Captain Col's Power
Rankings
A Friendship League with a pre-season?! This is serious.
A lot more people showed up than I anticipated this past Valentine-Schmalentin's day. From this point on, all the guys with the lady friends will never live this fact down, but here's the consolation, you get a point in my book.
Kwoker will be keeping up with colorful weekly recaps of the games. So what am I to do? The fun of all sports is not only in the sweat and bonding of the actual play, but for most of the couch sports-fans, there's the controversy! Where John will give you the facts, I'll
roll the dice with Power Rankings (thank you Marc Stein). In these rankings I'll, uh, rank each team according to my unbiased biased opinions rather than overall record (though that will be a factor). Look for your name to appear in here at least once, that way you can Google your name and it'll show here! I hope commissioner Rob approves of this.
Anyways, onto Power Rankings!
#1—Team Orange
Are you guys ok with the Ogres? Or maybe the Orangutans? It has a much fiercer ring to it, otherwise I just keep thinking of actual oranges. On paper their front court looks downright unstoppable. Greg, JJ and Jeff Chan?!? What the?! And if you were present on Tuesday, you know that Sherman is a gunner. But look at it this way, at least the other teams will be able to wear their t-shirts outside the league.
#2—Team Grey
Even though Octavio will be sidelined because of injuries, his team is sitting pretty. But the Big O is one of the greatest encouragers and he'll spur on where he can. We've got our first nick name already! John calls him the "Great Wall of China." Fitting, yes. But check this out. You see the way people take a ride on his back when he pump-fakes? Sometimes he'll get 2-3 defenders jumping, and on really good nights, the rest of the opposing team will hop on too. That's five passengers!! We have to call him the "miniVAN". Speaking of pump-fakes, I've fallen for Jeff Hua's more than once. We should give Jeff an award for selling that pump-fake. A Grammy or something, a Golden Globe at least. Oh yeah, they've got a killer back court in Hank and Stan. I'm calling it now, Stan is going to lead the league in steals.
#3—Team Black
This was a tough one. This is a very sound team with people that'll work together well and play hard. They'd be #2 if they had a little more height and a guy named miniVAN. Whatever Brandon is eating, I want some too. That guy never gets tired. Give Kenton some daylight and if you like pedicures, he'll give you facials all day. It took me 2 minutes to think of the punch line. When Brian speaks, I listen, he's just that good of a motivator. If he can get his team to mesh, they're going go far, championship far.
#4—Team Blue
Well lookie here, this happens to be my team! Since the original rosters came out, we've added some new people to the team. And yes, we did it officially. Eugene Tse, man can that guy hit a softball was added as well as Donald Chew aka the Bomb, aka the Boss, aka Brian Chew's younger brother. We may be young but do we ever have health problems. Wait, that was supposed to come off as a positive. Tim is coming off a sore back(?!) and I'm just plain falling apart. Let's put it this way. With Tiger Woods' new swing, when's he's on, there's no stopping him. Anything else, he's just top 10. If this team clicks, it'll be like the Suns, if not, we're playing to upset. Either way, we're going to have fun.
#5—Team Red
Have you ever see Darryl not smile?! Neither have I. Even when he rolled his ankle two weeks ago, you would have thought that he found a piece of candy in his shoe or something. Keep smiling Darryl, its worth one or two spots on this ranking. John is right about Ryan, but I had to put my team one up on his, otherwise, where's the controversy? It may not be an official stat, but Drew is going to get the most steals by yelling out "over here!" when the opposing team has the ball. But seriously, the league rebound champ is going to come from either this squad or the Oranges (see what I mean, you really thought of oranges). Watch for John Yee coming off picks and knocking down the mid range.
#6—Team White
This is my sleeper team. Never count out the vets! Have you guys noticed that we have four different John/Jon's in the League? Just for the record:
John Kwok = Kwokers
John Chang = JC
John Halili = Jonathon, or until I think of something more suitable
Jon Yee = Lil' Jon (Yay-ah!)
Back to the team. They've got a redwood forest for a front court. Plus, wins can always come by way of defense. We've come to know these games as defensive struggles. Get Kwoker warmed up a little, and he'll let the 3s fly. JC will clean up anything down low. That's a win right there. And if that doesn't happen, remember, white-Ts go with everything so you can wear it on and off the court.
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