THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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New York Fury 84, Gen X 56 |
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NY Fists of FURY Pummels Gen-X | |||
By: S. Lee
April 18, 2007 - New York, NY (DL) - About a month ago, during the whole March Madness craze when the Florida Gators captured their 2nd NCAA tournament championship in two years, I came across a very interesting topic that went something like this: The Gators are good, but are they good enough to beat an NBA team? My initial response was a very uncertain…"maybe." Of course, that got the wheels spinning...I mean, the Gators are a great team littered with starters who are not only NBA prospects, but potential lottery picks! You have three players (Brewer, Horford, Noah) in your frontcourt who are all projected top 10 picks...you have Lee Humphrey, arguably one of the best pure shooters in college...and you have Green, another pro prospect (albeit a projected 2nd rounder). That's gotta be good enough to compete with an NBA team, right? At this point, you are probably asking why I am bringing this up in a Dream League game. After all, we’re just some Asian American basketball league. Well, after bearing witness to the Fury/Gen X game...a light went off.
You see, in this scenario, Gen X is very much like the Gators. And the NY Fury...you guessed it, are an "NBA team" (this is for comparison reasons only...please play along). While Gen X possesses great teamwork and have "NBA-caliber" players such as Brandon Chock, Rob Schopen, Sung-Mo Cho, and Danny Wang ...they are just no match going up against a team that has actual "NBA" players filled at every single position. This star-studded squad has accomplished players all around…guys who were stars for their teams at one time or another. Put them together, and voilà…this is as close to an “NBA” team you’re going to get in the DL...at least for now. With that hypothetical situation in mind, what would happen if the Gators played an NBA team? Well, in all likelihood, that NBA team would do unto the Gators what the Fury did to Gen X...complete domination. To make matters worse, Gen X started the game without two of their star players in Brandon Chock and Robert Schopen. That’s like the Gators playing without Noah and Horford to start the game! Chock would ultimately show up later on, but by then, it was all too late. The onslaught started early with an Al Wang rebound and put-back. Jeff Moy would follow with a trey and Andrew Deleon completed their 7-0 start with a mid-range jumper. Cho made the first bucket for Gen X, and he seemed like he was the only one who came to play…scoring the first 8 points for the team. This was when Chock made his appearance, and made his presence felt by quickly going to the line for 2 free throws...however, by then, Gen X was already down double digits, and ultimately the Fury would never look back.
Ren Hsieh, captain of the Fury, was the ultimate general…orchestrating the offense in a seamless fashion with timely baskets, assists and zero turnovers (always excellent for a PG). Roger Redhead was solid off the bench with his sweet Ray Allen-esque jumpshot. Moy matched him in the 3-point fray, as they were raining threes like there was no tomorrow (Fury made a ridiculous 11 threes, shooting 42% from downtown). The Fury received major contributions from every single player as all six of them scored in double figures (is that a DL record?!). Speaking of records, former-MVP Shawn De Los Reyes (17 pts, 13 rebs, 9 assts, 5 stls) was one assist shy of the DL’s first ever triple double (the good kind cause teammate Darren Jiang's trip-dip with a double digit turnover night didn't count)! Simply amazing. On the other side, Chock and Cho performed well for Gen X. But it was all for naught, as they were just clearly overmatched throughout the game, suffering yet another blowout loss in their disappointing season. The Fury looked real good this game…and after watching this, it’s hard to imagine how they even lost a single game. This just goes to show you the high level of competition in this league. But if the Fury can duplicate this type of performance every game…watch out! |
Score by Quarters
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Total |
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| Gen X | 11 | 13 | 19 | 13 | - | 56 |
| New York Fury | 22 | 22 | 19 | 21 | - | 84 |
Boxscore
| Gen X - 56 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chan, Donald | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chan, George | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chen, Al | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chen, Mike | DNP | ||||||||||
| Cho, Sung-Mo | 7 / 14 [0.500] | 4 / 7 [0.571] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 18 | |
| Chock, Brandon | 6 / 12 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 5 / 6 [0.833] | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 17 | |
| Devarakonda, Sunil | 1 / 3 [0.333] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Eng, Henry | 2 / 6 [0.333] | 1 / 5 [0.200] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| Hsiao, Danny | 3 / 5 [0.600] | 0 / 1 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Schopen, Robert | DNP | ||||||||||
| Wang, Danny | 2 / 7 [0.286] | 1 / 5 [0.200] | 2 / 4 [0.500] | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| Yeung, Stan | DNP | ||||||||||
| 21 / 47 [0.447] | 6 / 18 [0.333] | 8 / 12 [0.667] | 25 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 56 | ||
| New York Fury - 84 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chang, Rich | DNP | ||||||||||
| De Leon, Andrew | 6 / 7 [0.857] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
| De Los Reyes, Shawn | 6 / 14 [0.429] | 2 / 5 [0.400] | 3 / 4 [0.750] | 13 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 17 | |
| Hsieh, Ren | 5 / 17 [0.294] | 1 / 7 [0.143] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | |
| Jiang, Darren | DNP | ||||||||||
| Kim, Dan | DNP | ||||||||||
| Li, James | DNP | ||||||||||
| Moy, Jeff | 7 / 15 [0.467] | 4 / 9 [0.444] | 0 / 1 [0.000] | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 | |
| Redhead, Roger | 6 / 11 [0.545] | 4 / 5 [0.800] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | |
| Stevens, Christian | DNP | ||||||||||
| Wang, Alvin | 4 / 7 [0.571] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 / 4 [0.500] | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | |
| Youn, Chris | DNP | ||||||||||
| 34 / 71 [0.479] | 11 / 26 [0.423] | 5 / 9 [0.556] | 37 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 84 | ||
Referees
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