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Pryzbilla has been solid on me from the board since he started and i have 2 blockers from the team that will make oppenent thinking before taking a shot so that why i started him for a test and Warrick is a SF and also i am training him to be a solid jump shooter (if only my assistant isn't crashing)

Some minor news

Leading bench scorer will rest more

Last dunk by Pau Gasol win by one point

Starters


Record of both teams


Recap of the game

On the first quarter, it was a close game managed to have a great shooting from rookie Rudy Gay and also great rebounding by Pryzbilla but we are in trouble as Pau Gasol has been foul trouble early as we are down 25-22. On the second, despite all-star on the bench for Memphis, we really couldn’t do anything but just wait until Pau gets back but most of the minutes it was the bench that get minutes and as result we are having a bad time getting an offensive board and they always get to the foul line so that why they have 53-44 lead. On the third, we managed to have some hot shooting and also forcing them to make turnover and managed to cut the lead to six 70-64. on the fourth, we thought that we are really gonna lose this game because of some easy lay-ups by Washington but a silly play by Washington make us one play to execute and we managed to capitalize as a leading dunk by Pau Gasol make us ahead to one, Washington still has one play but a bad shot by Etan Thomas make us win by one 94-95. Pau Gasol was big on the second half scoring 18 points in 9/9 shooting from the floor, Rudy Gay also has game scoring 16 points, Joel Pryzbilla with his first double-double with Memphis 12 and 12. Washington big three was BIG combined for 64 points lead by Jamison 24 points followed by Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler scored both 20 points. I also having a hard time going to the free throw line so that why the game is always in favor of Washington and also we are struggling in the 3 point line 1/11

Players at the Half:
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Player of the Game
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Surprise of the Game:

I was surprise that Pau Gasol has no miss on the FG, maybe because some of his shot came from dunk?

Underperformers of the game

Memphis

Mike Miller – 4/15 from the field 9 points
Damon Stoudamire – 3/10 from the field 10 points

Washington

Gilbert Arenas – 7/23 from the field, 4/12 from the arc 20 points (he is underperformer because of his shooting.

Boxscore

Memphis
Wizard

No photos . Next game will be againts Rockets.

Factor to the game

I will just what i do to beat them in our last meeting

Hoping for comment, replies

Nice win and against a tough side to keep it up ur going great this season

Thanks 3PK Hope i get a lot of comment and replies

The polls are in and saying that Mike Miller will be on the trading block



Mike Miller who is the second leading scorer of Memphis Grizziles, are trying to be deal to another team.

GM of the Memphis Grizzilies would also go on to a poll on which he will be traded

Edit: The poll will stay for 20 days so vote now

Hoping for comments, criticism (by Scoop),

Since i really dont have any viewers i decided to change my way of telling how to recap

Thanks for Lamrock and Scoop for giving me ideas.

i will now give recap by quarter
give before game preview and game predictions (i will make this realistic as possible)

only selected photos will be put

Hoping for suggetions for making this dynasty a little famous

Thanks for Scoop for giving me ideas as well as Lamrock. Both of you rock

This is my first ever changes to my stories



We will play at Toyota Center, Houston Texas.

Memphis (7-5) @ Houston (9-3)

Both teams are at Southwest Division
Houston 1 in Division and as well as in the conference
Memphis are 3 in Division and 7 in conference


Starting 5

Memphis

C Joel Przybilla
PF Pau Gasol
SF Mike Miller
SG Rudy Gay
PG Chucky Atkins

Houston

C Yao Ming
PF Juwan Howard
SF Shane Battier
SG Tracy Mcgrady
PG Rafear Alston

Team Leaders

Memphis
PPG - Pau Gasol (22.6)
RPG - Pau Gasol (10.2)
APG - Damon Stoudamire (6.4)
SPG - Pau Gasol (0.69)
BPG - Pau Gasol (2.85)

Houston
PPG - Tracy Mcgrady (19.6)
APG - Rafear Alston (5.3)
SPG - Tied
Tracy Mcgrady (1.69)
Rafear Alston (1.69)
BPG - Yao Ming (1.31)

I have face this team on home and also we beat this team already but i think we will have a hard time facing this team at their house and also they are the number 1 in the league right now so we really have to keep our game alive here and we would like Eddie Griffin to have a good return after the injury he suffer

GamePlan on this Game

We have to out-rebound Yao, do not let them shot three's and also stop T-mac penetrate to the line

Prediction score

We fought hard and still we lose 100-89

Hoping to get comments

If you hope to get comments, you gotta make this thing look pretty. To be honest, its a mess right now.

You need to resize your photos and arrange them so you don't scroll for miles to reach the end of your recap. IMO your recaps are jumbled up and they are hard to follow, seperate the info somehow.

Make some nice banners or get someone to do them for you. Making them in paint is fine, but it isn't when you write in your text then forget to color in the inside of the letters. As for the differet color text, that would look fine if it didn't stick out how it does, it draws the attention of the reader away. Another thing, its your decision and doesn't really matter but the ABA ball is a weird touch. It's your dynasty, but if you make a change like that it would be cool to put soe sort of story behind it.

Lastly, there is no strategy to get readers. Readers will read the best, no one wants to waste their time reading something that is tough to follow. You simply have to step it up and produce something worth reading. Your 10 games into the season and have 2 pages of replies, its not like no ones reading.

Think, if you see a great looking basketball magazine at the store, would you instead decide to go with the old town newspaper and just check the basketball section?

I suggest you look around at others dynasties, particularly -km-'s, loosers, tuomas', marquis' and asdf's if you want some ideas on how to make a dynasty story look attractive.

Thanks for suggestions Shannon, that will help me alot, as of right now, i am looking to dynasty that have readers and also trying to copy their way of doing it

Nice looking preview

I will be interested to see what your recaps look like, and how the pics look........

Hope i will gonna get comments now. Thanks for Shannon for helping me out.

Before this recap we would like to change the ABA ball that we are using to the old ball because of the comments we are being receive by the players.

The ABA ball has been use since the start of the season and also has a revival to the ABA. We will now return to the old ball after the game of Memphis. This will also be the last time this ball will use and also it will be ESPN that will broadcast every game since TNT taken the game.

Now for the game recap



T-mac scored 40 as result to a loss to Memphis


This what happens when you leave him wide open

First Quarter – Thing were bad from the start as T-mac was already on the mood to put the game away as he was quick pulling highflying dunk that make us already calling us on the bench and also 2 quick fouls from Mike Miller decided us to call already Warrick off the bench and also fatigue has been the factor on this quarter has we are down 14-26. We are trying to bounce back on the bad first quarter

Second Quarter – Despite we are having a good shooting from some of our players, it was still T-mac night as he scored 25 first half points and also we cannot stop them from shooting three’s but we managed to have the crowd not getting involved in the second as we are down 41-50

Shooting Percentage at the Half

Rockets – 50%
Memphis – 46%

Players at the Half brought to you by: Toyota Moving Forward

What to do at the Second Half:

Coach Tony Barone expect some big defensive stop from the second half and also do not force shot that why Memphis are down 9. Do not let T-mac pass on you and also adjustment will be big. We hope Memphis will do what Tony Barone expected


Third Quarter – The terrible of the terrible of the quarters as we let them in your face shot on us, too many turnovers result to dunks by T-mac as we are down big 64-79.

Fourth Quarter – Nothing to be said here, except that we managed to cut the lead to 12 by a Hakim Warrick jumpshot at the buzzer and lose 84-96.


Player of the game brought to you by: Jordan player of the game

Boxscores

Houston Boxscore
Memphis Boxscore

Word of the game

It was a bad 3rd that beaten us and fatigue has been problem on this game and no shooting from the three has been the problem for us all game long Tony Barone said after the game

Surprise stat of the game

Memphis

1/9 from the arc is the surprising that of the game because they have struggling from that line for almost 3 games now. 14 turnover

Rockets

Yao Ming only 8 points in the game they also have 9 steals from the game and they only have 4 turnover

Hoping for comments

Much better recap! looks a lot more neat

i will now enjoy to read this!

btw, 40 points from T-Mac?!?!? no wonder you lost!

Yeah, i didn't defense him well and also after a steal they always fast break so that why i lost

Next game will be against AI and Nuggets

That was much better i really liked it nice work keep it up

We will face the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center

7-68-3

Starting 5 of each team

Memphis

C Joel Przybilla| 64 overall
PF Pau Gasol| 86 overall
SF Mike Miller| 74 overall
SG Rudy Gay| 75 overall
PG Chucky Atkins| 66 overall

Denver

C Marcus Camby| 80 overall
PF Kenyon Martin| 83 overall
SF Carmelo Anthony| 89 overall
SG J.R Smith| 75 overall
PG Allen Iverson| 89 overall

Team Leaders

Memphis
PPG - Pau Gasol (22.6)
RPG - Pau Gasol (10.2)
APG - Damon Stoudamire (6.4)
SPG - Pau Gasol (0.69)
BPG - Pau Gasol (2.85)

Denver
PPG - Allen Iverson (15.4)
RPG - Marcus Camby (7.5)
APG - Allen Iverson (6.8)
SPG - Allen Iverson (2.45)
BPG - Kenyon Martin (1.91)

This is a game that we need to win despite the fact we are struggling of wins so far. The combination of A.I and Carmelo should be working here and also turnover should be lowered here.

Gameplan to win the game
Do not let Iverson steal some ball
J.R Smith three's
Pau Gasol leadership will be tested here
Bench should step up if starters are struggling

Prediction
Well i think that this will be a blow-out 89-103 by Denver

Hoping for comments

Interesting notes you have there, JR Smith isn't really that good of a shooter, he just takes alot of shots IMO, but I never looked at his stats in-game, what is his 3pt rating anyway? Oh yeah, you might want to stay away fromt the Denver Color text, it's hard to read and painful to the eyes

Nuggets 4th Quarter run beat the Memphis


Chucky Atkins big points not enough for the win.

First Quarter– we managed to have a good first quarter as we managed to have some good shooting from our starters as we have a lead 28-21.

Second Quarter – despite the Nuggets getting good open shots, we do not allow them to get back from the game as solid defense from us do not allow them to have a run as we just let the bench players to play as a result, former starter Damon Stoudamire is on fire scoring 10 first half point as the we like to continue the strong play on the second half as we have a 3 point lead 41-44.

Shooting from the first half

Memphis – 47%
Denver – 41%

Players at the half by Toyota

What to do at the second half

we have to let them continue the struggling shooting they have from the first half and also we need to let Pau score more basket from the second half. Tony Barone expect also to have a edge on the 3 and more points on the paint.

Third Quarter – just like the second quarter but the difference is too many quick shot from us and also the Nuggets now get the rhythm on the three as they cut the lead to two 69-67.

Fourth Quarter – the bad of all quarter that we have. The Nuggets managed to have the run and have the lead in the last minutes of the game. We thought that a final possession will make us tie a game but a easy miss shot has been grab by Martin and they go on a fast break, they miss but a offensive rebound by Martin and a shot have been the critical position by us as they up the lead by 4. we managed to have a defensive stop and cut the lead to two, after that a turnover has been made by Nuggets we can still put the game to overtime but Pau Gasol didn’t take the final shot result we lose 100-102.

Player of the game by Pepsi: Drink Cool

Boxscore

Memphis Boxscore
Denver Boxscore

Word of the game

I am very disappointed I don’t wanna talk about it| Memphis Head Coach Tony Barone disappointed after the Denver game

Surprise of the game

Despite we shot 55% shooting from the floor on the second half. We really have hard time to keep our lead from the second quarter.

Photos



Hoping for comment (I think that the photos are still too big dont you think?):wink:

Photos are fine, maybe use a few sweat patches to make it look top notch, close loss to my Nuggets

But i dont have lightning on, i think you need lightning on to see sweat?

Bad luck with the loss but it was always going to be tough A suggestion i have is to use bolding for sub-heading more like shooting at the half etc...
But regardless looking good

Yeah i am having a hard time winning right now and i will try to accept the suggestion

We will face clippers on staples center

7-7
4-8

Starting line-ups

Memphis

C Joel Przybilla| 64 overall
PF Pau Gasol| 86 overall
SF Mike Miller| 74 overall
SG Rudy Gay| 75 overall
PG Chucky Atkins| 66 overall

Clippers

C Chris Kaman | 75 overall
PF Elton Brand | 90 overall
SF Corey Maggete | 83 overall
SG Jason Hart | 68 overall
PG Sam Cassel | 73 overall

Team Leaders

Memphis

PPG - Pau Gasol (22.6)
RPG - Pau Gasol (10.2)
APG - Damon Stoudamire (6.4)
SPG - Pau Gasol (0.69)
BPG - Pau Gasol (2.85)

Clippers

PPG - Elton Brand (19.6)
RPG - Elton Brand (8.4)
APG - Sam Cassel (5.3)
SPG - Jason Hart (1.85)
BPG - Elton Brand (2.00)

We interview Tony Barone. Head Coach of the Memphis Grizzlies after a disappointing back-to-back lose. He want his team to be healthy and do not let open shot be in favor of clippers

I expect that we win this game if we want to stay alive in a playoff matchup because of both teams struggling of wins and we want to force the action that Clippers will really lose this game. I dont want everybody to play stat because that why we are losing right now. I will try not fatigue problems go here. Shooting should be high percentage and i will make Pau Gasol be more aggressive because he is the only one who can make this game different

Gameplan on this game by Steve Kerr

Hmmm... i think that the only way that Memphis can win on this game is:
By letting Elton Brand on foul trouble
Start strong by Pau

Prediction Score by Marv Albert

I will predict it will be 100-105 win by Memphis

First of all.....Bad luck for the loss to the Nuggets, although it was the best recap that you have done so far! and the pics are perfect size and they were also a good selection of pics.

Nice preview of the game VS Clippers, but i dont think you are going to win. It will be a close game though....

Thanks for the good comment Scoop nice to hear that now you like my preview and the best recap of nuggets and also i will try to make the recap more realistic

Your Dinasty is much better to be read right now!!
The size of the pictures are very good to me and the recap sound very reallistic
tip* you should give more highlight on final game score. bold it or different color maybe

I bet you will finish the losing time beating the Clippers by 10 or more ponts!

btw - I'm playing a Memphis Dinasty to, but more fantasy...i started with 1 created superstar player but he not played any game in 06/07 season. Simulated all 06-07(Pistons Won) i drafted 1 created players(no stars but a lot of potential)and Sean Williams, acquire Joakim Noah, Mike Dunleavy Jr and Walter Herrman and miss Swift, Gay and Atkins...maybe i will atar to post...i'm thinking about it