sluggo said:
Big C said:
Alkiadt said:
calumnus said:
oskidunker said:
Faced a quality @bayergiantslev squad & came up short tonight in Germany.
Cal 59, Leverkusen 85
Devin Askew (7pts), Lars Thiemann (6) & Sam Alajiki (6) pacing the Bears in scoring.
"Came up short" is not how you usually describe a 26 point loss.
Interesting that it was Lars' former team. How much did he play on it 4 (or 5?) years ago?
He played on their younger development team. Not at this level.
This. Lars played on their "Pro-B" team. This was their Pro-A.
Most of the things we learned as a result of this trip were positive.
The only thing I learned is that the athletic department department has reached new levels of incompetence by not providing a stream for any game. You think you have reached the bottom, but there is always farther to go.
Not only was there no streams, but there were not even any boxscores. So what the heck could we learn? I know the loss was against a real German professional team, so that is expected, although I have no idea if they played their best players. I don't know anything about the Belgian team, how seriously they took the game, or the quality of the Belgian league.
So other than the games existing, tell me what we learned.
Yeah, the "no streaming" was pretty weak. Maybe they were all set to go, but then, at that first venue, the water came through the roof in and shorted out the streamer.
(that was a joke... some of my jokes lately are like the one about the roof: over somebody's head... "roof", get the tie in?)
I think we learned two things:
1. Some players look like they will be in the mix. Players we probably hadn't counted on. Talkin' about Newell and Bowser. That is probably good news.
2. Even though we can't stay with a better European "A" team, we can blow out a rag-tag collection of Belgians. So our "floor" is higher than what you might hear about from our most negative posters.