Seriously, "My Player" is driving me insane. I started the season really good with the Thunder, then there were some crap trades and since then the whole thing is being slowed to a standstill, and it's really pissing me off:
-Ridiculous trades: Management traded away James Harden, Thabo Sefolosha, Nate Robinson, and a big for Grant Hill, Josh Childress, Eric Gordon, and Jamario Moon. While those might seem like decent trades at first glance, we now have Westbrook, Gordon, and me (6'7 PG averaging 20+ppg) crowding the back court. Guess who went to the bench? Russell Westbrook.
Soon after, I found that Hill, Childress, and Moon are all ball hogs who chuck everything from inside the arc.
Westbrook is unhappy, so is Westbrook, but neither was dealt (thankfully) at the deadline.
-Injuries: My guy just CANT STAY HEALTHY AT ALL! His durability is at 77, and his strength is around 50. I didn't miss a game until mid-December. I'm now just past the trade deadline, and I've racked up SIX INJURIES one after another. First one happened when trying to take a charge on D-Rose (abdominal strain: out 2 weeks). My second game back, I sprained a wrist after being fouled by Tony Parker and missed a week. Chris Paul injured me twice in two separate games, and I've been owned by Dwight Howard (back injury after being posterized). All in all, I've played eleven games in the last 2 1/2 months, and six of them have involved me getting injured in some way. Really ticked.
-other ridiculous shit happening around the league: when Dallas blows up heir roster, it's a problem. they trade Marion, Roddy, Tyson Chandler to Phoenix and Portland for Nash, Mills, and Matthews. Note Kidd, Barea, Terry, Stevenson, and Jones are all still on the roster at either the 1 or 2. Also the Clippers traded Deandre Jordan for some guard I've never even heard of.
-Awful gameplay: when Durant can't figure out what a good shot looks like, when Westbrook cant figure out that the team is on a fast break, when Perkins is averaging 1.4points and 3.2 rebounds WHILE STARTING, and when Eric Gordon passes up a wide open three so that he can pass to a double-teamed Jamario Moon on the perimeter with he Thunder down by two with 8 seconds left... (the list goes on) you've got a huge problem with the AI. Also Nick Collison, Childress, and Perkins would not even survive in the fucking D-league the way they are playing. Collison misses uncontested layups, Childress couldn't find the open man if his life depended on it, and Perkins' hands are worse Kwame Brown's. Holy shit.
This Thunder team should be close to the top of the playoff race, in the last year we gave up Harden and Sefolosha, and they've been replaced by two guys who should be 20ppg scorers, Eric Gordon (13ppg) and me (picked 26th overall, leading the team with 22ppg). But my teammates are downright retarded during gameplay (which unfortunately is more than 3/4 of the game) and we've slipped behind the god damn Clippers for the 10th seed in the West. We are at 21-34 and I couldn't be more pissed off with the way things were going. I even asked for a trade when things went south, then I was injured at the deadline, and the Mavs, who originally were going to trade for me, didn't, because I was hurt.
I swear if things don't get better soon, I'm putting the level back to rookie (or whatever the lowest level is) and I'm racking myself up some 60 point games in hope that that will push us into the playoffs.
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Anyway, I just wanted to know if others were having such problems with the 2k11 my player. if you've got any tips I'd be thrilled to hear them at this point.