BuzzerBeater Forums

Game 5 – Slam! 105 defeat Guanzheng Goldfish 84

Nearly 15000 fans travelled to see this battle between the Run and Gun of the Goldfish against the Look Inside of Slam!. In the end, it was a walk in the Concrete Jungle for Slam!, with Delgadillo, Luszcynski and Muresan absolutely dominating under the basket; while the Goldfish failed to live up to their potential from the perimeter. Besides, it is difficult to win a match when two of your starters foul out and you give your opponents 41 free throw attempts.

Votes
3 – Calixto Delgadillo (Slam!) 37pts, 10rbds
2 – Jakub Luszcynski (Slam!) 28pts, 14rbds, 3stls
1 – Virgil Wang (Guanzheng Goldfish) 21pts, 4asts, 3stls

Hard to look past the 37pts of Delgadillo; even if he did foul out, he played 42mins and saw his starting opponent fouled out in only 21mins. Luszcynski had an outstanding game for such an old-timer and deserves the 2 points for not having a heart-attack. The one thing that the Goldfish can take out of this game is the performance of their Wang *cue childish snigger*. Slam’s starting PG could not keep his hands off Wang *cue more childish sniggering* and spent most of the game instead sitting on the bench watch Wang going hard *cue even more childish sniggering* for 21pts.

Game 6 – Urmummas 89 defeat Team Akuma 62

The final game of the round saw the much anticipated return of possibly the Fishbowl’s biggest legend, Ky “The Fat Cat” Smeltz. While he did not set the court alight, it was a solid performance from the man that at one point had the MVP trophy named after him. It was however still a night for the big men, as current Australian National Team player Sun Cunming, led what is the most expensive roster in the ABBL to an opening night win. TeamAkuma’s Aussie shooters of Abimbola and Maclean were just not able to make enough from beyond the arc to trouble this very talented Urmummas team.

Votes
3 – Sun Cunming (Urmummas) 30pts, 10rbds, 4blks
2 – Clinton Abimbola (TeamAkuma) 28pts, 6asts
1 – Dennis Totengco (Urmummas) 12pts, 17asts, 5-7FG

Sun Cunming put in what was probably the best performance for the round, and leaps to the top of the MVP favourites race. 30pts, 10rbds and 4blks in only 27mins…Will anyone be able to stop him? Again, it is another Australian scoring MVP points, with Clinton Abimbola grabbing the two with a great performace. It somehow feels wrong to do it, but it is Smeltz’s direct opponent, Dennis Totengco getting the single vote, playing a solid second fiddle to the outstanding Cunming.



Last edited by robhoe at 9/2/2012 12:43:43 AM

Fishbowl West Season 9 MVP Voting Tally

3 Votes
Alexey Berestetskiy (Chumunga)
Sun Cunming (Urmummas)
Calixto Dalgadillo (Slam!)
Shaun McArthur (Black Label Society)
Marcelo Rodriguez (Moorditj Magick)
Jose Gabriel Tesone (Baxter Bogans)

2 Votes
Clinton Abimbola (Team Akuma)
Tyler Hare (Koopasaurus)
Gary Howorth (Black Label Society)
Olli Krentschker (Chelsea Seagulls)
Jakub Luszcynski (Slam!)
Birol Yalduz (Lewisham Wombats)

1 Vote
Jackson Goodall (Lewisham Wombats)
Roman Muggleton (Western Titans)
Daniil Propokov (Baxter Bogans)
Glen Tidwell (Chumunga)
Dennis Totengco (Urmummas)
Virgil Wang (Guanzheng Goldfish)

Week Voting done, and as always it is great to see so many Aussie players appearing amongst the votes, with two current members of the Australian National Team securing the top votes in their games. Stay tuned for Week Two's votes.

Brilliant work Rob, excellent writeups that capture everything we like, indepth analysis, funny and still a little controversy. Awesome ^-.

Great work, mate. +1

MVP Votings Week 2

Game 1 – Lewisham Wombats 91 defeat Western TItans 76

Once again, The Fishbowl West kicked off with the highest ranked team in the competition taking to the court, again, against a Calamari from II.4 and, again, securing a comfortable win. Bento Filho made his return, but was clearly underprepared to take on the Season 20 ABBL MVP, with the wide-eyed Wombats Euro-Bigs making use of the Look Inside tactics of mllama http://blogs.abc.net.au/catalyst/images/2009/01/21/pic33....

Votes
3 – Antonio Manfrotto (Lewisham Wombats) 30pts, 15rbds, 3blks
2 – Hahi Bin Awang (Lewisham Wombats) 12pts, 7asts, 5stls
1 – Marino Gaggini (Western Titans) 16pts, 11rbds, 3asts

Manfrotto was THE man on the court and the easy choice for the 3 votes. The great all-round performance from Hahi Bin Awang sees him secure the two votes, with Marino Gaggini picking up the single vote for his solid performance against last week’s vote getter Birol Yalduz.

Game 2 – Koopasaurus 112 defeat Black Label Society 97

While the Wombats were busy giving a lesson to the Western Titans, Lewi Arena played host to a classic battle between an inside team and an outside team. It was Koopasaurus who came out of the blocks with the greater intensity, with the big man rotation sharing the load wonderfully. With a 13pt lead at the end of the first period, Koopasaurus consolidated in the 2nd extending the lead. A token fightback was led by Gary Howorth in the 4th period, but it was just too late. Strike one blow for Inside teams!

Votes
3 – Avner Fishenzon (Koopasaurus) 24pts, 14rbds, 7asts, 12-16FG
2 – Mohammed Syamsuri bin Mat Noor (Koopasaurus) 17pts, 12rbds
1 – Gary Howorth (Black Label Society) 33pts, 5-11 3FG

All this talk about supertrawlers and fishing zones this week was obviously started by the performance of Avner Fishenzon. No troubles for the big Israeli in this game. You name a positive contribution and he did it. It wouldn’t be a Fishbowl vote without a ranga or two picking up votes, and there is just something I love about a C/PF who can draw a foul, so 2 votes to the man with the long name. Howorth top scored, with some good outside shooting, but he made his biggest showing in what was essentially junk time.



Last edited by robhoe at 9/11/2012 6:44:07 AM

As you've still got a few games to go in round 2 to do, I'm happy to help out and do the writeups for round 3 if noone else wants to.

Nice writeups so far by the way. Good to see my main man Manfrotto getting some love ;)

Game 3 – Urmummas 121 defeat Baxter Bogans 96

The delay this week was all about trying to come up with a Urmummas joke that would successfully tie in this outclassing of the Bogans, but…nothing came to mind so if anyone would like to fill in this depressing gap please do.

INSERT UR MUMMA JOKE HERE

In this game, the Bogans only won in the offensive rebounds stat, but let’s face it, with Urmummas shooting at almost 60% from the field you don’t get a lot of chances to clean that offensive board. The Bogans gave themselves every chance of winning; setting up a 2-3 zone to try and shut down the Look Inside offense of Urmummas. However, there were just too many options for Urmummas who finished the game with seven players reaching double figure points.

Votes
3 – Davis Mercado (Baxter Bogans) 36pts, 5asts
2 – Jaak Vahi (Urmummas) 21pts, 7asts, 5-6FG, 10-11FT
1 – Dennis Totengco (Urmummas) 18pts, 8rbds, 8-11FG

Again, the most valuable player was not from the winning team. Davis Mercado was his team’s star, and this game would have looked even worse if it was not for his game high performance. With the way Urmummas shared the ball around all nigh tit made it difficult to have a stand out and to then split the players. Vahi gets the 2 votes. He had the ball on a string and was unstoppable on the drive. Totengco gets the 1 vote for his power-filled first period performance, leading his team to a 13pts 1st quarter lead.

Game 4 – Chumunga 123 defeat TeamAkuma 75

TeamAkuma and Chumunga travelled west for this game, and the whole thing was fast and furious. TeamAkuma went out to bomb it from behind the arc, putting up 34 3FG attempts; while Chumunga was about fast passing and running the court. These strategies saw Chumunga absolutely out-muscling the boys from TeamAkuma. Not much to say on this one really.

Votes
3 – Nigel Cubby (Chumunga) 27pts, 21rbds
2 – Francis Masters (Chumunga) 29pts, 9asts, 4stls
1 – Clinton Abimbola (TeamAkuma) 28pts, 6asts

There was only one team out on the court that could get a rebound and Nigel Cubby led the way…3 votes for the Pom. Francis Masters out-played TeamAkuma at their own game…2 votes for the Yank. For the second week, Clinton Abimbola was the sole player flying the TeamAkuma flag…1 vote for Aussie.

Game 5 – Chelsea Seagulls 85 defeat Slam ! 84

After two blow-out games, we then travel to the Stronghold for what may be the game of the round. The bigs banged it out all night, with the brutes bustling and bruising to the entertainment of all. Slam ! got off to a good start. Led by Luszcynski, Slam ! was up by four after the first period. Neither team could make a real in-road in the second period, before a Lawrance-led Seagulls managed to pull a single point ahead at the end of the third period. The game opened up in the fourth, with 52 pts being added to the scoreboard, but with both teams contributing 26pts to this total the one point three quarter lead of the Seagulls was enough to give them the win.

Votes
3 – Gary Lawrance (Chelsea Seagulls) 31pts, 17rbds
2 – Olli Krentschker (Chelsea Seagulls) 23pts, 11rbds
1 – Razvan Muresan (Slam !) 21pts, 19rbds

Australian national team PF, Gary Lawrance wins the battle of the keyways, which is not surprising considering he looks like a mob enforcer. Krentschker and Muresan were hugely entertaining, and these votes could have gone either way, until…

4 0:18 85 — 84 O. Krentschker (A) fires an off-balance jumper from the wing under pressure from C. Delgadillo (H). Scored.
4 0:02 85 — 84 R. Muresan (H) glides to the hoop and tries to finish off the glass with O. Krentschker (A) right in his face. Shot missed.

4 0:02 85 — 84 R. Muresan (H) cleans the offensive glass.

4 0:00 85 — 84 R. Muresan (H) reaches up and tries to tip it in, guarded closely by O. Krentschker (A). Shot missed.

4 0:00 85 — 84 End of period

Krentschker wins for 2 votes, Muresan gets the single vote.

Game 6 – Guanzheng Goldfish 162 defeat Moorditj Magick 128

If there is one classic Calamari Vs Calamari style of game, it is a mutual Run and Gun/Full Court Press. In the early seasons, it would have been the Seagulls Vs Goldfish, Duricko Vs Guanzheng. Today, it is still the Goldfish, but we now see the Magick stepping up for this basketball’s version of the splash and dash 50m freestyle. From almost 240 FG attempts, nearly 300pts were scored in this game, with over 50 steals in this game. Fans were just glad that the administrators at the The Tavern had prepared a physio suite for fans leaving the game to get treatment for the sore necks caused by the constant back and forth of the game.

Votes
3 – Virgil Wang (Guanzheng Goldfish) 37pts, 8asts, 7stls
2 – Will Johnson (Guanzheng Goldfish) 37pts, 10asts, 6stls
1 – Xie Guanzheng (Guanzheng Goldfish) 34pts, 6asts

The Magick were just not up to the tempo and the shooting of Wang, Johnson and Guanzheng. Wang with least turnovers, edges out Johnson with the most assists, and 1 vote to the Master Chef.

Fishbowl West MVP Voting (End of Week 2)

4 Votes
Olli Krentschker (Chelsea Seagulls)
Virgil Wang (Guanzheng Goldfish)

3 Votes
Clinton Abimbola (Team Akuma)
Alexey Berestetskiy (Chumunga)
Nigel Cubby (Chumunga)
Sun Cunming (Urmummas)
Calixto Dalgadillo (Slam!)
Avner Fishenzon (Koopasaurus)
Gary Howorth (Black Label Society)
Gary Lawrance (Chelsea Seagulls)
Antonio Manfrotto (Lewisham Wombats)
Shaun McArthur (Black Label Society)
Davis Mercado (Baxter Bogans)
Marcelo Rodriguez (Moorditj Magick)
Jose Gabriel Tesone (Baxter Bogans)

2 Votes
Hahi Bin Awang (Lewisham Wombats)
Tyler Hare (Koopasaurus)
Will Johnson (Guanzheng Goldfish)
Jakub Luszcynski (Slam!)
Francis Masters (Chumunga)
Mohammed Syansuri bin Mat Noor (Koopasaurus)
Dennis Totengco (Urmummas)
Jaak Vahi (Urmummas)
Birol Yalduz (Lewisham Wombats)

1 Vote
Marino Gaggini (Western Titans)
Jackson Goodall (Lewisham Wombats)
Xie Guanzheng (Guanzheng Goldfish)
Roman Muggleton (Western Titans)
Razvan Muresan (Slam !)
Daniil Propokov (Baxter Bogans)
Glen Tidwell (Chumunga)

After much delay, Week 2 is updated and with very few players picking up votes in both weeks our current leaders Olli Krentschker (Chelsea Seagulls) and Virgil Wang (Guanzheng Goldfish) are only sitting on four points. As mllama has volunteered to take on this week I will pass it over to him, which means I will now have to go and mow the lawn.

Fine Fine

WEEK 3 VOTES

Slam ! defeated TeamAkuma 108-87

Given that Slam ! was expected to win comfortably, Akuma took a risk and threw out the 2-3 zone. It didn't pay off, as Slam ! played outside and tore the Akuma defense to pieces. Slam ! dominated the second quarter, and this game was over by half time.

Votes:

3: Luo Zheng Qui (Slam) Zheng Qui played a sensational game, scoring 38 points, including 5 threes, on just 24 shots. Given that Qui is now transfer listed, perhaps Slam was just advertising him by playing outside? It also makes his 3 votes rather irrelevant if he sells. But whatever.

2: Razvan Muresan (Slam) Muresan has been dominating for Slam this season playing inside. But he showed he can also feature in an outside offense. He scored 18 points and 14 boards.

1: Avery Maclean (Akuma): Maclean did the job, when his morely highly paid teammates (ie Smeltz) couldn't. Perhaps a little wasteful with his shooting, but 29 points against an ABBL team can't be ignored.

PS: Kuande doesn't get votes because most of his points came in junktime, and his team actually lost while he was on the court.

PPS: Smeltz sucks.


Western Titans defeated Moorditj Magick (87-62)

The Titans spent the first quarter trying to figure out how to spell the Magick's name (where the heck does the 'j' come from? How do you pronounce that? And why the **** is there a k on the end of Magic? Argh!). Once they woke up, they romped to a comfortable victory, with the big men getting the job done inside. Defense was the order of the game though, with the Magick failing to score more than 20 points in each quarter.

Votes:

3: Roman Muggleton (WT): After a little bit of research it appears as if Muggleton was defending Rodriguez (see, I do my research). And since defense won this game, and Rodriguez took all of (or close enough to) the Magick's shots, Muggleton gets the 3 votes. The 21 points on top of that is a handy bonus.

2: Uditi Samdup (WT): As his ex U21 coach, I'm obliged to give him votes. Plus he dominated Boljuncic (for the record, a name as difficult to spell and pronounce as his team's), keeping him to just 10 points while putting up 21 of his own, and adding 15 boards.

1: Bento Filho (WT): Bento scored 16 points and pulled down 14 boards. And he has a cool name. So he gets a vote.

Week 3 - Lewisham Wombats defeated Koopasaurus (120-107)

The KoopaTroopers tried their hardest, but couldn't get the job done against the mighty magnificence that is this Wombat's team. Everyone should just take note and tank against the Wombats now. In the cup, league and private league. That includes you, Whitebeard.

Votes:

3: Antonio Manfrotto (Wombats): Manfrotto is my best chance for the MVP, and I'm the one doing the votes. 3 votes, Manfrotto.

2: Avner Fishenzon (Koop): I imagine all the fish jokes have been done. So I'll leave them aside. Avner almost got a triple double, falling just one assist short. I expect it is unlikely that the Khan family will receive a Christmas card from the Fishenzon family this year. One because he is Isreali, so probably doesn't even celebrate Christmas. And two because of this:

4 0:55 104 — 117

A. Fishenzon (A) gets off a great pass to R. Khan (A). R. Khan (A) attempts a three-point shot from the wing. Shot missed.

1: Hahi bin Awang (Wombats): The facilitator of the Wombat's offense racked up another 9 assists, to go with 16 points, to add a vote to his collection.

Sidenote: Yes, the real reason Manfrotto got 3 votes is because he completely frickin' dominated, scoring 40 points on just 19 shots. But I thought the other reason sounded better.

Last edited by mllama at 9/15/2012 12:37:38 AM