NSL Insider - Premium: Everybody Panic!

by jessedunne, updated on Monday, November 08 2021, 10:47 am EST

The NSL is back! How good. Box Scores to pour over. Sliders to complain about. The general vibe is amazing. With 1 week in the books. It is time to complete forget about all pre season predictions and to overreact to week 1 results. Who was going to be great and isn't. Who was meant to be tanking but has taken week 1 by storm. Lets have some fun.

overreact

/əʊvərɪˈakt/

verb

respond more emotionally or forcibly than is justified.

Lets start at the top. The Blazers. Only lost 4 games all of last season. 4!! That is so amazing and still probably underrated. Joel lost 2 in week 1! Half their losses from 5 months came in 18 hours in Week 1. If they keep this pace up, they will be eliminated from the playoffs before i finish this article. The season is over for the Blazers. Time to blow it up. 2 loses in a week is unacceptable for this franchise. If you predicted this team to go back to the Western Conference Finals. You got it wrong, they are done.

Right to the other end of the spectrum. The Cavs and The Bucks. At the point of writing this, are both undefeated. Who would have thought. 2 of the worse teams from last season. A new GM, in Daz, for The Bucks seems to have done the trick. Dylan is as harder working GM as anyone. Simming his little heart out. Rumors' are he has simmed against Gav and The Magic 20 times this off season. Strange team to sim against, as the magic suck. But it has worked. The Cavs have quietly been telling people they can make a playoff run. They seem to be right. I think The Bucks and The Cavs will be playing off for the Eastern Conference Title.

Speaking of The Magic. 3 of the players now have Covid and are all sidelined for the near future. Any normal overreacting person would tell you that this means the entire squad, including Gav will now get Covid. Which will lead to the magic having to fold. Gav leaving the league. Losing his close friends and then his job and his house and eventually his life. Such a shame, as Gav was a great guy. You will be missed my friend.

Dallas, the hard luck story of the week. Beat the reigning champs twice, yet sit 0-4. Some incorrect patches, lead to some re-sims and in the end a very tough week sees them bottom of the West. They recently traded out FVV for picks and have been quoted as saying "We have a few good players, are aren't a good team" Putting my overreacting cap on, Dallas will trade Durant and blow the whole thing up. They will get a war chest of picks and be happy to finished near the the bottom of the table and reload again for another assualt on the top in a few years time.

Now lets get to the hot topic on everyone's mind. The Sliders. They are all anyone can talk about. We have gone from superhuman shooting and scoring last season, with Nelson putting up 150 point performances in the Finals (Which needed to be corrected, it was completely unrealistic). To paid professionals not being able to hit the ring on a regular basis. Where does the overreaction lie? Have admin overreacted with the changes. Or are the league overreacting to a small sample size of games.

Everyone knows the incredible work that goes into the testing by the admin and no one for a minute is making any personal attacks. But it is certainly worthy of a discussion. I settled in to watch Memphis vs Detroit. 2 very good teams pushing for the pointy end of the playoffs. Memphis shot 34% and Detroit 28%. It was nearly unwatchable. Will this sort its self out. Will GM's using new playbooks next week help with the spectacle. One GM described watching games as "Stuffy". This is one thing we don't want to overreact on. I am sure it will sort its self out, but it is definitely worth watching and at this stage is definitely going to have an effect on how GM's strategies and how they look to build their Championship pushes going forward.

It is fun to speculate and look at teams that have started well and teams that are struggling. It is healthy to debate sliders and settings. We don't want to turn into the old league. Where one person ran everything. It is great that we have such amazing input from so many active GM's and such hard work from an amazing Admin team. I am just happy that the season has started and we have games. Healthy debate and commentary is what this league needs to survive for many many years, which i hope it does. Lets all keep it constructive and everyone send your prayers to Klemm after his beloved kings dropped 49 points in an entire game!!

	OKC	115
	DET	97

	GS	94
	NY	104

	LAL	109
	DAL	92

	BKN	87
	PHO	96

	SAC	107
	POR	105

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