This week:

Wheelchair basketball statues, appropriate trophy transport, one-sided write-ups, Wiesbaden running Thuringia close, EuroCup qualifying groups, James's various misfortunes on Italian soil, Futurama quotes, and more!

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Sometimes you can circle the games that will deliver on their promise. Then sometimes you get a couple more great games thrown in unexpectedly.

Never ones to complain about more content-worthy basketball, we break down 4 games from the past weekend. We dive into our first Italian game of the season (Reggio Calabria vs Sassari), catch an offensive showcase (Münsterland vs Trier) before we revisit everyone's second-favourite German rivalry (Hannover vs Wiesbaden), and wrap up with a back-and-forth battle Spanish battle (Albacete vs Gran Canaria).

That taken care of, we sift through many deserving candidates to give our the first Bench Units Belt of the season!

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Ah, basketball games. They take over our weekends and then we spend all week thinking about them.

With the season officially underway, we drill down on what we've deemed to be the two most interesting games so far; Lahn-Dill vs Hannover & Amiab vs Bidaideak.

We then touch on scores and points of interest from other games around Europe and highlight some games that we're looking forward to this weekend!

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Well, this has come around fast. Guess that's what happens when you take 4 months off.

A lot of player movement has taken place over the summer, and a lot of teams look a lot different as a result. We discuss some teams, at varying levels of competitiveness whose outlook for the new season has us intrigued, excited or confused about their immediate future to the point where we won't miss a chance to watch them.

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Well, looks like we overslept.

Fortunately, one thing almost guaranteed to bring us out of our months-long hibernation is the handing out of Paralympic medals and our inability to fight the sense that people want to hear what we might have to say about it.

And so we present our mega return episode. It covers everything important that happened in both the men's and women's wheelchair basketball at Paris 2024, and lasts almost as long as the tournament itself.

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4 teams. 4 games. 3-peat.

This past weekend, we saw European club basketball’s four established powerhouses go at it again. As with the two previous Final Four stages, Amiab Albacete came away with the biggest prize on the continent.

We dive into the key moments that saw a worthy challenger emerge and momentarily threaten to take the crown, and what the keys were that were able to once again elevate Amiab above the competition.

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36 games, 24 teams, 9 sets of medals. Too many interwoven storylines to coherently explain.

With the dust now settled on the EuroCup 1, 2 & 3 Finals, we take a tour from Valladolid to Sassari to Giulianova as we recap all the action.

We talk about the most compelling teams, matchups, subplots and outcomes of the three tournaments, before looking ahead to Champions Cup this coming weekend!

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Nothing like bringing the podcast back to its roots once in a while. We're very pleased to be joined by a first-time guest and first-season Sheffield Steeler.

Abs Taghrest joins Bench Units to talk about a resurgent season for the club where this podcast originated, one that has seen them qualify to the EuroCup 3 Finals and hold the distinction of being the only amateur squad remaining at any level of the competition.

Abs takes us through the season so far, and looks ahead to a daunting tournament for the underdog Steelers.

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