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Inside the locker room post game…

Pio Reina: Here we go. Let’s play a game. We’ll call it The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The Good… the offensive rebounding was good. The ball movement was good. As a matter of fact, offensive rebounding and ball movement were very impressive. I think that was a great performance on the offensive boards. Yeah, I said great. However, now that you’ve shown me you have that in you, that just raised the expectation. You guys have been teasing 20 offensive boards for a while and you did it once before. The first time is proof of concept. The second becomes the standard. You showed you can do it. Now, I expect and demand it. Don’t look shocked! Did you think we were having fun and games after a loss?!? I understand and excuse Antti Reinholm if he thinks that because he just got here. The rest of you? No excuse. Now, back to the good… Oh, third quarter defense. You held them to twenty for the quarter. Second quarter and third quarter offense was good. We outscored them 63 to 44, and we put up our two best offensive quarters of the game back to back and had our best defensive quarter of the game in one of those. Carlos Frias was good on offense today. Really good. Pere Vendrell was good on offense. Walt Colenbrander was excellent on ball security. That’s all of the good.

You guys ready for the bad? Rebounding in general. Take out the offensive boards and we got outrebounded 34-31. Where are the shooters I keep seeing in practice that are lights out? 2 of 11 from deep. Mr. Helm, how many shot blockers do we have on this roster?

Byron Helm: 5 total. One was inactive for the game.

Pio Reina: We’ll have to revise that total because today we only had one. One shot blocker got a block. You know what else was bad? The shooting. Frias and Vendrell were a combined 28 of 37. They carried you guys. The rest of you combined for 18 of 66. You can’t win shooting 27%, but for some reason you guys decided to try that route. It was a one point game deep into the fourth quarter. I’m not sure why you guys thought not making shots was a good strategy. We can’t outscore the other team so we have to stop them from scoring. When we did that guess what? WE WERE WINNING! MAKING SHOTS AND PLAYING DEFENSE WORKS!!!

Now we get to the ugly. The shooting. The outside shooting. The perimeter defense. The first quarter offense and defense. The fourth quarter offense and defense. Everyone of offense not named Carlos Frias or Pere Vendrell. You guys do know that playing as bad as we have in those areas is not going to win you a titile, right? Not gonna do it. I suggest you all figure it out. We have worked with you and you keep flashing. We know you have the ability. Time to put it all together. You guys are better than this. Act like it.

Day 15 (Tuesday 12 November 2024) : Performances by (https://www.buzzer-manager.com)

Night results
Anchorage Allstars. 156 - Duke Devilz 115
brooklyn knicks 118 - Eternityz Rostah 138
The Dachshunds 125 - K8be4L 94
GloryBoyz 148 - Nanooks of the North 137
AZ Sunburn 132 - Cleveland Heat Lakers 113
Defenseless Babies 113 - Linndale 101
Fondy Cardinals 83 - Andersonville Alligators 114
Las Vegas Red Pandas 96 - Organization XIII 112

Best collective performance of the evening
Points : 156 : Anchorage Allstars.
Rebounds : 70 : Duke Devilz
Assists : 43 : Anchorage Allstars.
Steals : 34 : Anchorage Allstars.
Block Shots : 14 : Anchorage Allstars.

Personal best performances of the evening
Points : 41 : A. Junghans (Eternityz Rostah)
Rebounds : 22 : A. Silva (Duke Devilz)
Assists : 15 : R. Motti (K8be4L)
Steals : 6 : M. Yancey (Anchorage Allstars.)
Block Shots : 6 : D. Shilov (Anchorage Allstars.)

Top 5 of the evening
Point Guard : Y. Xiao (GloryBoyz) (37 Points, 4 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43
Shooting Guard : A. Junghans (Eternityz Rostah) (41 Points, 5 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 41
Small Forward : C. Frias (Linndale) (31 Points, 6 Rebounds, 12 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43
Power Forward : A. Roche (Andersonville Alligators) (30 Points, 12 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 5 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 35
Center : W. Lemons (Andersonville Alligators) (30 Points, 10 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 38

MVP of the evening
Y. Xiao (GloryBoyz) (37 Points, 4 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots), C. Frias (Linndale) (31 Points, 6 Rebounds, 12 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 43

The bad performance of the evening
J. Collante (Andersonville Alligators) (1 Points, 0 Rebounds, 1 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots), : Efficiency : -4

All kinds of statistics
The player who forgot to remove his mittens : V. Ravagnin (K8be4L), M. Milo (Fondy Cardinals) : 7 Turnovers

Player targeted by the referees : R. Lian (Duke Devilz), E. Delgado (K8be4L), M. Gatard (Nanooks of the North), J. Slimani (Fondy Cardinals), D. Shaji (Andersonville Alligators) : 6 Personnal Fouls

The iron-man : V. Ravagnin (K8be4L), R. Motti (K8be4L) : 48 Minutes

The shooter : A. Junghans (Eternityz Rostah) : 7 Three points

The best performer : L. Salisbury (Cleveland Heat Lakers) : Rating : 18.5

The worst performer : E. Lomax (Eternityz Rostah), V. Oropesa (The Dachshunds) : Rating : 3.5