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Round 1

Home or Road: Road
Opponent: Hillary Hornets(53074)
Manager: LeftHook
Representing: New Zealand
Country Rank: 1
World Rank: 46

(68541314)
Pszczyna Team: 92
Hillary Hornets: 75

damian starts off 1-0!

Game recap from Kumiko here: (251377.9)

Round 2

Home or Road: Home
Opponent: BC Hostivar(49466)
Manager: rwystyrk
Representing: Ceska Rep.
Country Rank: 28
World Rank: 1803

Quick Roster Look:

195k Guard Jiri Hurda(21235222)(Ceska Rep. NT)
152k Guard Pavel Dvorak(21235222)(Ceska Rep. NT)
78k Guard Frantisek Stovicek(19753145)
54k Guard Jaromir Matousek(14959803)
17k Guard Juraj Vanha(14058932)
65k Big Martin Chvapil(14959949)
41k Big Sibouyeh Soltani Nejadian(21370359)
26k Big Augusto Bramanti(14747036)

BC Hostivar is making their 20th Appearance at B3 after getting a lifelong spot with a B3 crown in Season 15. They have not been focused on B3 for a while though, not getting more than 4 wins in the group stage since Season 18. This year their team is good, but not B3 success good. Their two NT guards are without a doubt multiskilled, with Dvorak being 6'8" and listed as a PG. Pszczyna Team will have HCA and should knock out this BB legend.

Round 3

Home or Road: Road
Opponent: EricUnited
Manager: SGP_Eric
Representing: Singapore
Country Rank: 1
World Rank: 9

Quick Roster Look:

133k Guard Augusto Gomez(12268668)
112k Guard Dharmakeerti Kumar(14983993)(India NT)
34k Guard Istvan Szucs(18275405)
88k SF Gergely Szentmiklósi(16890634)
198k Big Nasser Tahrani(23424154)(Misr NT)
128k Big Simavi Duyu(10661893)
106k Big Trifonas Kazakos(16320706)
41k Big Yong Leng Jie(21391124)
34k Big Agis Afentakis(18032304)

This team has a good starting lineup and good depth and HCA. They are making their 13th appearance at B3 never making it passed the round of 32. This will be a tough task for Pszczyna. Guards are about equal, with maybe a slight edge to damian. SF is about equal and Bigs are in damians favour, slightly. Depth is in EricUniteds favour. Itll come down to enthusiasm and GS. Should be a fun one.

Last edited by Bballin at 1/3/2014 8:47:18 PM

Round 4

Home or Road: Home
Opponent: Deportivo Cali(40522)
Manager: dm-ko
Representing: Colombia
Country Rank: 2
World Rank: 131

Quick Roster Look:

197k Guard Frantisek Bem(18225843)
101k Guard Michael Lavoie(19249232)
91k Guard Jeremias Salvador(14851073)
13k Guard Massimo Reale(8079443)
11k Guard Luis Angelo Vasques(16490905)
88k SF Fabio Hurtado(24115910)
205k Big Mauricio Lowndes(12179188)(New Zealand NT)
195k Big Carlo Giotto(19459984)
11k Big Pablo Del Paramo(11866029)

Another tough matchup, but luckily Pszczyna is at home. Making their second B3 appearance after making the round of 32 last season Deportivo Cali ha a strong starting lineup, but lacks depth. That is where damians squad gets a huge advantage. This will be another tightly contested match, but I think damian pulls this one out.

Round 5

Home or Road: Home
Opponent: 猛牛
Manager: NT- 牛姐
Representing: China
Country Rank: 1
World Rank: 15

Quick Roster Look:

151k Guard Liu Mingliang(16508038)
119k Guard Aurel Bognar(17076913)
93k Guard Wu Ronghui(16507267)
42k Guard Bobby Cash(14600721)
247k Big Lin Yunging(19346301)
212k Big Joseph Smith(19246841)
96k Big Andre Aguiar(21097123)
49k Big Virgilio Natario(22823450)

Making their second appearance after being B3 runner ups last season the formidable Chinese squad looks to make another title run. This will be an extremely difficult game for damian that most likely will result in a loss.

Round 6

Home or Road: Road
Opponent: Ring of Fire(50631)
Manager: Urang Sumando
Representing: Indonesia
Country Rank: 9
World Rank: 1426

Quick Roster Look:

24k Guard Þormóður Davíðsson(14326959)
141k Big Rotem Blum(18065191)
137k Big Adi Sundana(22986055)
13k Big Hadi Surawi(20486069)

An easy win for damian unless this team makes some acquisitions during the season.

Round 7

Home or Road: Road
Opponent: 音速小強(209258)
Manager: 澎小強
Representing: Taiwan
Country Rank: 10
World Rank: 529

Quick Roster Look:

99k Guard Vaclav Rosenkranz(18226183)
92k Guard Muhittin Yersel(17843365)
85k Guard Aljaz Neumann(19912853)(Slovenija NT)
20k Guard Zachos Gravaris(19552165)
235k Big Angelo Filho(19614968)
130k Big Andrea Marbizza(13342747)
60k Big George Sharpe(13183796)

A solid lineup, however there is little, to no depth on this team and that is something that damian can take advantage of. A tough road game for sure.

Round 8

Home or Road: Home
Opponent: Hypernets(52995)
Manager: simas
Representing: Misr
Country Rank: 2
World Rank: 351

Quick Roster Look:

90k Guard Hana Habib Al-Rasheed(15029245)(Misr NT)
89k Guard Vladomir Stankovic(18190707)
76k Guard Ali Darwish(23462332)
63k Guard Osman Al-Rashid(23422308)
34k Guard Ababneh Yousif Tibi(29146294)
230k Big Wlaaeldin El-Osman(23461796)(Misr NT)
143k Big Anthansios Agapitos(22760300)
67k Big Yousif Salim(24271177)

A solid team, but damian has HCA and should be able to handle them with ease.

Last edited by Bballin at 12/31/2013 6:11:04 PM

Summary

Rounds 1,2,6,7,8 should all be wins. That's 5, to make the final 32, youll need at least a 6-2 record with good PD. There wont be any big PD padders for damian so he will need a 7-1 at least. Which means he will have to beat EricUnited and Deportivo Cali on the road cause beating the Chinese team will be almost impossible. If damian can make that SG pickup he is looking for, then I like his chances to go 7-1, if not, it will be probably be a 5-3 season or worse if he packs it in after a couple losses early.

Stats

1-0, PD of 17, Ranked 48th.

Top Scorers
1. Krovsas - 32 points
2. Krejci - 20 points
3. Farley - 16 points

Top Rebounders
1. Krovsas - 13 Rebounds
1. Farley - 13 Rebounds
3. Krejci - 10 Rebounds

Top Assists
1. Jakes - 8 Assists
2. Krovsas - 4 Assists
3. Barbiroli - 3 Assists

Last edited by Bballin at 1/3/2014 8:52:10 PM

Yep, pretty much what I expected. EricUnited and Deportivo Cali will be games of the season and I dont like my chances there. Really need a great SG before next friday so I can work on his GS and preferably Canadian because anything over 100k will push me into the tax so merch bonus will be welcome.

Pretty bad draw for the first time and required 7-1 record leaves absolutely no room for error, being with injuries, GS, or GDP. I will be actively looking for help from Canadian community, hopefully during league game chats

16 minutes into the game: 21 FTA for the opponent, ejection for two flagrant fouls for Arsenault. Up 5 :D

Wow, that's a pretty brutal start... Good win though, congrats.

GISBORNE, New Zealand (AP) -- B3 Season Opens With Canadian Victory

Andrius Krovšas poured in 32 points leading Pszczyna Team past the Hillary Hornets 92-75 on New Year's Day.

Krovšas, the Lithuanian international, who was one of three Pszczyna players to post a double double, was 14 of 28 from the field.

Quentin Jakes filled up his stat lines with 6 points, 6 rebounds, and 8 assists.

Edu Álvarez led the Hornets with 15 points and 11 rebounds, also absorbing two Duncan Arsenault flagrant fouls en route to his ejection. Alexandre Barrès had 17 points, many of which in the fourth quarter after the outcome had already been decided.

Pszczyna out-rebounded the Hornets 54-32 in a rowdy match, fouling 22 times and putting the home side into the bonus in the first three quarters. Starting center Paul Coffey Farley battled foul trouble throughout the game, but was able to see the end of the game.

Krovšas started the run in the 3rd quarter that put away the game. A 3-pointer with 5:43 left put Pszczyna Team up by double digits for the first time in the game. After a three second violation, a Stanislav Krejčí jumper, a Placido Barbiroli steal, and a Farley jumper, the Canadian squad could finally exhale.

Barbiroli struggled early with turnovers, but in the second half made up for it with a handful of steals.

The Hornets kept the game relatively close for the first 24 minutes, routinely trailing by around 5 points, and narrowing the gap to just 1 by the halftime buzzer.

NOTES: Pszczyna leads the B3 with least vowels per team name. ... Attendance was a strong 19184 on Turban giveaway night, in honor of Hornets center Cyril Turban. He had 4 rebounds and 4 fouls in 11 minutes. ... Pszczyna Team manager damian13ster immediately hopped on a sailboat after game time in hopes of making it back to Canada for the Lawrence Park Panther game this evening.

Last edited by Kumiko (CAN U21) at 1/1/2014 11:01:11 AM

16 minutes into the game: 21 FTA for the opponent, ejection for two flagrant fouls for Arsenault.

Jesus.

After a close league game with Quebec Pugs that ended with good result, team morale went through the roof. The game ended at 6:30pm so after checking a schedule and seeing that BBB matchup starts at midnight it was clear that something has to be done regarding transportation. After a couple of phone calls, manager of Pszczyna Team found himself working 3 hours, trying to somehow squeeze in 208cm Duncan Arsenault into the trunk of DeLorean with 7ft+ Krovsas already in there and rest of the team role-playing sardines in front of the car. No better way to spend new year's eve, is there? Luckily at 11:20pm team was somehow packed and that left enough time not only to get to New Zealand for the game, but to try local cuisine beforehand.
After the game started entire team somehow turned into a soft version of Hulk (what do they put in the food over there?)- smashing everything that moves without actually causing any harm. Arsenault was probably still annoyed that he had to share the space in the trunk and got himself ejected after kicking one opponent below the belt, and doing the same to referee two minutes later after another call went opponent's way. Rest of the game he was the loudest cheerleader in the building (he also claimed to have the best hairstyle among them). After overcoming the shock of hearing whistle for breathing to hard, the team decided to oppose free throws with dunks and somehow managed to hold 1 point lead at halftime.

In those much needed 15 minutes, local food was ejected from organisms (I will spare the details, it wasnt pretty) and team came out flying in 3rd quarter. Rallied by Bradshaw, Krejci and Krovsas, Pszczyna Team went on 22-8 run allowing them some room to breather. Host's didnt give up yet and cut the lead a bit, but they werent able to make a comeback with Krovsas hitting clutch shots including a long three. With final result of 92-75, damian13ster allowed team to celebrate new year's and beating Hillary Hornets. Unfortunately in a drunken stupor (don't judge) the team decided to check out 猛牛's game. They managed to pack into the DeLorean (Arsenault was much more cooperative when drunk-note for the future) and went to China. After seeing their opponents in action and post-game ratings, Pszczyna Team tried to kill their fear with even more alcohol.


9am, somewhere in China:
Bad news, we ran out of radioactive material. Apparently alcohol+time machine+nuclear materials is not a good mix. No idea how we are going to get back to Canada to check out LPP crushing their opponents, or even to thursday's cup game. Team went to the black market in search of Uranium. It turned out to be fruitless and Andrius Krovsas came back offended and crying that locals were running away from him (I don't get it, just look at this lovely face). We will keep you posted on our trip back from here.

3:51pm, still stuck in middle of nowhere.

Found an airport but for the lack of funds only Girardeu, Diffley, Ferguson and Castellano were able to buy ticket. Damian13ster decided to skip lunch and hide in Castellano's hand luggage to make it to the game. Looks like those 4 players will make it to tommorow's game. Rest of the team is trying to smuggle themselves on a ship, and ticket money is most likely going to be used to purchase another player.

P.S. For the first time in history, Pszczyna Team is ranked number 1 in the country (until today's game)!!!

Also, did further scouting. (1-0 so far), prediction in brackets)

EricUnited already played two normals in league games. Hard to believe that he is ranked so high without understanding the game so I assume there are other reasons, but nevertheless, I should have some enthusiasm advantage and might be able to beat him even on the road if other things go my way. With HCA they have slight advantage but if they keep playing normal in league games it might be dead even. (Close game)

Hostivar played patient in all his games so I might or might not tweak something in def. assignemnts (or just hope that he cant win a game with one player taking all the shots and play in usual way). Am a favourite here. (Win)

音速小強 completely chocked in their BBB game losing 4th quarter 23 to 5 and losing the game 84-80. Got GDP completely wrong and was beat by team weaker than mine on the road. With HCA they will be extremely dangerous though especially since they got great ratings even with Marbizza (130k PF) is injured. 2 week injury so he will be healed for the game with me, hopefully with bad GS though. Slovenia's NT SF got me worried. Playing LI and having HCA they are also favourites in the game against me. Looks like so far they played 2x TIE so no enth advantage here. Need to pull off an upset.
(Slight disadvantege) Note to self: 17/5/18/17/19/12 - 19/11/9/8 - 4/7 EXP: 6

Hypernets: Luckily play them at home since they are pretty strong team and in easy league so max enth for them. Should win this one if no injuries. (Should win)

Ring of fire: Sold most of the team in December, without getting much money in return. Doesnt look like they will be much of a threat since I dont see a reason why they would suddenly want to upgrade the roster (although playing them late in the season can't say for sure that they won't do that). so far 2x TIE (Win)

猛牛 : (loss) not much to add here. Sucks its a home game. Would love it to be away and one of EricUnivted or 音速小強 be at home.


Deportivo Cali: League: 1 normal, 1 TIE. Can go both outside and inside. Expensive roster, 6-7 man deep. Hopefully their 33 yo C starts declining before our match. Very hard to predict what they will do so I will just play to my team's strength. With HCA and hopefully enth. advantage it should be a close game with my team having an edge (slight advantage)





Summary: 1 loss, 3 wins (plus 1 already won), 1 close game with me having an edge, 1 close game, and 1 upset needed.
Chances arent very high of going 7-1 but I will do my best and go all in. Expiry date for my team is nearing so might as well try my best this and the following season.






Last edited by damian13ster at 1/1/2014 9:30:34 PM

not the PD I wanted (looks like GDP boosts defence significantly. couldnt make a dunk or layup, and took entire shotclock for majority of plays) but W is a W.
also, really like the ratings. Time to see what outside offence I can pull off. anybody has advice for next week? It will be a make (well, still have a chance) or break kind of game