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260756.8 in reply to 260756.7
Date: 7/20/2014 4:20:53 PM
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Typically this early in the season there isn't much drama as teams feel out the cup and their players/strategies. But man the entire league has had some great opening week games! looks like we are in for a treat of a season!

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260756.9 in reply to 260756.8
Date: 7/24/2014 8:19:33 PM
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This is cute. My Cup opponent this week sold his entire roster today so 2 of my trainees will likely foul out by halftime.

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260756.10 in reply to 260756.9
Date: 8/1/2014 4:43:11 PM
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I'm so lucky I won my cup game. I had to take it easy for 2 league games and ct him on home court. Was a good d3 team. Such an unlucky early draw

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260756.11 in reply to 260756.10
Date: 8/3/2014 1:40:37 PM
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Thats hard to have to do early in the cup. But i guess that 50k comes in handy.

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260756.12 in reply to 260756.11
Date: 8/4/2014 7:36:06 PM
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Way back in Season 20 I drew Chi Town Bangers to open the Cup when they were in the NBBA and I CT'd and won, but they had deliberately decided to tank and rebuild. My team is built for breadth and depth where I can platoon based on each week's situation, but it always seemed like in DIV I'd lose my season opener even when the best 2-3 teams in my league which caused me to have to concentrate on league a little more than ideal.

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260756.13 in reply to 260756.11
Date: 8/7/2014 4:23:11 AM
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well, it's now a 100k decision so far, because i won, and then i drew a pretty surefire win this round. that's the thing about an early tough matchup in the cup; it's worth cting because you might get several more 50k wins, not just the 1. if i get a super tough opponent in like 3 weeks, i might let it go and focus on league instead, so i don't relegate. my goal is to avoid relegation, so those 50ks come in handy. i'm saving up for the last piece of my team (40ishk starting sf), so i just need to build that bank. and holy shit, i adjusted my prices and started making sooooooo much more money.

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260756.14 in reply to 260756.13
Date: 8/7/2014 10:56:52 PM
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Man this cup road is tough. Now I've got another super tough team that I'd be lucky to beat, and my team isn't in the greatest shape

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260756.15 in reply to 260756.14
Date: 8/7/2014 11:09:09 PM
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I have a tough one this week, too. That said, we have 11 teams still in the cup. Wow!

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260756.16 in reply to 260756.15
Date: 8/14/2014 10:51:55 PM
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my god, i can't believe i won! i'm so happy i can't even tell ya. so happy i wrote a song about the game to the tune of 'hokey pokey':

you put your starters in
you take your backups out
you play run or motion
and you make it a shootout
if you win all of your cup games
you can turn your team around

that's what it's all about!

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260756.17 in reply to 260756.16
Date: 8/15/2014 9:49:37 AM
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Hahaha...nice...

I'm a little bummed I didn't have the same luck. I thought I might steal one too.

I was surprised my opponent played most of his first team that were defensive beasts--my team only made I think 2 FGs in the first period.

Since I had the greater enthusiasm, despite getting run out of the gym in the first, my team was able to draw a lot of fouls and keep in the game at the FT line. Got one of his big 3 players to foul out but couldn't quite get another.

When Tremol went down late in the 3rd, it got a lot tougher and couldn't cut it closer than 5. I think had the injury not occurred the result would have been different.

Tough one. And he's out for 2 weeks, but I get last year's breakout rookie Cooper back. Not exactly a good trade, but considering I really only have 2 true centers, I had no idea who I would have been able to play at the 5 besides Odion.

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260756.18 in reply to 260756.17
Date: 8/16/2014 2:16:39 PM
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Bad cup loss for me. Should have won that easily. If I hadn't TIE'd I would have. In retrospect coming up to the ASG I should have.

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