Town Hall Sim 4

[Mike Lowry]

What adjustments have you made to your game plan?
What did you expect initially, that didn't play out the way you wanted or expected?
If you haven't adjusted, how could you tell that your team was primed to perform the way it has?

Rules: 1 point if you give thoughtful answers, which I will award after the timer ends for responses. The timer ends for responses at the moment the corresponding week's Sim is run.

Note: Use approximately 5 sentences as your bare minimum for 1 point. If you write 3 long, complex sentences, you'll still get a point. If you write 5, 3 word sentences, you will not get a point. Don't @ me.

Due: Due by the deadline for sim 4

[greepleairport]

What adjustments have you made to your game plan?
Minimal adjustments. I have a big DC change for the next sim so we'll see how that goes. Until then, the biggest change I made was getting Eddie Johnson back to starting PG. I came off that this upcoming sim. We'll see how it goes.

What did you expect initially, that didn't play out the way you wanted or expected?
I really expected the pure PG skills of Phil Ford to have a bigger impact than they did. I'm not really sure what to do with my PGs. They're both on the trade block. I might not even trade them. I'm really curious to see how my next sim goes....

I really thought that Moses Malone flattening every opponent would propel me to more victory. After listening to a few of Wig's pods, I feel like I made a number of missteps in the creation draft. It was my first creation draft so I don't hold too much against my decisions, but I went with scorers to put next to Moses, and not necessarily elite ones (apparently). So, Moses is carrying the load for my squad, keeping us hovering around .500, but even for a team I expected to grow over the years, I thought we'd be off to a better start in year 1 than we have been. Alas.

[WigNosy]

What adjustments have you made to your game plan?

It's been less about gameplan for me and more about lineup - I tightened my rotation from 8 players to 7 players after watching Paul Griffin's Defensive Efficiency, deciding his play was actively hurting us, and dropping him from backup PF/C to third-string PF/C. This necessitated some other lineup shuffling, moving Cedric Maxwell to SF and starting David Thompson at PG instead of bringing him off the bench.

What did you expect initially, that didn't play out the way you wanted or expected?
If you haven't adjusted, how could you tell that your team was primed to perform the way it has?

Related to the above, I expected my team to have an efficient offense and a middle-of-the-road defense. What I got was a team with a great offense, but a defense so bad it was letting other teams score even more than we did. That was problematic for obvious reasons... just like it doesn't really matter your offense is so bad you barely score if your defense is so great the other team can't score at all, it doesn't matter if you're atop the league in scoring if you're allowing others even more points!

I'm pleased with the way the team has performed since the change; we went from having a net negative point differential on the season (-0.1 after Sim 2) to a net positive (+3.2 after Sim 3); our defense is still not great by any means, but we're at least not actively abysmal now. Will definitely be considering some defensive training in the Weight Room when the training periods open up.

[logpmess]

What adjustments have you made to your game plan?
My main adjustments have been due to injury. A manager doesn't anticipate a high contributing starter to get hurt in Sim 1, so we had to adjust. Now that Kyle Macy has returned, we hope to really begin doing some gameplan adjustments. We were really hoping just to stay afloat and now at .500, we have a chance to get some winning sims and move up the ladder for a hopeful playoff spot.


What did you expect initially, that didn't play out the way you wanted or expected?
I really thought Michael Cooper would be a higher scorer in the leauge. I can't seem to find a way to have him take more shots. The flip side of this problem is that I see a lot of other contributors to scoring that I did not expect to see from the beginning of the season. Edgar Jones putting up 17 points per game has been terrific in a role player capacity. He may need to be reevaluated into more of a star role.

If you haven't adjusted, how could you tell that your team was primed to perform the way it has?
Like I said above, the main reason for minimal adjustments was the Kyle Macy injury, but I thought I had drafted a team that could be strong on defense, especially in terms of steals. I am hoping to leverage that elite defensive statistic to gain more possessions every game

[AngryBanana]

What adjustments have you made to your game plan?


Wouldn't you like to know... I did some tweaks, and moved my starting sf to the bench after I noticed my y/y was actually performing quite well and Bridgeman can play several positions of the bench. I had made some more tweaks today that I think will translate to a better team as well.

What did you expect initially, that didn't play out the way you wanted or expected?


My offense is worse than I expected. I thought I would have been at worst a middle of the pack offense, instead I am having to rely solely on my defense right now. I also am not rebounding as well as I wanted to, but you can't have everything I guess.

[Jedihero]

I'm trying small adjustments in gameplan depending on what my schedule is looking like. I have had back to back really heavy road trips so last sim I changed a good bit which didn't do me much good, so now I'm going to try and go the other way with it and see if that gets me any better results. Hard to change much because I'm currently 10-0 at home but 1-11 away, so I don't think my team is doing anything wrong, just cant win on the road.

[IamQuailman]

What adjustments have you made to your game plan?
I've made some minor adjustments between sims 2 & 3 in a hopes of lowering turnovers and what not. I lowered the motion & pace a bit, aswell as put Bill Hanzlik as a scoring option to see how he responds to additional opportunities.

What did you expect initially, that didn't play out the way you wanted or expected?
I had expected to have some lower scoring games, but what played out was probably my worst sim of the young season. That said, most games of the sim were on the road, which has always been "tough sleddin'" for younger teams as it is. Probably not the best time to make an adjustment like that lol... but in addition to the L's, I noticed a drastic decline in scoring across the board, as well as efficiency. Again, maybe it's the road schedule and not the game plan... but I'm goign to re-up the pace and up motion, while lowering my 3pt scoring (from 1 to 0). Let's see if we can bounce back from a horribad sim. My sim vegas life depends on it!

[Mike Lowry]

@greepleairport
@WigNosy
@logpmess
@AngryBanana
@Jedihero
@IamQuailman


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