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The Rochester Skeeters was a professional
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club based in
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,
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that competed in the
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beginning in the 1998-99 season. The team's head coach and general manager was basketball veteran
Bill Klucas William Arthur Klucas (July 8, 1941 – April 22, 2014) was an American college and professional basketball coach. Klucas coached over 500 games in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), coached professionally in Canada and Brazil, and was ...
. The team's assistant general manager was Chris Lindauer.


History

During the first season—the team’s best, average and record-wise—they played to nearly 1,500 fans per night, finishing second in the league in average attendance. After a .500 record of 17-17, the Skeeters just missed the IBA Division playoffs. The second season in 1999-2000 did not play out as well. Klucas and Lindauer both left the organization. New coach Greg Lockridge used 30 different players in the season. The Skeeters posted a league-worst 8-28 record (after a 4-21 start) and were the only team to not make the IBA playoffs. Attendance dropped to just over 800 a game. The Skeeters were sold in 2000, relocated and renamed the
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. The Rattlers compiled a 9-31 record, averaged 577 fans a game and folded after just one season.


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