THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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New York Fury 63, M&A 101 47 |
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Fury Flick Aside 101 in the 4th |
| March 27, 2008 – Brooklyn, NY (DL) – You want to know the difference between good and bad basketball? Look no further than one play in the 4th quarter of the Fury-101 game on Thursday. A sloppy wayward pass by 101 is picked off by a hellbent Fury defender who saves the ball while falling out of bounds to a teammate who pushes it forward to create a fastbreak bucket to which 101 calls a timeout and the Fury team explodes in celebration as 101 is obviously disheartened and defeated. It all came as part of an 18-0 blitz by the Fury in the 4th that turned a close, 45-44 game, into a blowout. And the reason why no names were mentioned in the above description is because no names needed to be. This is a team game and just as you are good as a team together, you are bad as a team together. For 3 quarters, both the Fury and M&A 101 looked like good teams. The Fury were high octane with Roger Redhead (13 pts) dropping 10 points as part of a 21 point opening stanza and the rest of their line-up balancing it around on offense with just about each guy getting a couple baskets each. 101 countered with a scrappy style to stay on the Fury’s heels with Wilson Wang and Gene Kim hitting bombs and Ace Watana, making his season debut after coming back from elbow surgery, making hustle D fashionable, but when this helter skelter affair turned its attention to the 4th, the good (Fury), the bad (101), and the ugly came about. Chris Youn (19 pts, 12 rbs, 3 stls) was especially good as he dropped 11 points on a perfect 5/5 shooting in the 4th. Alvin Wang hit two free throw line jumpers. Andrew De Leon (7) and Christian Stevens (10) wiped the windex and Ren Hsieh, James Choi, and Banglee Takenouchi dictated the tempo, combining for 11 assists between them. 11 was more than the entire 101 team had (8) and that was simply ugly. 101’s offense and defense were both nonexistent in the 4th as they let the Fury steamroll them, and came up completely empty on the offensive end until garbage time with a minute and change remaining when Brian Yang (12 pts, 7 rbs) scored 3 meaningless points. When you have more turnovers than assists, it’s going to be a long season and this is precisely what 101 is going through as they lost 63-47 to drop to 0-6. Sitting here pointing out what’s wrong with 101 is like telling you what’s wrong with the Knicks. What’s the point? They know exactly what the matter is and yet, they refuse to do anything about it. Attendance is an issue for starters, but attendance has nothing to do with it. They keep thinking they’re a good team with just some bad luck. They hang tough for 3 quarters but always blow it in the 4th. It’s fool’s gold folks. Good teams don’t let things get away in crunch time. Good teams do what the Fury did. 101 may have been in the majority of most games until late, but they’re 0-6 and that’s all there is to say about that. To think you’re an okay team with a record like that? That’s just ugly. |
Score by Quarters
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Total |
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| New York Fury | 21 | 12 | 12 | 18 | - | 63 |
| M&A 101 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 3 | - | 47 |
Boxscore
| New York Fury - 63 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chang, Rich | DNP | ||||||||||
| Choi, James | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 4 / 4 [1.000] | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| De Leon, Andrew | 3 / 9 [0.333] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 4 / 6 [0.667] | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |
| Hsieh, Ren | 1 / 4 [0.250] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
| Kwok, Jason | DNP | ||||||||||
| Moy, Jeff | DNP | ||||||||||
| Parekh, Ram | DNP | ||||||||||
| Redhead, Roger | 5 / 11 [0.455] | 3 / 4 [0.750] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | |
| Stevens, Christian | 2 / 6 [0.333] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Takenouchi, Banglee | 2 / 3 [0.667] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |
| Wang, Alvin | 2 / 2 [1.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| Youn, Chris | 8 / 11 [0.727] | 3 / 3 [1.000] | 0 / 1 [0.000] | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 19 | |
| 24 / 48 [0.500] | 7 / 13 [0.538] | 8 / 11 [0.727] | 35 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 63 | ||
| M&A 101 - 47 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choi, Myong | 3 / 14 [0.214] | 0 / 3 [0.000] | 2 / 2 [1.000] | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | |
| Choi, Yusik | DNP | ||||||||||
| Hara, Andrew | DNP | ||||||||||
| Kamdang, Len | 0 / 5 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 / 2 [1.000] | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Kim, Gene | 4 / 12 [0.333] | 2 / 7 [0.286] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | |
| Kim, Kirk | DNP | ||||||||||
| Liang, Brian | DNP | ||||||||||
| Ma, Mike | DNP | ||||||||||
| Nausrudeen, Usama | DNP | ||||||||||
| Ueno, Jeremy | DNP | ||||||||||
| Wang, Wilson | 2 / 6 [0.333] | 1 / 1 [1.000] | 5 / 8 [0.625] | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | |
| Watana, Ace | 2 / 8 [0.250] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |
| Yang, Brian | 3 / 9 [0.333] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 6 / 9 [0.667] | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | |
| 14 / 54 [0.259] | 3 / 13 [0.231] | 16 / 25 [0.640] | 38 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 47 | ||
Referees
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| William Reeves: | Rate Me |