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The night of the big Rankings

November 14, 2007

Tonight, the Euroleague featured some extraordinary Ranking point performances which came close to the record of Tanoka Beard who once had 69rkg points in 2004.

Prokom Trefl finally managed to score its first win. Maybe the signing of Mustafa Shakur boosted them or it was only the poorness of their opponents. Nevertheless, the Belgian Center Tomas van den Spiegel came up with a huge 50 ranking points and he will be most likely the MVP of the week. Van den Spiegel, who joined Sopot this season from CSKA finished the game with 27pts, 14rebs, 3stls and 11 received fouls. If that is not enough, he also scored 11 out of 11 free throws and made 8 out of his 11 shots. WOW.

I was going mad when I watched the game between Roanne and Fenerbahce. Not because James White was again having a mediocre game. But my ex-EFC player Marc Salyers was having a monster performance and my actual EFC player Brion Rush was having its worst game. Salyers had an outrageous night from behind the line, but only in streaks. He started with 3/3, then missed the next 6 and then went for another 3/4. He finished the game with 40pts at the end and a ranking score of 40 too. By the way, my favorite blogger Adam Hess came finally up with something, a new haircut and 5 three pointers.

Unfortunately, it was a dark night for another one of my Fantasy heroes. Nikola Pekovic who got used to score a minimum of 30 ranking points finished the game against Real Madrid with an enormous 1 in the most right column of the Euroleague stat sheet. What happened there? At least, he was better than former NY Knicks pick Slavko Vranes with -5, better the Uros Tripkovic with -7 and very close to the Nuggets draft pick Axel Hervelle who had 2 ranking points.

Could have been a disastrous night for my Fantasy team.

Nov 14, 2007ballineurope
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Comments: 6
  1. elaj
    17 years ago

    Real Madrid has found the way how to stop Pekovi?… just play run and gun when he is on court.

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  2. tom
    17 years ago

    It was a disastrous night for some of us :-/ …

    Ayuso also scored something like 36-37, while Q.Woods scored -2 .. Now, not a very wise change to have been made..

    I was also impressed with Lynn Greer – around 30 points, but he was really exciting to watch .. Very good performance, it’s bad luck that he got unjured a couple mins before the end of the game, and will be sidelined for about a month (I just read this..)..

    Better luck next time (what about the rest of your team .. what saved it from destruction?)

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  3. caaprius
    17 years ago

    Tanoka had 63 ranking points.

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  4. Tobias
    17 years ago

    Tom – I think nothing saved him so far – he just hopes that the other players help him out tonight 😉

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  5. Arkadios
    17 years ago

    Pekovic got his +15% limit up nevertheless.

    Papadopoulos posted him and loaded him with fouls early in the 2nd period…

    As usual it was a mediocre week for Fantasy, you seen one of your player getting 30-50 points and when you think that this is finally your breakthrough week the rest guys on the team get 1-2-3 whatever points…

    My favorite Fantasy player, Massey, played good once more. He saved me once more.

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  6. Arkadios
    17 years ago

    The 50+ Rankings History:

    T. Beard 63
    D. Milojevic 55
    J. Lakovic 55
    M. Popovic 54
    J. Lakovic 50
    A. Macijauskas 50
    V.D. Spiegel 50

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