Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Euroleague: Perfumerias 74, Schio 64 : Perfumerias pulled ahead early in the first quarter and kept Schio behind them. Perfumerias moves up to 4-1 and in second place in Group B in Euroleague. Sancho Lyttle scored 14 points. Eurocup: K. V. Imperial 62, Dynamo Kursk 53 . In the first three games of Eurocup, Kursk falls to 1-2 in Group H while K. V. Imperial remains undefeated. Ahead 43-37 going into...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Davan Mani in his My Rants and Opinions blog writes that best finder of talent anywhere in pro basketball today is... Marynell Meadors ? Lot of scouts and GM's tend to get individual players but not try to build a team. In Marynell case, she gets players and builds teams. She likes players who believe in hard work but fair play. When she was Charlotte, she built a solid nucleus of players such as Vicky...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
#35 (minus one) drives forward. It looks like blogging frequency at the Pleasant Dreams Blog is going to go into a steep decline. The problem is that my work is looking into steps to severely curtail employee internet access. Which sucks, because whenever it was slow at work, I could always fill the down time by blogging. Now, I can't even do that anymore. This leaves the only blogging time left as...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Michelle Snow (#5, in blue) can only watch as Anastasia Veremeenko blocks another shot. Despite the presence of Michelle Snow , Dynamo Kursk (2-3) is struggling in Russia Superleague A. Playing Nadezhda (4-1) on the road in front of a crowd of 1100, Dynamo Kursk lost their second straight game to fall into the middle of the pack of Russia Superleague A, losing 60-56 as Catherine Snytina of Nadezhda...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Even with the death of Shabtai Kalmanovich, life goes on. Dynamo Kursk (2-2) hosted the top team in the Russia Superleague A - Ekaterinburg (5-0) - and in front of a crowd of 850 would have ten good minutes before overcoming to Ekaterinburg 92-65. The box score is here . According to the only write-up I've found, the first half of the game was dominated by foreign players. For Kursk, it was Michelle...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
On Swish Appeal , I've gone ahead and posted the WNBA's player efficiency ratings for 2009. If you're interested, here's how the various players of the Atlanta Dream did in PER: Angel McCoughtry (23.2) Sancho Lyttle (21.3) Erika de Souza (20,0) Chamique Holdsclaw (14.8) Michelle Snow (14.6) Ivory Latta (13.5) Tamera Young (12.1) Coco Miller (10.4) Iziane Castro Marques (9.8) Shalee Lehning (8.7) Jennifer...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Last year, I did a few posts regarding similarity scores . From the earlier post: Similarity Scores was designed to be a fair way to compare players by their career statistical lines. The idea is "start with 1000" points and then begin to take away points from points of difference. For example, if two players had career steals totals that were 20 steals apart, we would take one point away...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The linked article has three pictures from the Dynamo Kursk-Spartak St. Petersburg game of this weekend. The one at the top of the post is the only one with Michelle Snow Head Coach Algirdas Paulauskas of Dynamo Kursk said, "Snow doesn't know our system. After some work and training, she can acquire it."
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
After suffering a tough 102-65 loss at the hands of Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Kursk (2-1) took on a lesser Spartak - Spartak St. Peterburgh (0-3) - and got back on the winning tract, winning 81-77 at home in Kursk. The box score - provided by Eurobasket.com - is here . The Russian Superleague boxscore which provides the quarter-by-quarter breakdown is here . Dynamo Kursk put a lot of pressure on Spartak...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Here's a thought. You have a team with Janel McCarville and Sylvia Fowles. Throw into the mix Ilona Korstin, one of the best Russian players, and add Edwige Lawson-Wade and Kelly Miller just to be on the safe side. Put Pokey Chatman in as that team's head coach. Then have them play a visiting team that only has eight active players. What you end up with is a 102-65 drubbing in front of 1,000 loyal...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Perfumerias - Sancho Lyttle's team - will be playing tomorrow, not today as I thought. Michelle Snow's Dynamo Kursk team also plays in Russia Superleague A action tomorrow.
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
I believe that's Michelle Snow up front. Here's another pic of Snow . Interesting line from a game writeup : "Actively involved in the game team newcomer Michelle Snow, who once unsuccessfully played for the Moscow club."
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
You can't say that Michelle Snow has been taking it easy in the off-season. After a pre-season tournament in the Cup of Russia, Snow takes no rest for the regular season...and scores 18 points in a 77-61 victory in front of 800 spectators in Kursk. There doesn't seem to be a thorough write-up of the game. Dynamo Moscow (0-1) would take a 20-17 lead after the first quarter, but Dynamo Moscow only had...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
I've been trying for about a month to find information from the basket.ru website regarding Michelle Snow and Dynamo Kursk - which was useless. After finally doping out how to translate "Michelle Snow" (Мишель Сноу) into Russia, I can finally give some information. First, I believe that Snow managed to make it to Russia sometime...
Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I have no clue whether or not Michelle Snow will be playing for Dynamo Kursk or if Coco Miller will play another year in the Russian B Superleague. What I got is what I got. Wednesday : PLKK: Krakow (2-2) vs. AZS Poznan (1-2) Thursday : Russia Superleague A: Dynamo Kursk (0-0) vs. Dynamo Moscow (0-0) Saturday PLKK: Leszno (3-1) vs. Krakow (2-2) (*) LFB: Mariana (0-1) vs. Ros Casares (1-0) LFB: Rivas...
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