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It all depends on how you farmed prior to the update. Some farm with power armies. Most do not. They've essentially eliminated collector farming for most. I dropped to Silver yesterday and found some collectors there. In Gold and above they are rare.
The TH was changed two ways - eliminating the shield and increasing the storage. That means it must be protected. No more farming bases.
The update was clearly designed to convert collector farmers into power farmers. Your comments indicate you both farm and war. Not everyone does that. Most are content to farm at their own pace and do so economically. Now they must spend twice as much to farm tougher bases, and do so less frequently - unless they gem. Ding ding ding.
They are trying to bring more people into the 'top 20 percenters' who spend a lot of money to increase the pace of base development.
Ditto. I was influenced by trying to find easter eggs in the trailers.
I'm going to give Kylo Ren the benefit of the doubt on the lightsaber fights. After all, he'd just taken a bowcaster shot to the gut. And he's pretty raw with the Force, aside from ability to stop blaster bolts in mid-flight.
I got a good laugh at that, great name drop on that one. Turkey Leg for you.
Little continuity in the program. Little continuity in personal development. And it shows.
Fix those two things and Buzz's teams will be very good.
Its just gonna take a while to fix those two things. Guys must have big offseasons and must develop pieces of their game so they can more effectively contribute. As these guys get to know one another and their strengths weaknesses they can then adapt on the fly better. They just don't seem to recognize and adjust based on what they are seeing and what their strengths and weaknesses are.
They also looked very tentative and lacking in confidence out there tonight. Basket ball IMHO is a hard sport because you have to be very athletic, very competitive while at the same time doing something that is more art than science. Letting something or someone get in your head is a great way to suck at this game. Kids need confidence and verve to succeed. I'm not sure they're going to get confidence and verve til after they get smashed for 40 mins in a couple of ACC competitions. Then its gonna be f*** it ... balls to the wall cuz we got no choice.
Its gonna get better but its gonna be a brutal year. I really hope we see player rotation. I don't see anyone on this team who makes me feel like he is a 40 minute player. These guys should know PT next year is up for grabs. Putting our bigs on the Bench makes me worry about transfers and program instability. Fine if that is the message you want to send. But ... I feel like I need a game brochure to know who is on the team. Lets develop these kids and root like he** for them and see what can happen. They've got talent but each and everyone has significant work to do on their game. I really like rooting for kids that work hard like that.
I knew Jarell had several tools to succeed. Size, good athleticism, decent handle, good shot. Hope he makes it.
I'm not so sure. Because it's *so* transparent, it almost feels like a rope-a-dope.
Green got cut from the Nuggets a couple of weeks into this season. Last I checked he's playing in the D-League
Ah yes, good ol' "Gilbert Guns-in-the-Arenas".
I like the prequels. Are they great? No. Are they good? Yes.
Like you fellow gents I lived there as well. Living across the hall from the basketball team and seeing Cedarian Raines daily, it made me realize how truly tiny I was (I'm 6'1). Also, living attached to West End was one of the best perks I could have asked for. When everyone else was in their snow gear I walked down to grab dinner in shorts, t-shirt, and flip flops.
Nailed the gif to match the picture. Absolutely nailed it...
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# | Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Independence Bowl Preview: Scouting the Golden Hurricane's Offense Also the TD on 4th and 12... Goodness
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# | Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Independence Bowl Preview: Scouting the Golden Hurricane's Defense It'll be even worse if he calls an audible and we snap the ball with 5 seconds or less in the play clock.
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# | Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Independence Bowl Preview: Scouting the Golden Hurricane's Defense They are susceptible to the jet sweep fake? We are well versed at that play.
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# | Virginia Tech vs. Tulsa Independence Bowl Preview: Scouting the Golden Hurricane's Offense I'm not as worried about their short passing game as the deep ball. We had great success early in the game against ECU as the tried to run short routes and slant combinations. Once they pushed the ball down field and successfully used the QB run the became dangerous and I expect a similar amount of success here.
Snoke is Jar Jar!!!!
Was never going to be a quick process. When people said this was one of the worst jobs in the power conferences you're saying why that was the case. Buzz is building from the ground up and trying to instill basketball intelligence and culture where there was none. It's going to take time to get right, and it won't be this season, and unfortunately I don't think it will be next year, either.
How does this facility effect their ability to showcase their talents one way or the other? Kids from D-II schools with no facilities make it to the NFL all the time
I was the biggest farmer, but I only had one problem with the update - the confusion surrounding the personal break, which ended up screwing me during war. They've added the countdown info on the shield, so I can at least be aware of what is going on.
Everything else seems to more about balancing issues, which Supercell normally does a good job of correcting. I also don't see how the update is actually increasing gemming. I have to use gems every once and while to speed up spells and armies mostly to get war attacks in on time - and they decreased the minimum time to 1 hour and 5 gems, which will result in me using less gems over time.
I think too many people are complaining and not actually giving the game a chance. Most of my clanmates were pretty upset about not being able to farm, but they're finding raiding to be much more lucrative then it's ever been.
I bumped into him at Turner's place many times freshman year. He was a super friendly guy.
Yesssss the common nomenclature.
I edited to spell it out in the title.
Not when posted in the Off Topic forum!
To be fair, I wasn't comparing Allen as a junior to Green as a freshman. Green took those terrible shots his senior year because he was always doubled up. He was the only effective offensive weapon we had that year. But yet he backed it up by making a high percentage and leading the county in scoring.
I will have to disagree on it boding well for ACC play the nights that Allen scores that high for this team. I think its exactly the opposite because when this offense as a team is at its best, Allen is reduced to a facilitator that takes better quality shots when he does shoot and may score near his average but its from far less shots. Look at the list of games and how we fared as a team, in the games you listed that Allen scored 18.6 we went 2-3, and in those games Allen shot well enough to survive (30-75 or 40%) although not really from the perimeter(10-34 or 29%) and he had 13 turnovers to 8 assists, and I would argue that it should likely be higher on the turnover number. He also does not regularly get to the foul line enough if his primary offensive option is to drive the ball to the rim and hope for the best.
Other than the Northwestern game, which I credited Allen with a stellar overall performance, he tends to try to do too much and it hurts this team because it takes away shooting opportunities for his teammates. Today's loss is not on Allen by any stretch, but several of his bad habits did rear their ugly head in this game after being gone for a few games. Namely, driving out of control to the basket, either losing the ball or not managing a shot. There were also several times that Allen didn't get back on defense after attempting a drive on offense that led to quick open scores for the Hawks.
None of this means that he wont continue to be the leading scorer on most nights because he will more than likely but I consider that a testament to how far we still have to go to be competitive every night in the ACC rather than because of how talented he is. It will be especially painful if Buzz doesn't find a way to incorporate the play of the bigger men on our roster. Without strong lane presence, we are susceptible to almost every offense in the ACC because of size. If we are highlighting one game, the Iowa State game was his most dreadful as a Hokie in my opinion. He shot 4-13 from the field, including 0-5 from behind the arc. He only managed three attempts at the line in that game as well. The St Joes game wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be from a Seth Allen perspective as he was better than normal and definitely one of the few Hokies with drive in this game.