In the race for the final Big 8 playoff slot Skytturnar easily beat Rocalux 136-41, so to lose out both Chicago Bulbs II had to beat Revolta Culé, B.C, and Dropito had to beat Celestia BC.
To their credit Revolta Culé, B.C despite only really having pride to play for tried to win putting out a team with 6 higher game rating than Chicago, matching them for defence, and crushed Chicago 58-37 in the boards battle. With all of that and home advantage too they still saw Chicago shoot better on the night and come out with a 109-97 victory.
So Skytturnar had to pin their hopes on Celestia BC and that their $840k/week squad would overwhelm the Andorrans. Celestia put out a BBB level team with divisional season highs for both game rating (176) and average player rating (16.3), with Dropito countering with what would otherwise be an impressive 158 & 14.3.
Dropito had the home advantage and also chose to put extra effort into the game, and in a fight between two sets of look inside tactics had Emengardo Lindolfo and veteran Andorra full international Roger Marull dominate in rebounds and had Dropito make 15 more visits to the charity stripe which combined meant that Dropito came out winners by 116-109, and gave a reminder of what both rebounding and free-throwing shooting can do for a team.
Game 22 Game Ratings :-
176 - 16.3 - Celestia BC
158 - 14.3 - Dropito
141 - 12.0 - Revolta Culé, B.C
135 - 13.1 - Chicago Bulbs II
133 - 14.4 - Glasgow Blue Jays
130 - 13.3 - Santa Booker
129 - 13.9 - Skytturnar
122 - 12.4 - Locomotive Edinburgh
118 - 12.0 - Glasgow Raptors
110 - 11.9 - Raging Seagull
099 - 09.8 - Bezerkers Ball Club
084 - 09.5 - Bibby Brotherhood
066 - 06.2 - Comandaranga
057 - 06.2 - Pic Pedrosa
054 - 05.3 - Rocalux
Running Totals of Game Rating this season :-
3068 - 139.5 - Celestia BC
3005 - 136.6 - Glasgow Blue Jays
2945 - 133.9 - Chicago Bulbs II
2857 - 129.9 - Skytturnar
2841 - 129.1 - Glasgow Raptors
2740 - 124.5 - Dropito
2696 - 122.5 - Locomotive Edinburgh
2676 - 121.6 - Revolta Culé, B.C
2595 - 118.0 - Santa Booker
2334 - 106.1 - Raging Seagull
2076 - 094.4 - Bezerkers Ball Club
1944 - 088.4 - Bibby Brotherhood
1474 - 067.0 - Pic Pedrosa
1292 - 058.7 - Comandaranga
1161 - 052.8 - Rocalux
Best team stats of the evening
Points : 147 : Glasgow Raptors
Rebounds : 71 : Glasgow Raptors, Santa Booker
Assists : 50 : Glasgow Raptors
Steals : 41 : Skytturnar
Block Shots : 18 : Glasgow Raptors
Best individual stats of the evening
Points : 38 : E. Lindolfo (dropito)
Rebounds : 26 : É. Bossart (Rocalux)
Assists : 16 : F. Monsch (Santa Booker)
Steals : 7 : T. Quemada (Skytturnar)
Block Shots : 5 : T. Quemada (Skytturnar), É. Bossart (Rocalux), T. Chong Teck (Glasgow Blue Jays)
Best efficiency by main position of the evening
Point Guard : S. O'Connor (Glasgow Blue Jays) (35 Points, 8 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 4 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Shooting Guard : J. Varletta (Glasgow Blue Jays) (20 Points, 2 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 5 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 30
Small Forward : K. Caruana (Raging Seagull) (30 Points, 10 Rebounds, 6 Assists, 4 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 42
Power Forward : M. Hutchenson (Glasgow Raptors) (32 Points, 18 Rebounds, 4 Assists, 2 Steals, 4 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 51
Center : E. Lindolfo (dropito) (38 Points, 25 Rebounds, 0 Assists, 1 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 51 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*