London Lions v Neptunas Klaipeda - Tues 22 Sept - 14:30

I can imagine

Thats not the logic though is it? You said they missed the travel so the foul didnt get called.

You dont know much about Taylor Jenkins if you think he never played basketball. www.theringer.com/nba/2019/11/14/20964116/taylor-jenkins-memphis-grizzlies-ja-morant-jaren-jackson

He captained at a good high school team that contained two D1 athletes. If you reckon youre in that bracket then that ignorance is shining through as bright as ever.

Like I say, if you want to criticise me and what I did on a basketball court - make sure youve done the same or better (and yes, I made more money out of the game than I put into it), and that wasnt aimed at you (but the guy who reckons whatsbevs dead despite registering and posting, bemusingly).

If you disagree with my opinion on what happens in a game fine. Hell if you think I fuc*ed up in a game fine - I wasnt anything more than bang average, but saying I sucked when youre sat behind a computer screen and actually proving where Im going wrong are two completely different things (again, not you). Will your ignorance let you even contemplate that?

Not sure we need to be obsessing over that late no call to quite this extent. As sussexbantam has already said, I doubt many would have been betting a fortune on a career 60% foul shooter knocking down two massively clutch free throws there. Wasn't MBA the guy who completely airballed one wide right early in the game? Must have been a bit drafty in that arena because the standard of shooting from both teams was dreadful pretty much all game long.

Unless he's injured I'm surprised JWH didn't get more of a look. Of the lesser guys Lions signed this summer, he was the one I thought had the best chance of crafting a meaningful role for himself in Europe. The team was crying out for someone who can consistently knock down perimeter shots and he can certainly bring that to the table, along with a fair bit more. Strange to me that he barely got a sniff. Also think a 4th big would have been of more use to them than Lockhart. Seems a bit of an odd decision to roster six bigs then leave three at home.

Not sure anyone has suggested this is a game Lions should have 'walked' have they? But 'Lithuanian basketball is strong therefore this was a really tough opponent' is a bit of a simplistic view. This was all mentioned pre-game but this current Neptunas side in no way resembles their successful sides from recent years. Their head coach now is a 38 year old who only recently finished playing, has only ever served as an assistant in the top tier and was coaching their reserve team last season. Certainly looks from afar like a cost cutting appointment. They're only ten deep this year. All their players are homegrown and half of them are guys in their early twenties who've yet to establish themselves as anything more than end of the bench guys in the Lithuanian top tier.

I don't think we need to be throwing Vince or this team under the bus after one competitive fixture but I equally don't think we should be imagining that a narrow loss here was a particularly good result just because they were playing a team from a traditionally strong basketball playing nation. I do think the stars aligned quite nicely for Lions here. They've surely increased their spending massively at a time when other clubs (including Neptunas) are cutting back. The pre-game consensus was that Lions were the most likely winners here. It is a missed opportunity in my view.

I just hope they get some sponsors on-board too. The Lions marketing and commercial strategy seem utterly useless.

And yet they're still on the Lions header image on Twitter.

I know a fair amount about dodgy investment firms, and I know Miami specifically is a hot bed for them.
I also know you can find comments online from disgruntled former employees from just about any company in the world if you look for them.

Are 777 Partners a dodgy investment firm? Maybe. Maybe not. 
All I know is that for now they've already provided London Lions with a much needed cash injection. What's going to happen beyond that, I don't know. And neither do you.

But if you have information on them that we don't, please share. But I mean actual information that isn't already easily available online, and not your personal speculation, views, and opinions that you claim are 'FACTS'.

I'm honestly happy to have a discussion with you, but only if it's a sensible and mature one, and that requires both of us to have an open mind and accept we may or may not be correct.

Where does Vince fit into all of that?

We've discussed this before, and its generally considered that regular unavailability of the Excel (or even part of it, due to year round conference bookings) would prevent it ever being suitable as a BBL venue.
Not to mention the fact that it's currently out of service indefinitely due to NHS Nightingale.