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RS Round 2:
Friday, October 24th, 2025
BC Eos | 104 - 118 | Lielupes Melnās Sirdis
(136505488)

Well played by the much improved Lielupes Melnās Sirdis team, who outshooted me from the very first quarter. At no point of the game, my team was able to gain initiative, which was really frustrating (for me). After 2 losses this season already, it can only get better from here. So, a first Baltic derby loss for me. Congratz on the win, Monēta!

It's great to see you analyzing/writing something about your games, as that keeps things even more interesting, and creates interaction in the community... :) As far as wins go, wins won't escape from you for the whole season, as your team salary is very strong - but this was an interesting match between 2 teams who were clearly biggest salary winners from Season 2 to Season 3, as your salaries went up 57% and LMS's salaries 44,9% from the last season.

So both of you have improved so much... For example I won both of you on Season 2, but as far as salaries go, I'll be an underdog on both Season 3 matches. It's interesting how "team strengths" change in as short time as in 1 or 2 seasons. But it also gives me hope I guess, as my team will likely be in a downward slope in close future - maybe it won't take ages to bounce back.

Elan Demars - Suuret Muinaiset 95-78
(136508653)

Good win vs a good team, 3 wins / 0 loss since the begionning of HGL.
That one was a +17 win, showing that our team is a very versatile team (but has NO great power (outside or inside). In this game, I chose the right defense, despite my opponent chose the Aleluja Tactic (of mine !), but it didn't work as he shot 9/39 at 3 pts. The team worked rebound for several weeks and I start to see some enhancements, but we should keep on this training at least half the season.

Last edited by demars at 10/25/2025 4:46:19 AM

Elan Demars - Suuret Muinaiset 95-78
(136508653)

Good win vs a good team, 3 wins / 0 loss since the begionning of HGL.
That one was a +17 win, showing that our team is a very versatile team (but has NO great power (outside or inside). In this game, I chose the right defense, despite my opponent chose the Aleluja Tactic (of mine !), but it didn't work as he shot 9/39 at 3 pts. The team worked rebound for several weeks and I start to see some enhancements, but we should keep on this training at least half the season.

Very convincing win indeed demars, as Suuret Muinaiset definitely does have a high quality team also on this Season.
On Season 2 your game against SUM was tied after 3rd quarter but you were able to find a way to 10 point victory, but now that difference almost doubled (and difference was 18 points to your advantage before 4th quarter on this seasons' match yesterday).
Well, at least 3 of us HGL teams seem to be working on (training) rebounds currently/recently, as that's also been the main focus for me recently. Rebounding pop ups are kind of slow to occur, and once they do, they have potential to raise salaries quite a bit, but it's still so necessary skill that you'll regret it if you'll never train it!

Last edited by Wagner at 10/25/2025 6:57:27 AM

Nice comment :)

RS Round 1
Monday, October 20th, 2025: (136508484)
Suuret Muinaiset - Vilniaus „Vilkai“: 102 - 105

RS Round 2
Friday, October 24th, 2025: (136508653)
Suuret Muinaiset - Elan Demars: 78 - 95

Nice comment :)

Thanks Spela! 18 attempts from his opponents during last Season (including Playoffs) and already 2 attempts on this Season 3 - if his train remains on a track, he might be on a way to new HGL winning streak record(s; Regular Season record, and Regular Season and Playoffs combined-record), which Svätý Jur Snakers (Hadár) currently holds.

Last edited by Wagner at 10/26/2025 8:12:37 AM

In my opinion, this is only a fraction of the work you do for HGL :)

In my opinion, this is only a fraction of the work you do for HGL :)

Thank you for your friendly message Hadár - while it's not as much work as maintaining HGL, it is still highly appreciated, and I'm absolutely confident I'm not the only one who appreciates your work with stats. :)
(Without naming any persons, I actually happen to know there are some/many among us HGL managers who really like and appreciate stats).

Be it a little or big task that one decides to take on, all these kind of things make HGL little bit better, little bit more interesting, and share the workload a bit...
Your contribution is one good example, MrJ's help earlier on another one, and as a third example I could mention LennuK. who has also been helping with certain HGL stats/comparisons for couple of seasons, and has also promised to help in other HGL related tasks in the future.

As I said, for me community is for me one of the best things in HGL.
If I had the financial means, then I could even help (to some extent for) people to get together in actual HGL meets (as I proposed), but unfortunately that's where I have to draw a line, as financial restrictions step into the picture.
So we shall see if actual meetings can be arranged (cost, time, finding common time suitable for many simultaneously, etc) at some point(s)...

Please note that as Daylight Saving Time (DST; a.k.a. Summer Time) is not observed anymore in Europe (until next Spring), this likely affects HGL match times that you see in your BB schedule.

For me for instance, first two matches were played at 15.30 (3.30PM), but now for the rest of season matches start at 14.30.

If you have a habit of setting your rosters and tactics at the game day, please don't forget to do it earlier than usual.

(It is advisable though to set up your rosters and tactics well ahead of time anyway, but if you don't have a habit of visiting BB often, please don't set too little amount of players for HGL match lineups, so that you'd end up losing game by forfeit if for example 2 or 3 of your injured players would be set up in playing lineup without you noticing).

Last edited by Wagner at 10/26/2025 4:32:37 PM

Hello !

For me (France), games now start at 13h30 local time !

That's OK. Everything will be fine when the time changes in the country where the game server is located.