What's next, the Utica Wreckers?

[BreakersFan]

First off, let me say that I am a USBL fan and I want to see the eastern teams succeed, especially after last season's debacle.

But adding a replacement team 3 days before the season? Why wasn't this situation addressed in January or February at the latest?

And anyone know why the Long Island - Delaware game was cancelled?

Welcome to another ABA (er USBL season)....read here:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=580728&category=SPORTS&BCCode=&newsdate=4/14/2007

[MJHankel]

I would chalk it all up to having little or no time to organize.

Having a short roster, no coach, I am impressed that they played their first game.

I mean the Stars and Primetime postponed their first game, can they really have as good a reason as this. I know the Stars already have their roster and coach, but of course I know nothing about the Primetime. The Prmetime had all year to get ready though, it really makes me wonder.

SO kudos to the Meteors for sticking to the schedule and not cancelling at the last minute, but I really hope that they will organize a bit more as the series progresses.

[panchess]

..so their game had to be postponed.

The Meteors only played because of the Patroons and their organization.

Consider the following:

1) The Patroons lent Darius Mattear to the Meteors for the game. Ironically, he is the highest-scoring USBL Patroon after getting 22 for the Meteors.

2) Three Patroons cuts played for the Meteors on Friday after being cut on Thursday.

3) CBA Director of Operations Dennis Traux works in the Armory anyway, and
agreed to be the bench coach for the Meteors.

4) Two additional Albany-area players (I believe they are occassional practice fill-ins for the CBA Patroons) played for the Meteors literally off the street (they arrived on the bench as the game started).

The Patroons have a former CBA coach and ran a CBA-style tryout camp, albeit in three days. The organization has legitimate connections to quality CBA/USBL caliber players, and had close to 20 players in camp.

My question is whether the Meteors will use any of those players for their game scheduled for tomorrow, and whether Monday's scheduled game with the Long Island Primetime will come off.

[MJHankel]

Yeah, see that is what I was afraid of. I mentioned it on another forum before that it seemed a bit crazy that a team would just materialize out of thin air and be scheduled to play two days later.

They had no time for prep. I may be wrong, but it seems seriously screwed up that you find out about a team during the draft.

Everybody thought, until the draft, that the USBL either had 9 teams or a ghost team in Boston.

To suddenly find out that neither idea is correct during the draft is just plain bad.

Not to mention, it has gotta be kinda freaky being drafted by a team that nobody has even heard of.

Either way I am left scratching my head, where did boston freedom come from? with no press release ever. If the league was keeping them hush hush until they materialized, they did a bad job seeing as all the teams had them listed on their schedules.

Where could the team expect all the players to come from for the opening game?? It has proven that it was not possible.

It just seams crazy for a team to come out of thin air and intend to play that fast.

I really hope they get their act together because I really don't want the USBL to have even more "ABA" style problems.