THE DREAM LEAGUE
Asian American / Open Basketball Leagues
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Yaletown 64, Purple Cobras 35 |
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Yaletown Gains Revenge |
| July 13, 2008 – New York, NY (DL) – It’s a new season and for all intents and purposes, last season is over and done with and forgotten. Everyone knows Yaletown carries with them the crown, but that doesn’t earn them anything this go around. Each game starts 0-0, and if anything, facing the defending champs is extra motivation to play harder for their opponent. Well, it may be a new season and what’s in the past is in the past, but Yale remembers fondly when last they met the Purple Cobras during their latest championship run – a 64-61 OT Cobra win. One of the two losses they had on the season. It was history, but damned if revenge wasn’t on their minds! Though only two players who were in the game on Sunday were actually there last season when Yale lost that game – Fred Lee and Brian Yang – the taste of the loss after Mark Yiin went off for 32 that day didn’t sit well with the franchise in general. Somewhere out West, GM George Lai couldn’t wait for this rematch to happen. Not able to make the game that day for whatever flimsical excuses were Nelson Wong, Eden Chuang, Sung-Mo Cho, and Derik Kumagai – just about Yale’s entire team. The venerable Wilson Wang wasn’t yet on the team. Well, all these names, with the exception of Chuang (and he’s rarely around anyways) were present on Sunday and for it, they presented the Cobras with a 64-35 dissecting to begin defense of their title. Dissection doesn’t begin to describe it, but understand that it was a shellacking. Something it didn’t seem like it would be when after half the 1st quarter had expired and the score read the way each games starts: 0-0. Someone, it doesn’t even matter who, thankfully finally broke the silence and after that, Yale strung together a run to take a 12-2 lead into the 2nd, playing much better defense than they did offense. On D, Wang, an important addition to the Yale lineup in this bigger, badder, better AL season, bottled up Yiin like saran wrap to leftovers. The Professor (the funny thing is Wang really is a professor at the Columbia Public Policy Program) was hardly given an inch to shoot, cut off on the baseline by three weak side defenders at times, and struggled to start the game and then for the rest of the game, only finishing with 4 points on 2/13 shooting. The Cobras hung around in the 2nd quarter thanks to Yiin’s lone field goals and jumpers from Simon Huang, but when the 2nd half rolled around, it was all Yale, all the time. Wong (17 pts, 6 rbs) led the attack with 13 2nd half points, Wang (14 pts, 9 rbs, 3 assts, 4 blks) dropped 3 triples and snuffed many shots in the same span, and Kumagai, the reigning MVP was wicked wild on defense, collecting 9 steals (jeez) to go with 11 points and 8 boards. That’s a serious flirtation with a triple double if there ever was one. No Cobra reached double digits, Yale crushed on the boards, and Yale also nearly had a 2:1 advantage in steals – mainly thanks to DK, who outstole Purple by himself. NOW – and only now – is last season officially over. (Well, Yale did lose to the Rage too…) |
Score by Quarters
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Total |
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| Purple Cobras | 2 | 14 | 9 | 10 | - | 35 |
| Yaletown | 12 | 10 | 19 | 23 | - | 64 |
Boxscore
| Purple Cobras - 35 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejo, J | 2 / 4 [0.500] | 1 / 1 [1.000] | 0 / 2 [0.000] | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Cheng, Andrew | 1 / 4 [0.250] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Gao, Nick | 4 / 10 [0.400] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
| Huang, Harry | DNP | ||||||||||
| Huang, Simon | 3 / 10 [0.300] | 2 / 7 [0.286] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Kim, Greg | DNP | ||||||||||
| Ko, Roberto | DNP | ||||||||||
| Morita, Brent | 1 / 3 [0.333] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ngok, Karl | 2 / 5 [0.400] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| So, Andy | DNP | ||||||||||
| Yiin, Mark | 2 / 13 [0.154] | 0 / 3 [0.000] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 15 / 49 [0.306] | 4 / 13 [0.308] | 1 / 4 [0.250] | 31 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 35 | ||
| Yaletown - 64 | |||||||||||
| Player | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO | F | PTS | |
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| Cho, Sung-Mo | 1 / 8 [0.125] | 1 / 6 [0.167] | 3 / 4 [0.750] | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
| Choi, Kenny | DNP | ||||||||||
| Chuang, Eden | DNP | ||||||||||
| Di, Chris | DNP | ||||||||||
| Keh, Seung Jae | DNP | ||||||||||
| Kumagai, Derik | 4 / 13 [0.308] | 1 / 5 [0.200] | 2 / 2 [1.000] | 8 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | |
| Lee, Fred | 3 / 9 [0.333] | 3 / 6 [0.500] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| McInnis, Dave | DNP | ||||||||||
| Wang, Wilson | 4 / 15 [0.267] | 3 / 8 [0.375] | 3 / 4 [0.750] | 9 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | |
| Wong, Nelson | 6 / 8 [0.750] | 1 / 1 [1.000] | 4 / 4 [1.000] | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17 | |
| Yang, Brian | 3 / 7 [0.429] | 0 / 0 [0.000] | 1 / 2 [0.500] | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| 21 / 60 [0.350] | 9 / 26 [0.346] | 13 / 16 [0.813] | 43 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 64 | ||
Referees
| William Reeves: | Rate Me |
| The Terminator: | Rate Me |