It is funny how leadership can make or break a group. Our manager is dealing with some difficult stuff and his struggles have directly parlayed into killing the moral of the team. Many players have been asking to be cut loose or traded to other teams. The few of us that have stuck around are still doing our best every night but there just does not seem to be any TEAM. No strategy, no incredible efforts, no drive. It is as if everyone was just showing up to work. Work, hmm that seems to accurately sum up how I approach each game right now. It's a job. I love the game but right now the lack of consistency, communication and camaraderie in our team is really just making this a source of income.
I did get contacted by a team from another country today asking if I was available. My contract is up next season (7th game). Since this is the 52th game in the season, there is only about one more month left on my contract. Maybe the manager of the other team can get through to my current manager. Problem is, even if he does get through to my manager, does my manager want me to leave. Right now I am just in survival mode though. I prepare every day for doing my best in each game. It has affected my play though, but I will get into that tomorrow as I have an important meeting with my conditioning coach that I am late for.
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31 October 2007
15 October 2007
Ohgie Mcgee reporst from the Hristo's Trophy Round
Day 35 Season 3
Man that was a close game! Boston Blaze lost the game by only 2 points, but if you look at the game closely this should have been a win for the Blaze.
To start with the Blaze were a higher rated team coming into the match. Some scouts would only point to the PF position as a point of concern for the Blaze coaching staff. Unfortunately, it seems that the staff might not have received the memo. Fujinj Lee had a great game and a few others had ok games. So what happened to the Blaze?
From being on the floor, I would say that the teamwork was just not there tonight. Our C and PF positions both shot for <40% and that is deplorable for our team that usually has shooters up in the 60% range. The low shooting would be bad enough, but those two positions took almost 1/3 the shots. Ironically, only our PF and C had decent FT. Our FT average was an embarrassing 50 something percent. Sigh, that is horrible and personally I am upset with my performance at the line. I missed 6 shots from FT land! Shooting only 33% from the FT field like I did is totally unacceptable. I will be talking severely to my shooting coaches in effort to get this fixed up as soon as possible. I talked to one coach that told me I needed to practice my 3pt shot more. I started a few days ago but I don't see how that will increase my FT %. Oh well that is what they get paid for, so I guess I better get back to practice.
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Man that was a close game! Boston Blaze lost the game by only 2 points, but if you look at the game closely this should have been a win for the Blaze.
To start with the Blaze were a higher rated team coming into the match. Some scouts would only point to the PF position as a point of concern for the Blaze coaching staff. Unfortunately, it seems that the staff might not have received the memo. Fujinj Lee had a great game and a few others had ok games. So what happened to the Blaze?
From being on the floor, I would say that the teamwork was just not there tonight. Our C and PF positions both shot for <40% and that is deplorable for our team that usually has shooters up in the 60% range. The low shooting would be bad enough, but those two positions took almost 1/3 the shots. Ironically, only our PF and C had decent FT. Our FT average was an embarrassing 50 something percent. Sigh, that is horrible and personally I am upset with my performance at the line. I missed 6 shots from FT land! Shooting only 33% from the FT field like I did is totally unacceptable. I will be talking severely to my shooting coaches in effort to get this fixed up as soon as possible. I talked to one coach that told me I needed to practice my 3pt shot more. I started a few days ago but I don't see how that will increase my FT %. Oh well that is what they get paid for, so I guess I better get back to practice.
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09 October 2007
Ohgie Mcgee reports on a close game...finally
You know what? Loosing stinks, but in my book blowouts stink more! In our game vs the Oakland Vipers on day 30, the fans were treated to one hell of a game. Sure our team came up short by 4 points, but at least there was competition and the game was close...at least at half time. So what happened?
Quarter 1: My man Nestor is a beast, when he chooses to be. The guy took only one shot while dishing out 3 assists. He is such a scoring machine there is no way our team can get buy with him only taking 1 shot a quarter! In contrast, Caan loves to chuck up the rock and his game seems to sink or swim and tonight was not a great night for him shooting. Of course I think the end tally will show I stunk it up as well. In this first quarter I was 0/2 with a couple of made FT. I did have a steal and some assists, but it was too little. Martin was 2/3 which is very nice, but he was not able to add in much of the other stats that our team is used to him filling in for us. He did get a block which we love to see. Marty started out at C with a very respectable performance.
Quarter 2: OUR QUARTER!!!! Finally we get Nester shooting a bit and get Caan to slow down in shooting. Nester and I shot 80% putting in 10 and 8 points respectively while Martin was a perfect 2/2 (again with no other stats in a line that is usually his hallmark?) Martin, again chipped in what we have come to expect from him and Ghs came in to share the load. Ghs did not score, but did fill in a nice stat line for his playing time.
Quarter 3: Nestor checked out? Where did he go? The man only threw it up once in the 3rd? Of course we only got 12 shots in the 3rd and that is a HUGE problem! It is not even worth going player by player in this quarter as we really stunk it up and did not produce much of a defensive effort or an offensive presence.
Quarter 4: Nestor comes back, but Martin and I seem to go to WalMart to get a burger and fries or something. Martin had the excuse that he was not playing (not sure what was up there), but in my 12 min I did not take a single shot. Nestor took 6 and the new guy in Alex Kiu took 5 shots (making only 2 of them?) After those two .. well we really didn't get many opportunities. It is worth noting that Caan benefited from taking a break last quarter in shooting as he hit both his shots this quarter.
We really only won in the second quarter, but the team and the fans at least felt we were in the game . Even if we were to loose every game this season and the final score was within a couple of shots, I would be happy as the competition would be outstanding.
Good Job tonight Oakland and thank you for a great game!
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Quarter 1: My man Nestor is a beast, when he chooses to be. The guy took only one shot while dishing out 3 assists. He is such a scoring machine there is no way our team can get buy with him only taking 1 shot a quarter! In contrast, Caan loves to chuck up the rock and his game seems to sink or swim and tonight was not a great night for him shooting. Of course I think the end tally will show I stunk it up as well. In this first quarter I was 0/2 with a couple of made FT. I did have a steal and some assists, but it was too little. Martin was 2/3 which is very nice, but he was not able to add in much of the other stats that our team is used to him filling in for us. He did get a block which we love to see. Marty started out at C with a very respectable performance.
Quarter 2: OUR QUARTER!!!! Finally we get Nester shooting a bit and get Caan to slow down in shooting. Nester and I shot 80% putting in 10 and 8 points respectively while Martin was a perfect 2/2 (again with no other stats in a line that is usually his hallmark?) Martin, again chipped in what we have come to expect from him and Ghs came in to share the load. Ghs did not score, but did fill in a nice stat line for his playing time.
Quarter 3: Nestor checked out? Where did he go? The man only threw it up once in the 3rd? Of course we only got 12 shots in the 3rd and that is a HUGE problem! It is not even worth going player by player in this quarter as we really stunk it up and did not produce much of a defensive effort or an offensive presence.
Quarter 4: Nestor comes back, but Martin and I seem to go to WalMart to get a burger and fries or something. Martin had the excuse that he was not playing (not sure what was up there), but in my 12 min I did not take a single shot. Nestor took 6 and the new guy in Alex Kiu took 5 shots (making only 2 of them?) After those two .. well we really didn't get many opportunities. It is worth noting that Caan benefited from taking a break last quarter in shooting as he hit both his shots this quarter.
We really only won in the second quarter, but the team and the fans at least felt we were in the game . Even if we were to loose every game this season and the final score was within a couple of shots, I would be happy as the competition would be outstanding.
Good Job tonight Oakland and thank you for a great game!
It's time for us to focus. We need some inspiration and for that we turn to http://www.focusdep.com There are great quotes there that help inspire ... what inspires you?
05 October 2007
Ohgie Mcgee reports on the Blaze international play
Another International game, another blow out. I am not sure which agency is setting up these International games or what criteria they are using, but there definitely does not seem to be much competition in these international games. Either we kill someone or they kill us. We were on the winning side vb Poirua Impalers by a 122 to 67 margin.
Martin had a monster game and made MOM! Actually everyone shot better than 50% and chipped in nicely in other stats. Nestor had a tipple double which is always nice to see!
I notice that coach has been playing with the center position a bit lately. Marty has been a good center for us but he can not seem to dominate on the boards like our shooting team needs. Ghs has been splitting time with Marty and although his rebounding is marginally better, we have not seen too much of an improvement in the rebound department yet.
There was talk of our players getting shipped over seas to play in some other leagues, but I have not heard anything in awhile so I'm not sure if that was just a rumor or what.
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Martin had a monster game and made MOM! Actually everyone shot better than 50% and chipped in nicely in other stats. Nestor had a tipple double which is always nice to see!
I notice that coach has been playing with the center position a bit lately. Marty has been a good center for us but he can not seem to dominate on the boards like our shooting team needs. Ghs has been splitting time with Marty and although his rebounding is marginally better, we have not seen too much of an improvement in the rebound department yet.
There was talk of our players getting shipped over seas to play in some other leagues, but I have not heard anything in awhile so I'm not sure if that was just a rumor or what.
How about you? Are you playing for your country? What? You're not playing? Well come on over to http://www.cyberdunk.com and get yourself a character. Its free, fun and only takes a few minutes each day to do!
02 October 2007
Ohgie Mcgee mulls over Sink or Swim in the league
Oh I am getting so frustrated with the different levels of talent in this Golden Division in the USA. Our team is in the middle of the pack and that is alright. Sure I want to be number one but it is much sweeter to get there over time working hard to get there. The problem is that the top teams are over a year and a half over each of our players and the bottom teams are almost a year behind all of our players. What the hell are players with so many levels of talent doing in the same division? I feel our players may be better suited to the silver league thinking about how we compare to the top teams. The top teams have players that plug in all the money and have huge players that are all superstars compared to players on teams ranked 10th or more in our division. The coach has talked about moving the team to another country but not sure it is much better there either. In Lithuania and in Israel the games were still lopsided quite a bit. Right now we will have a game where we loose by almost 100 points then we will kill a team by 100. Tonight's game was one of the closest ones I remember and we won by 21. In my experience that would be called a blow out but in this league ... that was a close shave. I just don't know.
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