Dave Grohl's Mid Season Top 10 Power Rankings

[San Francisco]

Dave Grohl’s Mid Season Power Rankings: Top 10 edition

Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl has long been a fan of the ABCA and is here for the first time with his mid season power ratings. As a musician he relates best through his lyrics so he has ranked teams based on lyrics from Foo Fighters songs. Without further adieu, Ladies and Gentleman Dave Grohl



10. San Miquel Beermen
Team Song: Long Road to Ruin
Lyric:

“Maybe the season

The colours change in the valley skies

Dear God I've sealed my fate

Running through hell, heaven can wait”

Grohl: For San Miguel they have traded two of the top players at their positions in the game in the past few seasons in Ewing and Stockton. While they still have a very strong roster they have basically said heaven can wait and in doing so we have seen the color of their fortune change from likely title gold to the simply green of the income that comes from regular season success and playoff appearances.

9. Franca BC
Team Song: Everlong
Lyric:

“And I wonder

When I sing along with you

If everything could ever feel this real forever

If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you

You gotta promise not to stop when I say when she sang”

Grohl: Franca is having a great year. Is it real? I mean they have to be pinching themselves, they have really come together this year man, like when you find that perfect melody and the lyrics just come. The fans are in love with this team after years of disappointment, but is it real and will it last? I know this the fans don’t want it to stop.

8. Bayi Rockets
Team Song: Learn to Fly
Lyric:

“Run and tell all of the angels

This could take all night

Think I need a devil to help me get things right”

Grohl: What a team. Good vets in Drexler and Magic who are stars in their own right. This team is a title team in the making! But their best player has no playoff experience and those vets need to bring out Mr. Duncan’s devil and I think that could take all night aka this post season before this team is ready to win it all. Once they get it right tho, goodnight.

7. Mexico City Titans
Team Song: This is a Call
Lyric:

“this is a call to all my

past resignations

this is a call to all”

Grohl: Pretty straight forward this team has a chance to be really good, but will they step up and move past their recent past history of waiting too long for the perfect move at the absolute right value or will they move past their past, go for it and vault themselves into the top 3 teams in the Americas putting them squarely into title contention. I think they are turning the corner with the addition of Alex English but they need more man, the Americas are insane.

6. London Towers
Team Song: My Hero
Lyric:

“There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

There goes my hero

He's ordinary”

Grohl: Love the Towers man they are ALWAYS in the final but after trading Malone and losing in the finals again, while they are my hero and the model franchise in ABCA I feel like for the first time in a while they are pretty ordinary. Still a playoff team and their track record says they will make another deep run, but not sure they can quite make it back to that elite level this year.

5. BC Zalgiris
Team Song: Monkey Wrench
Lyric:

“All this time to make amends

What do you do when all your enemies are friends

Now and then I'll try to bend

Under pressure

Wind up snapping in the end”

Grohl: Great young team, what a tandem in the big ticket and zeke! The GM has made some enemies over the years with his unconventional negotiation style. I see the genius in it, but it isn’t for everybody. That said, this team is still young and I really think they may bend and snap in the end, aka the playoffs. But much like Bayi a big future ahead.

4. New York Knicks
Team Song: Wheels
Lyric:

“Know your head is spinnin' 

Broken hearts will mend 

This is our beginning 

Comin to an end”

Grohl: Man this stinks, the Knicks were lining up to make a run at back to back titles and then bam down goes the ageless Elvin Hayes with an injury that will take him out most, if not all of the playoffs. They are still a dangerous team with Zoran and Dantely but they are broken hearted without their anchor. The good news is this is a well-run team so this ending will be be mended in time by an active front office.

3. Sydney Kings
Team Song: All My Life
Lyric:

“All my life I've been searching for something

Something never comes never leads to nothing

Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close

Closer to the prize at the end of the rope”

Grohl: One of my favorite songs man and I love the Kings and this feels like a natural fit. They are always near the top of late, always looking for that one final trade to put them over the top, but so far they haven’t won the prize at the end of the rope. Will they make it this year, I think they have the best chance to come out of Eurasia with Frank Johnson and Patrick Ewing leading the way, but their G.M. could reach the end of his rope before they reach the prize at the end of the rope. If you know what I mean.

2. Los Angeles Lakers
Team Song: The Pretender
Lyric:

“Spinning infinity, boy

The wheel is spinning me

It's never-ending, never-ending

Same old story”

Grohl: Great team, well run, but it is the same story every year they ride a great duo in Hakeem and Harper, but do they have enough around them to get out of the Americas and then beat somebody in the Finals? To me it feels like groundhogs day this year with a great regular season start and I just fear the same old thing. However, with NY taking a big blow they can really do it man, if they can just get passed the number one team on my list.

1. San Francisco Warriors
Team Song: Walk
Lyric:

“We built these paper mountains

Then sat and watched them burn

I think I found my place

Can't you feel it growing stronger

Little conquerors”

Grohl: They won a title a couple of years ago and then made big changes, not quite burning it down but trading Magic was as close as you can get. Now it looks like they have found their place and you can see this team growing stronger, winning 12 in a row after adding Mullin and McGinnis. I think they might just be the title winners this year, little conquerors. Beside this is a sim league and yall just read this article about a paper mountain.

[London]

Don't worry about us Londoners, Dave.

We'll start our championship parade with BIG ME.

[Bayi]

I liked these power rankings more when they were in Nirvana.

[Los Angeles]

Kept waiting to see myself didnt expect to be rhat high

[Berlin]

150 PP + 150 bonus PP = 300 total PP

My favorite article in a while SF...nicely done.

[Portland]

Very nice work SFW. I will sacrifice in your honor.

[New York]

Very unique article San Fran. Always enjoy when someone puts something different out.

[San Francisco]

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Thank you was interesting!