All but one

[psbf]

I was looking at the Albany Patroons website earlier, they have the attendence listed in the scores. Apparently their game in Indiana saw a little over 1,000 fans turn out. The Pgh. Xplosion were the only team under that mark(530). Having said that, though, I'm still a proud Xplosion supporter.

[Chuck the Writer]

Gotta tell you, I though the Xplos would beat the Explos - oh man, that's confusing. Suffice it to say that once Great Falls tied up the 1/6/07 game at 97-97 and went into OT, I didn't think Pittsburgh had a chance.

I believe this makes the Xplosion 0-3 in overtime games, 0-1 at the Petersen Events Center, and still in search of the team's second victory of the season.

The Xplosion gotta pick it up at some point - the all-time record for fewest wins by a team playing its entire season (excluding franchises who played a few games and folded, forfeiting the entire season - which hasn't happened since 1968) is the Asbury Park Boardwalkers of the 1966-67 Eastern League season (the Eastern League morphed into the CBA in 1978). The Boardwalkers finished the season with an anemic 2-26 record in a 26-game season. The year before that, the team was in Johnstown PA as the Cambria-Johnstown CJ's, and went 3-25 that season. This made Dennis Cuff the leading scorer on a franchise that essentially went 5-51 in a two-year period!

As for the CBA teams, last year's Michigan Mayhem went 8-40, and the 1992-93 Rochester Renegades went 6-50 in a 56-game season. These are teams that have finished the season; we are not counting the San Diego Wildcards, Hartford Hellcats, Harrisburg Hammerheads, Las Vegas Silvers, Bakersfield Jammers or Mohawk Valley Thunderbirds, the only other CBA franchises to not complete a season. So that win total, depending on how you want to skew it, is what the Xplosion need to fight toward.

[psbf]

When the Xplosion had posession with 7 seconds left, the place with filled with livelyness and emotion, I was hoping. But I knew that 7 seconds was still a lot of time. All they had to do was inbound the ball and run the clock out. Kids were lining the nearby railing waiting for the Xplosion.
But when the Explorers tied it, aside from their celebration, you could have heard a pin drop, We were all deflated and frustrated.
For whatever reason, the Xplosion are not a second half team. Many of their crucial shots are missed, unlike in the first half.
I've been to all the home games, and this is our worst loss since we fell to Indiana on opening night by a buzzer beater(we took the lead, then they scored 3 at the buzzer to steal a win). Our season has been jinxed since. Obviously, something has to be done. But we have two key players out with injuries, I just learned, so that contributed.
In a way, I see this as evening things, since we made the ABA playoffs last season(#8 overall).