What do they have in common?
One team is from Portugal, one is from USA, both have experienced managers, heavy contributers to charazay's community, one team rellys on allstar, big guy Jerry Tracy, the other just has sold frachise player Michael Henderson and NT member Sheldon Batista. The bruins have a NBA low 18,7 age average for their squad, Estoril a decent 21,8.
One thing is that, i for example am looking forward to see them clash in the IC, as this year's competition will be as exciting as ever (without the tubyorcs for the second straight year).
The answer was given probably recently by bruin, they are KINGS of the hill in their countries. None, and when i say none, i'm not thinking about the blacksheapes that waste everyone in belgium, i'm thinking of lance armstrong, michael schumacher, tiger woods... none can threat the leader position for both Bear River Bruins and Estoril Boys in their countries. In USA things are preatty clear .. even without henderson, batista, hanks, bruins rock, maybe for Estoril things will be more exciting when they will be forced to change the stars beacuse of age. Dough i doubt that will be a problem, like bruin, iceman adds fresh young bodies every year.
I wish them good luck in the IC, and at least one loss this season.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
FIBA ranks
Belgium, Poland and Romania are all curently unranked in the FIBA world table. Is that awkward? Not really.
http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/even/rank/p/rankMen.html
The fun part comes here: the 3 mentioned are top 3 in the Charazay Rankings, not by random or luck, but based on performances. It's interesting to see this phenomenon, as my conclusion is that all 3 have good managers that can do a good job while in front of the computer but fail in the sports hall.
Behinf no 4 to 6 are Spain, Lithuania and Italy, really powerfull conutries when it comes to real basketbal. Most probably these 3 will dominate the NT rankings in 5 seasons, as they all have big communities and lots of talent.
But what will happen at the incoming World Cup, set to begin on monday.
http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/even/rank/p/rankMen.html
The fun part comes here: the 3 mentioned are top 3 in the Charazay Rankings, not by random or luck, but based on performances. It's interesting to see this phenomenon, as my conclusion is that all 3 have good managers that can do a good job while in front of the computer but fail in the sports hall.
Behinf no 4 to 6 are Spain, Lithuania and Italy, really powerfull conutries when it comes to real basketbal. Most probably these 3 will dominate the NT rankings in 5 seasons, as they all have big communities and lots of talent.
But what will happen at the incoming World Cup, set to begin on monday.
First round will probably be kind of borring, the big favourites expected to go cruising. The interesting battle will be for 3rd and 4th position. For example Chile and argentina in group A, Norway and serbia in group C, Slovenia and Portugal in group E.
The groups that have big names are group A with Israel looking forward to crack both Belgium and Estonia, and also group D, Where Greece can be the big surprise and outclass UK and Canada. Romania and Spain are strong favourites in their groups as neither Sweeden, nor USA can match the top squads. In group B, Nederlands and Italy are expected to win by a large margin the group.
Group C is an interesting one, with Poland and Lithuania beining favourites for the finals, and also a young determined Serbian side that are looking forward to ahve an impact at this WC.
Teams to watch:
Outsiders: Serbia and Germany, they did great in their qualifying games and also performed ok in friendlies, i wouldn't be surprised if they advaced in top 16.
Big names: Lithuania and Belgium, if you take into account the potential and also the balance between all postions, Belgium is almost flawless, that's why their biggest competitor is the pressure of winning another WC. Lithuania is kind of underated, but they have the potential of blowing any other NT, so keep an eye on them.
More details after the first fixtures.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Is winning boring?
I can't know.. 99.9% of the charazay users don't know the answer to this question, dough there is an individual that probably asks himself this quation quite often..
Yup that's right, the evil, hellmade, doom preaching ... (psychotic laugh) The Black Sheeps. They must have sold their souls. Just take a look. You have the toughest league (6 quality teams, and another 6 decent ones), only one allstar (which i doubt he is a true allstar material), playing in 2 different type of competitions... and still you win with +20 every single game.
Is it eric may, he is top10 Guards, but still can be neutralised, is it corradi? latest matches show that the blacksheeps can win without him contributing, is it aatje? not even close, a solid palyer nothing mutch.
Don't be fooled by the fact they didn't win the IC last season, they were the only team that decided to drop down from the IC by loosing on purpose in the 3rd round. In a few weeks we will see what this team is really made of.. ambrozia? molten tar? Untill then i advise you to take a closer look to this team's games and learn from their playing style as they are the best thing you can get right now.
Take a look at this game
http://www.charazay.com/index.php?act=match&id=3400542
and this one
http://www.charazay.com/index.php?act=match&id=3018863
How can you stop a team that can play both sharp defence and solid offence?
Yup that's right, the evil, hellmade, doom preaching ... (psychotic laugh) The Black Sheeps. They must have sold their souls. Just take a look. You have the toughest league (6 quality teams, and another 6 decent ones), only one allstar (which i doubt he is a true allstar material), playing in 2 different type of competitions... and still you win with +20 every single game.
Is it eric may, he is top10 Guards, but still can be neutralised, is it corradi? latest matches show that the blacksheeps can win without him contributing, is it aatje? not even close, a solid palyer nothing mutch.
Don't be fooled by the fact they didn't win the IC last season, they were the only team that decided to drop down from the IC by loosing on purpose in the 3rd round. In a few weeks we will see what this team is really made of.. ambrozia? molten tar? Untill then i advise you to take a closer look to this team's games and learn from their playing style as they are the best thing you can get right now.
Take a look at this game
http://www.charazay.com/index.php?act=match&id=3400542
and this one
http://www.charazay.com/index.php?act=match&id=3018863
How can you stop a team that can play both sharp defence and solid offence?
Draft day
Last night (day probably in the US) the NBA drafted took place, with a huge histeria and hype around two potential franchise players. At that point when i saw the entire show, i decided the that the World of Charazay needs something like this..
Not a draft (i know some would be delighted with this idea), not real player, not a new design... but histeria and hype.
From now on i will try and "draft" the best news and hot headlines in charazay on this blog. This is not going to be a blog about a certain team or player, but the entire Charazay World, with its champions, legends, wars, vendettas and more.
Not a draft (i know some would be delighted with this idea), not real player, not a new design... but histeria and hype.
From now on i will try and "draft" the best news and hot headlines in charazay on this blog. This is not going to be a blog about a certain team or player, but the entire Charazay World, with its champions, legends, wars, vendettas and more.
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