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Right, with the rosters settled more or less, here is my preview:

Red side:
1) High Roller
High Roller might not want to deal with the pressure, but with Beernem selling his players, he's got the best team and is ready to take the top spot in the conference. He's probably going to hate me for saying this, but financially he's been getting about 700k more than the average team in the division AND he's got his economy sorted out. So he's banking about 2Mil per season atm, so he'll probably be able to sustain a move to the BBBL should it materialise. He is training some youngsters tho, so he might not want to promote, but he's got the best team in the conference.

2) Ballin Grannies
With an insane roster, centered around Belgians, it's an utter surprise that they were in III. They clearly had the funds and could very well end up tops. This is the surprise of the teams that have promoted and could take the red conference by storm. A fully build arena suggests that they are truely ready to fight a PO birth.

3) Black Bears Beernem
The BBBL team is going through a rebuilding phase, but with the talents they still got on the roster, they should be able to get a PO spot. The question is how long they are looking to play in II and what investments will be made with the money they'll get from selling their star players.

4) Thomas Cook
The team with the best stamina out of everyone. Full Court Press is their favorite tactic and it causes havoc to any opponent they face. With plenty of teams sorting out their arena's, it feels as though they could slip into the PO's. The big question tho is how they still haven't build their stadium. Being one of the oldest teams in belgium, their stadium capacity is still only 7.5k so if the games don't go their way, then they could be really struggling in terms of economics. However with many teams building up their arena's, they should be fine.

5) Vraai Vochtig
The team that should have been in the PO's, but made a massive mistake and barely managed to avoid demotion, they'll be back for another round. The difference being that everyone knows they'll have to look out for this team. In lights of recent information, they have to build their finances out more while training youngsters, so they might just miss out on the PO's.

6) Krilfonius
3 top players means you'll always be in for a hard game against them, but the rest of the trainees are still lagging slightly behind. Krilfonius made the PO's last season, mostly due to a weird series of decisions at the end of the season, but this season everyone knows their strength and therefor, they won't be able to surprise their opponents as easely as they could last season.

7) Duck Dynasty
Starting a new training cycle means that the Ducks will be in for a rough season. If they field their traditional line up, they probably could aim for a PO spot, but the fact that they are happy to focus on the training and are ready to potentially get demoted, it should come as no surprised that they'll be looking to grab some wins and somehow stay competitive. Once again, they are near the bottom of the pile when it comes to salary, which just goes to show that they'll once again have to perform miracles if they wish to stay up.

8) Starstruck
A team with great potential. However, they managed to promote in their first season, but this is where they should hit their cealing. With a stadium that hasn't properly been build and salary well below the players salary floor, they'll be lagging behind for the majority of the season and should use all the funds they gain into building out their economy.


PS: if you are upset with the prediction, do your best to prove me wrong. I love seeing things work out differently. remember, there will be injuries that can impact games

Last edited by Mahesvara at 7/15/2025 4:08:56 PM

Day 2 (Tuesday 15 July 2025) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Basketcats Poperinge 126 - MDM de Cotobade 124
Court-St-Etienne 125 - Sabers Teeth 86
yolymapa 101 - Charleking City 124
TumaSStars 104 - Pongo Squad 116
Black Bears Beernem 79 - Duck Dynasty 98
THOMAS COOK 150 - Starstruck 138
Vraai Vochtig 88 - Ballin Grannies 107
High roller 70 - Kriflonius 82

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 150 : THOMAS COOK
Rebounds : 52 : MDM de Cotobade, Court-St-Etienne, Kriflonius
Assists : 32 : THOMAS COOK
Steals : 18 : THOMAS COOK
Block Shots : 9 : Charleking City

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 43 : N. Marquez (THOMAS COOK)
Rebounds : 17 : B. Beetens (High roller)
Assists : 16 : P. Zuel (Duck Dynasty)
Steals : 7 : E. McCaskie (Starstruck), N. Marquez (THOMAS COOK)
Block Shots : 5 : S. Delta (High roller)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : T. Kenesei (TumaSStars) (40 Points, 4 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43
Shooting Guard : N. Marquez (THOMAS COOK) (43 Points, 6 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 7 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41
Small Forward : C. Keaton (THOMAS COOK) (34 Points, 7 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41
Power Forward : Y. Tegopoulos (Pongo Squad) (28 Points, 16 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Center : J. Haerens (Charleking City) (13 Points, 15 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30

MVP of the evening
T. Kenesei (TumaSStars) (40 Points, 4 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43

The bad performance of the evening
E. Plaskota (Sabers Teeth) (0 Points, 4 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -7

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : L. Zamorano (Starstruck) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : M. Sugiyanto (TumaSStars), M. Bérard (Pongo Squad), E. McCaskie (Starstruck) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : E. Plaskota (Sabers Teeth), M. Vanparys (Pongo Squad), P. De Brouwer (Kriflonius) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : H. Chung Man (Charleking City) : 9 Three points

The best performer : D. Fosset (Ballin Grannies) : Rating : 16.5

The worst performer : R. Carrein (Black Bears Beernem), J. Franssen (Vraai Vochtig) : Rating : 4.5

Hi ,
Thanks for the preview .

You are completely right about my team .
I have a weekly profit of 192 K .
My goal is to make a 2 mil profit this season .

I need to make a change in my staf because my lvl 6 trainer is currently almost at 60 K a week.

Thanks for having my team on the 1st place .
A playof spot en avoiding degradation is good enough for me , I think I will end at 4th, 3th place

Balling grannies gonna end lower because I’ve heard the rumor he left buzzerbeater.
The last time he was online was in may .
After some weeks he’s gonna lose due to bad games shape , its also always the same game plan .


His doesn’t becomes bot due to his second team i think.

Regards

from my understanding it's based on 2 things

1) your standing last season in your division
2) your world ranking

There could also be playing all the teams from similar divisions from the previous season against eachother but i'm not sure about that

Also, u played against a champion of hungary II.4 not of division 1. they currently are in div 1. the champ of div 1 always goes to the BBB tournament