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Ones again the CBBA Weekly Update Boadcast also known as CWUB fills your time with speculations about each and every game of the week! Our today special show is all about the possibilities and tactical evaluation of the games at hand on Saturday 13th of February. So here are the special interest games!!!
1. Big clushing of monster teams TP3 and Bros in an attempt to capitalise on the second place of Great 8 conference leading to a home advantage in the play offs. Our local bookie speculates a win by a minimum margin of 3 points that favorites the upcoming star Bros. Although Bros has an away game, the new addition of Fucal to the team reformed the capabilities of the squad turning it into a power house capable of playing run and gun or even look inside with the same of ease. TP3 no advises for tactics here, may God help you !!!
2. Next door neighboors Ekleptismenoi in a conflict of giants against Megalonisos. A game the everyone must see! Local bookie claims sure win of Megalonisos, nevetheless good tactical evaluation of Megalonisos could lead to an upset. For those interested in playing at the bookies, a bit on a win of Ekleptismenoi with atleast 2 points gives a huge amount of 1: 8. So put you money down, I know I am! All will come down to the abilities of Chazodikis and Schnellboegl who have not yet convinced their fans of their defensing abilities. Could they shoot down the scoring genius Silverentand along side with Borobia? Tune in at ANT1 CBBA channel for live coverage at 6pm!
3. Clushing for survival is the headlines in CBBA Pontiki newspaper! Zeys with home advantage against Paphos. Can Paphos overrun its opponent and escape from the relegation matches? Experts claim that this is highly possible since Pistoleros has not achieved to show stabilities in his wins and a win against pafos is far from sure.
4. Crossing over the atlantic we reach the Big 8 Conference. The league of extraordinary teams. The league of giants! Big interested by all bookies in the game of the day Valentino vs Keraynos. THe cinderela story of Keraynos in his fisrt attempt to free itself from relegation. Valentinos tactis are easily speculated and thus Keraynos ticket to the win surely its a good tactics plan. Can the super big guys Patyk and Tinggui along with Diame reach the team to victory? Our insiders claim that the outcome of the game depends entirely on Valentinos tactcs and not on Keraynos. Our hunch on the other hand says dont bet on that with ease since we expect a major upset from the outcome of this match.
5. At number 2 in respect to importance of the daily games is the battle of BC teammate against Passif Agressifs. BC teammate after the loss against Pistoleros regrouped and showed team class to achieve 2 wins in a row. Special interest is shown for this game since a loss of BC teammate will open the front door for Cyprus Fighters to claim the second place in the league and thus home advantage in playoffs. Ivic spoke to our reporters yesterday and claimed that tomorrows game will be his best performance so BC teammate look out!

Finally many of our viewers showed special interest in reviewing the results of our beloved NT. So here are the latest news! Cyprus achieved the 4th place in our group just behind Belgium in a scoring tie of 5 wins and 2 losses but with a woesre scoring difference. Nevertheless this has been the best record achieved by our team at 796 points for and 796 points against. Major, colossal, galactic, universal work by our NT coach your trully Steve Makis. Superb performance through out the whole season by our very own Gagalatos achieving an average rating of about 12.5 and Florakis with 13.5 in the match against Sakartvelo. Our reporters are trying their very best to achieve a one to one interview with Steve in an attempt to hear everything from the mouth of the coach and developer of the NT.

Ones again we reached the end of our show. It has been a blast!!! So keep tuned for our next broadcast and

Man those reports are instantly my 2nd favorite after the youngsters progress from Steve Makis. I really love the way that you write and i believe that you have special talent as a journalist. Nice change, than your complaining posts. I will try to give a duplicity on your try world wide. Keep it up.

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CWUB ones again comes live for an urgent and upset message. Our scout reporter Vagelatos just came in with the following statement by Steve Makis our NT coach during his latest conference statement.
Steve Makis: Next season will be a hard season... many countries already know us, so they expect us as Joe Maverick said, but I think and hope that next season we will be stronger and ready for a new, the last one for me, awesome adventure!

Could it be possible that our coach is leaving Cyprus NT by the end of season 11? Our channel urges every team in CBBA and all other divisions to advise the coach to reconsider as his absence will inflict a crucial knock down blow to our NT future development.

Great article. Some updating!
Booking updates: All those that counted for a sure win of gold over spartan have seen their investments vanish in a few hours. The risk takers that bet on Spartan have seen the opposite effect. Now it is just too late to book.

Some serious reclasifications have taken place the past week. Two teams are abandoning the CBBA. One powerhouse of the Big 8: Gold Towers has been lost, and an up and coming team from the great 8: TP team. Their players are in the market and there is a fight by many players for their services since they have very well trained or trainable players. Among them are the Cypriots Atmatzidis, who has been sold for 7.5M, Eftaras 3.7M, Kopanidis 3.7M, Papanagiotou 3M and Galanakis 2M. Lets hope that they will continue to receive good training for the benefit of our NT. TP team players are on the market at 6.00pm and there are also some great cypriot players that will grab attention namely: Pararas, Daravanis, Dimidou, Florakis and Prokas.
We would like to express our regret for their decision since they were great competers and the matches against them were highly anticipated, entertaining and interesting.

And there you have it ladies and gentlemen.

Directly from the manager of Ekleptismenoi. Big turn of events rushing to overcome the stability of CBBA. Is this to the benefit of the league or to the worse? Only time will tell. The only thing sure, claimed by our insiders, is that this is the best possible time for all the teams to refresh their lineups with potentially amazing players. Lost Spartans seems to have sniffed this opportunity and rushed to reform its team by selling and buying new players.
Is this the recipe for success or is it just a shine new time bomb ready to explode.

As time ticks away we would like to remind everyone that all games start at 6pm sharp. For those off you that cannot participate in the fans party at the arena of your beloved team you can surely watch the games from NOVA CBBA channels 1 to 8 along side with your best friend CBBA Budweiser and chips! For the rest of you, Amstel beer would be just fine!

Ones again CWUB fills you up with the latest and greatest events taking place in the CBBA. On our next scheduled broadcast, which will be happening on Wednesday 17th of February we will be talking about the upcoming candidates to CBBA from the lower divisions, current teams strategies to perfection or destruction and current predictions about the crown champions of Season 11 CBBA!

Until then stay well and dont forget to tune in for live news and coverage at CWUB. From your host and all the crew here may the best teams win today!

Why are Gold Towers and T.P. Team are abandoning CBBA...?

Apparently, and this is unofficial, they got bored of the CBBA. Propably they would like to try a new challenge in their lives or in a new country where the community would be stronger or more active. Or they were afraid of the up and coming teams of the newly active cyprus community that were getting stronger. In the case of Gold, it goes like 'get out while you are ahead'.

Ones again CWUB comes live to you for an inside look at yesterdays games and further coverage of all the changes in CBBA of the last 24 hours.

First stop at the arena camp of Gold Towers. The question adressed by GastOne manager of Megalonhsos " Why Gold towers as well as Tp Team abandoned CBBA" has eluded our channel reporters,unfortunately.The only sure thing is that Gold Towers has mentioned ones before of leaving the CBBA as the consecutive wins have caused a lost of interest to the manager. Other than that we are unable to contribute to this mystery since Gold Towers does not reply to our emails.
Regarding Tp Team the mystery is even more into fog. The sure thing is that all players have been transfered to either oversea teams or domestic ones and thus the bench of both Gold and Tp are now empty.

1. Starting with the most important game on our list, BC teammate against Passif Agressifs. A match that was composed of suspense, drama and excitement. The tremendous attempt of Passifs to overcome the colosal team BC teammate came to a close in the last seconds of the game. A correct offensive tactic of Run and gun along with a 3-2 zone defense were just not enough to bring the win. K. Papazisis and I. Mastroyiannis performed an amazing game with 39 and 29 points, of which 9 in 21 3point attempts. On the other side Z. Ivic who before the game claimmed to be well prepared, managed to achieve 31 points. A bit far from his best performance of 45 points against Pafos. No words can characterize the above match except from "a match to remember!"
2. Megalonhsos vs Ekleptismenoi. What can we say? Ekleptismenoi gave it their best although they had instructions by their manager not to give their whole in the game. Colosal attempt to keep in sight of the powerhouse Megalonisos and although Ekleptismenoi turned into an offensive frenzy in the 4rth quarter it was still not enough to get the win. The horrid amount of 28 rebounds surely played its role in Ekleptismenoi defeat. Nevertheless congrats should be given for such an extraordinary attempt to overcome the kings of Big 8, Megalonisos.
Our special journalist Nikos Vagkelatos managed to get an interview of Ekleptismenoi superstar C. Torres who claimmed " this is just the beginning, our team has high hopes and future domination plans. To all the nonbelievers just wait and see. There are a lot more in our team than the eye can see".
3. Paphos with more like a weak performance managed to steal the win from Zeys in Olympus Arena with the minimum difference of 4 points. T. Gittas, the scoring talent of Zeys, gave it his best with 41 points but was still not enough. Ones again the low rebound percentage of the home teams big guys seemed to have cause this outcome. Should Zeys look into this matter? All we can do is wait and see. Good news for Paphos that started with the right foot their attempt of eluding the relegation matches.
4. Huge upset in Melfort Arena were the upcoming team Keraynos forced Valentinos to his third loss in a row, digging the team even further to dissapointment. Ones a super team, Valentinos now faces a future with no return unless new and capable blood enters the team to lift it off its grave. C. De Martini, Valentinos superstar, was shut down by the offensive and defensive monster A. Diame. Nikos Chadzinikolaou camera captured Valentinos fans burning the players jerseys showing their dislikes of the teams performance, ones again.
This is all the time we have for today. Stay tuned with CWUB as more news keep coming in!
As always from your host and all the crew, have a nice and peaceful weekend! Keep it light with our channel sponsor, CBBA light Budweiser.

We have promised to take a long look at the top candidates for CBBA in season 12 and here they are at random order.

1. Syntaxer, at the moment the only team undefeated in Div I. Syntaxer managed by Recep consist of several great players equal to the current strenght of the CBBA teams. Taking a long look at the training and tactics of the manager we come to the conclusion of a big men, PF and C, tactical training along with training of gurads in an attempt to build a balanced team. Manthos Kritikopoulos and Cesare Cosimelli are characterized as giant players, in respect of skills, that any of the CBBA teams would like to have in their possession. Yusuf Can Noyan, Džiugimantas Purikovas and Hao Hengjian on the other hand are considered as killing machines from long range as well as shorter distances. The only downside to this team is its poor bench and lack of domestic players. For sure Syntaxer will not be at the bottom of the CBBA in season 12.
2. In Div II our attention falls on Ipwich, a team currently at the second place of its conference behind Simpsons Magic. The team is managed by Lua Lua. Renato Canuto, Vjekoslav Gluhak, Rauls Lene and Denis Nachinkin are the major stars of this team, packing most of the weekly points. A team that usually plays motion tactics with 3-2 zone, needs to develope its power scoring abilitites from all ranges if it wishes to live another day in CBBA. All considered, little are the prospects of this team in the CBBA due to the increased mean age of the squad and the shortage of players as Ipwich consists of only 9 players.
3. Going down to Div III surely our favourites are Virtus Liuk managed by Lucas. Tremendous and dreamy achievement in the run for the cup tittle this year have increased the teams moral which is now hungry for more success. Unfortunately ones again a team that follows the same solid tactics through the whole season. Siegheld Wilmig and Aldo Ridente are the top elite of the team and to be honest of any CBBA team. Major advantage of the team is the streght not only of the starting squad but also the solid punch that can be inflicted by the reserve players. Surely Virtus Liuk is one of the most promising candidates that will bloom in CBBA next season. The only downside to this team could be the high mean age of its players that might tend to be a disadvantage in the long run.
4. Slowly but surely we reach Div IV were the team that stands out is non other than Cruellords. Manager Cruellord not only has the tendency to train Big guys but also the courtesy of domestic ones. A team with lots of talent such as Isaak Kalpadakis, Milán Kardos and Tasos Valsamidis, will take a shot at the luxury arenas of CBBA. Major downside could be and should be considered the inability of the team to manage a profitable outside scoring capability. Inabilty for flexibility in the team could prove disastrous to the teams run for CBBA.

So there you have it, CWUB favourite teams for future entrance to CBBA in season 12. Will our beloved CBBA benefit from the addition of these teams? The future of the league is surely uncertained and only time will tell.
Disturbing nevertheless is the fact that nearly non of the managers of lower divisions takes the time or the effort to train domestic players to increase the strenght of Cyprus NT.

From your host, Melis and everyone that helped for your detailed feed in, see you on Tuesday 6pm. Until then stay tuned to our channel as more exclusives are on the way!