SBBL - Season 18 Playoff - QF Result - Shorthanded Jaguars rally big to beat Shwe Toe Ngal, advanced to Semifinal.
After Gilberto Rolon landed awkwardly on his knees, Jaguars were clearly outmanned almost on every position. Ex-Jaguars' Othman Bin Ibrahim took this advantage and rampaging Jaguars from various longrange shots, and led STN to 72-63 lead near end of 3rd, but Zhong Xuanwen hit the buzzerbeater at end of 3rd to start a 16-6 run that lasted until four minutes left on 4th quarter, leading 81-78. STN keep tying the game, until Arif Salim & Huo Xiangsong made a big stop against Adam Bralic & Jakub Ejakowski, forced STN to foul players, and Jaguar iced the victory with clutch free throws.
Carlo Manca led Jaguars with 19pts, Arif Salim had 13pts & 14rebs and HXS had 13pts. Zhong Xuan Wen scored 11. From STN, Othman Ibrahim led with 18pts & Adam Bralic has 16pts 11rebs 3blks.
Meanwhile from Cheesecake arena, Cheesecake also had to rallied from 46-59 deficit to force overtime with their visitor Compassvale United, and Vincent Katic took over the extra time period to hold off CPU with 116-106 victory. Katic led Cheesecake with 44points. Chow Chun May led CPU with 33 points. CPU actually played with different scheme, as they didn't relied much on Wang Xiangjia and Giovanni Dushku, instead they turned to Remy Wisgerhof & Chunmay to carry their team. Too bad the opponent were the defending CHamps Cheesecake.
From Big 8, both home teams Eric United and Esplanade BC will advance to Semifinals after have no problem to ousted their visitor team Singapore Showstoppers & SingSing82. Showstoppers still put up some fight on the 1st quarter, led 28-25, but Eric turned it around on 2nd quarter with 34-15 burst, make it 59-43 at halftime. EU still keep the fire on at 3rd and SS were unable to contain Peleg Schum and Augusto Gomez, and Eric sealed the game with benches player on the floor, final score 99-82. Schum has 23ptsw and Gomez scored 20. Pablo Pineda led SS with 21pts & 12rebs.
EBC has no problem as well to beat their Rival Singsing82 at home with 108-85. With arrival of EBC new man Ivan Joobs, it freed up a lot for Pablo Garcia as he scored season high 36pts 5asts & 5rebs. Joobs had 17pts and 6asts. Zdeněk Helebrant led SingSing with 25pts 11rebs.
Relegation 1 : SLZH showed the B3 class players mercilessly to defeat Saung Hnin Pwint 113-75. Yusuke Furusawa dropped a superb 40pts & 20rebs. Raimundo Marcondes had 17pts.
Relegation 2 : Shohoku Backers also had no problem to beat WeRChamp 106-84. Jaras Gasiulis led SHB with 25 pts.