OK, here we are in Nancy, one day away from our destiny, and I've got to tell you that if before the season started someone offered us the situation we're in now to reach the Top 16 - one game to win tomorrow and our two rivals playing where they are - I think we'd have signed on the dotted line. It's been like a two-tier group until now. The three teams at the top - Barcelona, Montepaschi and Panathinaikos - were fighting for the first three places. Tomorrow, those three play against the three of us trying to make the Top 16. We knew going into this it would be hard to beat those teams, but we had a goal set, to try to make the Top 16, and now we have that chance. Remember, some teams never get this kind of opportunity. But now we have that chance, Zalgiris has that chance and Prokom has that chance. One of us has to get there. It's been a fun Euroleague season all the way, and we don't want it to end. If we can upset Montepaschi tomorrow, it might be a win-and-in situation. Prokom from Poland has to play at Panathinaikos and Zalgiris has to go to Barcelona, so we think that we have a great opportunity and a great chance because we play at home. Don't get me wrong, it's going to be very hard for us as well as for Prokom and Zalgiris. We need to win, and we need them to lose, but don't forget that the big teams - except for Barcelona - are still playing for higher places, too, so all these games are going to be...

The last you guys heard from me, I was looking like the Elephant Man. I am looking a little better now, and feeling a lot better after our first Euroleague win last week against Zalgiris. I am really happy that it happened at home here in Nancy, because it was great for our fans to see something like that. I've been playing in France for six years now, and these fans here are by far the best I have played for in my career. They are so loyal to the guys on the team, like after the first Euroleague game here, when we got spanked by Barcelona, they were with us 150 percent, no questions asked. With loyalty like that from them to the players, it's a great place to play and it was great to give them the opportunity to see a win like the one against Zalgiris. That was for the fans, the club president, the coaches and the guys who have been here many, many years. To go into the Euroleague and get a historic win against a long-time Euroleague team like Zalgiris was really big for Nancy. The fans were going crazy after the game, we were going crazy with them, and it's just a great feeling to have fans like that, behind you no matter what. Now, we gotta see if we can surprise some other team for them.

Of course, it didn't start out so good for us. We opened the Euroleague at home against Barcelona and were down by just five points at halftime. Five minutes into the second half, it was a different story. They just opened the game up and took off...

I know you all have missed me, not just in the blogosphere, but in the boxscore, too. What's up is that I missed our second French League game last weekend, which we lost, thanks to a head trauma concussion that I got in a collision in practice with Mickey Morandais. They rushed me off to the doctor and I came out of it with a concussion, a cut eye, a broken tooth and a split lip. The next day I looked like a boxer on the morning after a fight. My brother's been running around calling me The Elephant Man. I am lucky, really. Mickey and I bumped head to had at full speed going opposite directions in a fastbreak drill. My group was finishing, and I went to touch the baseline, but I didn't see him leaving. I hit his head, my head hit the floor, I passed out. It was a scary moment for the guys on the team, as well as for myself. The Lord bless us, though, and nothing serious happened. I practiced for the first time today, almost a week later, and it was interesting. I'm still trying to get the cobwebs out of my head. I'm still sporting a black eye and people on the street think I'm a boxer. But now I can look ahead and now we're getting ready to play Euroleague. And Mickey Morandais doesn't owe me anything but to make the first big three-pointer when I hit him with a pass so I get an assist. Then we'll be even.

The crazy part about our French League loss over the weekend at Heyres-Toulon is that we were up by 25 points with...

Hey, people! It's great to be coming back to the Euroleague in just a few weeks now. Just as much as people here in Nancy are excited, so are the players on our team. I don't know which players are more pumped up for it, those of us who have played in the Euroleague before or the guys who will be getting their first chance. We're all going to have fun, but I know one guy who might have more fun than anyone in the league: our new center Rod Benson. He's already famous for his blogs back in the States, and we're all running round here saying "Boom Tho" all the time, to get with his movement. Maybe I can't blog head-to-head with Rod, who's got an incredible imagination, but I'll do my best.

First, let me introduce my team a bit. We have a lot of new faces to go with the guys on the team like me who are trying to repeat as champions of the French League, plus other guys who are proven players in the French League. First, I've got to mention my brother Jeff, who played with me in the Euroleague for Strasbourg. I love playing with my brother. We know exactly every move the other one makes before he does it. He knows where I'm going to be before I get there, and vice-versa. It's like a brotherly intuition, and it's an incredible feeling. It's got a lot to do with how we won two championships in France together with two different teams.

But of course, Nancy is much more than just the Greer brothers, and some players you might not know about now you are going to like when you see them play. There's a great array of...