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Current update on HGL-PL participation-situation:

I'll add this information also on Scores-thread, so that everyone interested might spot it.

Currently 4 teams have announced their interest to participate to first ever HGL-PL:
Tassie Devils: (38697) (Top8-salaries $174K)
San Fernando VR: (77070) (Top8-salaries $111K without HGL-ineligible player)
M.L.S. REICH: (39615) (Top8-salaries $157K)
borteam: (46607) (Top8-salaries $108K).


As we can see, salary wise they're not mostly miles apart, so it's going to be interesting to see how games will play out!

Still 3 recently contacted teams haven't replied. It hasn't been determined how long I'll wait before roster will be locked, but at least a small while - as I mentioned elsewhere, M.L.S. REICH is also reviewing HGL posts currently (or at least I hope he is) to see if he'd enjoy playing in HGL eventually (which initial willingness is a prerequisite of participating to HGL-PL, as we know).

First Round of Playoffs on Season 5 did provide some drama, in form of a forfeit loss/win, and a nailbiter between two French sides. As for other matches, teams ranked 6th and 7th, LMS and ED, were able to cruise to home wins in rather comfortable manner.

WMO-LGM:
I watched last moments of WMO vs. LGM match, and as we've come to expect, that matchup is almost guaranteed to provide an interesting and even match - this time was no exception, despite WMO having a home court advantage this time. (LGM's fans didn't have too long of a bus trip though, as both are French teams).

If you're short of time, even watching last 20 seconds or so via match viewer provides interesting moments (and already that takes surprisingly long). But long story short: LGM did an excellent job of nailing threes to narrow the gap, getting to 110-111 situation. However, WMO was nailing down each and every free throw from the charity stripe on those last minutes, so that sealed the deal for WMO - in match they were 30 of 31 from the line. LGM's Thony "la Tête" Lefebvre, who is normally a very good 3p shooter (38,9% in "regular BB league" on this season) actually had an equalizing buzzerbeater in the air, but that didn't sink in this time.

LGM won rebounds by 10 and were able to score 36 points behind the 3 point arc as opposed to 9 by WMO, but were unable to produce a single steal in a whole match and turning the ball over 10 times (when WMO had better numbers: 5 steals and only 6 turnovers).


Here are the Second Round Playoff-matches:

PO Round 2 (quarter-finals; 8 teams play): Sunday, July 5th, 2026
Rank #1 VPO vs. #8 WMO *Waiting for match link!
Rank #2 RAJ vs. #7 ED *Waiting for match link!
Rank #3 KKS vs. #6 LMS *Waiting for match link!
Rank #4 VIV vs. #5 EOS *Waiting for match link!


PS. If you ever spot any errors in my messages, please let me know. While I do all I can to avoid them, it is unavoidable in a long run that they can exist to some extent. And especially in the case of matchups etc., it's critical to correct it before "damage is done".

Last edited by Wagner at 6/28/2026 10:31:41 AM

HGL PO 1. round, season 5:

Best collective performance of the evening

Point: 113 : WiMaOlCa
Defense: 85 : Elan Demars
Tot. Rebound: 58 : Elan Demars
Off. Rebound: 20 : Elan Demars
Assist: 33 : Lielupes Melnās Sirdis
Steal: 5 : WiMaOlCa
Block: 7 : Lielupes Melnās Sirdis

Personal best performances of the evening

Point: 37 : X. Rivet (Les Gueux du Marais)
Tot. Rebound: 16 : A. Marroquín (Madrid Chotis)
Off. Rebound: 7 : J. Dorion (Elan Demars)
Assist: 11 : O. Muižzemnieks (Lielupes Melnās Sirdis)
Steal: 3 : M. Bensala (WiMaOlCa)
Block: 5 : T. Dambekalns (Lielupes Melnās Sirdis)

The shooter: J. Castro-Girona (Madrid Chotis), V. Skucs (Lielupes Melnās Sirdis) & N. Grévin (Les Gueux du Marais): 4 Three points scored

The best performer: T. Dambekalns (Lielupes Melnās Sirdis): Rating: 20,0

Triple double: -

Strong victory today vs Vindicta (which has a lower salary total) but logical.

Next step, we will face ONE AGAIN Rajdersi, a team against whom we won this season, but against whom we lost many times before... (especially in PO°).
Because of a stupid error in the last game of the season vs Wimaolca (I created 2 games, and I made the rotation for the wrong one) that caused a loss for my team, I could have been ranked one (or 2 ??) step beyond, and I should face KKS, which I prefer NOT to face. That was a bad choice for a good result I hope ;)

Rank #3 KKS vs. #6 LMS

(139706240)

Rank #4 VIV vs. #5 EOS
(139706879)

Strong victory today vs Vindicta (which has a lower salary total) but logical.

Next step, we will face ONE AGAIN Rajdersi, a team against whom we won this season, but against whom we lost many times before... (especially in PO°).
Because of a stupid error in the last game of the season vs Wimaolca (I created 2 games, and I made the rotation for the wrong one) that caused a loss for my team, I could have been ranked one (or 2 ??) step beyond, and I should face KKS, which I prefer NOT to face. That was a bad choice for a good result I hope ;)

Now that I quickly took a look at ORSR on Season 5, it seems that nobody from the imaginary 13-4 group (if you would've won last game) won all matches between all other comparison group teams (at 13-4), so in this hypothetical situation there would've been you, LMS and EOS in RS +/- PD comparison.

Result, as you mentioned, would´ve been in ORSR:
EOS -2 positions compared to current ORSR (because he had 1 point worse PD than you had)
ED +1 position,
LMS +1 position.

So yes, LA-LennuK is probably quite happy that WMO took this battle of French teams, as two positions can sometimes be big thing - however, his team, as we all know, is one of the most expensive teams in HGL anyway, so possibly forced to play on an away court a tad sooner maybe wouldn't have harmed his chances of success too much anyway...
Bigger thing though could've been the effect that he would've had to to meet a tad harder opponents a bit sooner, but as the old saying goes, you have to beat them all to take the trophy home. Having said that, I think we almost all have some opponents we really wouldn't want to face as we know they're a handful, don't we.. :D
To be fair though, the top teams seem very even on this Season, and who knows, it could easily become the least predictable Playoffs in HGL ever!

Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 5:22:15 PM

I should send WiMaOlCa a thank you gift

I should send WiMaOlCa a thank you gift :D

Yes - like I should still send demars this VSOP bottle - we all owe to French to some extent, it seems xD

I tried to send at least a virtual bottle, but it appears that BB text editor is not optimized for "character art/text art" so to speak... ;P


Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 1:53:53 PM

For you, WiMaOl, a good BB beer!

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Last edited by LA-LennuK at 6/30/2026 6:56:08 AM

thank you so much ... but I prefer beer, I suggest we will drink together next time I come to Tallinn