FIBA EUROPE CUP - London Lions

Not nearly as comfortable win as it should have been. Lions have clearly more talent than Kapfenberg but they couldn't make that count until the last quarter, mainly due to the 3's drying up for most of the game.
Defensively Lions worked incredibly hard, Washburn & Dirk Williams work so hard yet rarely tire, Reese has really quick hands & the Lithuanian is a really smart player & they were the bedrock of the defense.
Teague showed glimpses of his talent but was closer in performance to his 1st game than his 2nd one.
Lions lacked player and ball movement for long periods on the offensive end but when they did play team basketball they looked good, there just wasn't enough of it.

But this is European basketball so Lions are very much still learning. Next week will be a different game, Beyreuth will be favourites which will probably take pressure off the players a little & they may relax a bit & as long as they all remember that you can't win a game of basketball on your own it should be a good game.

More fans than I expected even with the freebie tickets which clearly weren't meant to be marketed to the whole world. Will many of those who got the free tickets come again, I'm guessing not many at £27.50 a ticket but I'm hoping that Lions somehow re-price the remaining European games.
Next week will be a very difficult sell at any price, West Ham are playing in the London Stadium at exactly the same time against Man City & I was informed today you can get tickets for £10 for that game. Lions will not attract any new fans at £27.50 a ticket, after all as a family what outlay for a sporting event during half term would you prefer?
It's very unfortunate for Lions & I would have thought it would have been far better to move the game but I'm guessing for some reason that it wasn't possible. I doubt the Copper Box make anything easy.

I counted 30 people exactly the end Lions were attacking first-half and there looked to be a similar number at the other end. That would be 60. Then the two middle blocks down the side were packed. They hold 126 each according to the Ticketmaster map so with a few empty seats that would be circa 220. And then two blocks each at both ends of the side stand were about half full so that would be 60 x 4 or another 240.

Add it all together and that makes 520, not including the broadcast staff and the courtside seats.

It's hard to believe why people don't believe a former BA team-mate of Joe I (who claims to be six years older than him) who has made libellous about someone on here, and derogatory comments about others. it's almost as if you're a proven compulsive liar and no one trusts a thing you say. You reap what you sew.

Apologies for the standard tr077 response everyone 🤷🏽‍♂️

Well here’s one I have already posted!


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Your pretend cancer treatment going well dude? Shame it’s not real - that’d make my year
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Id have hoped for the board’s sake you would have chosen to ignore my posts rather than hanging on every one like a bad smell
I did send to admin but he chose to ignore it sadly

I never apologised to you. You're a scumbag, I wouldn't apologise to you. I said you goaded me into telling you to FRO once, you'd never manage a second time.
But here's the rest of the pm after the bit you've published daveballblog.wordpress.com/1111/10/21/the-bloke-who-i-never-wished-cancer-on/ It doesn't need to pollute this board.

So, London, they're playing well then?

Sorry guys (as you can see this was all initially one way:-(

Yes they’re playing really well.
I can’t see them being beaten domestically this season - can you?

Even on a bad day defensively, I just think they have too much offence for anyone to hang with. Even if they're unfortunate enough to pick up a few knocks, still can't see it.

They look like they enjoy playing together too and there's no Liggins type character that could disrupt any of it.

Some of the numbers being bandied about in this thread are comical. 176... 264. So specific! As if it's possible to count, to a man, the exact number of people in attendance at a game. Even one as poorly attended as this. Regardless of what the exact figure was, I think it's fair to say that when you resort to giving tickets away for free the day before, in an attempt to spare your blushes, and you still only get enough people through the door to just about fill one ten row sideline stand, you've not had a great time of it.

Lions might be able to get a few more in next week without cutting prices. Bayreuth should be a much better opposition. You can advertise that one as a 'MASSIVE, not to be missed, top of the table clash... against a German Bundesliga team... featuring a former NBA draft pick.' That might persuade a few more to turn up. Lions continuing to win games should definitely help a bit too. But if they don't budge on their pricing, I think they'll probably be looking at a similarly poor turnout.

Thats bold - how far are you going back here?