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We didn’t deserve to win that with 15 turnovers on 10 assists. Good game, we’ll be a different team in our next match up.

Day 2 (Tuesday 23 May 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Lion Rebels 100 - FR-S 80
Linndale 88 - Las Vegas Silver Stars 75
209’s MostWanted 97 - Philly Dribble 121
BKDogs 111 - Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 94
Super Sonics 103 - Żubr Białystok 115
LionPride 63 - Miami Cleo 94
Tasty Tardsicles 83 - The Beer Bellys 89
San Dominica Warriors 87 - Carolina Rebels 106

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 121 : Philly Dribble
Rebounds : 60 : Miami Cleo
Assists : 30 : Carolina Rebels
Steals : 9 : Linndale
Block Shots : 7 : Miami Cleo, LionPride

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 37 : S. Rigaux (Philly Dribble)
Rebounds : 28 : G. Locus (Miami Cleo)
Assists : 9 : P. Matkowski (BKDogs)
Steals : 4 : K. Knowles (Linndale)
Block Shots : 3 : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels), T. Kuykendall (Lion Rebels), G. Locus (Miami Cleo)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : T. Begley (Carolina Rebels) (17 Points, 3 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 25
Shooting Guard : T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (28 Points, 5 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Small Forward : P. Paredi (BKDogs) (26 Points, 7 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 3 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 32
Power Forward : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) (20 Points, 11 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 32
Center : G. Locus (Miami Cleo) (28 Points, 28 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49

MVP of the evening
G. Locus (Miami Cleo) (28 Points, 28 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 49

The bad performance of the evening
P. Cuellar (209’s MostWanted) (4 Points, 2 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots)B. Huffman (LionPride) (2 Points, 1 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -2

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : A. Quiroga (Las Vegas Silver Stars), D. Chappell (Las Vegas Silver Stars), D. Lin (Super Sonics), G. Locus (Miami Cleo), I. Homs (The Beer Bellys) : 4 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : G. Sankoh (BKDogs) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : S. Hollins (Lion Rebels), A. Guilla (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), S. Hatch (Żubr Białystok), G. Locus (Miami Cleo) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : S. Rigaux (Philly Dribble), Y. Georgoulis (The Beer Bellys) : 7 Three points

The best performer : C. Holley (LionPride) : Rating : 16.5

The worst performer : L. Jackson (LionPride), B. Finney (LionPride) : Rating : 5.0

Week One Power Rankings - Part One
Week One Observations
With the first two games in the books, we'll call that Week One as we head into the first of the BBM games. As Season 61 gets underway, we've got six players averaging more than 25 PPG (including Clement Holley sitting at 39.5 after coming back down to earth and only scoring 22 PTS in their second game). Seven players are averaging more than 15 boards per game, with Miami's Geoffray Locus leading the way at 20 RPG. And lastly, three players are averaging 7 or more APG, with BKDogs' Patryk Matkowski hitting 9 assists in each of his games.

Team-wise, only four teams are averaging more than 100 PPG and four teams are averaging less than 90 PPG.

I won't do this every week, but just pointing a few things from the first two games of the season.
-> My "preseason" 5th ranked team Super Sonics starting out 0-2 is a bit of a surprise, though effort played into at least one of those games. There's plenty of time to rebound, though, and I expect them to turn it around.
-> As previously mentioned, the Silver Stars featured in two 4th quarter melt-downs, eventually losing each game by 13 points while getting outscored by 22 and 21 points respectively in the final frame. They took a 9-point lead into their road matchup with 209's and an 8-point lead at home against Linndale. No matter how you slice it, it hurts.
-> I do want to re-visit Mindless Zombies' buzzer beating victory at Super Sonics...Sonics started the 4th quarter up 70-65, and the two teams danced around that until about 7 minutes left in the quarter where the Sonics hit a couple of free throws to push their lead to 9. At that point, they held the Zombies at arm's length until with just under 4 minutes remaining, they started to make a push and got to within three, then two, then one, then back to three, then one, until the Zombies took the lead with 1:41 left, 98-96. Here's what transpired:
--1:28-- T. Hearn ties it at 98
--1:16-- Mindless' Hok Fung scores on a layup
--1:03-- Hearn again scores to tie it at 100
--0:53-- Mindless' Freeman hits a three to take the lead
--0:42-- Sonics' Coedo hits a jumper to put them down by 1 and a few moments later, the time out comes.

So here they are, having retaken the lead in the 3rd quarter and holding the Zombies off...they come in after the time out and their prize center Goldsmith turns the ball over with 23 seconds (I have a love/hate relationship with the "throws the ball away" turnovers in this game). Supersonics turn around and at once foul Acevedo, who makes both free throws to put them back up by 3.
--0:21-- Full Timeout Super Sonics
--0:16-- Matthews misses a three-pointer...first of all, they should, unless I'm entirely incorrect, have the rest of the clock without any threat of the shot clock running out, but fortunately Goldsmith starts his redemption tour early and grabs the rebound and then with 8 seconds left, "forces up a three" and scores to tie it up. And then this:
--0:00-- T. Hok Fung gets off a great pass to E. Maganja, who goes up for a dunk in a crowd. Scored.
Scored.
Scored.

I'd have been so mad at my team if they'd lost that way. Hopefully zhouzhaoxu doesn't rage quit the game.

Week One Power Rankings - Part Two
Transfer Report
I've been keeping track of transfers in and out since the first of May (the first day that transfers weren't eligible for last season's playoffs). In that timeframe, our league has had a total of 30 transfers (11 players brought in, 19 out). Average age of players sold is 29.5 with only 3 pre-20-year olds and five 35+ year olds. The average salary of players being sold age 25+ is $40,663 and those players selling for a grand total of $4.6M (special thanks to oriolekid for two of his players making up more than half that number).

The average age of the 11 players brought in is at 24 and the average salary of that is $20,296. We spent a grand total of $2.779M on those 11 players.

Of all those transactions, LionPride leads the way with 7 total transactions (6 sales; 1 purchase) and 209's ranks second with 5 transactions, selling 3 and bringing in 2 new players. There are (as of this writing) 9 players transfer listed totaling nearly $117k in salary, with teams looking for upwards of $1.2M in transfer fees.

Week 1 Power Rankings
For those of you who are new, my power rankings are based on a combination of average Efficiency Per Game (EFFG) rank and their Opponents EFFG (OPP EFFG) rank. Week one ties are sorted by difference in EFFG and OPP EFFG (ensuing weeks will take into consideration previous week's rankings to sort ties).

1. Lion Rebels
EFFG: 112 | OPP EFFG: 78.5
Longtime readers of my power rankings understand that I don't really think that highly of my team and honestly cringe every time they end up anywhere near the top of the list. Definitely receiving help from a matchup with FR-S early on, in a game in which my boys gave up 7 more EFF points to them than Carolina over the weekend. But that's also why I like doing these rankings in this manner, because it will most definitely change as competition ebbs and flows.

2. Linndale
EFFG: 112.5 | OPP EFFG: 81.5
While I suspect Speedtraps and them boys to be at the very least better than my Rebels, they too enjoyed the opening weekend prospect of playing the squad with a total salary just a tad above $25k over the salary floor. They did follow that up with (depending on whom you ask) a nice come from behind in the 4th quarter victory over Las Vegas.

3. Żubr Białystok
EFFG: 152 | OPP EFFG: 89.5
While they're LIGHTS OUT ahead of everyone else in EFFG, their OPP EFFG ranking of 5th ends up just barely screwing them over from being at the top of these rankings after week one. Even though Holley scored 57 points on them in game one, they exploded for an extremely efficient game, hitting the 165 mark. They followed that with a 139 EFF(ort) enroute handling Super Sonics. I'm looking forward to seeing whitestok's continued development of his crew.

4. BKDogs
EFFG: 138 | OPP EFFG: 107
Manager Wisdom must've read my preseason rankings with fury after forcing The Beer Bellys to submit in the second half of their first game. But they must've been so made they couldn't see straight because they started out their matchup with Mindless Zombies at a 13-point deficit before righting the ship and cruising the rest of the way, scoring the same number of points (94) in the final three quarters as the Zombies did in the whole game. Paredi has looked pretty good at the small forward position and Armonda appears to have been an apt pickup for their squad.

Week One Power Rankings - Part Three
5. Carolina Rebels
EFFG: 105.5 | OPP EFFG: 90
Daisy must always be pissed at me for what I write, but at least my Rebels beat them in game one before they turned up the heat against San Dominica for a 19-point victory on Tuesday night on TV. Early season maneuvering can wind up very important in the latter half as playoff pushes are being made.

6. Tasty Tardsicles
EFFG: 100 | OPP EFFG: 84
Tying in rank scores with #7, Tasty settled in at .500 after beating Miami on TV before traveling to the Keg for an upset loss to the drunkard Beer Bellys, losing by 6 after being up 4 at the end of the 3rd quarter. They were even up 83-81 in the last minute before Beer's Georgoulis hit a long three pointer and from there, we saw five fouls in 8 seconds of game time and the Bellys hit 5-6 from the charity stripe while Tasty's boys missed on four shots in the final 28 seconds.

7. Miami Cleo
EFFG: 97 | OPP EFFG: 82.5
It's probably irrational, but I really hate when teams botify, especially teams that have a good core together and have played the game for a long while. I guess packer_22 is a Supporter, so that might not happen as soon as I originally thought. But it will be just as lackluster with them not logging in and making lineup changes, etc. Although, maybe it's just because I'm 8-0 against them (including scrimmages)...that's probably it.

8. Philly Dribble
EFFG: 103.5 | OPP EFFG: 104
Phil_Wings struggled in their first game against San Dominica after a 12-point deficit in the 2nd quarter and they just couldn't catch back up, but then seemed to have taken out their frustrations against 209's in a 24-point trouncing where they never looked back after a first half difference of 25 points in which backup SG Sebastien Rigaux went 7-11 from three and 15-25 from the field enroute to 37 points in only 22 minutes. Straight fire.

9. Mindless Zombies
EFFG: 111.5 | OPP EFFG: 124.5
After their epic win on Saturday night, BKDogs smacked the Zombies around as previously mentioned. They've had a decent EFF total in both games and Hok Fung, Freeman, and Magajna are a good scoring trio for them. But you have to mark training up for some of their downfall, with Acevedo taking the backseat for 19-year-old Guilla to get his minutes in.

10. San Dominica Warriors
EFFG: 97 | OPP EFFG: 103
After what had to have felt like a good win, beating Philly with less enthusiasm, they traveled to Carolina and got pushed around for basically the whole game with the Rebels holding the Warriors to just average ratings for scoring, while out-rebounding them by 26 boards. It's a long season and I'm sure the Coach Stephenson's crew will be just fine as we roll along.

Week One Power Rankings - Part Four
11. 209's MostWanted
EFFG: 100 | OPP EFFG: 115.5
The only difference after two games this season of 209's showing from last is their EFF is significantly lower. Last season they were at 120 after two games and 133.5 after four...and yes, they're 1-1 and while they took out Las Vegas, Philly toyed with them like a cat with a mouse. While Renzo Raich had a nice bounce back night, hitting 10-14 from the floor to go along with his 11 rebounds, Ziółkowski hasn't looked quite like his self, especially after his scoring start to last season. But time will tell and perhaps heal all wounds.

12. Super Sonics
EFFG: 109 | OPP EFFG: 126
As already noted, my biggest surprise from Week One is zhouzhaoxu's 0-2 start, but their OPP EFFG does not look good through two games. Even if teams can be incredibly efficient, it's the teams with durable and great OPP EFF that tend to rise towards greatness. We'll give them a few more weeks before we start lighting things on fire, but for now, you've been warned. Yes, you, dear reader.

13. Las Vegas Silver Stars
EFFG: 83 | OPP EFFG: 96
Speaking of fires, Duam's press release after two games shows a shift in team culture...and this one is interesting - their OPP EFFG isn't TERRIBLE. But while it's not good, their own EFFG is not great. If I had the time, I'd love to dig into their 4th quarter efficiency ratings, but that's not happening. Currently two players are listed, Chappell and Quiroga for a combined $70k in salary (and hoping for a cool $800k in return money), which should help them in their pursuit of retooling...but will be enough with enough time left? Surely!

14. The Beer Bellys
EFFG: 96 | OPP EFFG: 118
After getting womped by the Dogs, they turned around and surprised the Turds. But the bad news is they gave up 147 efficiency to the Dogs...and yes, BK is going with a small line-up leaving less room for inconsistency, but they're going to need someone other than just Homs to consistently return 20+ in EFF. Georgoulis has been alright through two games, and his scoring has been helpful, but the team's rebounding and assists rank in the bottom quarter of the league. They've proven to be resourceful over the last few seasons, which buys them something, but is the Great 8 tough enough now that it will prove too much? #WaitToSee

15. FR-S
EFFG: 86.5 | OPP EFFG: 131.5
Facing off against Linndale and Lion Rebels to start the season probably wasn't fun, but it's probably not going to get much better for them. The only reason they're not ranked last here is because even though LionPride's Holley is a force to be reckoned with, there's no one else on that team to provide a boost and so FR-S nudges them to the basement. The good news is their own EFFG hasn't been god awful, so if they can set themselves up right, they may be able to sneak a win here or there.

16. LionPride
EFFG: 67.5 | OPP EFFG: 139.5
oriolekid's entire roster outside of Clement Holley only makes up 28% of what Holley makes. In their first game, they had an EFF of 81 with Holley making up 51 of that by himself. Game two wasn't as fun as he struggled a bit form the field and only had 18 EFF. Looks, at this point, like the tank is on, but I'll be interested to see what team ends up falling to Holley the Jolly Green Giant.

That is all for this week - good luck in the Cup and let's see what Week 2 brings us!

This is the best things I see here for a long time. I was watching the game live from 4th quarter thought it was ok. During the last min, I knew I was going to lose with turn over and somehow my center make the 3 and not my sg.

I am so not ready for D3 haha... Definitely need an overhaul of the roster.

Happy Ourer: “Okay gentlemen, we’re 2 games in. Pio Reina’s team is 2-0. They have a win by 22 in the opener, and a win by 13 Tuesday. The sample size is way too small, but we’re asking a question: what does Pio Reina hate about his team? Marshall, we’ll lead it off with you.

Marshall Richards: “The team’s shooting percentage and three point shooting. Rod Guyton is 9 of 30 and 1 of 9 from deep. Trenton Tovar is 6 for 23 and 1 of 8 from deep. Mantas Petriukstis has only made 1 of 7 shots in 2 games. The one he made was the only 3 pointer he took, but 3 of your top 4 guards are 15 of 60 overall and 3 of 18 from deep. That’s not gonna get it done.”

Air Allnite: “The bench. Tovar can’t shoot, Petriukstis won’t shoot, and Reese can’t shoot plus turns the ball over. Harrison Mann is, well, Harrison Mann. At some point you start to wonder if Linndale needs to look for a true power forward and move Garcaa to the bench to strengthen the second unit. Mann looks exactly like he did at the start of last season.

Happy Ourer: (sounding incredulous) “Is that it? No shots at Pio Reina, or management, or ownership? No lobbing insults at the young guys on the team or the rookies? Who are you, and what happened to Air Allnite?”

Marshall Richards: “It looks like Air Allnite, but that doesn’t sounds like the Air Allnite we’ve come to expect.”

Air Allnite: “I’m still the same guy. I still don’t like either of you, the organization, ownership, team management, the coach, or the players. I’m just gonna bide my time.”

Marshall Richards: “I think he doesn’t want to get served actual crow on camera again!”

Happy Ourer: “You were definitely wrong about everything last season. We’ll see how long you can hold fire before you break!”

Air Allnite: "They keep playing the way they play, you'll find out soon enough. I'm still telling you this team stinks. Everything about it stinks. Everything. Even you two."

Happy Ourer: "We'll hear more from our resident curmudgeon Air Allnite when we return from the commercial break!"

Day 3 (Saturday 27 May 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)
Sorry everyone - was on a long Memorial vacation - here's the update from Saturday!

Night results
FR-S 74 - San Dominica Warriors 121
Las Vegas Silver Stars 71 - Lion Rebels 103
Philly Dribble 102 - Linndale 97
Carolina Rebels 90 - 209’s MostWanted 102
Żubr Białystok 144 - BKDogs 121
Miami Cleo 81 - Super Sonics 106
The Beer Bellys 113 - LionPride 88
Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 107 - Tasty Tardsicles 95

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 144 : Żubr Białystok
Rebounds : 69 : San Dominica Warriors
Assists : 33 : San Dominica Warriors
Steals : 11 : Carolina Rebels
Block Shots : 13 : Super Sonics

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 53 : D. Santana (Miami Cleo)
Rebounds : 21 : K. Nádas (209’s MostWanted)
Assists : 11 : É. Blanchet (San Dominica Warriors)
Steals : 3 : R. Singh (Lion Rebels), G. Villegas (Las Vegas Silver Stars), P. Fasselli (Philly Dribble), T. Begley (Carolina Rebels), H. Espinosa (Carolina Rebels)
Block Shots : 7 : R. Mathews (Super Sonics)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : W. Acevedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (42 Points, 8 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Shooting Guard : M. Bobôšík (Żubr Białystok) (34 Points, 5 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Small Forward : I. Trapezanidis (FR-S) (34 Points, 10 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Power Forward : H. Espinosa (Carolina Rebels) (31 Points, 15 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 3 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37
Center : R. Sanz Garcáa (Linndale) (20 Points, 19 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 37

MVP of the evening
W. Acevedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (42 Points, 8 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44

The bad performance of the evening
Y. Chengbiao (Las Vegas Silver Stars) (3 Points, 0 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -11

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : D. Parent (Lion Rebels), K. Nádas (209’s MostWanted), G. Azheli (209’s MostWanted), P. Armonda (BKDogs) : 5 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : I. Trapezanidis (FR-S), N. Garbellini (FR-S), K. Knowles (Linndale), T. Plummer (Carolina Rebels), M. Grimm (Żubr Białystok), G. Bolcioni (BKDogs) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : S. Hollins (Lion Rebels), G. Locus (Miami Cleo), W. Acevedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : D. Santana (Miami Cleo), R. Pineda (LionPride) : 5 Three points

The best performer : C. Goldsmith (Super Sonics) : Rating : 17.5

The worst performer : A. Borden (LionPride) : Rating : 5.0

Get your area to about 20,000 seats. Much more than that you'll just have empty seats in the area🤦. If you can't fight for 5th or 6th get great draftee(s). That's my back up If I'm not competitive enough