After the first weekend of the season featuring most of the league's teams (16 were in action), here are a few questions that come to mind:

1. Is Takamatsu management, which has "guided" the team to 23 wins in the past two seasons combined, interested in and/or capable of putting together a respectable team?

The evidence, thus far, suggests otherwise: Two blowout losses this weekend and a 19-for-82 shooting performance against the Evessa on Sunday.

2. Is Broncos veteran John "Helicopter" Humphrey already the leading candidate for the league's Sixth Man Award?

3. Who has a better nickname than Helicopter in the league? What is it?

4. Is Phoenix coach Ryuji Kawai, whose team is off to a 1-3 start, in jeopardy of losing his job?

Indeed, Kawai had huge shoes to fill after Kazuo Nakamura guided the team to consecutive championships the past two seasons and only 33 regular-season losses from 2008-11.

5. Is there a better description of an expansion team's goals than the one just below?

"Standing in the gym of Hamamatsu and looking at the banners is a reminder of where we want to go," Chiba coach Eric Gardow said on Sunday.

6. Will Ryukyu guard Narito Namizato, who scored 24 and 19 points in this weekend's games, keep up this super pace for the 52-game season?

7. Will Shimane guard Edward Yamamoto, who had 21 assists over the weekend, be one of the league's elite passers for the entire campaign?

8. Can former league MVP Wendell White maintain his 25.5 points and 14 rebounds per game averages for Oita?

9. A day after scoring his 5,000th bj-league point, Osaka's Lynn Washington dished out six assists. For a power forward, that's pretty impressive in any game, isn't it? (You don't need to answer that.)

10. Will Akita be this streaky all season -- win by 23 on Saturday and then lose by 32 on Sunday?

The thought here is that all teams will take time to adjust to new players, new coaches and new teams in the league and the "real" season will begin after the All-Star break.