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Week Six Part One Recap

Technically two player on player games from Saturday night, though OmegaShot would go on to botify, only to be replaced by Bilodeau, led by manager Celtics (welcome to the league! Good luck and let us know if you have any questions).

Duluth dirty dogs vs. OmegaShot
OmegaShot (9-2) put up a valiant effort, but their lack of defense did them in. They hung pretty tight with Duluth (11-0), but at the end of the day, couldn't keep up the pace even though they scored 40 points in the final period. The Argentinian SF Nehemias Orduna put up 39 points on 17-22 shooting, including 5-8 from three, but now, at 36, finds himself on the transfer list. At $20 per week, the current asking price of just over $200k seems quite steep for the forward, even though he's averaging 19 points per game on 51% shooting. His German counterpart Lars Volkner, also 36, scored 37 points in his final game with Omega and finds himself in a similar situation on the transfer list.

On the other side of the court, Duluth's PG, Iago Cardelle had himself a night, shooting 17-33 for 47 points, his best performance of the season. Iago has been quite good this season and C B. Okar handled the boards and assists for the team, though he did have 6 turnovers on the night, with 15 and 8 respectively.

FR-S vs. Lion Rebels
The other player on player matchup was more of a defensive battle, with FR-S (7-4) deploying the Patient strategy to try and eke out a win over the 11-0 Lion Rebels, and while Greek SG Ioannis Trapenzanidis scored 31 points in 31 minutes and FR-S led at the half 37-32 thanks to a defensive performance that held the Rebels to only 11 2nd quarter points, they were unable to contain them in the 2nd half, which the Rebels scoring 51 to FR-S's 37 to pull out the victory. 19 year old Kurt Brown scored 25 points to go along with 8 rebounds and 5 assists, but if he hopes to help the Rebels out long term, he's got to avoid giving up 8 turnovers and 4 fouls. Star C. Terry Armstead finished the night with a double double, scoring 19 points and tallying 24 rebounds.

I Volt vs. Tomahawks
The Great 8's 2nd place team, I Volt (9-2) destroyed the Tomahawks, 134-63 with another well rounded effort by the Volt with 7 players in double digits and the team, altogether shot 61% from the field, including 56% from three on 16 shots from beyond the arc.

DVine Lions vs. Trumps
The Great 8 version of the Lions dominated Trumps, 117-83. The Lions continue to play 6 players per game, but this time Erik Scuppa only played 28 minutes at PG and only scored 9 points, while Basham and Dalton scored 37 and 34 points respectively.

Northampton Acid vs. YGT
YGT continues to trot out subpar players and it cost them in this bot matchup going up two with 17 seconds left only for Richard Nunn to hit a 3 with ten seconds remaining to put Northampton up by one. PG Franklin Moore, for YGT, got off a last second shot from the top of the arc, but bricked it and Northampton went home with the victory.

Week Six Part Two Recap
Second round of games in week six had no player on player matchups for the first time this season. We'll keep this update relatively short, only noting the highly notable players from each non-bot directed team:

Iago Cardelle and Lev Sasson led Duluth to a dominating performance, each scoring 27 points in 29, 28 minutes respectively,l pulling down a combined 15 rebounds, 9 assists, and 6 steals (one more than the Trumps in both assists and steals). Iago continues his dominant campaign for league MVP and most certainly should be an all star starter for the Great 8.

DVine Lions' Erik Scuppa took back his league leading per game scoring lead by scoring 45 points on 16-29 shooting, including 9 three pointers!

I Volt's dominant win came upon the shoulders of C Ante Dekovic, who surprisingly starred in their run and gun offense, scoring 27 points to go along with his 21 rebounds to seal his double double for the night.

Bilodeau's first foray into the league fight night featured a base offense and a loss to maybe the best bot led team in the league. Looks like they still have some things to figure out, but back up C Randall Chu scored as many points in 17 minutes as starting SG Shad Moore did in 32, scoring 11 points on 5-8 shooting from the field. While it's early in Celtics managerial career, some of Bilodeau's fans were heard wondering aloud why Chu was backing up Louis Sands, who looks to have all star potential, but at 24, appears to have not been dedicated enough in the gym to train up his skills much past an end of the bench, if not free agent, player.

Starting Power Forward Oliver Darmanovic only missed four shots enroute to 21 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 assists for FR-S in a route.

YGT again lost another close one - with point guard Franklin Moore scoring 20 points on 50% shooting, including 3 three pointers.

And finally, Polish Shooting Guard Budzislaw Lyzwinski scored 36 points, only missing two shots on the night in 30 minutes, including 8 of 9 from three to lead the Lion Rebels to their victory.

Still moving the recaps even if I'm not replying to every one ;)

I really wish BB would rebalance / condense divisions to help eliminate bot teams :/

Yeah - it's nice to have a "walk over" every once in a while, but the majority of the games in a season is just way too much. And then even with the mid season newbies, they're still too fresh to be competitive so it's kinda the same thing. Oh well!

Been in this league for a bit now and it has been really top heavy the entire time. I have been trying to get into the division three but made my first finals last season.

Dude - I feel ya. That was my experience too. Finally made it up to III and had a decent run and then crashed. So weird. Good luck to you!