THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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Da Bien 85, New York Fury 75 |
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Da Bien Deals Fury Defeat In Double OT | ||
| De Los Reyes Scores Career High 35 | ||
| February 21, 2008 - New York, NY (DL) - It’s hard to believe, but for all his greatness over the years, Shawn De Los Reyes has never broken the 30-point barrier in a game. Heck, he’d never scored more than 27. Well, that went out the window on Thursday night with a quickness. From his first shot, when SDR nailed a triple, you knew there was something special in the air tonight. Phil Collins couldn’t have felt it more. With a new career high of 35 points on 13/18 from the field, SDR led Da Bien to a delicious 85-75 double overtime win over the New York Fury in a match-up we’d like to see 7 times over. And lest you think SDR needed the two bonus periods to establish his new high, think again: he had 31 at the end of regulation. With the way the game started out, no one could have foresaw overtime, much less double OT, and then with the way the second OT went, no one would have thought this game was that close in looking at the final score. Talk about roller-coaster games? This was Space Mountain deluxe. With SDR tossing in 8 points in the opening quarter, and Wilson Lew scoring all 7 of his in the same period, Da Bien burst out to a 22-10 lead as everyone but Christian Stevens for the Fury seemed allergic to making baskets (Pogo had 4 buckets in the 1st, his teammates none.) But claw back would the Fury do and ultimately, by outplaying Da Bien over the next 3 quarters, they’d take their first lead in the game on a Pogo and 1 with under 2 minutes to go in the game, 61-60. There was good stuff that happened after the 1st and up to that point – like Harris Chung scoring 12 for Da Bien and the Fury’s Chris Youn collecting rebounds like a boy does baseball cards (15) – but all of that paled in comparison to the last two minutes of this wild ride. Chung was hot, SDR was hotter, Pogo was unconscious, and Ren Hsieh was heating up. If anyone was looking for some warmth during this cold winter, they’d come to the right place. The basement of LFNY was hotter than hell. After the Fury nabbed the lead, it went a little something like this: SDR with a calm jumper to reclaim the lead for Da Bien. Stevens, who set his own career high with 33 points (13/24 FG), got a tough take to go, Fury pogo back up by 1. With 42.3 ticks left now, SDR drops two freebies. Da Bien again. Hsieh (20 pts, 3 stls) shakes and bakes and sticks a pull-up. Fury flies ahead. When Youn stripped Kevin Park with 15.2 left and Roger Redhead split free-throws from it, the Fury seemed poised for the improbable comeback win as this chess match suddenly favored them as Da Bien was the ones to blink first. Da Bien certainly wasn’t out of it though as they were only down a deuce and when Chung, who also set his career high with 26 points and 11 rebounds (my, it was career kind of night) snagged a rebound and went end to end only to be fouled for a chance to tie.
His first shot was good, but inexplicably, on the second attempt, teammate Mo Ghumman (10 boards), committed a lane violation that had zero business being committed, turning the ball over to the Fury with Da Bien still down one. (To those who felt that call was a bogus one at that juncture of the game: please understand that it was the correct call. In pro rules, if a player on the second block at any point steps over the line before the shooter takes his shot, it’s a violation – even if he retreats in time. If the player on the bottom block steps over and gets back in time, that is not a violation.) As Da Bien was forced to foul Hsieh, and he iced both freebies for a 68-65 lead, suddenly the good doctor (Ghumman is an MD) felt violently ill. Fear not Mo, surely you’re learning to love playing with SDR. With 7 ticks still – an eternity yet – guess who came a knockin’ and drilled a straightaway wide open look with 2.2 to tie the game and send it to overtime? (Youn would lament about it later at 3rd Floor.) Folks, there wasn’t a single doubt that SDR’s shot wasn’t swishing through as soon as it left his hands. Maybe the gutsiest shot he’s ever made. Certainly, the most timely. This shot heard around the world (or at least around 75th Street) seemed to be the rocket that would carry Da Bien home as they used the momentum behind it to open up the first OT with a 6-0 run as SDR (11 rbs, 6 assts, and 4 stls) got a steal to ignite a 6-0 run by finding Chung for a score before he finished the run with score off a dish from Lew to make it 74-68. The Fury seemed defeated and their body language showed it, but it’s funny how, bang-bang, things can change quickly. Bang! Banglee Takenouchi hit a 3 and then bang, Stevens (3/3 from the arc) connected on one too and, just like that, everyone was lining up for another jump ball to start the second bonus session. This time, Da Bien did it again – they opened it with a fury - but this time, they didn’t let up, and the Fury were finally finished. SDR and Chung, as they did all game long, did most of the damage in a 9-0 spurt that turned into an 11-1 outscoring of the Fury in OT2 that, unfortunately, brought this close game to a close. This wasn’t just a fine game, but it was the finest game of De Los Reyes’s decorated career. Da Bien made another statement with the win, but bigger than that, SDR made a statement that, after a couple of ho-hum seasons with this very Fury team as Da Bien sat it out, he may be, now with a great cast around him, scary to think, better than ever. |
Score by Quarters
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Total |
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| New York Fury | 10 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 7 | 75 |
| Da Bien | 22 | 13 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 85 |
Boxscore
| New York Fury - 75 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chang, Rich | DNP | ||||||||||
| Choi, James | DNP | ||||||||||
| De Leon, Andrew | DNP | ||||||||||
| Hsieh, Ren | 6 / 18 [0.333] | 3 / 8 [0.375] | 5 / 6 [0.833] | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 20 | |
| Kwok, Jason | DNP | ||||||||||
| Moy, Jeff | DNP | ||||||||||
| Parekh, Ram | DNP | ||||||||||
| Redhead, Roger | 1 / 11 [0.091] | 0 / 7 [0.000] | 4 / 6 [0.667] | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| Stevens, Christian | 13 / 24 [0.542] | 3 / 3 [1.000] | 4 / 7 [0.571] | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 33 | |
| Takenouchi, Banglee | 2 / 9 [0.222] | 2 / 6 [0.333] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| Wang, Alvin | 2 / 3 [0.667] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Youn, Chris | 1 / 5 [0.200] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 4 / 5 [0.800] | 15 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| 25 / 70 [0.357] | 8 / 26 [0.308] | 17 / 24 [0.708] | 31 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 75 | ||
| Da Bien - 85 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chanthavongsa, Rob | 1 / 5 [0.200] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Chin, Jeff | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chung, Harris | 11 / 17 [0.647] | 1 / 5 [0.200] | 3 / 3 [1.000] | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 26 | |
| De Los Reyes, Shawn | 13 / 18 [0.722] | 4 / 6 [0.667] | 5 / 6 [0.833] | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 35 | |
| Ghumman, Mo | 3 / 6 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | |
| Lew, Wilson | 3 / 13 [0.231] | 1 / 6 [0.167] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |
| Park, Kevin | 1 / 6 [0.167] | 1 / 3 [0.333] | 2 / 2 [1.000] | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | |
| Tu, Jeff | 0 / 1 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Wong, Rick | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 33 / 68 [0.485] | 8 / 22 [0.364] | 11 / 13 [0.846] | 46 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 24 | 85 | ||
Referees
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