It is one of the weaker derbies of all time, Due to Sagesse massive financial trouble. They are committed in contracts worth up 1.4 m , and are not paying .. massive debts.
varda , and this ukranian guy pecherov..might be 2 of worst foreigners in the league. or i might be wrong. but they are definetly cheap options.
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Originally posted by Mika Hakinen View PostUkrainian bigmen Alexei Pecerov will continue his career in Sagesse
Very interesting move... I want to see your derby, give me link please!
Game started, think you can watch here
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Ukrainian bigmen Alexei Pecerov will continue his career in Sagesse
Very interesting move... I want to see your derby, give me link please!Leave a comment:
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Tomorrow Derby Lebanon. Sagesse @ Riyadi
Due to some late political events, this game might be tense. Hopefully no problem, and everything goes clean.
Estimated budget of each team
Riyadi 2 Million Dollar
Byblos 1 Million
Sagesse 1 Million
Champville 800 Thousand Dollar
Mouttahed 600 - 700 Thousand Dollar
Tadamon 600 Thousand Dollar
Homenetmen 600 Thousand Dollar
Hoops 300 - 400 Thousand Dollar
Louaize 300 Thousand Dollar , could be less as well.
Estimated Total: 7 - 8 Million Dollar.Leave a comment:
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Sagesse signed contract with Ratko Varda, most probably to replace Jarrid Famous.Leave a comment:
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Yesterday Byblos beats Tadamon in overtime 83 - 81 , with Jay Youngblood injured they brought in Jordanian player Zaid Abbas to fill the role for 2 weeks. He did solid work with 14 points, 13 rebounds.
Steve Butt scored 34 points, but one assist and yet again was very selfish.He kept shooting, shooting and shooting.. missed shot after shot. Watching Byblos offence was just Burtt playing all by himself, and others watching.
Checking the stat sheet. Burtt shot 11 - 34 .... 23 missed shots. ( 3 - 17 from 3 point line).
Tadamon deserved the win more.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Mika Hakinen View Post
It appears byblos keeping the coach nenad vucinic and refusing his resignation, plus not getting rid of burtt.
I would say, he is very selfish and never passes. Plus keep jacking one 3 after the other, and none of them goes in.He has games like shooting 15 3 pointers and scores only 2.
They were hyping him to be next Terrell Stoglin, but he is far away from being half good as Stoglin.Leave a comment:
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I saw him in Ukraine and in Spartak SPB, he's not bball player, he's streetboller without brain.Originally posted by eshmawi View PostLeave a comment:
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Byblos coach just resigned, and Byblos got rid of Steve Burtt. Not sure if Byblos coach now goes back on his resignation, with burtt gone.
What an overrated player, Steve Burtt ...did absolutely nothing.Leave a comment:
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Byblos lose again, in complete mess now. Build a team around 3 foreigners at point guard, shooting guard, small forward..
and signed most of lebanese center/power forwards. now they find themselves 1 win 4 losses.
just shows how bad we are at center/power forward, and superior in guard play. they need to sign now a foreigner center...but will fuck their team because they dont have good lebanese guard.....
Bassel Bawji, Steve Burtt overrated playersLeave a comment:
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Ghassan Sarkis pretty much fought everyone on this planet.
He fought with ex-lebanese federation, he fought with current lebanese federation.He thinks himself he should be only one eligible to coach lebanese NT.
He fought with all major teams, claims hoops should be in second division and leave first division. Fought with Sagesse fans. He even fought internally within his team, and kicked a financial backer out..
Now the latest, he is fighting referees...and some referees refusing to referee games involving ghassan sarkis. so latest game between champville - tadamon started 30 minutes late. until a solution was reached with referees.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Mika Hakinen View Post
oh well.
Riyadi - in a planet of their own. They can play with just 2 foreigners instead of 3 and win this league. They have near monopoly over best lebanese players. Their top scorer is AAron Harper with just 16.6 ppg, which just shows how much weapons they have that their score is always distributed between bench and starters. All this, and Fadi el Khatib is soon coming to join them.
Homenetmen - been the most exciting team in the league, alot of alley ooops and dunks. They have very intresting foreigners, Justin Tubbs - Dewayne Jackson keep dunking and throwing alley oops to each other. Then they have Norvel Pelle, who is block machine ... he is so athletic and flies on everybody else. Top protector of the rim in the league. Ahmad Ibrahim is exploding for them as well. Best Lebanese scorer/player this season with average 21.7 ppg.
The reason they wont win the title, their bench is atrocious.
Sagesse - A team in mess. They have like 9 - 10 players out of 12 man roster that are shooting guards and point guards. They need to change their foreigners, and bring in 2 foreigners at position 3 and 4. Because lebanese wise their team is full of players at position 1 & 2. Right now they play 2 point guards as starters, and 2 shooting guards + center Jarrid Famous. They also have financial problems, with lot of their players and coach not recieving their salaries.
Tadamon - The most organized team in the league. Thanks to having Serbian coach, and 2 serbian foreigners.
Mouttahed - This team is the most unlikable team in the league. Because their 3 foreigners keep putting up 95 % of their score, and their lebanese players do absolute jack all in games.
Champville - Their lebanese players are putting up numbers but they need some better foreigners at small forward and center position. Defensively they dont sound a good team either.
Hoops - The team with average foreigners, but the stand out is Lebanese point guard Ali Mezher who is topping the assists chart and elevated his game even more this season over last year.
Louaize - the team with 0 wins, average lebanese and average foreigners. They are losing by small gap, but they do lack alot. ONe big problem they have, their spacing is atrocious and they have no 3 point shooters.
Byblos - the big disappointment of the season to now, came in with large budget and pretty much signed all the lebanese power forwards/centers and build their team around 3 foreigners that play position point guard, shooting guard and small forward. Steve Burtt came with lot hype, but proving to be vastly overrated by now. Selfish, and destructive to his other teammates especially Jay Youngblood.Leave a comment:
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Ahmad will for sure have better stats playing with Homenetmen than with Riyadi...Originally posted by eshmawi View Post
What we need to see if he can be a good leader of a team and bring a winning mentality to his new team...
One thing I can notice is that Ahmad is still a very emotional player and this can easily affect his game... Cuz if he gets frustrated he easily loses focus and this can have a negative impact on his team...
Moreover I don't think Ahmad's performances will be very stable this season.. Meaning that he can have a great game in 1 game and then play bad in the second.. Consistency is something he needs to work on developing for sure...Leave a comment:
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