Tuesday night notes
The second surprise from this game was the fact that the Badgers won by that much... and only attempted 4 free throws. This team is just so much different than most of the Bo Ryan teams of the last 6 or 7 years in the fact that they love to shoot the three and don't post up as much. Maybe they're being defended out of those opportunities down low... but it sure seems like this team likes to prefer the outside shot to the inside one. Hell, they took 26 3-point shots tonight... and only made 9. Crazy to win by as much as they did when they shot like that from outside.
- Ran into an odd issue with Mass Effect 2 tonight. My internet connection was down, so I figured I would get in some time on the game. Um... no. The game refused to start due to the fact that I wasn't connected to the internet. I have to wonder if that's an odd issue due to an active Xbox Live account being used to play a game. I hadn't heard anything about games not working for people who don't play them online... but still it was frustrating as I had to wait until my connection was back up to play.
- I'll have some information tomorrow about some new things that I'm going to be doing, but I want to have them in a post of their own. Hope you'll enjoy what's in the works.
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February 3rd, 2010 - 02:39
I had a somewhat similar issue on PC. The game refused to load and locked up when it was autoblocked by zone alarm. I just put ZA on game mode since then and it works fine. No idea if it is copy protection trying to phone home or if the game is trying to load the Cerebrus network (Internet news/info thing on main menu, no idea if you have it on xbox version) stuff and just hangs when it can’t. It doesn’t say an internet connection is required on the box.
I am finally on my last loyalty mission. I must say I was suprised by the last crew member to join. I was quite… well you will see if you havn’t yet.
February 3rd, 2010 - 09:52
Shooting 34% from 3 point range is like shooting 52% from inside the arc. That’s 1.03 points per shot attempt which is decent. For perspective, I think 1 is a good team average to shoot for and your good players/teams average 1.2+ points per shot and Michael Jordan was a little over 1.3 points per shot.
Granted, shooting threes will tend to make your scoring streakier, but if you can combine that with some pretty good D (as it sounds like Wisconsin did), you’ll be more able to ride the ups and downs of using the three ball.
@msbonik Thanks for not spoiling it. I’m still trying to find time to play ME2. Maybe during my “sick” day after the Super Bowl.
February 3rd, 2010 - 10:05
I think I messed up my stats somewhere, but the sentiment is still there.
February 3rd, 2010 - 10:41
It just seemed odd that their percentages kept going down from 3, but they kept building their lead.
They did play great Defense throughout the game and really had Michigan State putting up bad shots.
I hope Michigan State doesn’t lose Lucas for long, as he is one of the best players in the Big Ten and can help that team quite a bit in the long run.