Oh man at this point in the season I see our team is ranked 12th. There seems to be quite a distance in team tallent between us and the top three teams. Almost like all the tallent is stacked up against the rest of the league. I been noticing that our team either blows people out or we get our butts handed to us by someone. We don't have many close games.
In our last match vs Raseiniu Vandenys, we had a nice game that included me taking a few more shots. I have been holding back on shooting lately and decided to let the rock fly a bit more tonight. Scoring 33 was nice to see and helped me move up the league standings. I think the leauge should reward those that get the most double doubles or triple doubles a the end of the year. I must be up there as I racked in another tripple double. I still think it is wrong that the smallest guy on the team has the second most rebounds. I will have to tease the other players about that. Problem with that is that I don't speak their language. I find that my lack of skills with their language really keeps me on the outside looking in most of the time. I think the only reason the coach keeps me around is the fact that I produce so well on the court.
With our record way at the lower end of where I was hoping we might be this year, I have turned my focus on trying to get one or more of the end of the year awards. Currently I rank 6th in points, 5th in Assists, and 5th in steals. Definately not a shabby performance! Martinas Gecevicius needs to catch a cold or something for me to catch him really quick. He is #1 in Points and Assists and is #4 in steals. Actually he and I are tied for 4th in steals now that I look at it. I need 28 assists to catch him and 68 points. I am a bit upset that it took me so long to decide to start shooting like I know I can. I have one of the best shooting percentages around so for most games I feel like I may be one of our teams best scoring options. Now if I am playing against some big ape that drools all over me ...well I don't mind passing the rock to get those cave men off my back. Seriously, some of these PG out there are just freeks looking at their size.
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27 July 2007
Ohgie McGee knows somethings wrong
I don't get it! I am the shortest guy on the floor, and yet I lead the team in Rebounds again. This has happened to me a few time this year, and it makes me happy and a bit miffed. It sure is nice to be able to help the team out with a whopping 12 REB and it racks up another double double for my career stat book. It is frustrating that all these trees lumbering around the court can't do better on the boards. It is almost like they don't care about that very important part of the game, getting the missed shots. In my mind a rebound is just like a steal. People seem to have no problem whooping it up with how many steals they get, but the lowly rebound seems to get no love from people these days.
O.K. enough philosophical junk, on to some hoops. We easily handled Mazeikiu Nafta 83-65. I had to face off against Saulys Taiklusis and even though the guy is half a foot taller than me, I was easily able to shut him down all night. Because my concentration was so focused on bringing him down defensively, I think my offensive production slipped a bit tonight. I only took 10 shots tonight which was uncharistic of me. I was shooting a nice 50% from the field. I also chipped in 2 steals but only had 4 assists. I don't think the offense was going through me tonight. Arturas and Machito were the ones dishing the rock around today. I wonder if part of that was the perception that I was covered by a bigger guy and couldn't be as effective? I know I could school that boy any day of the week. I would prove to everyone that I got game if I had a stinking day off to compete in the 1-on-1 tourney. Some day. In the meantime I will have to be content with the fact that I am helping my team and the team is winning more than it is loosing.
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O.K. enough philosophical junk, on to some hoops. We easily handled Mazeikiu Nafta 83-65. I had to face off against Saulys Taiklusis and even though the guy is half a foot taller than me, I was easily able to shut him down all night. Because my concentration was so focused on bringing him down defensively, I think my offensive production slipped a bit tonight. I only took 10 shots tonight which was uncharistic of me. I was shooting a nice 50% from the field. I also chipped in 2 steals but only had 4 assists. I don't think the offense was going through me tonight. Arturas and Machito were the ones dishing the rock around today. I wonder if part of that was the perception that I was covered by a bigger guy and couldn't be as effective? I know I could school that boy any day of the week. I would prove to everyone that I got game if I had a stinking day off to compete in the 1-on-1 tourney. Some day. In the meantime I will have to be content with the fact that I am helping my team and the team is winning more than it is loosing.
How do you maintain your focus when things are not ideal? Why not check out www.focusdep.com to read some inspiring works that can get you fired up, feeling better, and achieving your goals?
25 July 2007
Ohgie Mcgee feeling the heat of a heavy summer schedule with no days off
Wow! I'm bushed! I can't believe how tired I have been lately. Our team has been winning in the Focusdep Cup and that is a good thing, but the bad side is that I have not had a day off in some time. I suppose it is bringing in some money. Still, I could use a day off and looking at our schedule, a day off is not going to happen any time soon.
In our last match with Anhui Vikings, I did not play well at all. I couldn't hit a shot from anywhere, not even the charity stripe. I have to admit, that I found Francesc McGrady (http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=player&id=7448) a bit intimidating at 1.89 m to my1.78. He definately has tallent and he was able to keep me off all night long. I was not the only one off it seems. Diablo had a very blah game and Machito Merkader shot a lousy 1/15 (of course I only shot 3/13 so I was just as bad).
I have to admit that I did not give 100% in this last game. I was too tired going in and needed to rest a bit during the game. That rest did me a world of good though as I feel ready to pound on someone else tomorrow : )
Our roster seems to be composed of players that change all the time. One day I see ZZ (Zedas Zedusan) is gone and poof he is back on the roster. We have this new guy Arturas Ragauskas that really scored a ton this last game and played very well. Wonder if he will be sticking around for more than one game?
I have to talk to my trainer, Akihiro Aihara. He is Japanese and has a very heavy accent. I am not sure we have been communicating well with each other. He claims that our training sessions are complete after one day, but as I show up for practice he goes on that "..You come back tomorrow, we finish up!" I have tried to ask why, but I have not received an answer I understand yet. Maybe I should sue him for false advertising. Maybe I just have to find a friend that knows Japanese and can better translate what he means. At any rate my "1 day trainings" have been going on for 2 days lately and that ruins some of my long range goals. At least I am seeing some improvement and at $60 per day I guess I can not complain.
If I have complaints, I head over to www.focusdep.com and hit up the discussion boards or maybe visit the bug (or should I say "special feature") area and see what is shaking in the world of Cyberdunk. Why don't you stop by and listen to the chatter?
In our last match with Anhui Vikings, I did not play well at all. I couldn't hit a shot from anywhere, not even the charity stripe. I have to admit, that I found Francesc McGrady (http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=player&id=7448) a bit intimidating at 1.89 m to my1.78. He definately has tallent and he was able to keep me off all night long. I was not the only one off it seems. Diablo had a very blah game and Machito Merkader shot a lousy 1/15 (of course I only shot 3/13 so I was just as bad).
I have to admit that I did not give 100% in this last game. I was too tired going in and needed to rest a bit during the game. That rest did me a world of good though as I feel ready to pound on someone else tomorrow : )
Our roster seems to be composed of players that change all the time. One day I see ZZ (Zedas Zedusan) is gone and poof he is back on the roster. We have this new guy Arturas Ragauskas that really scored a ton this last game and played very well. Wonder if he will be sticking around for more than one game?
I have to talk to my trainer, Akihiro Aihara. He is Japanese and has a very heavy accent. I am not sure we have been communicating well with each other. He claims that our training sessions are complete after one day, but as I show up for practice he goes on that "..You come back tomorrow, we finish up!" I have tried to ask why, but I have not received an answer I understand yet. Maybe I should sue him for false advertising. Maybe I just have to find a friend that knows Japanese and can better translate what he means. At any rate my "1 day trainings" have been going on for 2 days lately and that ruins some of my long range goals. At least I am seeing some improvement and at $60 per day I guess I can not complain.
If I have complaints, I head over to www.focusdep.com and hit up the discussion boards or maybe visit the bug (or should I say "special feature") area and see what is shaking in the world of Cyberdunk. Why don't you stop by and listen to the chatter?
23 July 2007
Ohgie Mcgee welcomes new player Igor Bikon
My buddy ZZ (see previous post) was sent packing yesterday and I am sorry to see him go. He and I had a good thing going, but after seeing what his replacement can do, I am keeping my opinions open at this point. This new guy, Igor Bikon, really had a great game and I believe I stole the MOM award from him unjustly. He and I both scored the same amount (he shot better %). He had twice the number of assists but I had 1 block and 19 reb vs his 0 blocks and 10 reb. We both had one steal. This is the one case I would petition the league to have 2 MOM awards. Heck we both had a great game, but I am glad I got the award : )
Want to see that game? We blew out the Visaginas Serpents big time. http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=match&id=203435
My good game is helping me stay on the points and assist list for the league, but now I see my name sneaking up the steals list. I am in a training routine that I hope will help me be more successful in at lesat one of the categories. I have my eye on one of those end of year awards. Some extra $ is always a plus as the season runs down. Speaking of the season, our last two wins have helped us climb up from 14th place to 11th currently.
I have been watching Martinas Gecevicius lately and I have to say I am impressed with his performace. I think he is my target to beat this year for all around MVP, but the season still has many games to play out so we will have to see how things go.
Are you looking for some inspiration? Why don't you check out www.focusdep.com? All sorts of stories to help motivate even the most depressed.
Want to see that game? We blew out the Visaginas Serpents big time. http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=match&id=203435
My good game is helping me stay on the points and assist list for the league, but now I see my name sneaking up the steals list. I am in a training routine that I hope will help me be more successful in at lesat one of the categories. I have my eye on one of those end of year awards. Some extra $ is always a plus as the season runs down. Speaking of the season, our last two wins have helped us climb up from 14th place to 11th currently.
I have been watching Martinas Gecevicius lately and I have to say I am impressed with his performace. I think he is my target to beat this year for all around MVP, but the season still has many games to play out so we will have to see how things go.
Are you looking for some inspiration? Why don't you check out www.focusdep.com? All sorts of stories to help motivate even the most depressed.
Ohgie Mcgee gets his first tripple double
It took me almost a season and a half, but I have my first tripple double. Not only that I did it in style! From inside the 3pt line I shot a perfect 12/12 (missed one 3pter in the game)! I added in 10 asst, and 10 reb for a sweet game for sure. Add in the 5 steals and 2 blocks (leading the team in both categories) and I was very proud of that game. My good buddy, Zedas Zedusan had a great game as well bringing in his own version of a tripple double. He shot 11/20 which is respectable considering that he was 50% from 3pt range. The game can be found here http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=match&id=237623
The first quarter of our Focusdep Cup game started out really close with both teams tied. After that our D kicked in and we shut Innsbruck Winners down for the other thee quarters. Each Quarter we were able to gain at least 12 points onto our lead...sweet!
My concentration has been on helping the team win. Unfortunately, that has taken me out of the points and assist leaders in our league. The money would be great but currently our team is not doing very well in my opinion. I do not know the finances and frankly, if I knew money I would be a manager of a club, but I wonder if we can move some players to get some more tallent on out team. We have some great players but the consistancy is not there for many of our players. Of course everyone will want playing time and ultimately that could disrupt the team even more so guess I better be careful what I wish for. In the meantime, I am improving and the efforts of my hard work are consistantly showing up on the scoreboard!
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The first quarter of our Focusdep Cup game started out really close with both teams tied. After that our D kicked in and we shut Innsbruck Winners down for the other thee quarters. Each Quarter we were able to gain at least 12 points onto our lead...sweet!
My concentration has been on helping the team win. Unfortunately, that has taken me out of the points and assist leaders in our league. The money would be great but currently our team is not doing very well in my opinion. I do not know the finances and frankly, if I knew money I would be a manager of a club, but I wonder if we can move some players to get some more tallent on out team. We have some great players but the consistancy is not there for many of our players. Of course everyone will want playing time and ultimately that could disrupt the team even more so guess I better be careful what I wish for. In the meantime, I am improving and the efforts of my hard work are consistantly showing up on the scoreboard!
Why don't you come over to http://www.cyberdunk.com/ and check out the different leagues out there. So many stories going on. Join us and start your own story! It's free and fun!
11 July 2007
Ohgie Mcgee trying to learn how to live with fame
Whew! A second to sit down in relative quiet. This last week has been nuts! Sure the game schedules and practice schedules always kept me busy, but now it seems I am becoming famous here in Lithuania. As of today, I lead the league in points and assists and that's really cool, but loosing 3 games in the last week is not cool. I know you can't win them all but dam it I want to win every one of them! Oh, yea, I managed to win a bunch of Man of the Match awards this week as well. Funny how the first few are "Wow can you believe I won that" and then it becomes sort of an afterthought for me. I am more interested in how our team performed and whether we are improving at all. Now if the league offered a $ award for top MOM award getters ...well now I might be more inclined to worry about whether I was MOM or not.
I was looking over my contract yesterday. The innitial amount I was offered to join Ukmerges Santechnikai was a very nice raise from what I was earning. I guess I did not look at the fine print and notice that the contract goes into the 4th year. That may not be a bad thing, but if I lead the league for two years in a row I may out perform my contract. Hopefully my coach will see that if it should happen. In the meantime I feel I am keeping up with my current contract nicelyand if I can land one of the season #1 stat awards I will be getting the bonus my good play deserves.
Speaking of deserving things. The league officials laid down some new rules on training this last week and many players and teams are all abuzz. The officials have heard the complaints of inappropriate training practices and they jumped in to make some major changes to help address those problems. Of course they are taking some heat right now from those that were benifiting most, but hey, that is what they get paid the big bucks for...right? So I guess this is the last time I will be doing extended training with a coach like I had done in the past. Training will be taking a bit longer now but I have been talking to a few trainers and feel like we have a way to beat the system. Of course by "beat" I do not wish to imply any wrong doing, rather I feel we have a plan in place to help me effeciently improve my skills quickly with the new system. We will have to experiment with that a bit and get back to you on how it goes.
Why don't you experiment with a player or team by checking out www.cyberdunk.com? It is a great community of players from around the world helping to make this one of the fastest growing sports sims out there!
I was looking over my contract yesterday. The innitial amount I was offered to join Ukmerges Santechnikai was a very nice raise from what I was earning. I guess I did not look at the fine print and notice that the contract goes into the 4th year. That may not be a bad thing, but if I lead the league for two years in a row I may out perform my contract. Hopefully my coach will see that if it should happen. In the meantime I feel I am keeping up with my current contract nicelyand if I can land one of the season #1 stat awards I will be getting the bonus my good play deserves.
Speaking of deserving things. The league officials laid down some new rules on training this last week and many players and teams are all abuzz. The officials have heard the complaints of inappropriate training practices and they jumped in to make some major changes to help address those problems. Of course they are taking some heat right now from those that were benifiting most, but hey, that is what they get paid the big bucks for...right? So I guess this is the last time I will be doing extended training with a coach like I had done in the past. Training will be taking a bit longer now but I have been talking to a few trainers and feel like we have a way to beat the system. Of course by "beat" I do not wish to imply any wrong doing, rather I feel we have a plan in place to help me effeciently improve my skills quickly with the new system. We will have to experiment with that a bit and get back to you on how it goes.
Why don't you experiment with a player or team by checking out www.cyberdunk.com? It is a great community of players from around the world helping to make this one of the fastest growing sports sims out there!
04 July 2007
Ohgie Mcgee racks up his second Man of Match, and double double of the 2nd season! Oh yea, and his team is undefeated too ...SWEET!
OOO I'm feeling it! I was in a zone tonight and things were just clicking for me. I was a pure 50% from the field and from the charity stripe and was able to chip in a steal and some nice assists. Scoring was nice too, but the important thing is that our team won a very close game. Everyone needed to contribute to get the win and fortunately we had some other players show up tonight. Shooting wise, we had a very difficult day as our team shooting percentage was horrible 40/109 only 37% ish. That is not going to cut it vs the big boys out there. Hope coach is talking to the trainers and trying to address that with all of our players. Machito Merkader and Zedas Zedusan have been doing very well on the boards which is great to see.
Our team has started off with 3-0 record which is great news. The bad news is that there are still 5 other teams that are undefeated in our league. I am hoping that we can work the bugs out of our recent performance. If you ever have a bug in Cyberdunk, you are going to want to head on over to www.talkdep.com to hit up the forums and hear all the craziness from around the world.
Our team has started off with 3-0 record which is great news. The bad news is that there are still 5 other teams that are undefeated in our league. I am hoping that we can work the bugs out of our recent performance. If you ever have a bug in Cyberdunk, you are going to want to head on over to www.talkdep.com to hit up the forums and hear all the craziness from around the world.
03 July 2007
Ohgie Mcgee lands his first double double in second win of the season for Ukmerges Santechnikai!
Now that's my kind of game! Not only was I scoring like I know I can, I was able to dish the rock to spread the love with others. Dam, that is a rush. I managed to score a team high 25 points off 12/23 shooting and I chipped in 10 assists as well. Good game especially when you factor in that we won vs Jonavos Gelzbetonis fairly easily. I guess we sort of gave up a bit in the 4th quarter but at that time we were ahead by 20 points so I guess we could afford to slack off a bit.
We are now 2-0 and feeling great. Personally, I am feeling so much more confident as I start up my second season. I have to work on my conditioning though as these 48 min games are starting to wear me out on back to back game days. I will work on that with my trainers I think.
Rumor in the league is that coaches will soon be handing out some sort of surveys for players to fill out. These surveys are suposed to let the organization know about our personal playing styles and things we really like to do well on the court. Not really sure how much any coach would listen to players on that one. Suppose the entire team wanted to be on the highlight reels on the evening news? Each player needs a role or two on the court to be an effective team. For instance, I know I should not be leading my team in Rebounds as the PG of our team (I know, for those of you following my stats, there has been way too many times I have lead the team in rebounds). My job is to set up players, score some points, and play awesome D to shut down the other teams offensive floor general. Simple. I will not be dunking the ball over some guys head, I will not hit that half court shot at the buzzer, I will not do the behind the back through the legs of 4 defenders off the backboard ally-oop pass either...although that would be soo cool : )
The season is starting off strong for us I just hope we can stay motivated. When I need help with motiviation I head over to www.focusdep.com and read some of the inspiring work there. Maybe you should check that out and see how it inspires you.
We are now 2-0 and feeling great. Personally, I am feeling so much more confident as I start up my second season. I have to work on my conditioning though as these 48 min games are starting to wear me out on back to back game days. I will work on that with my trainers I think.
Rumor in the league is that coaches will soon be handing out some sort of surveys for players to fill out. These surveys are suposed to let the organization know about our personal playing styles and things we really like to do well on the court. Not really sure how much any coach would listen to players on that one. Suppose the entire team wanted to be on the highlight reels on the evening news? Each player needs a role or two on the court to be an effective team. For instance, I know I should not be leading my team in Rebounds as the PG of our team (I know, for those of you following my stats, there has been way too many times I have lead the team in rebounds). My job is to set up players, score some points, and play awesome D to shut down the other teams offensive floor general. Simple. I will not be dunking the ball over some guys head, I will not hit that half court shot at the buzzer, I will not do the behind the back through the legs of 4 defenders off the backboard ally-oop pass either...although that would be soo cool : )
The season is starting off strong for us I just hope we can stay motivated. When I need help with motiviation I head over to www.focusdep.com and read some of the inspiring work there. Maybe you should check that out and see how it inspires you.
02 July 2007
What a crazy way to start season 2!
Our team had to play last year's division winner for our first game of the year. Incredibly we won, but this is where things get really strange. As the game ended the other coaches started saying that the score keeper had made errors as to who got the points and how many minutes players were playing. One of their players played only 6 min but took over 35 shots. That is a shot every 10 seconds. Since that player was a PG I know there was no way in heck I gave up that many shots in that amount of time. On our roster Diablo Xxx, Burkuliokas Asas, and Mr. Gugis must have been horribly tired as they played more minutes than the actual game took! The whole thing is crazy. When the official transcript of the game play by play was requested, mysteriously, no one could find it.
Was it drugs? Was it really poor record keeping? Was the home team involved in some pay off? Investigations are comming up for sure.
I did play very well by the way and would have earned man of the match but Martinas Gecevicius had a heck of a game too. Still starting out the season with a win was a great way to go.
Why don't you come check out the crazy things happening at www.cyberdunk.com?
Was it drugs? Was it really poor record keeping? Was the home team involved in some pay off? Investigations are comming up for sure.
I did play very well by the way and would have earned man of the match but Martinas Gecevicius had a heck of a game too. Still starting out the season with a win was a great way to go.
Why don't you come check out the crazy things happening at www.cyberdunk.com?
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