But a day after his first win, Stein was less than enthused.
"Defensively, we did decent but our offense was just absolutely horrible," Stein told OTR Sports on Thursday afternoon. "Our inability to hit any sort of outside shot, the fact that our big man did not play at all like a big man, and the fact that (Jordan Backs) had a shooting drought in the second half was (expletive) unbelievable."
Kiel Voight scored a game-high 10 points and OTR Sports co-founder Adam Rosenberg added eight points for Team Buckiiiits, which was without its leading scorer, Jeff Mayonnaise, and the perpetual non-factor, Big Guy. Tadd Moore came off the bench to score one point -- on 0 of 4 shooting -- but also played suffocating defense.
"I ain't gonna lie to you," Stein said, "we need Mayo back. The offense flows through Mayonnaise."
Mayonnaise is expected to return Sunday for the team's regular-season finale against 1-2 TKE, which lost to Hawks 50-12 on Wednesday. Buckiiiits beat the Hawks 46-43 two weeks ago.
If Buckiiiits wins Sunday to improve to 4-0, they will automatically be bumped up a division for the playoffs.
Asked if his team stood any chance against a tougher division, Stein said, "I haven’t seen a Class B team play, but if I had to bet, I would probably go with no."
Stein's pessimism stems from Wednesday's game in which Buckiiiits shot a collective 23 percent (11-for-48) from the field. Backs, the team's second-leading scorer, was held to just three points on 1 of 13 shooting.
Your trusty correspondent had a season-high seven points and five steals, while playing 28 minutes with flu-like symptoms. His performance will air again on ESPN Classic on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Buckiiiits returns to action Sunday at 4:30 p.m., Court 3.
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2 comments:
Sweet. Even Grant gets his name mentioned when he isn't even there. Way to leave one person out on your blog.
By the way Lav airballed a free throw.
It's not that I'm pessimistic, its just that I'm honest. Team Buckiiiits is a phenomenal C league team, I just have concerns with what they'd be able to do in the B league. It's kinda like Crash Davis and the Durham Bulls. He was great in triple A, made it to the bigs, "hit a dinger," and hung it up. If Team Buckiiiits were to make it to the B league playoffs, I envision a possible upset "dinger" in the first round and then hang it up after a tail whooping like the one Ain't Got A Clue experienced both times against Buckiiiits.
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