Well the coach is trying to be fair it seems. He gave the other PG and I equal time this game and that is to be commended. Of course, depending on how he views that time, I am hoping to get more next gam: ) That's what keeps us great players going ... the drive for more. I played all of the 2nd quarter and 4th quarter. Not very suprisingly, we scored more in both of those quarters and the other team scored less in those two quarters than in quarter 1, 3. By the fourth quarter our D was so tight that they only scored 4 whooping points! Meanwhile that hoop seemed ten times as large tonight as I did not miss a single shot (6/6). I felt like it was a practice out there.
Now for the required PG comparisons:
Me 12min, 12pts (6/6), 1STL, 6AST, 5 REB
Other PG, 12 min, 10pts(4/6 with 2/2 FT), 1STL, 1BLK, 4AST,3REB
Granted he played a much better game than last game was, but still ...if you give me two more quarters we are talking a tripple double in pts, ast, reb.
Of course winning the game is the most important concern, but in this game the score was so lopsided I don't even thing the score keeper was paying much attention. We actually came close to trippling the score. Ahhh, If I had been able to play 4 quarters ... oh the high light reel would be cranking. It's all good vs a weaker team but we have to see how well we can play against the guys that are currently #1,2 in our division. If we beat up on them like this ... oh baby it's gonna be fun playing in Poland.
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16 August 2007
Ohgie Mcgee reports some good news and bad news after a very interesting day!
Whew .. my head is swimming. Just yesterday I was playing and Lithuania and now tonight I find myself on a Polish Division 1 team. Of course this team looks like it may be advancing into the next league next year as long as it continues to advance. But anyway, how did I end up here?
My agent comes up to me this morning and asks me how I would like a raise. Hell ya I tell him how much. He tells me of a sweet deal bringin in 8k per game and tons of other insentives. My jaw hits the floor and it takes me some time to recover, but after hearing the particulars I am pumped. So he leaves to go seal the deal. I have been on the phone with my new coach and he and I are really grooving. He is offering me all sorts of things an alstar in his country could hope for. Of course, nothing perfect can ever truely exist and my agent calls me back in half hour and says, "Got some good news and bad news kid! Bad news is that the deal fell through. It seems that your current team lost it's owner, a ton of offers came in for you, then as we were closing this really sweet deal you got a new owner that said no to the deal. That left you with two choices. Stick around for 2 years on a very low salary for your skills and services, or jump to the best offer from those that were offered before your new owner took charge. I vote for plan B... you?" I had to take it. So I was off to Poland to play for the Warsaw Indians.
The Indians are currently in 3rd in their division and have some tallented players that could really help us improve. My problem is that as the new guy in I have to fight for my playing time. This last game I only got 12 min in and after playing the full 48 for most of the season .. this was a bummer. I can just hope that the coaches see my production in that time compaired to the competition and decide that I am enough to carry this team at the point. Here is a little comparison for my first day playing:
In one quarter I got 7pts on 3/4 shooting, 1/1 from FT, 2 STL, 1BLK, 3AST, 4 REB
My competition got 11pts on 3/14 shooting, 4/8 FT, 1STL, 0 BLK, 1 AST, 9 REB in 36 MIN!!!!
If the min and production were the same I would have scored 21pts, 6 stl, 3 blk, 9 ast and 12 reb in only 3 quarters of play. OOOO I can't wait to play a full game in this league and really show my game. It will come ... I have to give it time and get to know everyone. I already felt the chemistry cooking with our big boy at PF Riivo V?hk. I was able to dish the ball twice to him to set him up for some sweet action. Interesting that the play by play report has be with 4 asst and the game stats only report 3asst. I will have to write to league manager about that discrepency.
In the meantime I am hard at work trying to get my way into a full time starting position again. I hope the coaches can read this or at least look over the stat lines from the game to see that our first quarter with me in there we were the most dominate on offense and defence http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=match&id=218459&q=0&s=stats
When feeling a but stressed out I have to have some inspirational quotes and stuff to concentrate on. I find all that material at www.focusdep.com. See if you can be inspired by checking it out.
My agent comes up to me this morning and asks me how I would like a raise. Hell ya I tell him how much. He tells me of a sweet deal bringin in 8k per game and tons of other insentives. My jaw hits the floor and it takes me some time to recover, but after hearing the particulars I am pumped. So he leaves to go seal the deal. I have been on the phone with my new coach and he and I are really grooving. He is offering me all sorts of things an alstar in his country could hope for. Of course, nothing perfect can ever truely exist and my agent calls me back in half hour and says, "Got some good news and bad news kid! Bad news is that the deal fell through. It seems that your current team lost it's owner, a ton of offers came in for you, then as we were closing this really sweet deal you got a new owner that said no to the deal. That left you with two choices. Stick around for 2 years on a very low salary for your skills and services, or jump to the best offer from those that were offered before your new owner took charge. I vote for plan B... you?" I had to take it. So I was off to Poland to play for the Warsaw Indians.
The Indians are currently in 3rd in their division and have some tallented players that could really help us improve. My problem is that as the new guy in I have to fight for my playing time. This last game I only got 12 min in and after playing the full 48 for most of the season .. this was a bummer. I can just hope that the coaches see my production in that time compaired to the competition and decide that I am enough to carry this team at the point. Here is a little comparison for my first day playing:
In one quarter I got 7pts on 3/4 shooting, 1/1 from FT, 2 STL, 1BLK, 3AST, 4 REB
My competition got 11pts on 3/14 shooting, 4/8 FT, 1STL, 0 BLK, 1 AST, 9 REB in 36 MIN!!!!
If the min and production were the same I would have scored 21pts, 6 stl, 3 blk, 9 ast and 12 reb in only 3 quarters of play. OOOO I can't wait to play a full game in this league and really show my game. It will come ... I have to give it time and get to know everyone. I already felt the chemistry cooking with our big boy at PF Riivo V?hk. I was able to dish the ball twice to him to set him up for some sweet action. Interesting that the play by play report has be with 4 asst and the game stats only report 3asst. I will have to write to league manager about that discrepency.
In the meantime I am hard at work trying to get my way into a full time starting position again. I hope the coaches can read this or at least look over the stat lines from the game to see that our first quarter with me in there we were the most dominate on offense and defence http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=match&id=218459&q=0&s=stats
When feeling a but stressed out I have to have some inspirational quotes and stuff to concentrate on. I find all that material at www.focusdep.com. See if you can be inspired by checking it out.
Ohgie Mcgee getting distracted by offers.
It's nice to know that people want you and that's all good, but I don't think getting an email every day saying these teams are now interested in offering you a contract is helpful to me at all. Just today I got 2 offers from teams. One was a decent offer of 1K per game the other was junk offering me a whooping 1$ more per game than I make now....cute. Looking over these contracts I see some 1k, 2k, 3k, and even a 5k per game salary. Man that would be nice to make. Of course my coach has rejected all trade offers so far. It is frustrating that I see all the interest, but get to hear none of the negotiations between the other teams and my current club. I wonder if there are even any discussions. What would it take to interest my coach? I do lead this team in a few different ways.
I wonder if all of these contract offers has the coach searching for a replacement? Looking at our team homepage http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=team&id=290 I see that we lost our PF position completely, we lost a SF, and for some reason have 3 other PG. I noticed last game that I did not play the full game for the first time in some time. Is he starting to check out possible replacements? It would appear so and I have to say that at least in the last game all of these distractions are getting to me a bit on the court. I had a very poor game but nothing as bad as the guy coach put in for me. http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=lastmatch Check out how poorly Mr. Emil did, he must have been nervous or something.
I guess with our team sitting at the halfway point in our league (placed 12th) it is natural for a coach to play around with things a bit. There are obvious areas we can improve on an may be he thinks messing around with the PG possition will help. I may be bias, but I think it stinks especially with so many teams showing an interest in me lately. My current contract runs for another 2 years, so I am unsure if my coach would consider catching my salary up to my current play level as I have obviously outperformed my contract this year! I tried sending him a message the other day but for some reason was not able to send to his address. I guess I have no way to get ahold of such a busy guy. So I will post my thoughts here and hope that he is one of the few people that actually reads this stuff : )
Speaking of posting, have you checked out all the posting going on at www.talkdep.com? All sorts of Cyberdunk talk as well as some interesting side conversations going on all the time. Check it out!
I wonder if all of these contract offers has the coach searching for a replacement? Looking at our team homepage http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=team&id=290 I see that we lost our PF position completely, we lost a SF, and for some reason have 3 other PG. I noticed last game that I did not play the full game for the first time in some time. Is he starting to check out possible replacements? It would appear so and I have to say that at least in the last game all of these distractions are getting to me a bit on the court. I had a very poor game but nothing as bad as the guy coach put in for me. http://www.cyberdunk.com/team.php?m=lastmatch Check out how poorly Mr. Emil did, he must have been nervous or something.
I guess with our team sitting at the halfway point in our league (placed 12th) it is natural for a coach to play around with things a bit. There are obvious areas we can improve on an may be he thinks messing around with the PG possition will help. I may be bias, but I think it stinks especially with so many teams showing an interest in me lately. My current contract runs for another 2 years, so I am unsure if my coach would consider catching my salary up to my current play level as I have obviously outperformed my contract this year! I tried sending him a message the other day but for some reason was not able to send to his address. I guess I have no way to get ahold of such a busy guy. So I will post my thoughts here and hope that he is one of the few people that actually reads this stuff : )
Speaking of posting, have you checked out all the posting going on at www.talkdep.com? All sorts of Cyberdunk talk as well as some interesting side conversations going on all the time. Check it out!
12 August 2007
Ohgie Mcgee starts pulling in some creds as the season starts to come closer to a close
To start with, we won yet another game pushing us up to 12th (exactly in the middle) of our league... not bad.
Then I get news from some news geek that my published journal got selected in a recent www.cyberdunk.com contest. I had to see the results my self to comfirm (http://www.talkdep.com/showthread.php?t=11263) I am shocked and pleased to be selected.
This last game that we won evidently capped the end of a competition in which I recorded the most steals. This netted me a nifty $ bonus which I am sure my trainers will appreciate more than I will. Every bit helps me get better I am sure.
Finally, the stats from the last game are more in line with where I want every game to be. I scored a whopping 39 pts shooting a nifty 15/18 from 2pt range. I grabbed a couple of steals and a season high of 15 assists! Dam I love dishing out that rock for some easy baskets.
It was a good day for me, I just hope the success continues! Check out www.talkdep.com to hear all the buzz about the league and things happening.
Then I get news from some news geek that my published journal got selected in a recent www.cyberdunk.com contest. I had to see the results my self to comfirm (http://www.talkdep.com/showthread.php?t=11263) I am shocked and pleased to be selected.
This last game that we won evidently capped the end of a competition in which I recorded the most steals. This netted me a nifty $ bonus which I am sure my trainers will appreciate more than I will. Every bit helps me get better I am sure.
Finally, the stats from the last game are more in line with where I want every game to be. I scored a whopping 39 pts shooting a nifty 15/18 from 2pt range. I grabbed a couple of steals and a season high of 15 assists! Dam I love dishing out that rock for some easy baskets.
It was a good day for me, I just hope the success continues! Check out www.talkdep.com to hear all the buzz about the league and things happening.
11 August 2007
Ohgie Mcgee still climbing the charts ... slowly, is it too little too late?
Another day, another game, another blow out. It seems we can not play a game that is close either way. We are either playing against a bunch of high schoolers or we are acting like high school players. There does not seem to be a middle ground. I think that goes to show that the league needs some way to help promote a more even distribution of tallent. Maybe a draft or something that allows the bottom teams to get first pick of the up and comming players? Maybe there should be some arrangement for those bottom teams to help them become competative. Meanwhile make it hard for those on top to stay on top. Every professionally league that has ignored the tallent levels of the top and bottom has tanked. Right now USA and Lithuania have great teams at the top, but how much crap is there in the rest of both of those leagues? I suspect that all of the best players are on on the same teams leaving a ton of mediorce teams behind. Oh well, some day I will be on top.
Speaking of being on top. Here is an update on my stat placement. Pts 5th (-102), Asst 4th (-39), Stl 3rd (-21). If you check back on my blog a few days ago you can see that I slipped by almost 40 points, 12 assst and maintained at stl. That is not good! Well, I just finished up my training so I hope that shows up in my game soon. Maybe there is enough time to catch at least one #1 position. Hmmm an injury to one of the #1 players would be most unfortunate (insert evil laughter here). I'm sorry that was an evil thought, evil, but fun : )
Why don't you join in the fun at www.cyberdunk.com? Come on in, get a character going, and have a blast!
Speaking of being on top. Here is an update on my stat placement. Pts 5th (-102), Asst 4th (-39), Stl 3rd (-21). If you check back on my blog a few days ago you can see that I slipped by almost 40 points, 12 assst and maintained at stl. That is not good! Well, I just finished up my training so I hope that shows up in my game soon. Maybe there is enough time to catch at least one #1 position. Hmmm an injury to one of the #1 players would be most unfortunate (insert evil laughter here). I'm sorry that was an evil thought, evil, but fun : )
Why don't you join in the fun at www.cyberdunk.com? Come on in, get a character going, and have a blast!
08 August 2007
Ohgie Mcgee trying to get used to that loosing feeling...again
Last year I got started in this league by getting a chance to play for the Bats in the USA. We sucked and never had any consistancy. Then I got this chance in Lithuania and things seemed to be looking up for some time. The team had been winning more than it had been loosing, but it appears we are not in a loosing season for good. We have lost three games in a row and 2 of those three have been blow-outs! Loosing stinks!
I did get yet another double double during the last game and I guess I have to judge this season a success individually. I got a very nice offer from a team that was willing to pay out 3k per game for me to play for them. Unfortunately there is very little incentive to my current team to let me go to a contract like that. My current team has me for another 2 years and if things progress like they did this year, we should be at the bottom of our division :( Hopefully our GM can make a few moves this offseason and help us out with a little more tallent on the team or something. I don't know, my job is to get the little ball into the little hoop as often as I can. I do my part so far.
With a most of the season behind us and a few weeks left, my personal race to be #1 in one of the stat categories is progressing, but I am not sure if I have time to catch the leaders. In points I am 5th only 68 points behind the leader. In asst. I am 4th with 27 behind. In steals I am 3rd with 21 behind. I see myself with a shot at at least one of these as long as I can perform consistantly.
So many questoins remain about the future of this team. When I have questions about cyberdunk, I head over to http://www.talkdep.com/ and post the questions there. That forum is full of people that have answers and some of those answers can even be helpful : ) Check them out!
I did get yet another double double during the last game and I guess I have to judge this season a success individually. I got a very nice offer from a team that was willing to pay out 3k per game for me to play for them. Unfortunately there is very little incentive to my current team to let me go to a contract like that. My current team has me for another 2 years and if things progress like they did this year, we should be at the bottom of our division :( Hopefully our GM can make a few moves this offseason and help us out with a little more tallent on the team or something. I don't know, my job is to get the little ball into the little hoop as often as I can. I do my part so far.
With a most of the season behind us and a few weeks left, my personal race to be #1 in one of the stat categories is progressing, but I am not sure if I have time to catch the leaders. In points I am 5th only 68 points behind the leader. In asst. I am 4th with 27 behind. In steals I am 3rd with 21 behind. I see myself with a shot at at least one of these as long as I can perform consistantly.
So many questoins remain about the future of this team. When I have questions about cyberdunk, I head over to http://www.talkdep.com/ and post the questions there. That forum is full of people that have answers and some of those answers can even be helpful : ) Check them out!
04 August 2007
Ohgie Mcgee's team gets pounded hard, but he keeps moving up the stat charts
Wow did we get cleaned out in our last game? Ignalinos Atominiai Berniukai looked like a pro team and we acted like a bunch of high school bench warmers. The score was an amazing 138 to 59 which adds on to my theory that we can not finish a game close at all. We either blow someone out or get our butts handed to us on a silver platter.
Personally, I had a decent game, but my shooting was a bit off from where I would like to see it (I was still > 50%). My man, Arturas Ragauskas had a very good game shooting a perfect 10/10 in 2pt range and chipping in 9 asst. Very nice to see. Besides that, well... we sucked.
Meanwhile, after a week of heavy playing, my personal league stats have started climbing up the charts a bit. I am now positioned in the 6th spot in points, and 4th in both assists and steals. Every game I seem to be gaining a bit and I hope that continues. A reporter published an interesting fact about me in the local paper. If you assign 8 points for 1st, 7pts for 2nd all the way down to 1 pt for 8th place in the 4 stat areas, I would have 13 points. King Goth would have 15, Lukas Barsukaitis 17, Martinas Gecevicius 16. That puts me at an over all 4th place if anyone counted points that way. At any rate, I want my game to improve, but things seem to be slow lately.
When things are going slow for me I need some motivation. I head over to www.focusdep.com to read some inspirational stories that help lift my spirits. Check it out!
Personally, I had a decent game, but my shooting was a bit off from where I would like to see it (I was still > 50%). My man, Arturas Ragauskas had a very good game shooting a perfect 10/10 in 2pt range and chipping in 9 asst. Very nice to see. Besides that, well... we sucked.
Meanwhile, after a week of heavy playing, my personal league stats have started climbing up the charts a bit. I am now positioned in the 6th spot in points, and 4th in both assists and steals. Every game I seem to be gaining a bit and I hope that continues. A reporter published an interesting fact about me in the local paper. If you assign 8 points for 1st, 7pts for 2nd all the way down to 1 pt for 8th place in the 4 stat areas, I would have 13 points. King Goth would have 15, Lukas Barsukaitis 17, Martinas Gecevicius 16. That puts me at an over all 4th place if anyone counted points that way. At any rate, I want my game to improve, but things seem to be slow lately.
When things are going slow for me I need some motivation. I head over to www.focusdep.com to read some inspirational stories that help lift my spirits. Check it out!
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