pre-season is over...regular season starts!
well...with a win again czech champion nymborg alba finishes the pre-season. and now there are just 6 days left to prepare for the regular season. i really hope there's gonna be more "team spirit" on sunday. otherwise bonn will have an easy game. we'll see what happens.

Cologne wins BBL champions cup 2006!
well...yesterday there was the "big revanche" when alba had their last pre-season game against cologne who won the german championship last season.
well...what can say? they won again. and with just 1 point (75:74) because someone hit the buzzer beater 3pointer. wow...cologne has a great team!!
hmmm...alba? i don't know. the game wasn't that good. alba couldn't cope with cologne's tactics and the defense was weak. there were just owens, avery and ford who showed kinda nice game frome time to time. just the cruchtime was real good when the crowd was cheering. so the last 6 minutes of the game we saw a great game!! i think alba has lot of potentials...but they need to use them!!! otherwise we'll loose the first game of regular season next week against bonn.
so guys...keep practicing team play!!

szymon in bella italia now!
after the game i asked marcin gortat of cologne (he's a friend of szy) where szymon will play next season. and he told me everything :o) thanks man, i appreciate that!!!!
he has signed a contract in legea scafati basket. this team just got from 2nd devison in 1st devision. i guess he'll be happy there cuz he's going to get much more time then!
good luck, bro!! miss you so much here!!

That's the new team 2006/2007:














back row: Calvin Oldham (associated hc), Matej Mamic, Nenad Canak, Philip Zwiener, Jovo Stanojevic, Ruben Boumtje Boumtje, Sharrod Ford, Chris Owens, Koko Archibong, Henrik Rödl (hc), Konstantin Lwowsky (ac)
front row: Yannick Evans, Nicolai Simon, Will Avery, Julius Jenkins, Oskar Fassler, Joe Herber, Demond Greene

everything is new.
so alright...yesterday i got to know the new team of alba when we went to cottbus to see a pre-season game against polish champion slask wroclaw. okay...we won. but the team didn't play well. sharrod was great! he really made it to one of the central players in the team! i am cool with that. nenad played good defense but his offense still needs some work. koko...wow, he's a defense monster!! so cool! chris and will are a lil on the quite site. maybe they just need some time and hopefully will play better. and man...mr. boumtje-boumtje is huge!! wow! but he didn't do too good. nico did a good job. i think there is lot's of potential in him!
all in all the team is young, athletic, fighting and definitely fast. but somehow there's something missing. maybe it chamges when demond and jovo (and maybe matej?!) will come back. but i don't know...this special lil thing that makes champions is missing. hopefully i am wrong the guys will reach the team's aims!