THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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2003 Summer/Fall AL (SF/Oakland) |
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'New' Touchless Wins Championship |
| Last Updated 10/24/03 8:00AM
SCROLL DOWN FOR THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE PLAYOFF BRACKETS Login to our Yahoo Groups site to access raw, uncompiled stats OCTOBER 13, 2003 -- The "new" Touchless team, the #1 seed going into the playoffs, soundly defeated the #2-seeded Billy Huang, 68-52 in the championship. Billy Huang could not seem to break the 14-point barrier, and Touchless was hitting its threes after Billy Huang was forced to play zone as a result of the penetration of the Touchless guards. Last season, a similarly named team called Touchless won, but while 80% of that team went on to become the team known as G-Unit in the NL, Menh Voong and Allen Lam stuck around and rebuilt Touchless into yet another champion. Here is the Touchless roster for this season: Rod Balandra Allen Lam Dexter Li Solomon Soo Hoo Darren Tran Menh Voong Bernard Washington Jerry Zhou The Billy Huang team had beaten the #7 Flight Knights Exhumed, who were without the services of star forward Derrick Yee. However, Billy Huang also played without their star forward, Ty Shay. Billy Huang hung onto win by 3 points in the last Losers Bracket game. Our 3-Point Shootout was not well-attended with the Final 3 playing on a Sunday night in Oakland, but here were the tallies: 3-POINT SHOOTOUT RESULTS First Round (Pts-Player) 6 - Dave Tu, Billy Huang 5 - Darren Tran, Touchless 12 - Yih-Wei Chien, Below The Rim 9 - Jeff Tong, Flight Knights Exhumed 7 - John Hsu, Below The Rim 11 - Menh Voong, Touchless 15 - Rich Twu, Flight Knights Exhumed 5 - Billy Huang, Billy Huang 9 - Hank Kim, Billy Huang Second Round (Pts-Player) 6 - Menh Voong 12 - Yih-Wei Chien 8 - Rich Twu Yih-Wei Chien of Below The Rim was our 3-Point Shootout Champion, the first frontcourt player in Dream League history to win such an award (you can hear Bill Walton in the distance: "Put it up, big fella, put it up!!"). Thanks to all of the teams for another great AL season! The raw, uncompiled stats for the final two games are up on the Yahoo Groups site. Please stay tuned for All-Star voting. Also, next season will be starting tentatively on November 9, so the deadline for rosters and payments is November 2. We'll be in touch soon! Previous articles: Final 3 and 3-Point Shootout this Sunday! (10/10/03) Showdown Between #1 and #2 (9/30/03) Moving to Ira Jinkins and Losers Bracket Protocol (9/24/03) Tiebreakers Used to Determine Playoff Seedings (9/16/03) Final Regular Season Games to Determine Playoff Fates (9/9/03) Playoff Picture Starts To Develop (8/13/03) Eastern Teams Beat Western Teams (8/13/03) Jersey Verdict (7/31/03) Season Schedule Set (7/17/03) 7/13 Games Ready to Roll, but Season Schedule Not Complete Yet (7/11/03) Registration instructions (7/7/03) NOTES ON SCHEDULE BELOW: 10/7 - Games for 10/12 start at 6PM due to all-day tournament 9/25 - All remaining playoff games moved to IJCC 9/16 - Tien-Cherry and Token-A-Team games had incorrect times on the playoff brackets, now corrected and consistent with below 9/4 - 9/7 2:30/3:30/4:30 B&GC games have been moved up to 11:30/12:30/1:30 respectively 9/3 - 9/7 2:30/3:30/4:30 games at B&GC may need to be moved up to 11:30/12:30/1:30 respectively, due to the same gym problem 9/3 - 9/7 Bay Gunrz time slot TBD 9/3 - 9/14 3:30PM time slot given to Striders due to 9/7 reschedule 8/29 - 9/7 Striders vs Bay Gunrz moved to 9/14 5:30PM in Oakland due to gym conflict List of previous schedule changes |