I can easily cover that spread.

Seems like my guys are playing a lot more minutes than I expected... I have all my guys set to fairly fresh or getting tired, and the starters all played 35 or more minutes. Guess i should switch back to target minutes if I want to spread the minutes around.

Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 5/19/2010I've looked at a few dozen games in Allen, and there is no question in my mind that the press is generating way too many fouls, and may be have been further weakened (perhaps indirectly) in general as well.

sounds good.

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Quote: Originally posted by reinsel on 5/19/2010Weird is Allen going to be behind Smith or at the exact same time as smith now?

Exactly synced. Which is only going to make Smith even less popular.

I hope the players still practice during this delay - mine could use it.

22 fouls in a half is kinda high. But a low IQ team running fast break and full court press should average close to 50 something fouls and TOs combined. I dont care how athletic or quick they are.



Of all the defenses IQ should be the most important for press and fast break. Your taking the most chances in these 2 and pushing the tempo on both.

In real life a press takes all 5 guys. If one guy doesnt know what he is doing its a layup or a 2 on 1 fastbreak in college.

If my speed and Ath is competative with urs and my IQ is high I should kill ur press no matter what ur IQ is. Just look at how teams play as they get older. Junior High a press just kills team and most teams play it-90% part of game plans. High School teams use it to speed up games or if someones guards are in foul trouble or weak-75% percent part of game plans. In college D3 about 50%, D2 40%, D1 25%. NBA is almost 0%.

Pitino and Calapari and the guy from Loyola Marimount tried it in the NBA and got waxed and dropped it quick.

So I believe if with out a doubt that if my team is competative with u on speed and athletic and I have a high IQ and u low I should shoot foul shots and lay ups all day. Because it is such a risk to press. U have to be alot athletic and quicker then me if my IQ is high.

Quote: Originally Posted By cappelgp on 5/19/2010I can easily cover that spread.

Seems like my guys are playing a lot more minutes than I expected... I have all my guys set to fairly fresh or getting tired, and the starters all played 35 or more minutes. Guess i should switch back to target minutes if I want to spread the minutes around

With everybody set to fairly fresh on my team that starters with 90+ stamina got 27, 28, and 29 minutes. I'm looking for a more specific minute distro for my promises I made to my recruits so I'm testing out the so-called "new and improved" target minutes system in the second exhibition game tomorrow.

Maybe the slowdown caused it, but my guys were never more tired than blue. I think they should keep running exhibition games.

I agree cappel...if they can't they can't, but I for one am nervous about running a beta test with my 1 good team. I don't want to get fired cause I didn't shoot enough 3s or too few 3s.

Right now it seems like chucking a ton of 3s is the best offensive strategy, and playing anything but press is a good idea on defense.

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I kind of agree VD. I remember several key matchups with a conference rival who pressed, and we had equal teams, in just about every rating. I consistently committed more fouls then he did, just cause A level press IQs = low foul output, lower than even a A IQ man team would have.

Quote: Originally posted by notchflaw on 5/19/2010

Quote: Originally posted by dalter on 5/19/2010I also think that a -1 3pt frequency is producing too many 3pt attempts. I played a game against a +1, m2m defense where I set all of my perimeter guys to -1 and bigs to -2, and my team took 25 3p's (including several guys who took 4 of their 6 shots from 3p).
In the old engine, we would've taken single digits 3p's as a team.

Basically means you are forced to set a perimeter guy to -2 if you don't want him to take a majority of his shots from 3p range. Definitely not good, imo.

+1

Two of my players were set on a +1 3p frequency and they both ended up with 10+ shots from behind the arc against a 0/+1 zone. I rarely got that many 3pt attempts even when I had my 3pt frequency on +2 in the old engine

I had just the opposite. In the exhibition season, I like to set my guards and SF's to +1 and +2 on 3 point shooting to get a feel for who my best shooters are. I also dont set a distribution percentage so I can see how well the players mesh together, so no one player should have been shooting considerably more than any other player. In the 1st game my team took 11 3-pointers and over half of those were from one player. I was hoping that each of them would have taken at least 2 or 3, so I wasnt able to get the data I was hoping to get.

wish we could play some more exhibition games while we wait

Quote: Originally posted by raiderguy8 on 5/20/2010I had just the opposite. In the exhibition season, I like to set my guards and SF's to +1 and +2 on 3 point shooting to get a feel for who my best shooters are. I also dont set a distribution percentage so I can see how well the players mesh together, so no one player should have been shooting considerably more than any other player. In the 1st game my team took 11 3-pointers and over half of those were from one player. I was hoping that each of them would have taken at least 2 or 3, so I wasnt able to get the data I was hoping to get.

If you set 0 for all distribution then 3 point setting is also automatically 0 regardless of what you set it to.