THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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Super Soul Sonics 66, New York Fury 56 |
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Is Four Greater Than Five? | |
| No, But Five Is | |
| September 30, 2007 – New York, NY (DL) – It’s weird how when you have that fifth player, sometimes it can mess you up. The New York Fury bravely took on the Super Soul Sonics on Sunday a man short and played that way for an entire half, trailing only by a point at intermission. Then, Roger Redhead came to give them a full roster and…things fell apart. Not only did the Fury play with four players for 18 minutes, but one of the four had come directly from a 5K race for a September 11th fundraiser run, so he (Jeff Moy) had every excuse in the world to be exhausted. Well, how to explain then that with four players, one of whom should have been drained already, the Fury played nearly even steven ball with a healthy five Sonics?
For one, with all that mileage under his feet, Moy was good and ready by the time he hit the court. How about three 3’s in the 1st quarter and 15 1st half points good? Two, Shawn de los Reyes (23 pts, 17 rbs) was forced to have the ball more and thus forced to shoot more. When SDR, sometimes an unselfish player to a fault, must shoot more often, or create himself more often, that’s a good thing for the team he’s playing on. Forget the assists, SDR, shoot the damn ball! Okay, so he opened the game up with four straight baskets – most of them jumpers as he had it going on. He wound up with 14 1st half points. That meant that…yes, the lone player other than Moy and de los Reyes to score was Phil Moon (11 pts, 8 rbs, 5 assts), who scored 2 of the Fury’s 31 halftime points. Yoshi Kagitomi had a field day in the 1st half with 10 points for SSS, but upon Redhead’s arrival for the Fury, something went wrong. Maybe because the ball had to be spread out more, maybe because sometimes when you have a man advantage, that fifth man on defense doesn’t know what to do, maybe because as an offense you hold back a little when you have an extra man because you may feel a little bit bad, whatever it was, when it turned 5 on 5, it turned into SSS’s game. SDR stayed hot and scored 6 more points in the 3rd as the Fury took a 37-35 lead, but SSS used an 18-9 run to close the quarter that was mostly built off of Taisuke Hayama’s efforts (9 points in the 3rd), that they held a healthy 53-46 margin with a quarter to go. SSS further stepped up their defense in the final frame and harassed the Fury into a 4/17 display as they never really threatened again, losing 66-56. Banglee Takenouchi (15 pts, 7 assts), who all game long, was a thorn in the Fury side, drove, dished, and dealt his brand of streetball on the hardwood at the Fury and SSS kept ahead by applying the heat so much so that even as Moy (19 pts) fouled out with 4:37 to go and Chris Youn arrived just in time to keep the Fury five, the rest of the game was mere formality. Y2K kept rebounding and racking up points to the tune of 17 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 assists. Tom Nierenberg had 10 points and 9 rebounds. Hayama finished with a season high 12 points and 3 steals. Even with just four players for many points of the game, the Fury shot an impressive 71 field goal attempts. Clearly, with just four players, the Fury tried to run and gun. (In the case of Moy, it was run, run, run in a 5K and then run and gun.) But without the win, run and gun just ain't fun. |
Score by Quarters
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Total |
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| New York Fury | 19 | 12 | 15 | 10 | - | 56 |
| Super Soul Sonics | 19 | 13 | 21 | 13 | - | 66 |
Boxscore
| New York Fury - 56 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
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| Chang, Rich | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chung, Albert | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chung, Harris | DNP | ||||||||||
| De Leon, Andrew | DNP | ||||||||||
| De Los Reyes, Shawn | 10 / 20 [0.500] | 2 / 7 [0.286] | 1 / 6 [0.167] | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 23 | |
| Hsieh, Ren | 1 / 12 [0.083] | 1 / 8 [0.125] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |
| Li, James | DNP | ||||||||||
| Meonske, Ming | DNP | ||||||||||
| Moon, Phil | 5 / 11 [0.455] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | |
| Moy, Jeff | 7 / 20 [0.350] | 3 / 9 [0.333] | 2 / 4 [0.500] | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | |
| Redhead, Roger | 0 / 7 [0.000] | 0 / 4 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Song, Peter | DNP | ||||||||||
| Stevens, Christian | DNP | ||||||||||
| Wang, Alvin | DNP | ||||||||||
| Yeh, Young | DNP | ||||||||||
| Youn, Chris | 0 / 1 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Zheng, Dave | DNP | ||||||||||
| 23 / 71 [0.324] | 7 / 30 [0.233] | 3 / 12 [0.250] | 36 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 56 | ||
| Super Soul Sonics - 66 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
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| Hayama, Taisuke | 5 / 15 [0.333] | 1 / 7 [0.143] | 1 / 1 [1.000] | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | |
| Kagitomi, Yoshi | 8 / 17 [0.471] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 / 6 [0.167] | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 17 | |
| Kogure, Keith | DNP | ||||||||||
| Koizumi, Toshi | 1 / 3 [0.333] | 1 / 1 [1.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Koketsu, Yasu | 2 / 4 [0.500] | 1 / 3 [0.333] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| Koshimura, Sho | DNP | ||||||||||
| Minamimoto, Naofumi | DNP | ||||||||||
| Nakajima, Sato | DNP | ||||||||||
| Nierenberg, Tom | 3 / 5 [0.600] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 4 / 4 [1.000] | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | |
| Oka, Eugene | DNP | ||||||||||
| Sato, Taka | DNP | ||||||||||
| Takenouchi, Banglee | 5 / 9 [0.556] | 3 / 5 [0.600] | 2 / 3 [0.667] | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15 | |
| Ueda, Kousuke | 2 / 5 [0.400] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 26 / 58 [0.448] | 6 / 16 [0.375] | 8 / 14 [0.571] | 41 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 66 | ||
Referees
| Grasonde Bowman: | Rate Me |
| William Bullock: | Rate Me |