Foolish CBA Owners

[Patroons1]

Hey A1.

Number 1: Opening day, 1 week from tonight! Cant wait!

Number 2: Think there's a team in the PBL that could even compete with the Patroon's roster? Check it out, large basketball brain! Tell us what you think.

Number 3: If the rest of the PBL has the same unethical business approach you advertise, I don't think your overblown, glitter-slick gym league with a 10 game home schedule will ever get to three candles on your cake. tick-tock

Number 4: Really getting tired of your half truths, your categorizations of people using legal means to collect money loaned in good faith as "100% selfish" and endorsing the scum tactics of repeated corporate liquidations and restarts to hide from creditors as a "smart business" move.

Number 5: "Attention Minor League BBall Owners....If you are considering skipping leagues, declaring bankruptcy and starting a new minor league company under your brothers name, the PBL is the league for you. Don't be distracted by people expecting to collect money that they loaned to you, contact A1Sports for more information TODAY!"

[CHris902]

[quote=""Patroons1""]Number 2: Think there's a team in the PBL that could even compete with the Patroon's roster? Check it out, large basketball brain! Tell us what you think.
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Do you think an ABA team is going to do any better? The Jersey Express has trouble beating pick up teams, and NYC and Westchester have trouble getting to Jersey to play games. Those games are going to be great for fans.

[Precious Roy]

[quote=""CHris902""]Do you think an ABA team is going to do any better? The Jersey Express has trouble beating pick up teams, and NYC and Westchester have trouble getting to Jersey to play games. Those games are going to be great for fans.[/quote]

Hence the reason Lawton is not going to play ABA teams, they understand.

[Patroons1]

I asked if he thought a PBL team could compete with the Patroons, not ABA team. Answer the question, look at the roster, big PBL fan.

[a1sports]

oh so the Albany owner "loaned the money to the owners in good faith" LOL.
Try again. He screwed up the travel deal and had to save the CBA season last year, from what I was told by putting in money he LOST on the deal.

This Albany owner who controls the league as a dictator with no voting rights by the other members? he has the majority rule. Who insures he will get his money "anyway possible" as he stated last CBA owners meeting.

Oh yea...these guys should fold up shop and run. By your accounts they should stay in business to make sure he gets back the money he "loaned-out in good faith" by them losing a ton more money this year for which they werent responsible for losing in the first place.

and you want to talk about rosters?? LOL, take look outside and check the economy... get real.

[CHris902]

Patroons: I will wholeheartedly admit that the Patroon are a better oncourt team than anyone in the PBL. But I think that the best PBL teams would at least have a chance of being in the game, even if they were almost certain to lose. The ABA teams aren't even going to be at the game.

[Precious Roy]

[quote=""Patroons1""]I asked if he thought a PBL team could compete with the Patroons, not ABA team. Answer the question, look at the roster, big PBL fan.[/quote]

As a light-hearted jab, any team with Albert Robinson can be in trouble in a hurry.

Just kidding

[robster2001]

[quote=""Patroons1""]
Number 2: Think there's a team in the PBL that could even compete with the Patroon's roster? Check it out, large basketball brain! Tell us what you think.[/quote]

Your current league is falling apart, and there is no guarantee that any other league will take the current Pats ownership in when the CBA eventually unravels. After all, why would any league take in an owner who tore up his own league to save himself? Well, other than the ABA, who'll take anyone with a pulse...

You have bigger problems than whether your backup point guard matches up with the Rainmen, Cavalry, or Express. You have to worry whether you'll have games to go to...

[PikevilleOT]

comparing leagues is next to impossible.. both the CBA and PBL are far from perfect and everyone knows the well-documented ABA problems.

If we focus on solutions, ways to fix the problems, and avoid predictions and bashing the leagues might survive.... but the battle is against the odds.

[ABARedWhiteBlue]

[quote=""PikevilleOT""]If we focus on solutions, ways to fix the problems, and avoid predictions and bashing the leagues might survive[/quote]

Doesn't matter one iota what "we" do. This board is the best one-stop research site on the web for the ups, downs, failures and successes in minor league basketball.

Yet there are any number of naive neophytes willing to lay down with Joe Newman, or blindly join up with other leagues.

"We" do what we can to publicize the myriad of failures

"We" highlight, underline and bold-type each repeated screw-up

"We" post ideas, discuss alternatives, and warn people ad nauseum about the disaster that awaits people who join.

Yet, they join.

The issue isn't "we"

It's "them"