I don't really have a BB, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
Given the way the first match went down, I think you would've been well served swapping to lp Extend instead of heavy knuckles. You were using knuckles as a counter call to pillar, but never really got anything out of it.
When you were full screen, you never went to build a charge. Squigly just ain't that scary without a charge. I realize it's Justin and he's really good at dictating the pace of a match, but you had plenty of opportunities to start building a charge. That charge lets you have an invincible DP and the godly counters that Center Stage gives you. Your movement was very linear too. It didn't look like you varied your divekicks and, frankly, you didn't use all your buttons. There were a lot of jump shorts and jabs with double jumps, but it was fairly predictable where you would be. Since Squigly can confirm off almost anything, it's kinda worth throwing out buttons.
You also surrendered the corner a little too easily for my tastes. Squigly doesn't have great reversals unless you have a charge, so I feel like you need to hold your ground a little more. When you had opportunities to take back the corner, you never capitalized. There's nothing wrong with using a silver chord just to jump over their stagger state so you can take the corner.
I'll go over it again in more detail later, but this stuff is what stood out to me
Dood, you're such an awesome bro right now.
I will say there are no excuses for me losing, but man, you helped me step back and figure out some of the things I was doing doing.
I actually was using H Knuckles because it's all I'm used to, but you are right, I did seem to call it anytime he did pillar.
As for charges, I tend to only charge when I get a throw or H Knuckles hits, neither of which I got. I guess I was getting a little frustrated that I was being out-poked (which I should have seen was gonna happen) and started throwing crap at the wall and hoping something stuck. Unfortunately, it seems that as much I was thinking that I was throwing out different buttons, I was really not varying.
Surrendering the corner: I guess I got a little to reckless trying to chicken block everything with jumpins and pushblocking too often that I always seemed to find my back to the corner. Looks like that's something I still have to work on.
In summary from what I'm learned from at least your analysis:
-Experiment with using Extend as an assist since I'm not capitalizing on when I was actually hitting
-Vary more buttons in the air
-Don't try to pushblock and chicken block anything, because if I'm pushing him away, I'm still finding myself at the corner sooner than later
From what others were telling me after the match at UGC:
-STOP CALLING BIG BAND ASSIST CONSTANTLY
Anyone else down to help me?