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Post by cosbyrider on Feb 12, 2024 10:52:03 GMT
It will be either the 5th or 6th of March Now confirmed - London Lions v Turk Telecom Ankara, Wednesday 6th March. Tip-off time is 6pm according to the EuroCup website... which is an odd time for a home (Copper Box) game. It could be a mistake, or it could be something to do with EuroCup play-off rules and how the games need to be scheduled (there are 3 other games that night). Turkish broadcasters will have asked for it. Same evening Gran Canaria v Besiktas at 8pm |
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Post by LTfan on Feb 12, 2024 10:57:08 GMT
Now confirmed - London Lions v Turk Telecom Ankara, Wednesday 6th March. Tip-off time is 6pm according to the EuroCup website... which is an odd time for a home (Copper Box) game. It could be a mistake, or it could be something to do with EuroCup play-off rules and how the games need to be scheduled (there are 3 other games that night). Turkish broadcasters will have asked for it. Same evening Gran Canaria v Besiktas at 8pm Interesting, makes sense if correct. Seems a bit unfair that London are being told what time their home game has to tip-off to please the Turkish. If it were a Turkish home game it would be understandable, but not with London having home advantage. |
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Post by cosbyrider on Feb 12, 2024 18:45:15 GMT
Turkish broadcasters will have asked for it. Same evening Gran Canaria v Besiktas at 8pm Interesting, makes sense if correct. Seems a bit unfair that London are being told what time their home game has to tip-off to please the Turkish. If it were a Turkish home game it would be understandable, but not with London having home advantage. Probably suits Gran Canaria as well on the broadcasters score. Harsh reality is their broadcasters pay decent sums of money for the coverage which probably pools into money received by Lions |
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Post by LTfan on Feb 12, 2024 19:18:52 GMT
Interesting, makes sense if correct. Seems a bit unfair that London are being told what time their home game has to tip-off to please the Turkish. If it were a Turkish home game it would be understandable, but not with London having home advantage. Probably suits Gran Canaria as well on the broadcasters score. Harsh reality is their broadcasters pay decent sums of money for the coverage which probably pools into money received by Lions I doubt London Lions benefit financially in any way from all this, but I’ll accept it’s quite possible the Turkish broadcast deal is worth more to Euroleague/EuroCup financially than anything they’re getting from the UK market so ultimately they have more say over such things. |
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Post by LTfan on Mar 6, 2024 8:08:21 GMT
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Post by dexter on Mar 6, 2024 9:26:18 GMT
It this a single game? I mean the winner progresses and the loser is out? |
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Post by baldeagle on Mar 6, 2024 10:02:15 GMT
It this a single game? I mean the winner progresses and the loser is out? Correct - single game. Winner takes all. Seems bizarre after a 1000 game regular season but there it is. |
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Post by dexter on Mar 6, 2024 10:17:22 GMT
It this a single game? I mean the winner progresses and the loser is out? Correct - single game. Winner takes all. Seems bizarre after a 1000 game regular season but there it is. Yeah, thanks. I just had a look on Wikipedia. London have a pretty good draw. A place in the semi final seems achievable. That would be a successful season. |
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Post by LTfan on Mar 6, 2024 10:56:26 GMT
It this a single game? I mean the winner progresses and the loser is out? Correct - single game. Winner takes all. Seems bizarre after a 1000 game regular season but there it is. It was only an 18 game regular season, with the top 2 teams in each group getting a direct pass to the quarter finals. The eighth finals and the quarter finals are single game knock out rounds, then the semi finals and the final are 'best of 3' competitions. I think that's a reasonably solid format. |
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Post by LTfan on Mar 6, 2024 10:59:15 GMT
Correct - single game. Winner takes all. Seems bizarre after a 1000 game regular season but there it is. Yeah, thanks. I just had a look on Wikipedia. London have a pretty good draw. A place in the semi final seems achievable. That would be a successful season. If things go as they statistically should, which I know in sports is a big 'if', we should see a London v Paris 'best of 3' series in the semi-finals - which would be amazing. But very tough, as Paris are favourites to win the entire competition. But one game at a time... Really looking forward to tonight (although I wish it wasn't such an early start!). |
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Post by dexter on Mar 6, 2024 22:07:06 GMT
Great performance by Lions. Really strong start and stayed in control. Very high shooting percentage. I expected a much closer game.
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Post by LTfan on Mar 6, 2024 22:22:06 GMT
Great performance by Lions. Really strong start and stayed in control. Very high shooting percentage. I expected a much closer game. 60 points in the first half, a London Lions club record apparently. |
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Post by docker on Mar 6, 2024 22:51:31 GMT
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Post by dexter on Mar 7, 2024 0:15:27 GMT
That is a step forward. Let's see if it makes the news on BBC 5 Live tomorrow morning. Great to see Ukraine and Chelsea player Mykhailo Mudryk in the crowd this evening. London Lions should try to get as many Premier League footballers to games as they can. These players have a lot of followers. Mykhailo Mudryk has 1.8M followers on Instagram. |
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Post by dexter on Mar 7, 2024 9:06:01 GMT
They did it. London Lions got a mention on BBC 5 Live sports news this morning. So this is what British basketball has to do to get a mention in the mainstream media; qualify for EuroCup quarter finals. It's a high bar but they've done now. Every game they play in EuroCup until they get knocked out will be reported to the nation. This has the potential to grow and be massive. Bigger than anything we've seen.
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Post by docker on Mar 7, 2024 10:27:20 GMT
That is a high bar indeed, but hopefully now they have hit it there is no going back on the coverage. Just great to see a British team on the BBC Basketball page alongside all the NBA articles: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball |
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Post by LTfan on Mar 7, 2024 11:23:11 GMT
That is a high bar indeed, but hopefully now they have hit it there is no going back on the coverage. Just great to see a British team on the BBC Basketball page alongside all the NBA articles: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketballNot only on the Basketball page of the BBC Sport website, but also on the front page of the BBC Sport website last night and this morning. Now if only the London Lions could continue to do all this and actually make some money at the same time...  |
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Post by dexter on Mar 7, 2024 17:13:40 GMT
That is a high bar indeed, but hopefully now they have hit it there is no going back on the coverage. Just great to see a British team on the BBC Basketball page alongside all the NBA articles: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketballNot only on the Basketball page of the BBC Sport website, but also on the front page of the BBC Sport website last night and this morning. Now if only the London Lions could continue to do all this and actually make some money at the same time... We will find out over the next few weeks if there's really a market in London for a high level professional basketball team. I don't know that there is but I hope there is. These things can be unpredictable. No one would have thought 4 million people would be watching women's college basketball but it's happening. We have some good personalities like Sam Decker and Jordan Taylor. |
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Post by jt on Mar 12, 2024 14:56:04 GMT
Big game for the Ladies tonight in their 2nd leg of the semis. 1 point up against Venice from the first leg.
Super excited for this game, should be a close one!
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Post by dexter on Mar 12, 2024 18:59:10 GMT
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