Winter 2015: A Draft League Champs: 7th Floor Crew

Commentary by GERRITY & POPKO...

The Card Cheats 64  Snatch Adams 68

Snatch Adams Survives Franz's Hot Shooting to Open Season with Win

Hey guys, for those of you who don't know me I'm Popko and I'll be teaming up with Gerrity as league scribes this season. Apologies for the delay in getting this write-up out, promise to turn things around quick next week. Anyway, Nearly a month late, the A Draft finally kicked off. What a way to celebrate President's Day, am I right?

Also, you should probably check out my preview of the season, mostly just to tell me how wrong I am: http://www.cacbasketball.com/discussion/cac-league-discussion/a-draft-preview-week-1-lines/

In the first contest of the season we had The Card Cheats and Snatch Adams -- my bottom two predicted teams pre-season. Hard to keep them both there after watching this game, especially when you consider No. 1 overall pick Ollquist only seemed to have his A-game for the last quarter of the game and No. 3 pick Struck didn't even show up for The Card Cheats.

Both teams started slow, as is wont to happen after an extended offseason, but this was particularly ugly. The first 11 three-pointers went begging ugly Franz finally banged one home at the 11 minute mark. That turned on the faucet, at least for Franz. He would go on to drain three more in the 1st and five in the 2nd on his way to 31 points on the game.

The ugliness subsided slightly, but not entirely, as evidenced by the rebound totals on both sides. Maurice was attacking at will for TCC and Snatch spread things around, with Ollquist, Aidan, Pat and Jono all pitching in with at least 6 as the game went to the break knotted at 32.

The game continued to go back and forth all half. Pat bullied Gerrity in the post. Franz answered with a 3. Aiden grabbed offensive boards and hit transition 3s. Franz answered with another barrage of 3s.

In the end, Ollquist kind of took over for Snatch at around the 10-minute mark. He only scored four points from open play but he created havoc, dished a couple of assists and generally just dictated play. He also managed to go 3-for-4 from the line down the game to help ice the game and come away with the win.

Three Random Thoughts

• Sure they were playing with only four guys, but it took just 12 minutes for every player on TCC to grab an assist. Not too shabby.
• If it weren't for Franz (9-for-17 from deep), Jono's four treys might have stood out more. To be fair, his team win, so maybe they did.
• I'm sorry Gerrity, I know I don't know you too well yet, but no way I can let you get away with airballing three 3PT attempts and having another clang off hitting nothing but backboard.

We Just Bout That Action Boss 75  Citizen Clown 79

The Clown Pulls off a Glorious Escape Act

***Box Score for the Mighty One**

Nick Mazzeo, 52 points, 7 rebs, 2 assists, 1 steal, 12-18 3FG, 3-3 FT

Write-up to come mid-week, phenomenal game here...

Winning is Sinning 58  7th Floor Crew 95