Middle Kingdom's Finest - Jing 2K9 Dynasty

Nice work on the site thing. I love how you even changed the url.

maybe you should consider dropping quarter length to 9-10 minutes so you get lower scores etc....or mess with sliders....GL either way

Top Presentation as always

Nice first win and game by Martin. And your player wasn't bad with 11 and 7.

Go Xu Yong Sun Yue mix

However Jing, I digress, as Sun Yue has not made the transisiton to the NBA just yet. Or at least not successfully yet...

Yeah Sun is really struggling in the preseason. Best to send him to the D-fenders for some extra playing time rather than rot on the bench and not improve and get depressed. Bring him up halfway through the season. Hopefully his dull performance is due to recovering from mono. Xu Yong is just a shame though, one of the finest stars in China, and have his career (and nearly) his life cut short by cancer.

Nice work on the site thing. I love how you even changed the url.

Good to see you back man. Like 2K, the small details mean a lot.

maybe you should consider dropping quarter length to 9-10 minutes so you get lower scores etc....or mess with sliders....GL either way

Wouldn't that disrupt the overall stats in terms of minutes played and points per game and all that? Cause everything else is set at 12 minutes. I'm still tweaking with the sliders (the rare opportunity I have time to play). The first quarter was pretty realistic, like both teams were around mid-20's. Then I lowered the sliders for both teams, and Kevin Martin started going crazy making everything, and the same for the Wolves, they just started jacking up three pointers. I'll probably mess some more with the tendencies sliders.

Top Presentation as always

Word. Are Ben and you still in it for the project or not?

Nice first win and game by Martin. And your player wasn't bad with 11 and 7.

Yeah, Martin is fucking amazing, I love the guy. My player is pretty decently rated actually, around high 60's low 70's, so worthy of a spot on the team but won't be sucking too much minutes. Most of the points ended up coming from down low, like a bunch of them a Kings player would grab a board, and Hsu would be cutting under the basket for a easy bucket.

I'm pretty sure at outset of Association, you can choose simulation quarter length (12 minutes) & game quarter length (10 minutes etc)....this means that not only are simulated games have good stats, but so do your ones....you should be able to change your quarter length with no issues, provided simulation quarter lenght is 12 minutes

I get where both of you (Jing and X) are getting at. Jing, I got your dilemma too. I'm thinking of playing 6 minute quarters and simming it as 12 minute quarters. However, minutes per game will be affected quite badly. Same with some other stats categories... however, if you do have the time, 10 minutes isn't as a big a leap from 12 as 6 is... you feeling what I'm saying?

Yeah me and Ben are still in for that project, just a matter of time till I get a PS3 really.

woah, this is on my must read list now
awesome 2k9 dynasty there Jing

good luck

Great play to win the game by Hsu! From close to halfway... damn! 13 points and 8 rebounds ain't bad either. Rookie of the Year?

I'm loving your newpaper article.

Wow! A rookie hitting a game winning shot in just his 3rd game in the NBA! Nice recap but I just noticed something wrong...

The half was capped off by a very impressive full court heave by Avery Johnson.

I think you are referring to Anthony Johnson right?

Anyways, Ill be following this.. Keep it up!

Great idea made on this association...ill be following this!

Just a question, from where did you get the name Jin Hsu? coz when i read it, it reminds me of Jinzo...i think its a card in yugioh if i remember right...

Anyways, nice recaps and articles!

Blah, never can get that guy's name right.

Are you using Photoshop or What??

MS Paint. Jing is that good.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woD2ll91cE4[/youtube]
Oh damn it's like Prince!

Good to see you Jing!

Prince had a kid with an asian lady, I'm guessing that's how Hsu would look.

I think it's appropriate that if Jing decides to post videos of Hsu, the background music should be that of Prince songs.

Nice work so far Jing Wicked shot of Hsu hitting the buzzer beater. Very entertaining association.

Rookie Blog - November 23, 2008

Its been a couple weeks since I last posted, but I've been busy. We suffered our first defeat
of the season rightafter that last post to the 76ers, but then went on another little winning
streak of 7 or 8 games, never imagined we'd be this good or something. Again I can't say enough
of Kevin Martin, he's playing like the league MVP right now. In our November 9th game versus
the Golden States Warriors at home, he dropped a league high 61 points! I think that is like a
team single game record or something. Brad Miller also had a triple-double that game with 10
points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists. It just shows that when Kevin is hot, the rest of the team
is usually performing well too.

I had a breakout game against the Clippers couple days later with 15 points, and to end to end
the week we played the West powerhouse Phoenix Suns and two time MVP Steve Nash. Not to sound
cocky or anything but I thought they were just average. We easily handed them a 40 point defeat,
and they didn't lead at any point in the game. Kevin was on fire as usual, pouring in 41 points,
while Donte won POTG honors with 21 points and 14 rebounds, absolutely owning Shaq and Amare. So
at the end of 10 games we were sitting atop the league with a 9-1 record. The biggest suprised
after us would probably be the Oklahoma City Thunder; everyone expected them to be horrible, but
they're 7-2 and second in the West, how about that.

After this though a string of injuries hit us. Beno went out for 2 weeks with a broken toe,
while Kevin twisted his ankle (he was playable though), and Salmons went out for 4 weeks with
a strained MCL. Right after these string of injuries we had our 7 game winning streak come to
an end against Rudy Gay and the Griz, we allowed 142 points, wow. Despite his injury, Kevin was
still lighting it up from the field, keeping his average about 32 points per game, and I was
getting more playing time too due to the injuries, and my production rose.

So now that we're caught up to the present, we're flying back from Los Angeles right now after
playing the Lakers. Such a cool atmosphere to play there, with all the famous movie stars
cheering (and jeering at us) from the sidelines. Right away Kobe exerted his dominance by driving
into the lane again and again, drawing multiple fouls. Kevin and Donte both had 3 fouls by the
end of the first quarter, severely limiting their playing time. Carrying all those fouls Kevin
still managed to get 31 points by half, but after picking 2 more for his 5th he was pretty much
done for the night. There were 27 fouls called on us and 21 on the Lakers. Kevin, Franciso, Donte,
and Jason Thompson all had 5 fouls, we couldn't even get a body on the other team without having
the whistles blow. Anyways because we pretty much played our second unit the entire second half,
the Lakers slowly caught up.

We held on to a slim lead of 130-129 and just 10.1 ticks left when Kevin was intentionally
fouled, and of course he's automatic from the line and we sealed the deal on this game. We had a
easy time in the first half but were seriously pushed in the second, but our team showed it's
depth by being able to hold on to the lead and pull out the win. Kevin ended with 35 points overall
and I 22 points and 6 boards. On the opposing side Andrew Bynum had 20 points and 17 boards, very
impressive.

On another note, I think Kevin had one of the players of the year during this game. I threw an
outlet pass to him and he took it against Kobe and Fisher. The next thing I knew Kevin was laying
the ball into the hoop while Kobe was lying on the ground. The stadium replys showed Kevin faking
Kobe into going the wrong way and trip over his own ankles, nice. That gets my vote for a Top 10
play of the season.

So up to this point I think I've had a pretty good and supportative adjustment to the League. I'm
about 6th or 7th on the team in scoring with just over 10 boards and also grabbing 3 or 4 rebounds
here or there. Hopefully I can make the rookie team and we keep up this great pace.

woah..a nice and long diary entry, good job there Jing

Nice work so far Jing Wicked shot of Hsu hitting the buzzer beater. Very entertaining association.

You and Ben should make the switch to 2K too because honestly if you play it at the appropriate settings (wicked TV and all), it's an amazing experience. Like K-Mart made Kobe fall over on a crossover in my Association game (tried to upload video but 2K community network fails), it was flawless.

woah..a nice and long diary entry, good job there Jing

Yeah. I might be looking to change up the formats and whatnot though, cause you can only do so much with this kind of first person format.

Damn those Laker Throwbacks are ugly!