This is a tale of two expansion teams. One had a banner season in 2006-07; the other experienced growing pains from the get-go.
Not much has changed this season for the Takamatsu Five Arrows, the bj-league's playoff runnerup last spring, and the Toyama Grouses, who are 0-8 entering the teams' two-game series on Saturday night in Takamatsu.
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