The line ups are calculated using the NBA.com Efficiency Formula with added emphasis on attendance
All-GTBA First Team:
C- Feifei Jiang - Dummy Bears: 12 PPG, 15.6 RPG, 1.6 BPG, 1.6 SPG
F- Paul Tan - EricSu.com: 13.2 PPG, 18.9 RPG, 3.9 APG, 2.4 SPG
F- Robby Huang - EricSu.com: 26.0 PPG, 10.6 RPG, 1.3 BPG, 1.7 SPG
G-Manley Wong - Indy Boys: 19.7 PPG, 2.7 APG, 1.7 SPG
G-Titus Wright - Unusual Suspects: 22.2 PPG, 9.0 RPG, 0.8 BPG, 3.3 SPG, 2.3 APG
Second Team:
C - Bryan Cheng - BumbleBees: 7.3 PPG, 12.1 RPG, 2.1 BPG
PF - Chang Lee - Indy Boys: 10.0 PPG, 12.7 RPG, 0.6 BPG, 1.1 SPG
F - Joe Hughes - BumbleBees: 11.0 PPG, 8.8 RPG, 2.5 APG, 3.0 SPG
G - Thomas Hailey - Godzilla: 11.9 PPG, 10.4 RPG, 4.1 APG, 2.7 SPG,
G - Nick Hailey - Unusual Suspects: 18.6 PPG, 7.4 RPG, 3.8 APG, 2.2 SPG
Third Team:
F - Ty Rashad - BumbleBees: 23.5 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 2.0 SPG
F - Mark Yoon - Indy Boys: 8.9 PPG, 9.1 RPG, 3.3 APG, 1.1 SPG
F - Brian Adams - EricSu.com: 9.8 PPG, 8.5 RPG, 1.3 SPG
G - Paul Kim - Indy Boys: 10.5 PPG, 4.5 RPG, 4.4 APG, 1.9 SPG
G - Gino Calderon - BumbleBees: 22.2 PPG, 3.7 RPG, 2.0 APG
Honorable Mentions: Darrel Sims (UNU), Gabe Smith (ZILLA), Alan Wang (BEARS), Tim Hoover (ZILLA), Xiao Chen (UNU), Mahdi Thompson (BBB), Justin Zhu (UNU), Xiaofan Fu (UNU), Eric Su (ESU)
All-Defensive Team:
C- Bryan Cheng BumbleBees
C - Feifei Jiang Dummy Bears
F - Paul Tan EricSu.com
F- Chang Lee Indy Boys
G - Titus Wright Unusual Suspects
Honorable Mentions: Robby Huang (ESU), Thomas Hailey (ZILLA), Joe Hughes (BBB), Alan Wang (Bears), Mahdi Thompson (BBB), Brian Adams (ESU), Gabe Smith (ZILLA), Anton Lee (Bears)
Finals MVP: Gino Calderon (BBB)
League MVP: Paul Tan (ESU)
Most Improved Player: Eric Su (ESU)
Defensive Player of the Season: Paul Tan (ESU)
Rookies of the Season: Titus Wright (UNU), Robby Huang (ESU)
Rookies 1st Team:
C - Feifei Jiang (BEARS)
F - Joe Hughes (BBB)
F - Ty Rashad (BBB)
G - Robby Huang (ESU)
G - Titus Wright (UNU)
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Summer Season Preview II - The Newcomers
The league has expanded to nine teams. And this is its largest season ever.
With the Gummy Bears losing lots of their players to the Taiwan Super League, Alan Wang, Melvin Chung, and Jack Chiang have joined in hand with last year's "Super Sub" Robert Taylor to form the Hidden Dragons. Coach Taylor, a new John Wall groupie, will be overseeing the day to day tasks of the team. Not wasting any time, he had already drafted perhaps the biggest star in league history in Kortea Johnson. The former Usual Suspect and the current Concord University Mountain Lion star player is expected to immediately take this team to the championship game. Expect some posters to be made when the Dragons play. The Dragons had also signed Ty Rashad, and yet released him to Rush Hour for unknown reasons. Again, the mystery surrounding that man is just that, a mystery. New additions Brian and Jalen will also make an immediate impact, where Jalen is considered a poor man's Kortea Johnson.
Meanwhile, Tim Hoover, Calvin Wilson, and TJ Ciochetto moved onto Crouching Tigers, taking half of Godzilla's core with them. With TJ Ciochetto at the helm, each member of the team is guaranteed a bottle of gatorade per game day. Joining them is another sensation and former Usual Suspect Scott Kebo. Kebo is a high flyer who is also dangerous from the outside. Expect great battles when he is matched up with the likes of Robby Huang and Kortea Johnson. The biggest question for this team is, how well will the players mesh? If they can come together, then sky's the limit.
Then there are the other two new teams, the Healthy Veggies, and Rush Hour. The Healthy Veggies will be under the leadership of Shen Liang, who has been training with CCC on a weekly basis, so he's no stranger to the physicality and the hacking. The Veggies will also have a former CCC member, Zhu Xiangfu, who will undoubtedly be the oldest member in the league. A former member of the People's Liberation Army basketball team, Zhu played in the first season for CCC, and pulled down 22 rebounds in a single game, setting the league record. (The record was since broken by Paul Tan) The resumes of other members of the Veggies are still unknown.
Rush Hour will have two familiar faces in former EricSu.com point guard Fan Xu and former Indy Boys center Matt Trettel. Trettel was arguably the best player at his position, averaging 20 points and 13 rebounds per game while leading the Indy Boys to the championship in the first season. Matt Trettel still has not lost a game in this league, who will be the first team to change that? Also joining is the lefty forward Brandon Jones, who stands at 6'2" with a much longer wingspan. The opponents will think twice about taking the ball into that front line. Ty Rashad is on the roster of Rush Hour, yet again, we will never know for sure until the ball is tipped.
There it is, hopefully there will be more records broken in the new season. Only Unusual Suspects Xiao Chen and Darrel Sims have made the only two dunks in league history, with the addition of plenty of high flyers, that will change for sure.
With the Gummy Bears losing lots of their players to the Taiwan Super League, Alan Wang, Melvin Chung, and Jack Chiang have joined in hand with last year's "Super Sub" Robert Taylor to form the Hidden Dragons. Coach Taylor, a new John Wall groupie, will be overseeing the day to day tasks of the team. Not wasting any time, he had already drafted perhaps the biggest star in league history in Kortea Johnson. The former Usual Suspect and the current Concord University Mountain Lion star player is expected to immediately take this team to the championship game. Expect some posters to be made when the Dragons play. The Dragons had also signed Ty Rashad, and yet released him to Rush Hour for unknown reasons. Again, the mystery surrounding that man is just that, a mystery. New additions Brian and Jalen will also make an immediate impact, where Jalen is considered a poor man's Kortea Johnson.
Meanwhile, Tim Hoover, Calvin Wilson, and TJ Ciochetto moved onto Crouching Tigers, taking half of Godzilla's core with them. With TJ Ciochetto at the helm, each member of the team is guaranteed a bottle of gatorade per game day. Joining them is another sensation and former Usual Suspect Scott Kebo. Kebo is a high flyer who is also dangerous from the outside. Expect great battles when he is matched up with the likes of Robby Huang and Kortea Johnson. The biggest question for this team is, how well will the players mesh? If they can come together, then sky's the limit.
Then there are the other two new teams, the Healthy Veggies, and Rush Hour. The Healthy Veggies will be under the leadership of Shen Liang, who has been training with CCC on a weekly basis, so he's no stranger to the physicality and the hacking. The Veggies will also have a former CCC member, Zhu Xiangfu, who will undoubtedly be the oldest member in the league. A former member of the People's Liberation Army basketball team, Zhu played in the first season for CCC, and pulled down 22 rebounds in a single game, setting the league record. (The record was since broken by Paul Tan) The resumes of other members of the Veggies are still unknown.
Rush Hour will have two familiar faces in former EricSu.com point guard Fan Xu and former Indy Boys center Matt Trettel. Trettel was arguably the best player at his position, averaging 20 points and 13 rebounds per game while leading the Indy Boys to the championship in the first season. Matt Trettel still has not lost a game in this league, who will be the first team to change that? Also joining is the lefty forward Brandon Jones, who stands at 6'2" with a much longer wingspan. The opponents will think twice about taking the ball into that front line. Ty Rashad is on the roster of Rush Hour, yet again, we will never know for sure until the ball is tipped.
There it is, hopefully there will be more records broken in the new season. Only Unusual Suspects Xiao Chen and Darrel Sims have made the only two dunks in league history, with the addition of plenty of high flyers, that will change for sure.
Summer Season Preview I - The Veterans
General Tso's Basketball Association's Summer 2010 season is set to begin after 33 days of off season. This time, it will be officially handled by the Monon Center as part of their summer program.
After a controversial win (the game was wrongfully called with 0.9 seconds left on the clock) against the Unusual Suspects at Conseco Fieldhouse in last season's championship game, the BumbleBees (not Bubble Bees, as one of their teammates still fervently maintained) will begin the defense of the their trophy without their captain Bryan Cheng and their leading scorer Ty Rashad. Cheng is nursing a mysterious and yet perhaps non-existent injury, while conflicting stories have surfaced concerning the reason behind Ty Rashad's departure from the team. Rumors have it that he will join the new team Rush Hour, but in this league, nothing is confirmed until the whistle blows on Saturday. MVP Gino Calderon and new captain Mahdi Thompson will look to carry the team with several new additions, along with their reliable veterans.
The Unusual Suspects will return all of its players with the exception of Nick Hailey and Justin Zhu, both are in Asia suffering the blazing heat at this moment. Captain Xiao Chen is still recovering from the knee injury he suffered before the championship game last season. Dynamic guards Titus Wright and Darrel Sims will both return. Big man Xiaofan Fu will unveil his new post moves that he had been working on against CCC in the off season. Xiao Chen went out of his way to acquire two new additions: Tony Boyd, a versatile defender and a floor leader, and Qing Ni aka QQ, the best female Chinese hooper in the Midwest. That's why Chen was so adamant in making a new rule where any point a female player scores would be doubled. The commissioner and other captains quickly objected to that idea. Despite that, the former Lady Hornet of Beech Grove is still expected to shine in the back court.
EricSu.com is coming back with a new name and a set of new uniforms. Panda Xpress will retain all of its core players plus a new addition in Brandon. Robby Huang, fresh off the North American Chinese Basketbal Invitational in Toronto, is looking to make a few highlights above the rim in addition to his dominance beyond the arc. Last season's regular season MVP Paul Tan is expected to resume his monopoly on the boards. Eric Su and Jun He have improved and will demonstrate that on the court. With the new face lift, will this team have better luck in the playoffs?
Godzilla had an overhaul of its roster that saw its leading scorer Tim Hoover and the energetic Calvin Wilson, along with tough defender TJ Ciochetto joining the new team Crouching Tigers. However, with captain Thomas Hailey finding several able replacements, most notably the former Usual Suspect gunslinger John von Arx, this team will certainly surpass the expectations of most. The only question is that will Gabe Smith be focused on playing basketball before the end of the World Cup on July 11th? And will he be sober?
After a heartbreaking yet also controversial loss to the Bees in the semis last season, the Indy Boys are coming back as Krazy Koreans, or Goons? Losing their star Paul Kim to expansion, they have signed versatile forward Justin Barnett to take some pressure off Chang Lee. With key players Mark Yoon and Manley Wong returning, the inaugural champs are right back in the game, at least on paper. Only question would be, will Manley Wong still have his touch after spending the last month living lavishly in Hong Kong?
In the next post, we will discuss the new teams, some of which are immediately viewed as contenders.
After a controversial win (the game was wrongfully called with 0.9 seconds left on the clock) against the Unusual Suspects at Conseco Fieldhouse in last season's championship game, the BumbleBees (not Bubble Bees, as one of their teammates still fervently maintained) will begin the defense of the their trophy without their captain Bryan Cheng and their leading scorer Ty Rashad. Cheng is nursing a mysterious and yet perhaps non-existent injury, while conflicting stories have surfaced concerning the reason behind Ty Rashad's departure from the team. Rumors have it that he will join the new team Rush Hour, but in this league, nothing is confirmed until the whistle blows on Saturday. MVP Gino Calderon and new captain Mahdi Thompson will look to carry the team with several new additions, along with their reliable veterans.
The Unusual Suspects will return all of its players with the exception of Nick Hailey and Justin Zhu, both are in Asia suffering the blazing heat at this moment. Captain Xiao Chen is still recovering from the knee injury he suffered before the championship game last season. Dynamic guards Titus Wright and Darrel Sims will both return. Big man Xiaofan Fu will unveil his new post moves that he had been working on against CCC in the off season. Xiao Chen went out of his way to acquire two new additions: Tony Boyd, a versatile defender and a floor leader, and Qing Ni aka QQ, the best female Chinese hooper in the Midwest. That's why Chen was so adamant in making a new rule where any point a female player scores would be doubled. The commissioner and other captains quickly objected to that idea. Despite that, the former Lady Hornet of Beech Grove is still expected to shine in the back court.
EricSu.com is coming back with a new name and a set of new uniforms. Panda Xpress will retain all of its core players plus a new addition in Brandon. Robby Huang, fresh off the North American Chinese Basketbal Invitational in Toronto, is looking to make a few highlights above the rim in addition to his dominance beyond the arc. Last season's regular season MVP Paul Tan is expected to resume his monopoly on the boards. Eric Su and Jun He have improved and will demonstrate that on the court. With the new face lift, will this team have better luck in the playoffs?
Godzilla had an overhaul of its roster that saw its leading scorer Tim Hoover and the energetic Calvin Wilson, along with tough defender TJ Ciochetto joining the new team Crouching Tigers. However, with captain Thomas Hailey finding several able replacements, most notably the former Usual Suspect gunslinger John von Arx, this team will certainly surpass the expectations of most. The only question is that will Gabe Smith be focused on playing basketball before the end of the World Cup on July 11th? And will he be sober?
After a heartbreaking yet also controversial loss to the Bees in the semis last season, the Indy Boys are coming back as Krazy Koreans, or Goons? Losing their star Paul Kim to expansion, they have signed versatile forward Justin Barnett to take some pressure off Chang Lee. With key players Mark Yoon and Manley Wong returning, the inaugural champs are right back in the game, at least on paper. Only question would be, will Manley Wong still have his touch after spending the last month living lavishly in Hong Kong?
In the next post, we will discuss the new teams, some of which are immediately viewed as contenders.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Season 3 Off-Season and News
Season 3 is looking to be the best season yet for the GTBA. This season's draft should bring a lot of talent to the league. Some notable draftees are Kortea' "King" Johnson, Scott Kebo, and John VonArx.
Season 2 league champs the Bumble Bees will be loosing team captain Bryan Cheng and possible starting forward Ty Rashad. The Bees should be able to find some talent to replace the missing pieces as this is one of the deepest drafts in league history.
Some other new changes will be the addition of the first ever offical jerseys for all the teams. Ericsu.com has offically changed the team name to Panda Xpress, also the Dummy Bears have been re-assigned to the new team name Hidden Dragons.
Indy Boyz disjointed with season 2 have decided to not participate this season and will be replaced with a new team, the Crouching Tigers, who will not participate in the draft.
Other News:
League Draft/Assignment Party will be held at 6:00pm, June 12th. Teams will be announced shortly after. For more information contact the GTBA Facebook group.
Season 2 league champs the Bumble Bees will be loosing team captain Bryan Cheng and possible starting forward Ty Rashad. The Bees should be able to find some talent to replace the missing pieces as this is one of the deepest drafts in league history.
Some other new changes will be the addition of the first ever offical jerseys for all the teams. Ericsu.com has offically changed the team name to Panda Xpress, also the Dummy Bears have been re-assigned to the new team name Hidden Dragons.
Indy Boyz disjointed with season 2 have decided to not participate this season and will be replaced with a new team, the Crouching Tigers, who will not participate in the draft.
Other News:
League Draft/Assignment Party will be held at 6:00pm, June 12th. Teams will be announced shortly after. For more information contact the GTBA Facebook group.
Season 2 - End of Season recap
Due to a lack of time and not keeping this up to date. Season 3's blog will be much improved.
Seasons 2 league champs the Bumble Bees won in dramatic fashion as Mahdi Thompson drained a 3 foot shot to win by one, over the Unusual Suspects.
Season 2 awards:
MVP - Paul Tan
All other votes are still being calculated.
Seasons 2 league champs the Bumble Bees won in dramatic fashion as Mahdi Thompson drained a 3 foot shot to win by one, over the Unusual Suspects.
Season 2 awards:
MVP - Paul Tan
All other votes are still being calculated.
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