Albany-Oklahoma score?

[panchess]

..I assume that game is over by now. The webcast gave out, like the Pats season.

[psbf]

Oklahoma 150, Albany 130

[PikevilleOT]

I felt bad for Williams, Burton, and Jordan as I know the season was hard to endure. Any word on Rashaad Powell... what happened to him after the injury at EK (overseas? healed up?)? I was surprised to see Wright return to the team roster as some of the teammates (1 very vocally) had very unflattering things to say about him. Askew's problems have been mentioned several times which of course impacted any progress the team might have had earlier in the season. After Amal left for overseas (heading into the EK away series), the team never really recovered. I must commend those that did continue to play to better their future playing options (Burton and Williams stand out to me).

[Chuck the Writer]

I felt bad for Williams, Burton, and Jordan as I know the season was hard to endure. Any word on Rashaad Powell... what happened to him after the injury at EK (overseas? healed up?)? I was surprised to see Wright return to the team roster as some of the teammates (1 very vocally) had very unflattering things to say about him. Askew's problems have been mentioned several times which of course impacted any progress the team might have had earlier in the season. After Amal left for overseas (heading into the EK away series), the team never really recovered. I must commend those that did continue to play to better their future playing options (Burton and Williams stand out to me).

Rashaad Powell was injured in the eyelid during that EKY series. He was in Albany for one more game, then left for a contract in Dubai.

Losing our big men (McCaskill and Burton) and then going through a litany of replacement players that lasted only two or three games (Chad Bell, Gordon Malone) showed that this was a team spinning out of control.

I can only hope that the Patroons hire a new coach immediately - preferably someone with true professional coaching experience, and not just on the ABA level (where Askew's previous coaching acumen came, with the Tacoma Navigators).

The Patroons need to find a way to build a nucleus around Nat Burton and Jason Williams and Lucious Jordan, get DayShawn Wright on the straight and narrow, and get some big men for next season. And above all else... the team needs a new coach for 08-09. That, above all else, should be the Patroons' first priority.

[panchess]

..he got called lazy by Micheal Ray last season, and came back under "new management." Lucious had a good season this year and proved he was a CBA-quality player and not just a hometown add (he lives in Colonie, an Albany suburb)

The season wasn't that bad until the collapse at the end. I assume Timberlake and company signed overseas already and are gone.

[Patroons1]

As difficult as it is to acknowledge, the Patroons ownership and management has to start acting with the sense of urgency, professionalism, experience in running a minor league franchise and comittment required to return the Patroons to what the fans in Albany remember and expect. This team is being run as if it is a financial "right off" for a larger business concern or a management team that does not have agreement on the team's collective best interest first. Sorry, management, the seams show. I am not sure which is true, but my guess is that one of them is true from where I sit. For those from Albany, you know exaclty what I am talking about. If you are not or know differently, please tell me I am wrong.

It is no fun to watch hidden internal management agendas destroy this team. If it doesn't change, this team is history and the TU will blame it on fan support.

The fix was on from opening night on this dismal season... OK, Jim, the team lost but you win. You should be the GM again, is that the answer to this year's jeopardy question?

[Ken, Steelheads fan]

As difficult as it is to acknowledge, the Patroons ownership and management has to start acting with the sense of urgency, professionalism, experience in running a minor league franchise and comittment required to return the Patroons to what the fans in Albany remember and expect. This team is being run as if it is a financial "right off" for a larger business concern or a management team that does not have agreement on the team's collective best interest first. Sorry, management, the seams show. I am not sure which is true, but my guess is that one of them is true from where I sit. For those from Albany, you know exaclty what I am talking about. If you are not or know differently, please tell me I am wrong.

It is no fun to watch hidden internal management agendas destroy this team. If it doesn't change, this team is history and the TU will blame it on fan support.

The fix was on from opening night on this dismal season... OK, Jim, the team lost but you win. You should be the GM again, is that the answer to this year's jeopardy question?

Geez! You're beginning to sound like me. 8)

However, I don't think the fix is in. Patroons management has made horrendous decisions in the past, including joining the USBL in the first place (while still in the CBA) and alienating the press last season.

[Patroons1]

Geez, guess I am! Oh well, let's hope it all gets worked out :infun: This is the fun part for being a fan, talking, making assumptions, hoping....gotta love your team even though there is more I don't understand than I do. Let's hope the CBA and PBL merges, taking the best of everthing from each and emerges stronger and more stabile and with it, more stability locally for each franchise.