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Ok all let's go just when we thought the Big 8 couldn't get any more annoyingly hard, they got an absolute legend of a coach in Yuck.

Lots of good teams coming up from d.IV --- it's gonna be another though season in which we all can forget about making the threshold for auto promotion..

I'm gonna spend the season substituting the old guys that got me close to a faster than expected promotion with other old guys, though I'm not sure this time they'll be promotion worthy. Meanwhile continuing to reduce my arena disadvantage. Oh well, there's always the joy of training.

Welcome to s62, d.III.12!

Hey hey. Thanks for having me. Recognize a few old foes. Time to do some scouting and see if we can’t make a little noise.

Good luck to everyone. Should be a fun season.

Day 1 came and went!

Two big matches in Day 1.

- Cassville strong out of the gate, handling JCW at home and
- Ashkickers in a bit of a surprise after a disappointing season smothers the Crows' offense, holding the MVP Keano Claeys to just 2 points (!!!)

A few days ago I had noticed that in the interconference game I play all of Yuck, Crows and JCW away. After this performance by Ashkickers I went to check if I at least played them at home, but NO, my 4 away game in interconference are all against the top 4 favorites.

On the great 8 side,
- Doctors of WI showed up for his once a month logins, and got an easy away win.
- Globo promised his fans some wins, and got one to start, with a strong performance by the new big man. That Miami Heat team, looks like they might stave off relegation with an addition or two.
- Early in the second quarter, when X Dominate X injured Quanfu, I thought I might be headed for an embarrassing loss, but the team rebounded nicely, both literally and figuratively.

There were no nail biters among the other games. Scrap Heap looks like a team that could take a game or two from one of the top dogs, but needs something more.

Repeat after me: don't normal game 1 of the season unless you actually can get a win

Stealing an NBBA tradition. Copy paste of the Buzzer manager report...

Day 1 (Saturday 26 August 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Johns Creek Wave 78 - Cassville Yuck 95
Cal Bulldogs 118 - Team NYC 97
California Crows 79 - The Ashkickers 94
Scrap Heap Low Posters 95 - IU Hoosiers 79
Doctors of WI 107 - BlackSheep(Janopol) 91
Globo Gym 127 - Miami Heat3 117
x DOMINATE x 87 - Black Light 114
Two Os in Goose 112 - Motor City Machines 126

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 127 : Globo Gym
Rebounds : 57 : Cassville Yuck
Assists : 36 : Cal Bulldogs
Steals : 15 : Scrap Heap Low Posters
Block Shots : 13 : Cassville Yuck

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 42 : A. Poch (Cal Bulldogs)
Rebounds : 26 : S. Efdal (Black Light)
Assists : 10 : D. Koch (Cal Bulldogs), J. Palhaço (Two Os in Goose)
Steals : 5 : B. Pappalardo (Scrap Heap Low Posters)
Block Shots : 5 : M. Konuk (Cassville Yuck)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : B. Pappalardo (Scrap Heap Low Posters) (32 Points, 6 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 5 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37
Shooting Guard : A. Poch (Cal Bulldogs) (42 Points, 9 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47
Small Forward : G. Gattoni (The Ashkickers) (35 Points, 5 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30
Power Forward : D. Gándara (Globo Gym) (26 Points, 16 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37
Center : A. Kolesnik (Cal Bulldogs) (22 Points, 22 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 39

MVP of the evening
A. Poch (Cal Bulldogs) (42 Points, 9 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 47

The bad performance of the evening
S. Koon Ying (Cassville Yuck) (0 Points, 1 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -3

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : E. Báez (IU Hoosiers), T. Brion (BlackSheep(Janopol)) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : Z. Caifang (Miami Heat3), P. Sukachov (Miami Heat3) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : O. Minkinen (IU Hoosiers) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : G. Gattoni (The Ashkickers) : 7 Three points

The best performer : B. Pappalardo (Scrap Heap Low Posters) : Rating : 15.5

The worst performer : R. Hatton (Doctors of WI) : Rating : 4.0

Another strong write up Coco. And so begins the three month sprint.

Kind of excited about BBM this season. After tanking last season, I dipped all the way to Tier 5 of BBM. Should be able to win some games.

Your team in tier 5 will be ridiculous

Day 2 was chalk day. The good teams faced the not-yet-good teams, and the former generally won big. The only moments when we thought about upsets were:

1) when Two-O's made it close against us in the second quarter, on what turned out to be a fluky scoring run.
2) when Cal Bulldogs jumped out to a lead against Yuck.

I was looking for a spike in the number of assists, given the season announcement, but my team had fewer than usual.

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Day 2 (Tuesday 29 August 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Cassville Yuck 83 - Cal Bulldogs 63
Team NYC 63 - California Crows 110
The Ashkickers 114 - Scrap Heap Low Posters 96
IU Hoosiers 92 - Johns Creek Wave 128
BlackSheep(Janopol) 93 - Globo Gym 113
Miami Heat3 105 - x DOMINATE x 110
Black Light 109 - Two Os in Goose 87
Motor City Machines 120 - Doctors of WI 142

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 142 : Doctors of WI
Rebounds : 60 : California Crows
Assists : 34 : Globo Gym, Doctors of WI, Motor City Machines
Steals : 14 : Doctors of WI
Block Shots : 12 : Cassville Yuck

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 41 : A. Jones (Motor City Machines)
Rebounds : 21 : A. Kolesnik (Cal Bulldogs)
Assists : 11 : D. Kapitonov (Doctors of WI), H. Bonilla (Motor City Machines)
Steals : 4 : K. Claeys (California Crows), A. Kondrikov (Doctors of WI)
Block Shots : 5 : L. Kraševec (Doctors of WI)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : H. Bonilla (Motor City Machines) (34 Points, 2 Rebounds, 11 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Shooting Guard : D. Kapitonov (Doctors of WI) (28 Points, 3 Rebounds, 11 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37
Small Forward : G. Sebidos (x DOMINATE x) (30 Points, 4 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Power Forward : A. Jones (Motor City Machines) (41 Points, 10 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45
Center : L. Kraševec (Doctors of WI) (16 Points, 13 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 5 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34

MVP of the evening
A. Jones (Motor City Machines) (41 Points, 10 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 2 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 45

The bad performance of the evening
S. Willford (Cal Bulldogs) (0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)D. Torres (Team NYC) (6 Points, 4 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots)M. Holm (The Ashkickers) (2 Points, 0 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)M. Leviev (Black Light) (0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)J. Baker (Doctors of WI) (0 Points, 0 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -1

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : V. Burleson (Cal Bulldogs) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : B. Pappalardo (Scrap Heap Low Posters), J. Baez (Johns Creek Wave), K. Hobbs (x DOMINATE x), C. Gaspar (Miami Heat3), J. Palhaço (Two Os in Goose), A. Ortak (Two Os in Goose), D. Salmon (Two Os in Goose), D. Campbell (Doctors of WI) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : O. Minkinen (IU Hoosiers) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : H. Bonilla (Motor City Machines) : 7 Three points

The best performer : M. Sargent (Johns Creek Wave) : Rating : 16.5

The worst performer : C. Hoang Khanh (Globo Gym) : Rating : 4.5

Our Utopia teams (/farms) are facing off in BBM!

Oh that’s kind of fun. My Utopia team isn’t very good other than the kids I am training but will be fun.

Big day in the league. Top 4 teams in current standings all play each other.