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there were a couple of smelly foreign div 3 teams bidding, had to keep them away from them, no doubt they were going to cut him, he'd be listed at 500k and we'd lose him.

Kind of like Jalajamani aye? =P

I knew i was going to buy Anderson and figured Jalajamani's tremendous ID would be a threat to Andersons NT career so had to take him off the map

If id known I was going to win against Aussie tonight in the cup, I might just have had a bid on Anderson in the hope that I could provide him with some temporary accommodation for 5 or 6 weeks.

With your latest 2 acquisitions your team certainly looks a bit stronger and of course will be stronger again when some fool takes Tully off your hands

We've got our first real test of the season tomorrow night - as we play India who look much better than their ranking suggests. It should be a good game - a win and we are basically assured of going through to the next round.

With some of our guards being in poor gameshape, we have a new addition to the team. Steve Reimers was drafted by BreakerJ of the J Ballers in season 18, and has been with him ever since. He is averaging over 34 points per game in division 3 this season.

He has played some NT scrimmages, but will make his competitive debut tomorrow night.

Congrats to Breaker J, great achievement

Despite India's ranking, I rate them as a team, so was happy to come away with the win, especially with them putting in more effort. I was disappointed in our defensive effort though.

The game in five:

1. The team got off to a handy lead through a great offensive first quarter. This was driven by the centres, as Scoggins and Schnieder didn't miss a shot on the way to 17 points between them - with Scoggins scoring 6 points on offensive put backs. Reiffel, Hadley and Shishaev all got off to slow starts.

2. India scored 33 points in the 2nd quarter. Fortunatly we scored 37, to take a 16 point lead at half time. While Scoggins cooled off, Hadley and Shishaev started to get going, and Reimers scored his first NT points.

3. India got themselves within striking distance by outscoring us by 2 in the third quarter. While we were blitzing them offensively, largely due to Scoggins and Lonergan's dominating presence inside, our defense was letting them in the game.

4. A 7 point burst by Scoggins in the first couple of minutes of the final quarter got the game to garbage time. India took advantage of the subs to get the back within 9 points, but the starters closed the game out.

5. India shot over 50 per cent, which is a concern - thought the matchup ratings suggest they got a bit lucky. Still, we will need to put on better defensive showings to challenge the top teams.

The Darby Walters medal

3. Dylan Scoggins - should be no real arguments over this one. Scoggins shot 12-17, scored 27 points and grabbed 7 offensive boards. A complete game from the star big man

2. Vladimir Shishaev - While the bigs were the key to the offense, they can't score if they don't get the ball. Shishaev ensured they got the ball with 7 assists, and scored 20 points himself with a couple of 3s.

1. Darren Lonergan - the other half of the big man duo. Was outshone by Scoggins tonight, but 23 points and 5 offensive boards is good enough for a vote.

Leaderboard:

3 - Scott Schneider; Leigh Reiffel; Brent Degas; Dylan Scoggins; Darren Lonergan
2 - Vladimir Shishaev
1 - Jone Bogan
-1 - Keith Anderson

The Rudolph Radford medal

I'm refusing to give votes for this this week - our defense was crap all around, and noone was worthy of the votes.

Leaderboard:

3. Darren Lonergan
2. Lionel Walker; Scott Schnieder
1. Brent Degas; Vladimir Shishaev; Keith Anderson

The Jackson Mansfield medal leaderboard:

With one vote this week, Lonergan takes the outright lead

6. Darren Lonergan
5. Scott Schnieder
4. Brent Degas
3. Leigh Reiffel; Vladimir Shishaev; Dylan Scoggins
2. Lionel Walker
1. Jone Bogan

There is no game on next week, so we'll be able to arrange a scrimmage to test out some tactics.

Very surprised to see India play that well... and also to see our bigs dominate in a PTB offense. One of the bigs willl surely get the Jackson Mansfield medal by years end.

Once again a very prompt and excellent write up.

Great write up again!
And also great to see Reimers get some nt minutes, hopefully for the team the other g's get some better gameshape, hopefully for me and Reimers they dont.

With the team having a week off from competitive games, we have a scrimmage tonight against Hong Kong. Game starts at 8:30 AET - it should be a good test of where our team is at, along with a chance to try a slightly different tactic.

Back to competitive games this week, with a game against 24th ranked Japan, which should be a good test.

After our opening three wins, we are all but assured of making it through to the next round, barring a disaster, but these games will be useful to determine where our team is at, as well as being important for determining which pool we go to for the next round.

Game is on at 9pm tomorrow, as always.