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After the 1st quarter…

Jimmy Buckitts: Coach, tough start to the game. What happened?

Pio Reina: We came out cold shooting and they guys had a case of the nerves. It took a while to settle down. That first quarter was rough. We just need to get a few stops and come back and make shots on the other end.

After the 2nd quarter…

JB: The offense came to life and the defense looked a little better. What needs to happen in the second half?

PR: The defense has to be better. We cannot afford another quarter like the first or we lose this game. So far, ball security on both sides is trash, but we’re doing solid on the boards. We’ve got to find that 3rd scorer because Frias and Stojakovic are carrying us. Losing Leao hurt in the second quarter; we’ll see if he’s able to come back. We just have to fight harder and get some stops.

[RANT] I have no idea why Frias, the starting point guard who was NOT injured did not see a minute of court time in the 3rd quarter, while Leao who was injured in the 2nd and shows as injured when the 3rd started played the entire quarter. Make s no freaking sense! [/END RANT]

After the 3rd:

JB: Coach, it seems the longer this goes, the better the defense gets, but where’s the offense coming from?

PR: The pace was more to our liking. Gotta convert those second chances. Somebody has to step up and score. We can’t win if we don’t score, and we need more stops.

[RANT 2.0] So even though Leao is in the red, I guess Frias is the one hurt. Don’t know how; Leao got hurt after a flagrant foul. This isn’t making sense at all and it’s frustrating. [/End rant]

Post game:

JB: Congratulations on an amazing win, Coach! What was the difference?

PR: As the game went on, our defense got better and better. I think the flagrant foul and injury just pissed off Leao, because he refused to come off the floor. We’re gonna talk to him about that, but he fought through whatever was bothering him and became a huge bother to John Valentin. It wasn’t pretty, but we knew it wouldn’t be. We knew we had the advantage with the bench and that proved correct, but Stojakovic brought us home. That team over there is a tough team, but we said we were better, we said we wanted this matchup, and we’ve been waiting for this one since that loss. Excuse me Jimmy, I gotta go yell at my point guards.

JB: Happy, that was Pio Reina after a very strange but wonderful win at the buzzer. Back to you and the guys in studio!

Glad to see I was LOUD WRONG on my guess and that I have NO IDEA how the MVP voting works.

Cheers!

Charles:
Ok here we are at the Daylis. Somehow they actually allowed us in. I’m Charles Sanborn, here with the Bret, Sam, Pete, and Double D himself. So Game 1 of the Finals. Big 8 2 seed Lion Rebels hosting the Great 8 top seed Tasty Tardsicles. DD get us started.

DD:
When we had the State of the Big 8 show, I said that this was the Lions Rebels year to pull it off. They took care of business against the Warriors, handled the Lover’s Club and now here they are in the Finals. I think they take Game 1 here at home. Put the Tardsicles on the rope for game 2 and force them to maybe play in a manner the Tards wouldn’t expect

Charles:
Sam?

Samantha:
We haven’t talked about the Tardsicles much this season. Look I know a lot of people think that this should be a Big 8 win just because of how top to bottom the Big 8 has been, but do not overlook this team. Noodles Wui Kong and the Dingle Conaghan are a dangerous duo. If they get hot and the Tardsicles are going to need them to get hot and I believe they will get hot. This game will be tougher than a lot of us are expecting it to be.

Bret:
Yeah, but who are you picking tonight?

Samantha:
Lion Rebels. Too much depth and I don’t think they have an answer for Armstead who I promise you will be out to wreck tonight.

Charles:
Pete?

Pete:
I’m going with the Tards. I think like Sam says Noodles and Dingle go on a tear. It’ll be close but I think the Tards pull the “Shocker” tonight.

Charles:
Bret?

Bret:
Usually when we talk about the Lions Rebel we usually talk about Montana Armstead or Dirty Brown. Put so far in these playoffs its been all about Sherwood Hollins. He has just been a menace to the opposition these last two games. I think Hollins continues his MVP caliber play anchor the Lion Rebels to the win.

Charles:
All right when we come back, a little more on this game and an explanation of why Hunt is not here with us. This is a special report of the Warrior’s Den here at Daylis.

I'm done here. Weakness: capital and guard play. Retool and come back stronger in a year or three

Joshua Doe: I'm here in a desolate Linndale locker room with Coach Pio Reina. Coach, this was a heartbreaker.

Pio Reina: These men fought. Their worked their butts off. They did everything we asked of them. We rebounded. We defended. We just couldn't get the shots to drop at the end. Most importantly, I dropped the ball. We didn't have an answer for Sciukas, and that was on me.

Byron Helm: Nah, man. Can't let you take that bullet. Who were you going to move to the bench? We didn't have the data to know if Stojakevic or Rongjing would handle coming off the bench.

Marshall Richards: Don't do this, Pio. You did not lose this game. Sometimes, everyone knows what's coming and you just gotta stop it. They knew what we were going to do and they stopped it just enough to escape.

Joshua Doe: Gentlemen, I have to ask---

Carlos Frias: No you don't. This ain't on Coach Reina. This is on us. He worked us and drilled us and helped us improve. He made us better, but we just didn't improve enough to get the win.

Joshua Doe: Outside shooting was a problem all season, and reared it's head tonight as well.

Air Allnite: Maybe you didn't watch the season. We focused a lot on the inside game because we recognized quickly the outside game isn't for us this season. It wasn't a dependable weapon. I promise you, if they keep me on staff, outside shooting will be a weapon. We will have more weapons offensively, and defensively... you already know.

Piotr Bolibok: Defense will be better. Passing will be better. Rebounding will be better.

Joshua Doe: Pio, will Air be back?

Pio Reina: No changes on the staff. We're gonna bring this group back, players and coaches. We're pissed off and we're gonna take it out on everyone we can. We'll see Jumpstop again down the road, and we will remember.

Joshua Doe: A somber mood in the locker room after a disappointing and deflating loss in the relegation series. Back to you in the studio, Happy.

Last edited by Speedtraps at 2/28/2024 9:27:33 AM

Thanks for the curse ;)

But hats off to spilly for a great game plan. Lights out!

Last edited by Baine at 2/28/2024 9:54:35 AM

game plan? GAME PLAN?

If you think the brain trust over here at Tasty HQ have some sort of plan...The only plan we have is eventually getting the entire tardsicle into our hole instead of around it. As you can see that aint going too well

Wow Mindless Zombies going to have lots of money by the end of this sale.

So that is how its going to be?

Sherwood "Shotwood" Hollins needs to change his name to Cheap Shot after the mauling that he gave to Stéphane "Vin" Bachelier. It was clear that he beat him like a redheaded stepchild. Is it just a coincidence that he is redheaded and Sherwood was heard saying "whose your daddy?" after the foul? Doubt it.

Everyone knows that no Frenchman would take a dive and try to sell a foul. And this rumor that his nickname is Vin because he has wine in his water bottle and was actually drunk for the game is outright slander.

Guy’s gotta do what a guy has to do on the road in the finals.

Guy’s gotta do what a guy has to do on the road in the finals.

I guess what this guy's team had to do one the road was to shit the bed in the second half...too many popsicles at halftime team mom!

Congrats on the spanking