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Commentary by ELLIOTT and Tibbs and Hanks...

Citizen Clown 38  OLD Dog OLD Tricks 42

Bombs Away 62  Fake News 54

Four Pinocchios - Bombs Away hands Fake News first loss

Week 4 Game 1 @ MLK was touted as the matchup of the week with 3-0 Fake News matching up with 1-2 Bombs Away. Fake News was looking like the fact-checked zero-Pinocchio real deal having just beat the Fraher and Aiden & company in week 3. Ray is playing lights out and the top MVP vote getter in a recent poll and Despots putting up a solid scoring average on the young season. Bombs Away was playing better than their 1-2 record and coming off of a solid win against Das Kapital. Would Fake News keep rolling and stay undefeated or would the dynamic scoring duo of Train and Cooley prevail?  

Bombs Away took the initiative early and was moving the ball well and would find the open man for good shot selection and Eloi got two early threes to fall to bring the lead to 15-8. Fake News was trying to get the ball inside to Ian Murphy who was more often looking to pass out of the post than shoot despite having a solid height mismatch on Eloi. I appreciate the pass first mentality, but as a fellow big man, when you have that mismatch you gotta take it up! That being said, he did have some really nice dimes to a cutting Mathieu Despots and Fake News cut the lead to 4. The smallest guy on the court Andrew Cheever pulled down an offensive rebound and got fouled on the put back to get the hard earned and-1 and Bombs Away would be back up by 10 with 8 minutes to play. Harry Lebov was trying some Kyrie Irving-esque double clutch layups and not getting anything to fall. Keep it simple and get the bucket! Andrew Ray would take over in the closing minutes for Fake News and get them within 6 at the break.

Player of the Half: CHEEVER – (9 pts 4 OReb) was in the right place at the right time to get open layups and grabbed 4 offensive boards to give Bombs Away some second chance points.

Cooley and Train would come alive in the early minutes of the second half to bring Bombs Away’s lead up to 10 with 13:00 left to go. Greg Horne was all over the place for Bombs Away grabbing boards and finding his teammates for assists. Ray would get into the zone offensively and hit 4 straight shots and Fake news cut the lead down to 5. Bombs Away was able to hold on and Cooley hit a back breaking 3 to extend the lead to 6. Captain Harry Lebov who disappeared on offensive for most of the game stepped into a clutch 3 with 2:30 left to go and cut the lead to 3. Ryan Train answered with a 3 and on the ensuing inbound there was a miscommunication between Ian and Ray on Fake News which led to an argument between the teammates which delayed the game and caused the official to call it. Bombs Away gives Fake News their first loss of the season. Overheard on the sideline: “What an unfortunate way to lose a game”. Especially when you are an undefeated team, you gotta stay calm in a big spot like that. Fake News has a chance to reclaim first place next week in a matchup with undefeated Cac-N-Ballers. Bombs Away is in a good spot to go on a 3-game win streak against 0-4 Citizen Clown.

Player of the Game: Ryan Train (17pts/8reb) – did not score as much as Cooley but despite the slow first half, would pick it up and hit clutch shots at the end of the second half to close out the game.

CareyUs2Victory 49  The Box 54

This Is The Way 67  CAC-N-Ballers 71

Cac-N-Ballers stay undefeated on 17 point comeback

Week 4 Game 2 at MLK was another heavyweight matchup that saw 2-1 This is the Way taking on undefeated Cac-N-Ballers. CNB were coming off their highest scoring outing of the season while TITW were coming back to Earth after being handed their first loss by Fake News. Heading into this game I was wondering who on CNC would guard Aiden and if CNB’s balanced offensive game would be enough to keep up with the explosive offense of TITW.

TITW would be once again missing Nate Weitzer (who I guess is going to finish the season averaging 43 points… on 1 game) as well as John Welch and Thomas Peteet. Fraher would pick up a cameo appearance from Chas as a sub. CNB was missing Tibbets who was running late as the games at MLK this week uncharacteristically started on time. This won’t happen again, trust me.

Aiden and Fraher came out gunning early and it seemed like TITW was running a constant fast break with Aiden and Chas pushing the pace and getting to the bucket or finding Fraher on the wings for an automatic midrange, and he even took and made a 3. TITW were out to an early 25-8 lead and it seemed like this would be a long night for CNB. Tibbets entered the gym and hit on his first 3point attempt and from there CNB would begin to chip away at the lead. CNB started to pack the paint with Mike Primeau and Tibbets which prevented Aiden from driving at will. Slowly but surely, TITW’s 17-point lead dwindled just 4 going into halftime. CNB was doing a great job getting everyone involved and every was contributing on offense.

Player of the Half – Fraher (17pts, 1/1 3pa, 7Reb, 2 Ast) Fraher shot a ridiculous percentage in the first half, I really don’t think he missed at all, maybe once.

CNB continued to do a great job limiting Aiden in the second half and forcing him to take threes and keeping him from scoring in the paint. He would shoot 8 free throws in the second half after not going to the line at all in the first. Fraher also slowed down significantly after the break and the game was back and forth. Aiden was making some wild running threes while Nick Perras would match by stepping into a couple deep threes. Tibbets and Primeau held down the paint and Ken Cohen chipped in hitting some midrange. Things started getting chippy between Mike and Aiden and both teams were throwing down some hard fouls. With under a minute to go Primeau got a lay up and finally CNB was able to break the tide and take their first lead. They held off TITW’s final attempt and held on to win 71-67 and stay undefeated.

CNB will have another tough test next week to stay undefeated in a matchup with Fake News. TITW drops to 2-2 and takes on 2-2 D’Enourmous Boules.

Player of the Game: Perras – 19 points and clutch 3 pointers in the final minutes of the game.

Das Kapital 66  D'Enormes Boules 58