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S16 - SBBL - Tournament Final - New Champion is born. SLZH survived to edge out Sessioes Doers 104-98 for their first even Tournament Champions.

Stunning, maybe few fans out there on Esplanade Arena hardly recognize SLZH's players name, but Leandro Perrone and Romeo Laigre were just stick to their memory at near end game.

Laigre was marvelous, raining down shot after shot, bullied his way for 25 pts to power SLZH for their big 3 quarter to defeat Sessioes Doers to acquire their First Tournament Trophy with final score 104-98. SLZH were outscoring Sessioes Doers 35-25, then slowed down the pace at 4th to gain more quality possessions. The lead was never less than 8, until final minutes, Roberto Paz started to knock the long range shot and cut the deficit to 4 with 50sec to go. SLZH took a bit scare as Laigre was fouled hard by Phil Hanson, and Abilov was stepping on Roberto Paz foot. Both was sidelined, but SLZH were already leading 99-92 with 20seconds to go, and able to secure the win.

Perrone again, looks like Dwight Howard out there, scored 24pts and 19rebs, Gorboi were quiet with 12, as he was struggling with 3 quick fouls at 1st half. Don Steri has 14points. Abilov has 10pts 6asts and 10rebs.

SD's were led by Phil Hanson with 23pts and 21rebs, Balkhausen 19pts 12rebs, Roberto Paz has 18pts, failed to make plays on crunch time, as he commited a fatal offensive fouls on final 30 seconds with the deficit only 4pts.

With the Victory, SLZH will be the first team from Division II to represent Singapore for the Buzzerbeater Best game.

Man, i'm happy too.. What a tight game... i thought SD is going to take over after Laigre end Abilov went down...


The history is born.. do make us proud on the B3..

During the fight in 2nd quarter, I alr given up hope, tot game alr ended, was trash at early 2nd quarter. Ya, real tight game. Hope I could be promoted to SBBL, I need more income to survive, to get more player, if try to make a fight in B3. Or else my player will be real drain.

Thx alot as well. Especially, ur support since last season when I'm in SBBL. Nw wanna concentrate on my league Game, trying to fight my way up to SBBL, wif two strong team ahead for me, *slinger, singsing* two powerhouse trying to deny my way up. Haha.

just do your best lah.. nothing to lose down there.

if promoted, good for you. more revenue. and we got more rivals here which make game interesting.

if not promoted.... nah you can concentrate more on Cup games... and B3 !!..

It's kinda a mus to get promoted, in order to get some spare player to play in b3, and wanna to hav to fun playing wif u guys in SBBL. Haha.

congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
u have done us proud

Thx. I'm kind of lucky. Haha.

If you come up to SBBL next season, it'll make things even tougher than it is now. Any mistake and you'll find yourself in the relegation battle.

Agree, but it's a must to get promote up this season. B3 is a extra tough match which I need to strengthen my team to challenge team in there.

Season 16 - Who's hot... Who's not....

Skyrocketing :

Sessioes Doers (Rank 3)
Established their presence as a contender again for second straight season. The Singapore's third best team is no joke. SD's lineups are young and deep of reserve players that are always hungry to play. Still led by Ricardo Paz (23ppg) and Phil "Bill Laimberr" Hanson (17ppg 12rpg). Balkhausen is still solid at the middle (12ppg 11rpg 3bpg). The only setback of this team is they will need more veteran presence to finish out games, as per their defeat from SLZH from the Final Tournament this season, and the meltdown on last season playoff vs Shohoku Backers.

Singapore Showstoppers (Rank 6)
You are right. SS is now sitting at Big 8 first spot. The presence of Noel Lima (14ppg 11rpg) has toughen up their inside presence, and it result only two defeat so far. Edmundo Cabral led the team in scoring with 17ppg, Followed by Pedro Pineda 16ppg, 13rpg, 3.7apg & 1.7bpg. The real test will come when they finish their Great 8 trip, back to the schedule of Big 8 teams to face Shohoku Backers, Whampoa Allstars, revamped Eric United and stronger Lycans BB.

SLZH (Rank 10)
Nobody would care about SLZH at beginning of season, but the whole Singapore BB were shocked as SLZH ousted the top 5 SBBL team at tournament, for their way for their 1st ever championship. Led by Italian Don Steri (31ppg) and Hungarian's Bela Gorboi (21ppg), these troops are unstoppable offensively. And they also have a steady floor general in Eldegez Abilov (15ppg 5ast), who work at best with Leandro Perrone (14ppg 12rpg) on pick and roll. Romeo Laigre (12ppg 9rpg), the Tournament Final MVP, is a tough nose defender. It will be interesting to see how SLZH will fight their way to SBBL again, as they have to leap over the Slinger team and SingSing from their Division.

Last edited by SGP_BigBen(SGP-U21-Manager) at 6/12/2011 10:52:46 AM