but at 27 that does not mean a whole lot. But he would still have great trade value so you could trade him for a solid vet with an expiring contract and a 1st round pick and completely rebuild next year. That is just me though. I always want my team's star players to be *my* guys that I drafted/acquired. One of my quirks. (John Wall gets an exception though)

[Jonesy]

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It could just be my imagination, but since I started going for layups and lowered the dunk abilities I seem to be getting more calls. Don't know if it is true or not, but I think fouls may occur more frequently on layups. Could be due to the contact animations being more likely to trigger a foul.

I think you could be onto something there. At default sim setting Devin Harris is dunking on people multiple times per game like Vince Carter over Fred Weiss (slight exaggeration but he still dunks a LOT) and despite all the facial type dunks there isn't often many fouls called.

Maybe it's because i need to up it to allstar are well. I imagine the cpu would be more aggressive on D on the higher difficulties as well.

[Buckeye]

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Jonesey are you controlling all 30 teams?

[Jonesy]

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Nope just the Nets. Wanted to avoid all the work involved in controlling all 30 this year if i could....

[Knickerlem]

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Restarted my Bobcats Assoc. to make better trade choices this time, i kinda rushed it the first time and was left with a painfull bench...

Signed A.I. and decided to keep him as my 6th man this time
Traded:
- Diaw (70), Dampier (60), Najera (63) and 2011 1st pick for Arenas (83) Blatche (72) and Hinrich (74)
- Carroll (55), Diop (58) and 2012 1st pick for Delfino (68), Gooden (65) and 2011 2nd pick

S5:
Arenas
Jackson
GWallace
Blatche
Gooden

Bench:
A.I. (SG 80)
Tyrus Thomas (PF 71)
Delfino (SF 68)
Hinrich (PG 74)
Henderson (SG 67)
D.Brown (SF 67)
Mohammed (C 65)
McGuire (SF 63)
Livingston (PG 60)

[Travkore]

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It's going great. I love how the standings reflect what would happen in the real NBA.

[Buckeye]

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Playing with the Knicks since my reset.

First game I blew out the Raptors.

Second Game I lost to Boston in a defensive battle 79-69.

1-1

[JBH3]

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Season1 Mavs (All-30) Association: Beat Boston 92-79 last night. Boston shot 28% from the field in the 1st qtr, and buried themselves into a 32-12 hole...they would come within 4pts of tying midway through the 3rd, but Dallas went on a 6-0 run to push the lead back up to 10 and it would stay at double digits for the rest of the game.

Dirk continues to dominate hanging 31 and 19 on the Celts + 2 blocks. Caron, Marion, and Kidd finished in double figures. Got 12 or so some minutes for both Steve Novak and DeShawn Stevenson which was much needed since their morale was starting to get real low...

I haven't used Jason Terry since my 2nd game because he was injured (playable) with back spasms. His morale has been dropping too (which I thought was supposed to be corrected when the player is injured?), but he's all healed up now and should see the floor in my next game. Which means DeShawn Stevenson will go back to benchwarming duties, and his morale will be plummeting; I need to find a deal for him....

Sent G/F Dominique Jones to the D-League since I just couldn't find minutes for him.

The injury bug has biten the league very hard... Ray Allen was injured in the Boston game mentioned above. Happened in the 1st Qtr, and he broke his ankle...out 8-10 weeks. Once the Boston game was over and I simmed to the next day, the Nuggets lost Carmelo Anthony for 6-8 weeks w/ a broken foot...signed Jarvis Hayes for them in lieu of the injury to Melo.

I have injury frequency/severity both at 53...guessing I can drop this to 50 or slightly below 50 because there's been a lot of injuries with this setting just at 53. There's anywhere from 15-20 players listed as OUT for the league's injury report.

[northface28]

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3-5 with the Knicks. I am coming off a 87-80 win @ the Bradley Center against the Milwaukee Bucks. With Wilson Chandler and Anthony Randolph still on the shelf with injuries. I have been getting great production from Amare, TD, Ray Felton, and Gallinari. I do manual subs and ALWAYS have one of the 4 players listed above in the game, otherwise I won't score. I have been getting timely baskets from Roger Mason and Eddy Curry as well. I have went back to Real Player FG% and seem to do much better scoring the basketball.

Im probably going to make a deal soon for a slasher/scorer (Al Thornton or CDR), because for some reason Azubuike is dreadful for me.