S17 - Singapore Tournament - Jaguars OUT. Irfan Hamid 50pts brought Singapore Slashers to finish Pekanbaru Jaguars 70-57.
That's it. Tournament Omen. It happened every season with SBBL Champion Pekanbaru Jaguars.
Welcome to the highlight reel. Irfan Bakti Abd Hamid, the future star of SGP U21 NT, was electric down the floor, flashes Jaguars baskets from almost from every spot for his 25 half time points. Trailing 11 after half, Jaguars switched their best defender, Teng Jin Ming, on Hamid. But only lasted for 3rd quarter before Hamid torched them again on 4th, put Jaguars to 20 points hole. And the game ended with 70-57 for Slashers. Teng Jin Ming led Jaguars with 16pts. 18yo Ho Leong Soon registered 11pts 19rebs 3asts and 2blks, but still unable to help Jaguars came out from behind.
On Hobos&Basketball arena Singsing82 rallied back from 14pts deficit on 4th quarter to slip past Hobos&basketball with a dramatic 108-106 win. Both team were exchanging lead before Hobos led briefly after 3rd quarter and start to put it away on 4th with 108-94 with 6 minutes remaining. But Singsing's Yeo Han Fu and Tong Ying Kuan put up a furious 19-5 run to tied the game at 113-113. Hobos commited turnover on their next possession, enabled Singsing to take the lead on Pedro Lombardi layup to make it 115-113 with 15 seconds remaining. Hobos unable to hit any shot on next possession, and Singsing finally survived with the narrow win. Tong Ying Kuan led Singsing with marvelous performance 50pts, and Yeo Han Fu with 25pts. Pedro Lombardi has 18rebounds.
Rise of the Dragon. Newly hired veteran Gianantonio Galante scored 22pts and 14rebs to bring Raging Dragon, new uprising Div II team, to defeat Team Sleeps 92-71. Strong perimeter defense that displayed by RD's young players, has limited Team Sleeps' Singapore NT's player Liew Ze Yeng to 13points. Altough Slovenian U21 Borut Kreslin scored 29pts, he has little help from his teammates.
Meanwhile on this week key matches, SLZH has no problem to shutdown ESP team 114-70. With their full strength, the defending chamipion easily outmatched ESP start from 1st quarter 28-16 and never threathened from that point. Leandro Perrone led SLZH with 22pts and 16rebs, Abilov and Laigre each scored 20pts.
Key Matches Next Week:
Lycans (Rank 8) @ Flyer Sonic (Rank 29)
Best NT Fang Shuang Xiang team against best U21 Peh Jiang Long team. Due to the tight compettion of SBBL, the Lycans need to win some games on league. If Lycans choose to rest Blazev, FSX and Bertero on the cup, this match will be interesting.
Shohoku Backers (Rank 1) @ Bobblehead (Rank 16)
Should be easy one for Shohoku, but not if Bobblehead choose to CT.
Compassvale United (Rank 13) @ Xavis (Rank 11)
Should be tough for Compassvale to play Xavis on the road, they could be drained after two next SBBL league matches.
SLZH (Rank 7) @ Whampoa All-Stars (Rank 4)
S16 Defending Champions vs S15 Defending Champions. Easily will be the match of the week.