Wednesday, December 1, 2010
reporter: Tsim P. date: Nov 20, 2010
Tournament: Asian TnP Thanksgiving Bball Tournament; Minnesota tournamentresults:
1st- NS2faded 2nd- Dynasty 3rd- Manila 4th- Westsiderz 5th- Drain'em 6th- Mlps Lakers
Article: Recap: NS lost to Mlps Lakers 33-31, Hank was dominating as usual. Hank (Mlps):16 pts 15 reb 4
blk Xiro (NS): 15 pts FG: 6-18
Mlps Lakers lost to Manila in double overtime. Game winning shot by Vern(Manila)
as time expired.
Dynasty defeats Angkor 50-36, Drain'em 60-46. Zhao(Dynasty): score both game 27 pts. Dynasty
was heavily favor to win as they added two guys from Shohoku.
Upset game: Westsiderz defeat Mlps Lakers 43-41.
Westsiderz was small so they use quickness to help play D on the Mlps Lakers three 6'5 big man (Julian, Hank and Rob)...Mlps Lakers was having trouble getting thier offense going.
NS2faded, use a great strategy throughout this tournament
since they only had 7 players.Played without one of their key starter play named 'Loarry' Xiro was the MvP in the
finals' agianst Dynasty.
Semi-Final's: NS 52- Manila 46. NS was quicker and faster than Manila. Manila
had no answer for Xiro. But Manila height helped their causes by getting alot of offense rebound/second chance points. But again, Xiro came to the recusue.
Championship Game: NS 53- Dynasty 41. It was a close game till
the last 5 min of the 2nd halve. Xiro was knocking down 3's after 3's and Zhao from Dynasty was doing the same.
Xiro: 26 pts 3FG: 6-9 Zhao: 22 pts 3FG: 5-10
2:15 am est
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