SBBL at a glance...midway of Season 15...
Great 8
1. Cheesecake
This season, Cheesecake enjoyed their finest performance, staying steadily at #1 position on division Great 8. Playing great outside game and excelled defensively, Cheesecake lead SBBL league in W-L record at 16-2. Justins Linde-Liepinš leads the team with 22.4ppg. Vincenc Katić, team best shooter, is second with 21.9ppg. Viktor Šrámek, their latest wingman star acquisition, booked solid all-around game with 19.6ppg, 5.3rpg, 3.7apg, 1.3spg. But the main reason for Cheesecake to stay strong were the hardwork of their two blue-collar guy, Rafael Vázquez & Felip Massana. Vazquez only averaging 5.9ppg but 12.3rpg, 3.2apg, 0.5spg and 2.4bpg undoubtly made him one of the best defender on SBBL. Felip Massana also has similar line, averaging 9.3ppg, team high 18rpg and 1.5bpg. Local hero, Tan Kim Wai, playing the reserve role, averaging 14.6ppg and 4apg in 24mpg. If cheesecake keep their game ballin, no doubt they will be the one that appearing on SBBL Final.
2. Pekanbaru Jaguars
Another hottest team on season 15. Recruited tons of wingmans, with combination of strong defensive-minded and sharpshooters in Thiseas Chantampakis (18.1ppg, 1.3spg) , Petrus Debrier(15ppg 4apg 1.3spg) and playmaker Sorin Niculae (21ppg 7.5apg). But Jaguars has to sacrifice Richard Ericsson, who has 4 season tenure with Jaguars and has been their main scorer for past 3 seasons. Aside of new acquisitions, Jaguars this season still led by the phenomenal play of Petrus Alexandersson (15ppg 20rpg 1.2spg 1.2bpg), who leads the SBBL in rebounding per game. Longest tenure veteran, Seki Skrebo, still hanging on with Jaguars, averaging 11.6ppg 3.5apg. Aside of fabulous foreigners, SGP U21ers Huo Xiang Song often being forgotten because of his modest 9ppg and 8rpg. His dirtywork and willingness to guard opposite star player has loosen up Petrus Alexandersson burden on the paint. One of Jaguars problematic issue is, the health of their key squad. Petrus Debrier and Chantampakis has combined 28 of injury days. Jaguar suffered 2 straight L when Chantampakis was nursing his right ankle.
3. Fat Alexander
The most consistent team performer in IBBL, offensive and defensively. Fat-A always made into at least Playoff Semifinalist in past 4 seasons. Gianpaulo Montecucco (24ppg 5apg), Yeo Tse Hui (24ppg 5apg 22spg), Noel Gimenez Guerra (13ppg 13ppg 2bpg), Evgenios Chaikalis (20ppg 7rpg 6apg), Amilcare Ricci (15ppg 11rpg), all of these 5 starters have already played like superstars and getting know to each other very well. This season, Fat-A has slowed down a bit due to sudden emergence of Cheesecake and Pekanbaru Jaguars, but for sure, the GM's will always pull some triggers for some surprising player shopping. Expect them to bring one more star to this team before playoff begins.
4. Birds Birds
Team that always have trademarked with strong Inside Def, still showing some power on this season thought of Great 8 teams emergence. Wilfried Hatterwüsting undoubtly the SBBL best bigman defender aside of cheesecake's Rafael Vazques and with Julio Vasco (20ppg 12rpg) alongside him, Birds Birds has the best twin towers here. Chinese shooter Wei Chunyao lead Birds with 20ppg, wingman Alfredo Erquiñigo has 17.4ppg and 7reb, and Alex Szanto has 17.6ppg and 5ast. The setback of this team is, threatened to be left by their owner by next week.
Last edited by SGP_BigBen(SGP-U21-Manager) at 3/20/2011 1:06:02 PM