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League Office:
On pace to notch a 300, Nitecaps infect Ticket with a powerful case of Jockitch in getting to the century mark with their first two.
League Office:
Holy...
More monster numbers everywhere.
A hellacious firefight has broken out between Ticket and the Nitecaps, who are now projecting at 250-plus. Tom seems to be playing from behind, but Harden's potential for ridiculous numbers makes it too hard to call.
E Team gets a 27 from Curry and is getting heat from Wingo, who gets a 40 from Markieff fucking Morris, while the Invaders get a 22 from Whiteside - painful - against Swat.
P4, meanwhile, could very well clinch the regular season title in this match. That means all the remaining drama will happen 2 thru 8, and wins by Nitecap and Swat here will really thicken the plot.
Good stuff.
League Office:
Wingo is in at 215 against the E Team, which needs 76 from BGriff and KLove for the W. Fucking Markieff Morris.
League Office:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Okay, we've got a little bit of a situation. You guys are always whining about improper rulings and blah, blah, blah, but sometimes shit just happens that requires adjudication because there are little blind spots built into our little toy that nobody can fully anticipate - even after all these years - and we have to be growed up enough to sort them out.
Here's the deal. XMan subs DeMar and CJ for Parker and Bledsoe prior to the current match. Sounds good, except it turns out Portland is a previously undetected early call and Dave's move come after 6 PM on Thursday, too late to get McCollum in his lineup (4 PM deadline). Dave can have DeMar, who doesn't play until Friday, but the question becomes: Who comes out of his lineup, Eric Bledsoe or Jabari Parker?
Now, as the League Office pointed out in its reporting, Bledsoe had been trending down and McCollum was coming off a big game that included a dramatic game winner against Dallas on Monday. But it was also no secret that Parker had been injured in his game on Wednesday night. It was reported as a knee sprain at that point, but by Thursday it was known to be a season-ending ACL tear. I'm fairly sure that Dave, as a dedicated follower of the Association, knew that.
In other words, the Bledsoe change was based on seeking better numbers, whereas the Jabari sub was a necessity. Had the XMan known that he could only sub for one of his guys, I'm sure it would have been Parker, and while we can't know whether he would have chosen McCollum over DeMar, the fact is, McCollum was unavailable due to the early call. The assumption is that DeMar would have been next in line. Because of the flexibility of Dave's guys in terms of position, he had multiple options.
So. As the de facto official on the field, I suggest that the fair response is to give Dave DeMar as a sub for Parker, who was his sixth man, while forcing him to keep Bledsoe. Of course, there had to be a wrinkle, and here it is: the Nitecaps actually get a better number from Bledsoe (35) than they would've gotten from McCollum (28), which is probably going to make the XMan's Match 30 opponent - Ticket - a little nuts. But how the hell else can we rule? And for what it's worth, while Ticket is a busy man right now, he has always been the sort of unofficial gatekeeper on early call stuff. One could argue that he could've kept all of this from happening with a little closer attention to detail. But I'm not trying to get on his head or anything. It's sort of like Sean misreporting last year's order of finish on draft night. He had a right to be mistaken. I was the guy who ultimately needed to know the truth of it, so I had limited standing in any subsequent discussion about rectifying it. Know what I mean?
Whew. Anyway. I've offered the best remedy I can come up with. Could it affect the outcome of a match at a critical point in the season? Yes, and that's unfortunate. But I just don't see a better response. Then again, I have one vote and no more. You guys want to make a case for some other solution, have at it. You can argue about it over mimosas. I'm going to bed.
Hasta pronto, muchachos.
League Office:
Wait a minute. Maybe Dave's smarter than all of us and this whole thing is moot. His McCollum substitution came at 6:18 on Thursday night, prior to the start of Portland's game against Boston. In theory, we could waive the 4 PM deadline and let him have the switch. After all, the early call decision is not about all games on the schedule but targeted to individual teams. Of course, the Nitecaps will lose seven fp's in the process. Maybe Ticket, his opponent, should decide.
Whatever. You guys figure it out.
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Ticket has relinquished the responsibility for early call sitings. Looks like a CJ McCollum sub beat the early call tip off so i do not know what there is to argue about.
Aside from my squad needing 240 something to beat E Team and ten or twenty more than that to top Cap.
Tom can decide on this. I certainly wasn't smart enough to get that in under the early call gun. I was merely making sure I got a sub in for Parker in case I got busy on Friday.
So does that mean I'm going with the lineup I submitted? Was McCollum an early call?
Scoring wise, this has to be the craziest on record.
E- no mention of that Draymond Green line from last night???
E Team:
Dave, I saw the Dray thing. Ten fucking steals? He should have had a quadruple double. Who has ever done that? The best way to see it is that he made TWO FG's and put up a 41.
I like Tom's decision. Early call deadline is prior to the start of games involving affected player(s). Nitecaps get McCollum as well as DeMar, and out go Parker and Bledsoe. Costs Dave seven fp's.
And you guys heard what Ticket said. You're on your own on early calls. And settled law is that they happen whether you know about them or not.
League Office:
As sometimes happens for all of us, the E Team doesn't get quite as much Love as it was hoping for, but it was Curry's flavorless 27 that allowed Wingo's 215-212 win.
P4 squashes the E Team's title hopes and possibly Ticket's as well with a 244 against Kontrol.
Ticket's Harden puts up a 54 in about three and a half minutes and puts him at 252. That means the Nitecaps, whose Kemba flames out at 21, needs a 37 from his Raptor DeMar for the win, which would hand the regular season title to P4.
The Invaders are in at 219, which means Swat needs Raptor Lowry to get - you guessed it - 37 for the win. Weird.
Happy Saturday night you old tricky dogs.
36 from DeRozan...I guess we're even Tom
We should remember our 504 combined points as the greatest tie in PDXFBBL history.
League Office:
Indeed, the Nitecaps' DeMar misses a potential game winner in the closing seconds and the XMan settles for a 252-252 tie with Ticket. I can't say for sure it's the highest-scoring sister kisser of all time - we had a huge one last season or the one before - but it's pretty epic.
Westbrook's 67 turns out to be too much to overcome and the surprising Invaders their fourth straight, defeating Swat 219-211.
League Office:
Gee, I almost forgot... P4 has clinched the regular season title.
Congrats to Hans, who also seems likely to break the all-time record for scoring average in a season, although that will require some research. It's hardly fair that the Grand Teuton lines up against the lowest opponent average in the league, but it's a little hard to deny credit to a team that puts up 215 a match. zI don't know when we last had a back-to-back pennant winner, but I think it's been pretty rare for awhile now. Well done, champ.
The Ticket-Nitecap tie creates all kind of tie-breaking potential with five to play. And we may need it. The E Team's loss in Match 30 has Tom sitting pretty in second place, one and a half ahead of the E Team and two in front of the Nitecaps. But more interesting is the recent play of the Invaders and Wingo, who aren't just winning but putting up some real numbers. After seven straight losses, Kontrol is finally in the cellar, and three and half games separate the six teams vying for three remaining Big Dance spots. Three and a half.
Lock and load people. Did I mention five to play?
When did Invaders sub out Pau????
Match 30
Lowry 28
Smart 23
LeBron 46
Carmelo 45
Gobert 31
Irving 38
211
Invaders
Whiteside 22
Gasol DNP
Hayward 37
Klay 40
Westbrook 67
Vucevic 16
182
Invaders is now the Stacey of our league!!!
Actually, last time I see an update is Match 16 for Invaders, with Pau.
Correct that Match 23, last time I could find an Invaders lineup update, with Pau.
I just lost 20 minutes of my life I will not get back looking for an Invaders lineup that doesn't include Pau. I went all the way back to match 14, can we get an offical fucking update on his lineup????
And who did he sub for Pau???
League Office:
Invader subbed Mike Conley for Pao prior to Match 24 and has not changed his lineup since: W'brook, W'side, Klay, Hayward, Conley, Vucevic.
Yes, it is a bit reminiscent of the time Stacy did not make a lineup change for, like, 35 matches and was in 1st place and then returned to manage his way out of the playoffs.
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