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Happy Ourer: “Well, it was a hard fought battle, but in the end Linndale wasn’t able to pull it out, falling to 209’s MostWanted 120 to 116. Coach Pio Reina joins us live. Coach, tough loss tonight.”

Pio Reina: “It was a very tough loss. The team battled. We went back to a Linndale staple of the last few seasons, the motion offense. The results were not what we would have liked, but the effort was. The turnovers were kept in control, and that’s a feather in the cap of Air Allnite. I didn’t like the way the whistles went against us, and I hate the fact that we lost the rebounding battle, but we took steps today. We don’t think we’re that far off.”

HO: “Coach, was there any clarity gained at point guard tonight?”

PR: “Farley had a nice game tonight. Cerri was incredible in his minutes. I don’t know that we have any clarity quite yet, but we’re getting there. I’d say Cerri still is the frontrunner, but Farley made sure this was still a competition.”

HO: “How about at small forward? What did Hatfield and Reynolds do to clarify that position?”

PR: “Reynolds had his best game of the season. We want him to build on that. Hatfield got some needed experience at small forward. He didn’t do badly, he’ll get better. Even if the experiment doesn’t work, it will help him long term. That, in turn, will help the team. Clarity is still a ways off, though.”

HO: “The bench tonight was very productive.”

PR: “Well, with a shortened roster, guys have to show up and get to work. Tonight, they did. We have a few things to look at, so the grouping off the bench will be fluid. Bench production is a thing we’ve been trying to locate for some time, but the Cerri-Reynolds-Pemweiser trio looked solid tonight. Petriukstis was solid with that group, but we need a bit more from him.”

HO: “Even with a short roster, Rich McCain didn’t make it into the game. Where does he stand?”

PR: “Rich has a long way to go. He knows it; we’ve talked about it. He knows where he stands; we’ll see what happens with his development.”

HO: “Thanks, Coach. That was Pio Reina after a tough 120-116 loss at home to 209’s MostWanted. We’ll be back with more after the break.”

Day 20 (Saturday 4 November 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Las Vegas High Rollers 107 - Philly Dribble 112
209’s MostWanted 120 - Linndale 116
Lion Rebels 79 - F.Day Internet Lovers Club 88
San Dominica Warriors 71 - southpaw army 113
Miami Cleo 49 - Twotone Touloose 140
Super Sonics 103 - Tasty Tardsicles 112
VileOnes 152 - Żubr Białystok 32
Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 107 - Fort Wayne Pistons 106

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 152 : VileOnes
Rebounds : 69 : Twotone Touloose
Assists : 46 : Twotone Touloose, VileOnes
Steals : 22 : VileOnes
Block Shots : 18 : VileOnes

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 36 : M. Kelly (Las Vegas High Rollers)
Rebounds : 22 : M. Coedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️)
Assists : 12 : J. Bover (VileOnes)
Steals : 5 : A. Messineo (VileOnes), K. Ramazan (VileOnes)
Block Shots : 5 : J. García de la Vega (VileOnes)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : G. Kirilovs (Twotone Touloose) (22 Points, 11 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 3 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Shooting Guard : T. Rumin (209’s MostWanted) (29 Points, 7 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 28
Small Forward : J. Bover (VileOnes) (21 Points, 6 Rebounds, 12 Assists, 4 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 36
Power Forward : M. Coedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (26 Points, 22 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 40
Center : G. Cinovskis (VileOnes) (28 Points, 15 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 46

MVP of the evening
G. Cinovskis (VileOnes) (28 Points, 15 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 46

The bad performance of the evening
J. Gobl (Miami Cleo) (3 Points, 6 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -12

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : K. Nádas (209’s MostWanted), C. Tharp (Żubr Białystok), H. Gandy (Żubr Białystok) : 8 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : J. MacNeur (Linndale), D. Hatfield (Linndale), P. Farley (Linndale), J. García de la Vega (VileOnes), C. Tharp (Żubr Białystok), M. Swenson (Żubr Białystok) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : L. Melucci (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), M. Swenson (Żubr Białystok), H. Gandy (Żubr Białystok), T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), W. Acevedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : S. Rigaux (Philly Dribble), Ó. de la Orden Ibáñez (Philly Dribble), T. Tovar (Linndale) : 5 Three points

The best performer : D. Branimirović (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), S. Kunyan (southpaw army), N. de Moraes (southpaw army) : Rating : 18.0

The worst performer : P. Rivard (Miami Cleo) : Rating : 0.5

Don’t like the double OT game and effing up both our GS!

Yeah, especially as I wasn't expecting to be competitive! At least it was an entertaining one, I guess?

Day 21 (Tuesday 7 November 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Linndale 104 - Las Vegas High Rollers 97
Philly Dribble 87 - 209’s MostWanted 105
southpaw army 130 - Lion Rebels 124
F.Day Internet Lovers Club 59 - San Dominica Warriors 76
Tasty Tardsicles 141 - Miami Cleo 40
Twotone Touloose 70 - Super Sonics 96
Fort Wayne Pistons 102 - VileOnes 125
Żubr Białystok 31 - Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 148

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 148 : Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️
Rebounds : 81 : Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️
Assists : 51 : Tasty Tardsicles
Steals : 13 : Las Vegas High Rollers
Block Shots : 16 : Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 54 : N. de Moraes (southpaw army)
Rebounds : 20 : J. García de la Vega (VileOnes)
Assists : 18 : G. Solórzano (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️)
Steals : 5 : A. Norman (Las Vegas High Rollers)
Block Shots : 6 : D. Branimirović (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), M. Jimenez (Tasty Tardsicles)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : G. Solórzano (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (21 Points, 9 Rebounds, 18 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Shooting Guard : S. Brinkman (VileOnes) (37 Points, 10 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Small Forward : L. Ma Ying (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) (26 Points, 14 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 1 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41
Power Forward : A. Nikitinas (Tasty Tardsicles) (20 Points, 15 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41
Center : M. Jimenez (Tasty Tardsicles) (28 Points, 14 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 6 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 46

MVP of the evening
M. Jimenez (Tasty Tardsicles) (28 Points, 14 Rebounds, 3 Assists, 0 Steals, 6 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 46

The bad performance of the evening
C. Crosby (Żubr Białystok) (4 Points, 2 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : -13

Triple-Double of the evening
A. Nikitinas (Tasty Tardsicles) (20 Points, 15 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 1 Steals, 2 Block Shots)

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : M. Wheelan (Miami Cleo) : 6 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : R. Sedonio (Lion Rebels), S. Hollins (Lion Rebels) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : N. de Moraes (southpaw army) : 54 Minutes

The shooter : N. de Moraes (southpaw army) : 7 Three points

The best performer : M. Coedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : Rating : 19.0

The worst performer : P. Rivard (Miami Cleo) : Rating : 0.5

Tough loss last night, man. I caught the end when you were still within four. Good run though!

Thanks. Me and that team were the best teams left and based on ratings I'm a little surprised I lost.

Brutal week overall... we went double OT so the minutes were already messed up, I lose that game, then I got busy and didn't set my scrimmage lineup so minutes got REALLY messed up.

Hell of a way to go into the postseason. Sheesh.

You're still winning out because you dominate a division 3 league and will auto promotion. Money strategy was brilliant but probably should have switched up the looks to see what you're capable of since they changed the game engine. I'm guessing but your team has high defense and passing with mild shooting(16+being the lowest possible)with that SF as a glue guy capable of running all positions. Hell 5 players in the A, A+ category is wild and you did it all season(salaries rank from 100k to 58k. Yes, I'm assuming McNair is top tier as he was the highest salary guard for U-21 last year and only got bested by a center overall.) You literally played two ways all season and bust everybody's asses.

Last edited by Dee-Jay-Tee31 at 11/11/2023 12:47:59 AM

Haha. Thanks for the encouragement. That post wasn’t a woe is me… just a tough week in the grand scheme of a successful season. 😀

Day 22 (Saturday 11 November 2023) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Las Vegas High Rollers 110 - 209’s MostWanted 119
Philly Dribble 89 - Linndale 111
Lion Rebels 107 - San Dominica Warriors 87
F.Day Internet Lovers Club 70 - southpaw army 87
Miami Cleo 42 - Super Sonics 134
Twotone Touloose 25 - Tasty Tardsicles 100
VileOnes 102 - Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️ 87
Żubr Białystok 67 - Fort Wayne Pistons 168

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 168 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Rebounds : 65 : Super Sonics, Tasty Tardsicles
Assists : 61 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Steals : 19 : Fort Wayne Pistons
Block Shots : 20 : Fort Wayne Pistons

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 41 : D. Conaghan (Tasty Tardsicles)
Rebounds : 24 : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels)
Assists : 16 : S. Aranda (Fort Wayne Pistons)
Steals : 5 : D. Hatfield (Linndale)
Block Shots : 6 : D. Branimirović (F.Day Internet Lovers Club)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : A. Ziółkowski (209’s MostWanted) (18 Points, 5 Rebounds, 10 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots), M. Craig (Super Sonics) (16 Points, 3 Rebounds, 11 Assists, 0 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 29
Shooting Guard : S. Aranda (Fort Wayne Pistons) (19 Points, 4 Rebounds, 16 Assists, 2 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 39
Small Forward : U. Jaén (Fort Wayne Pistons) (25 Points, 8 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 3 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44
Power Forward : M. Watkins (Lion Rebels) (24 Points, 15 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots), R. Larson (Fort Wayne Pistons) (19 Points, 7 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 2 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 31
Center : T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) (30 Points, 24 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44

MVP of the evening
T. Armstead (Lion Rebels) (30 Points, 24 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots), U. Jaén (Fort Wayne Pistons) (25 Points, 8 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 3 Steals, 3 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 44

The bad performance of the evening
M. Wheelan (Miami Cleo) (4 Points, 3 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots), : Efficiency : -8

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : C. Tharp (Żubr Białystok), H. Gandy (Żubr Białystok) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : A. Chahmout (Las Vegas High Rollers), A. Norman (Las Vegas High Rollers), L. Baião (San Dominica Warriors), R. Singh (Lion Rebels), S. Kunyan (southpaw army), D. Boyce (Super Sonics), Á. Maradona (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), M. Coedo (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️) : 5 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : D. Branimirović (F.Day Internet Lovers Club), E. Dickens (Tasty Tardsicles), T. Freeman (Mindless Zombies 🧟‍♀️), J. Bover (VileOnes), W. Bonner (Żubr Białystok) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : G. Azheli (209’s MostWanted), D. Conaghan (Tasty Tardsicles) : 6 Three points

The best performer : M. Craig (Super Sonics) : Rating : 18.5

The worst performer : P. Rivard (Miami Cleo) : Rating : 0.5

Final Season 62 Power Rankings
Been a bit of a struggle to put these together over the last course of the season here, but I'm going to try and finish this season out well. Not only will we have the final power rankings of the season, but I will be including bits of highlight-worthy information for each team from the season.

For these final rankings, I thought it would be fun to look back at where each team was ranked after the first week of the season - that number is in parenthesis.

1. southpaw army (2)
Finishing the season at the top of both categories, they complete their undefeated season with an 83.1 difference in efficiencies, far and away the leader of the pack. While they finished at or near the top of nearly every offensive category this season, one fact sticks out that is stymying: while the league averaged making 71.9% of their free throws, southpaw's opponents averaged making 77.3% of their free throws while playing against them.
southpaw's MVP: Nivaldo de Moraes takes home this honor with a league leading 17.2 average rating to go along with a top 8 efficiency rating of 22.5 while shooting over 56% from the field, including 51.5% from three on over 100 three-pointers. The 25-year-old Brazilian also finishes the season as the 49th ranked player in the entirety of the USA leagues.

2. Tasty Tardsicles (7)
While Tasty spent a few weeks at the top of these power rankings, they finish out at 2nd to go along with their first place Great 8 finish, beating out Super Sonics by one game, but also a healthy 100+ point differential over them as well (thanks in part to their 75-point defeat of Twotone on Saturday night). Tasty's fun fact of the season is that they allowed the fewest total rebounds per game of any other team with 39 boards.
Tasty's MVP: While he didn't manage to break into the top 20 players in terms of efficiency, Chik Wui Kwong ranks fourth at average rating at 16.2. Chick led not only our league in FT%, but also all of USA Division III and ranked third overall in all of the US in FT%.

3. Super Sonics (3)
Finishing out where they started the season, Super Sonics land at third in these rankings after finishing second in the Great 8. Super, too, finished out on a high note, with a dominating 92-point victory over the botified Cleo Clan, where they roll into a round one matchup playing host to Mindless, whom they split the season series with, beating them by 10 at home to start the season and then losing on the road by 14 a few weeks ago.
Super Sonics' MVP: Chas Goldsmith, who had an average rating of 16.3 (3rd overall) and an average efficiency 24.3 (good for 7th). The 29-year-old Utopian led the league in FG% (58.7%) and ranks #19 in USA Div III in REB/48 min.

4. Lion Rebels (1)
You can call it faltering, as my Rebels dropped 11.1 points in EFFG from the first week of the season to finish 6th in that category, but gained 5.8 points in OPP EFFG, to finish 4th, leaving my squad at 4th overall. The good Great 8 squads took it to me, as I lost three of the final top 4 seeded matchups against the Great 8, so these rankings seemed to have played out appropriately on that level (F. Day might have stronger feelings about that).
Long Time Lion Rebels' MVP: Terry Armstead. This may be his final year - we'll have to see how much his skills decline over the course of this next season, but I'll reveal, only three skill drops in this season. He is 2nd in rating (16.8) and first in efficiency (31.4). Statistically, he may have had his best season in 5 or 6 seasons. But 35, I'm sure, will hit him sharply, and I'm (obviously) hoping to rely on the combo of Kurt Brown and Mario Watkins to keep us up and running while I finish out my latest training regimen.