Key result of the night was Revolta Culé, B.C's being a potential playoff spoiler in an 151-144 OT win over Skytturnar behind a 38p&21reb peformance by César Benítez. They have the opportunity to complicate things further as they finish the season with a home tie against the current last playoff spot holders Chicago Bulbs II on Saturday who crushed Rocalux 114-25 including holding the Luxembourgois to a scoreless last quarter.
Glasgow Blue Jays had a surprisingly easy night against Dropito who despite 4 extra player rating and a deficit of only 0.2 in average player rating were forced into a poor shooting night by a mixture of the Blue Jays' typical miserly defence and extra enthusiasm spent on the tie. After being down 77-46 at the end of the 3rd quarter, Dropito had a better final 12 to bring it back to a more repectable 95-76 but now have $800k wagebill Celestia BC in the final game to beat and confirm a playoff spot.
The 3rd team in the mexican stand-off for the final Big 8 playoff spot in Skytturnar have 0-21 Rocalux so both Chicago (thanks to their superior PD), and Dropito (almost equal on PD with 1 extra win but a much harder game) need to win to hold them off.
Great 8 fixtures in Game 22 have all the top 4 face the bottom 4 so the positions are very likely fixed now barring any shock results.
Game 21 Game Ratings :-
156 - 16.0 - Celestia BC
152 - 13.8 - Dropito
148 - 14.0 - Glasgow Blue Jays
148 - 12.9 - Revolta Culé, B.C
144 - 14.7 - Skytturnar
140 - 13.8 - Chicago Bulbs II
131 - 13.4 - Locomotive Edinburgh
126 - 12.1 - Glasgow Raptors
120 - 11.6 - Raging Seagull
115 - 11.1 - Santa Booker
091 - 10.0 - Bezerkers Ball Club
082 - 09.4 - Bibby Brotherhood
072 - 07.7 - Pic Pedrosa
055 - 05.6 - Comandaranga
052 - 04.8 - Rocalux
Running Totals of Game Rating this season :-
2896 - 137.9 - Celestia BC
2872 - 136.8 - Glasgow Blue Jays
2810 - 133.8 - Chicago Bulbs II
2728 - 129.9 - Skytturnar
2723 - 129.7 - Glasgow Raptors
2582 - 123.0 - Dropito
2574 - 122.6 - Locomotive Edinburgh
2535 - 120.7 - Revolta Culé, B.C
2465 - 117.4 - Santa Booker
2224 - 105.9 - Raging Seagull
1977 - 094.1 - Berzerkers Ball Club
1860 - 088.6 - Bibby Brotherhood
1417 - 067.5 - Pic Pedrosa
1226 - 058.4 - Comandaranga
1107 - 052.7 - Rocalux
Best team stats of the evening
Points : 160 : Locomotive Edinburgh
Rebounds : 72 : Locomotive Edinburgh, Glasgow Raptors
Assists : 42 : Celestia BC, Raging Seagull
Steals : 26 : Celestia BC
Block Shots : 13 : chicago bulbs II
Best individual stats of the evening
Points : 38 : C. Benítez (Revolta Culé, B.C.)
Rebounds : 30 : S. Gray (Glasgow Raptors)
Assists : 13 : M. Korkeakoski (Raging Seagull), K. Caruana (Raging Seagull)
Steals : 6 : A. Recasens (Celestia BC)
Block Shots : 5 : W. Cassart (Celestia BC), S. Kennedy (Locomotive Edinburgh)
Best efficiency by main position of the evening
Point Guard : J. Varletta (Glasgow Blue Jays) (36 Points, 1 Rebounds, 7 Assists, 3 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 40
Shooting Guard : P. Štolba (Raging Seagull) (26 Points, 2 Rebounds, 9 Assists, 2 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 32
Small Forward : G. Pestryakov (Santa Booker) (26 Points, 5 Rebounds, 5 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 34
Power Forward : C. Benítez (Revolta Culé, B.C.) (38 Points, 21 Rebounds, 2 Assists, 0 Steals, 0 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 55 *MVP OF THE NIGHT*
Center : W. Buchan (Locomotive Edinburgh) (32 Points, 11 Rebounds, 8 Assists, 1 Steals, 1 Block Shots) : Efficiency : 48