| Opening Round Results |
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| Wednesday, 01 April 2009 | |
SWAT vs Strong Island At game time Strong Island was ready to go while SWAT still had some players coming in and getting ready and others that showed up after the game started. SWAT who ended up missing Stanley and Steven this game didn’t seem in synch from the get go. Strong Island took a 8-10 point lead early on with Neil posting up and Shaun hitting some mid range jump shots. SWAT never really got in to a flow offensively as aside from a few post ups by Kunal and Davis down low nothing seemed to be working. Strong Island was also aided by a career game by Shahin who was easily the best player on the floor. He hit his free throws, threes in bunches, and had the crowd going ooh and aah with his lay ups. Every time SWAT made a mini run Shahin with some crazy drives to the basket was able to provide the dagger. Dynasty vs Basketballers Dynasty started this game with Angel scoring the first 14 points for Dynasty. Tim grabbed a lot of rebounds but was not able to block any shots. Sajeel of the Basketballers had floater after floater go in over Tim. The second half Sejdo heated up and got Dynasty on a roll. They were up by 15. The Basketballers lost Usman early on to 5 fouls. But Basketballers as they have always done fought back and took the lead. Sejdo went to work with slashes to the basket. Tim was grabbing rebound after rebound. The backcourt of Sajeel and Nabeel though were forcing turnovers and timely threes by Talha and Nabeel got Baller Nation in a frenzy. Usman was doing the baller dance on the sidelines, and it looked like one of many famous Basketballer comeback victories. But Tim Crane was not to be denied he hit his free throws and the game was tied with seconds left. The Basketballers turned the ball over but stole the ball from Dynasty, but Dynasty stole it back, and then the Basketballers stole it back, but Dynasty stole it again! Dynasty tried to get a shot off at the buzzer but we were going to overtime. In overtime Varun fouled out and from there Tim and Sejdo were able to punish the Basketballers inside. Dynasty in their first playoff game in SABL history were able to hold on and move on to the final four. Titans vs Panthers Rumors had swirled this match up. Will the Panthers have Jasjit and Ditar? Some insiders were making assurances that they would be there whereas others were whispering that it's possible that they wouldn't be at the game. Once the clock hit 1:30 it was clear that the Panthers would be playing with out two of their leading scorers. The Panthers fell behind early as Lejoe was able to score at will and draw fouls against the Panthers. This game looked like it was going to be a rout. Something happened to the Panthers they got the ball to one of the most unlikely heroes of the day Jagdeep. Jagdeep the diminutive point guard found himself open from the corners repeatedly and began to hit three after three after three. Every three he hit seemed to energize the Panthers even more. Soon Gurpreet began to steal the ball Amarjit began to grab every rebound and block some shots and the Panthers looked like they were going to pull this out. Lejoe picked up his 4th foul and was on the bench and so was Rex. Harjit was slashing to the paint and getting in his bank shots, but a few missed layups by assorted Panthers in crunch time was their undoing. It was apparent that the lack of a go to scorer in the last few minutes undid an otherwise phenomenal rookie season for the Panthers. The Titans Matthew Alexander had some huge rebounds in the end and was able to negate the size that the Panthers brought in to this game. HUMANS vs HitMen In this David vs Goliath match up the undermanned HitMen took on the entire HUMANS squad. Triggy and Maz match up vs Mohammed and Muneeb but it was the play of Mahdi grabbing 18 rebounds and Saad who had some big and 1's. The HitMen couldn't get Sinu going and he sprained his ankle midway. He did get double digit rebounds, but the HitMen just didn't have the firepower to match up against the HUMANS who just wore them out. Muneeb looked like he was on cruise control and still managed 39 points. |
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