We lost another basketball game tonight. That's four in a row since Christmas. Before Christmas we were having a great season - we won five and lost two. Similarly to the past few years, most of the teams in the league are around the same standard. Most teams are capable of beating any of the others. The strongest team is probably Rathmines, who have an extremely tall player who is high-scoring. At the end of the year, there are play-offs between the top four teams in the league. We still have a chance to make it that far in the season. Here's the league table.
I play Division 4 basketball with St. Declan's in Cabra. Tonight we were beaten by Ranelagh Fire. The game was quite close in the last quarter. Unfortunately, at that stage I was sitting on the bench. I scored one free throw in the first half. We were down a lot of points at half-time, but we made a comeback, and halfway through the last quarter, we were only losing by eight. By the end of the quarter, we had cut the lead to four points. But in the end, we just weren't able to catch them, as we ran out of time.
4 comments:
Third from bottom, eh? How many teams are relegated?
We're in Division 4 - you can't go too much lower!! We'll stage a remarkable recovery yet... Two games next week which I fully expect us to win...
There's a Division 5, so presumably you would be relegated to it. Not that will happen, of course! Best of luck with the rest of the season.
I don't think they relegate teams really. If a team is of a far lower standard they could go down, but we have close games with more or less all the teams in the league. (We can't get promoted either - our club has teams in Division 3 and 2).
Players can move freely between divisions from year to year, so generally players just play in a division that is at their level. (Although there is that hig-scoring big player for Rathmines I mentioned - he could certainly contribute a lot to a team in the first or second division, but I'm not one to complain about that sort of thing...)
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