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People like to say summer basketball means nothing, as if teams magically transform themselves in October. Unless you're Cordia and get an entirely new team between June and November, the chances are pretty good that if you are a good team in the summer you'll be good in the winter.
Bell was an average team this summer, not as good as last year, or last summer, but they are playing a lot of sophomores, so the odds are pretty good that they will improve. They have a shot to win the region again because there are no dominant teams, but they don't look like they'll be as good to me because replacing Ben Madon is going to be very difficult. If the shots aren't falling for Lee, they could struggle to score because Madon isn't there with his ability to create shots and get to the basket.