'Good buzz' in the city as Sudbury Five gets ready for finals

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· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 11:32 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

The caput manager and the wide manager for the Sudbury Five hoops squad said the assemblage is 1 of the reasons down the team's success.

For the clip successful its franchise history, the squad has reached the playoff finals. The archetypal crippled is Thursday nighttime against the Windsor Express.

The Sudbury Five is portion of the Basketball Super League, which is simply a nonrecreational league based successful Canada and the United States.

"I deliberation there's a bully buzz astir the team, bully buzz astir the unit [and] bully buzz astir the city," Logan Stutz said. "Obviously, we've got a batch of enactment to bash but conscionable getting present is the archetypal step."

Stutz said he's looking guardant to proceed getting enactment from the assemblage passim the playoffs.

"I deliberation it's conscionable the enactment gives america each the resources we request to beryllium successful. They backed the squad precise good on with the city," helium said.

"The metropolis backs the squad precise well. The fans backmost the metropolis precise well. So you get a batch of the close ingredients and past it's conscionable my occupation to enactment it each together."

As for the team's chances against Windsor, Stutz said he's optimistic.

"We've seen them. We've had occurrence for some. They person a spot much past and contented erstwhile it comes to the finals. This volition beryllium their 4th finals," helium said.

"They've won 2 of the 3 that they've been in."

Stutz said he's going to manager the squad with affirmative vigor done the playoffs. He said winning the title would beryllium a boon for the city.

"I deliberation it's much important to Sudbury," helium said.

"But the information that we're present and we person an accidental to bash this for the metropolis is thing I deliberation we tin springiness the metropolis that they'll retrieve for a agelong time."