Your free throw defense almost gave me an aneurysm during the live match, but after the game ended and I could see the ratings, I felt like we stole one and realized I would have lost it either during or after the game no matter which side I was on.
edit: Yeah, I just need to stop watching these. Yuri Siracusa, a guy making 75k a week, just played the first 24 minutes straight without a sub. Guys making 120k, 140k, 190k, they all get subs, but, apparently, Yuri Siracusa is just indispensable. We can't afford to rest him or it will all fall apart, we're much better off making it fall apart by deliberately running him into the ground, than resting him. This way, we'll have no hope of recovering when we lose the lead.
I grabbed the lineup from a random pickup game against some guy that challenged me during my match last Saturday, which went really well, but, I'm watching the replay right now, and, yeah, it looks like my coach is going to play Siracusa for 48 minutes straight unless he fouls out or it goes into garbage time, smh. That makes no sense to me. It's my fault for not noticing during the pickup game since I only checked the boxscore, but he's barely better than his backup and stamina isn't an issue for my team right now. No timeouts have been called, so it's not like he isn't in dire need of a substitution at this juncture. It just feels like I suddenly don't know how to substitute for a player in some games. He has a reserve and a backup, both of whom routinely sub for guys making 2x what he makes a week.
edit2: I just want him to foul out or get injured at this point. I almost didn't even start him, I think we're better with Holtz on the floor. There isn't a single player on my team that I want to play all game instead of just leaving them out of the lineup entirely. I don't even care about winning anymore, I just want to see the coach pull this player out of the game for a minute.
edit3: Eff this game. eff this site. Eff this AI coach. Eff this match engine and all 10,000 lines of code. If you're still reading this, eff you. And eff anyone that just scrolled past.
Last edited by Harold Miner at 10/28/2025 9:35:51 PM