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Coach Boone sighs as he looks at his players. He doesn't know what to say. But he talks anyway.
"Gentlemen, basketball is a simple game. A simple game. And you win some, and you lose some. But you have to be willing to fight for it. I'm not seeing any fight. We can win this game. We should win this game. It's right there for us. But we have to take it. They are not going to give it to us. We have to show that we have what it takes to win this game. We are not playing well. That is partially my fault. I place a couple of you in the wrong positions for this matchup. But, even if we lose, if we fight, we can leave here with our heads held high. Just fight gentlemen. And let the cards fall where they may. And I guarantee you, you will not be disappointed. We may have less points on the scoreboard when the game is over, but, we will not be defeated. If we fight, we win. And if we fight right now, we can also win the game. Just bring it gentlemen, just bring it."

"We are fading, nothing seems to be able to fix it," says Coach Boone to his assistant coaches. "Second loss in a row in league play. We have to make corrections now. The guys have to okay better now or else we will just give up the game."

Coach Boone looks at his assistant coaches. "Wrap it up. Down double digits with 4 minutes left. I'll tell John Walton. The guys are old. They played like it tonight. Blow it up again and bring in some younger talent. This team will make the playoffs, but they are not coming out of the conference. Yes gentlemen, I'm talking about you guys," says Coach Boone to the players on the bench looking at him. "You all had your chance. Tonight, you blew it. Let's get ready to leave."

This just in, images from SmackDown Arena after last night's game:(https://media.giphy.com/media/EnIxzsEKmXs4Im6ORC/giphy.gif)

Just gotta say, Daisy, congratulations. You're orchestrating a tremendous season!

Day 10 (Tuesday 6 December 2022) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Lion Rebels 90 - Miami Cleo 101
BOBBBSBURGS 45 - Motor City Waddupdoe 129
Linndale 101 - Sweaty Socks 45
San Dominica Warriors 81 - The Philadelphia Spartans 64
Carolina Rebels 84 - Hustlas 70
Philly Dribble 118 - Żubr Białystok 105
209’s MostWanted 69 - The Ashkickers 87
BKDogs 67 - The Beer Bellys 127

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 129 : Motor City Waddupdoe
Rebounds : 60 : Miami Cleo
Assists : 35 : Motor City Waddupdoe, The Beer Bellys
Steals : 14 : Carolina Rebels
Block Shots : 17 : The Beer Bellys

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 37 : G. Ricker (Motor City Waddupdoe)
Rebounds : 28 : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo)
Assists : 10 : M. Smalls (Motor City Waddupdoe)
Steals : 6 : G. Ricker (Motor City Waddupdoe)
Block Shots : 7 : Z. Than Lin (209’s MostWanted)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : P. Matkowski (BKDogs) (23 Points, 6 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 23
Shooting Guard : F. Killian (Motor City Waddupdoe) (20 Points, 2 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 27
Small Forward : G. Ricker (Motor City Waddupdoe) (37 Points, 7 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 6 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Power Forward : P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo) (26 Points, 28 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Center : P. Kalinov (The Beer Bellys) (14 Points, 8 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 1 Steals, 4 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28

MVP of the evening
P. Cheatle (Miami Cleo) (26 Points, 28 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45

The bad performance of the evening
S. Cohen (BOBBBSBURGS) (3 Points, 4 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -11

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : S. Klin (Hustlas) : 8 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : T. Medina (Lion Rebels) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : A. Gallucci (Miami Cleo), W. Westmoreland (Sweaty Socks), B. Pimentel (Philly Dribble), M. Farnsworth (Philly Dribble), G. Ricker (Motor City Waddupdoe), T. Medina (Lion Rebels), H. Quindós (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : F. Carrillo (Lion Rebels) : 6 Three points

The best performer : C. Riggins (Żubr Białystok) : Rating : 16.5

The worst performer : J. Moore (BOBBBSBURGS), J. Hein (BOBBBSBURGS) : Rating : 2.0

That's perfect lol. Lol.

Coach Boone walks into John Walton's office, a shell shocked look on his face. "It's not that shocking," says John Walton. "That is a good team over there. On paper, we are better. But that's why you play the games. We may be better on paper, but just barely. They have a killer defense on that team. Essentially, they shut us down. Your game plan choice against that team was a bad one. But it's okay," says John Walton.

"I don't know. It.was hard to get them to do what was necessary to win that game. I'm not use to that," says Coach Boone.

"I know. But sometimes, it happens. We still have a long season ahead of us, and the playoffs and maybe even the championship. The team we are truly competing against right now is the one's in our conference. Because only one team from the other conference will make the finals. You can lose the next two, and we wouldn't be too shook up. But we will try to improve the roster. We see some weak points. But we can't do anything until our injured big finally plays a few games. But Daisy is no shabby manager. She is excellent. This season she is very attentive. She has a great coach over there. And they are running through the league. Their record is the same as ours now. So, let's just get it together, and win more games. In two games we have scored 139 points and gave up 175 points. We have to go back to scoring the ball. Our fg percentage is in the toilet. Plunge it up so that it increases."

"That's the plan," says Boone. "I just wish we could play them again this season."

"You'll have your chance next season. But we don't know what roster we will have. So this season was a good chance to really show something. So I can understand wanting your revenge. Make It to the finals and win it all, that's the best revenge," says John Walton.

"That, will not happen, with this team," says Coach Boone.

"Boone, you don't know what could happen with this team. They are unpredictable. Sucks, but, it is what it is. Hang on for the ride, and game plan better. And we will have better luck. You game planned badly now twice. Both were losses. Though even if you had the right game plan, we still would have lost. We would have at least scored more. Teams has exploited a weakness of ours. We didn't think it would be a weakness, but it is. Do something about it."

"I can't. They just have to play better. Our defense isn't horrible, but our offense is pathetic. That,.I will fix. The rest of it, we will see," says Coach Boone..

Bobby Sparks was sitting in his office, fuming. "The team has stopped performing. Last three games, 69 points, 70 points, and then 74 points in BBM, against a team we should have beaten. It's starting to look like we are turning into the current Lakers, except that we can say we have a better record than them."

He sat back in his chair and sighed. The owner sat in another seat, then spoke, "It's not the end of the world. As long as we do better than last season, and that's 11 wins. Get 12, I'm satisfied. But you have to keep up with the trends and keep changing the roster to stay in this league."

"I know, I know," sighed Bobby Sparks. "We'll see, we are still awaiting for our second best big man, on paper, to be ready to play. We have high hopes for him. His arrival shores up our bench. But something is still missing. Esposito and Jovanoski are throwing up brinks from all over the floor, Ozakan and Nick Williams are failing to hit shots, especially from the top of the key...., seriously, the worst play of the last week was Nick Williams pulling up from the top of the key, and Ozakan firing from Three. Our bigs has been great on the boards except against Carolina. We did nothing right that game..And Sima needs more playing time. So, what we need as a team is another pg, and a scoring 2 or 3. A scoring big wouldn't hurt either. But we can't get all three. So a scoring pg one wing would be best. But then again, the team may need a break. They get one today. And the lessers get to play all the minutes they want."

John Walton walks into the office. "This team needs confidence. But I don't see the downward trajectory ending soon. It all hinges on the next game."


Last edited by Reece at 12/8/2022 5:03:59 PM

Thanks!

Week Five Power Rankings
Just when you thought you had it all figured out. Another upset this week amongst the noise of higher seeds beating lower seeds. Good to see the status quo can be shaken up a bit here and there. There's some movement on the transfer wire, but we'll leave the Shams reporting to Shams this week. Onto the rankings! (Last week's rank will be in parenthesis).

1. San Dominica Warriors (5)
An unprecedented leap up the rankings this week for Coach Stephenson's crew, with a 9-point increase in EFFG to take 1st and a nearly 11-point decrease in OPP EFFG to move from 6th to 3rd lifts them to the top spot this week. A 106-point victory over Sweaty Socks combined with a wire-to-wire victory over the Spartans will do that for you. Granted the Spartans made it close, coming within one point of the lead in the 3rd quarter before they fell off. This ranking sets them up for an intriguing matchup against Żubr Białystok Saturday night before playing host to the stalwart Ashkickers, which should really define the pecking order of where the Warriors belong. They spread the ball around on offense and are becoming impregnable on defense...will see if that holds up after Week 6.

2. The Beer Bellys (2)
Holding on to number 2, the Bellys have strung together a little winning streak after hitting 4-3 on the season, winning three in a row including thumping my sad sack of a squad like one of those gophers with a hammer at the arcade. They dominated BKDogs at home and now travel to 209's in what should be a good game then play host to Philly Dribble on TV to see where they really stand in the mix of things.

3. Philly Dribble (3)
Philly holds steady in third, despite some other teams’ best efforts (Miami, Ashkickers, & Linndale). They have a 3rd best 130.8 EFFG combined with a steady 69 OPP EFFG. After their stumble in Week 4, they bounced back with a strong BBM win and a Cup victory before then TROUNCING Hustlas with vengeance and then holding off Żubr Białystok to win by 13. After defeating the Great 8's previous #1 seed, then get the pleasure of hosting another Great 8 #1 seed in The Ashkickers for a much-anticipated matchup. After that, they travel to The Keg for what could be a good matchup.

4. The Ashkickers (4)
Another quality team holding on to their spot in the rankings, they're staying consistent in both EFFG and OPP EFFG, regardless of who they play. While their EFFG isn't blowing anyone away, they are winning games, thanks a lot to their OPP EFFG, which is top of the league. Their lone loss came early on against Hustlas who efforted their way to a win, but Tylormade's group is fierce defensively and looking respectable all around. They've got seven players averaging a rating of 12+ on the season. The aforementioned trip to Philly Dribble looms as a big test followed by Carolina Rebels in what could be a fierce competition. I wouldn't be surprised if their record was 11-1, 10-2, or 9-3 after this run - it's a roll of the dice.

5. Miami Cleo (6)
One bot matchup and one bot-like matchup for Miami this week, rolling over BOBBBS abandoned burger shack before fending off Lion Rebels at home boosts their EFFG rank to 7th and keeps hold of their ranking of 2nd in OPP EFFG (there's some really REALLY good defense going on in our league this season with three teams giving up less than 60 EFFG and six less than 70). Does their walk-over win against Żubr Białystok early in the season help? Sure, but without it they'd still sit at giving up 56.7 EFFG, less than a point different than my calculation has them with that 10th game. An easy matchup against 7th seeded BKDogs on the road is on the horizon before playing host to 209's MostWanted next week.