What's the best way to play in the post season? Topic

rednation58
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Does anyone have any guidelines for post season play? What different variants are there between having home court, being on the road, or playing at a neutral site? I know home court gives your team a slight advantage, like I notice my team has a higher FT% or 3pt%. And on the road it's the opposite to an extent. The neutral site I can't figure because I haven't had enough time to play in it. How would you game plan for a neutral site? For instance does going negative on defense have a larger impact on fouling than it would in a home or road game? 
9/8/2011 6:43 PM
alblack56
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I game plan the same, although I'm prone to reduce my freshmen involvement a little
9/8/2011 7:15 PM
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What Al said.  Neutral site is, unsurprisingly, halfway in between home and road (if you've been playing opps with a similar HCA to yours, at least).
9/8/2011 7:21 PM
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Only adjustment I make for the post-season is unchecking the box for giving more time to the backups if I'm losing and the game is out of reach. 

Home/neutral/away doesn't have a bearing on my choice of tempo or +/- setting. 
9/8/2011 8:26 PM
rednation58
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I'm just wondering because the first CT game I had I lost because one of my star guys gets in foul trouble and it's never happened all season but decided to happen the first game of the CT and cost me a game. I coached the same way I normally do without the same success.
9/8/2011 8:43 PM
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Posted by rednation58 on 9/8/2011 8:43:00 PM (view original):
I'm just wondering because the first CT game I had I lost because one of my star guys gets in foul trouble and it's never happened all season but decided to happen the first game of the CT and cost me a game. I coached the same way I normally do without the same success.

This game would be mighty boring if your team shoots 50% every game, no one fouls out, grabs 38 reb/game, dish out 17ast/game, force 13to/game. 

Game to game variation happens; even MJ missed game winning shots. 
 

9/8/2011 9:01 PM
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Posted by rednation58 on 9/8/2011 8:43:00 PM (view original):
I'm just wondering because the first CT game I had I lost because one of my star guys gets in foul trouble and it's never happened all season but decided to happen the first game of the CT and cost me a game. I coached the same way I normally do without the same success.
The game-to-game qualify of post-season opponents is going to be better - even if they're your conference rivals, they've had a season to work on IQs and fine tune their game planning.  That's part of why the postseason tournaments are tougher.

My Bethany team made it to the PIT final four a couple of seasons ago, and after averaging about 10 more FTs than my opponents all season, suddenly I was up against teams with equal or better speed and ballhandling, and the balloon popped.

To answer the original question, you can't choose the game site so I would just gameplan the best way I know how.  Play your higher IQ guys more minutes, maybe go "More Aggressive" on a big man who tends to foul so he'll be in the game at the end, switch positions a little to exploit the opponent's weakness and so forth. 


9/8/2011 9:44 PM
rednation58
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This is all true and the game would be boring I agree but as a coach since I am not mj or magic out there I want to put my players in a position to be successful and that seems to vary in this game between home, road and neutral games. If that means relaxing a bit on defensive pressure down low it would be good to know. If it means holding off on letting my sharp shooters go to work it would be good to know. I'm not trying to shoot 50%, grab 20 boards, get 20 assists a game. I know my kids shoot a little worse from the line in road games it's something that is fairly constant. I'm just wondering what people's think about neutral sites.
9/8/2011 9:50 PM
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I think you're reading WAY too much into where the game is played.  Just gameplan as you normally would and you should be fine.
9/8/2011 11:18 PM
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Posted by rednation58 on 9/8/2011 8:43:00 PM (view original):
I'm just wondering because the first CT game I had I lost because one of my star guys gets in foul trouble and it's never happened all season but decided to happen the first game of the CT and cost me a game. I coached the same way I normally do without the same success.
Maybe because I put a faster, more athletic guy on him? And added more distro as well? Its amazing what happens when you actually gameplan.

GG BTW.

9/9/2011 12:00 AM (edited)
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Wow, that was just a horrible game by johnson, I would say that was more anomally than the match-up that childplease put on him.  5 fouls, 3 TO's and 0-2 shooting in 13 whole minutes.  That is a really bad game and the sim just does that sometimes.  Yes the player was a little faster and a lot more athletic, but I have had match-ups way more lopsided than that and the slower less athletic player goes off. 
9/9/2011 2:38 AM
rednation58
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Touché child lol I didn't even notice you did that ..sMH. I still think they went OD on the fouling but that dude is a defensive beast.
9/9/2011 2:52 AM
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Posted by rednation58 on 9/9/2011 2:52:00 AM (view original):
Touché child lol I didn't even notice you did that ..sMH. I still think they went OD on the fouling but that dude is a defensive beast.
Yeah I was hoping to slow him down by making him play defense.
9/9/2011 3:07 AM
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Posted by rednation58 on 9/8/2011 8:43:00 PM (view original):
I'm just wondering because the first CT game I had I lost because one of my star guys gets in foul trouble and it's never happened all season but decided to happen the first game of the CT and cost me a game. I coached the same way I normally do without the same success.
That has nothing to do with home/road/neutral.
9/9/2011 6:56 AM
rednation58
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So what is the effect then of home/road/neutral selectively then?
9/9/2011 8:53 AM
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