Hoop Magical vs Chai Chee
Regular Season game 1: Hoop Magical 77 - Chai Chee 89
Regular Season game 2: Hoop Magical 82- Chai Chee 90
2nd seed and longtime div II.1 big 8 team Hoop Magical faces off against and on off SBBL team that got relegated to II.1 since season 17, Chai Chee. This was supposedly predicted to be a close game that can go either way. However, Yiannakis Sarlis' injury might change everything.
Hoop Magical
PPG: 96.7(7th), RPG: 46.5(7th), APG: 24.5(4th), TOPG: 8.6(1st)
Maties Bover: 33.7mpg, 24.9ppg, 1.7spg, 33.3% 3FG, Leads league in scoring
Only allowing 64.7ppg for their opponents(3rd in league), Hoop Magical plays in your face smothering defence and it has definitely worked well for them giving them an 18-4 record in the regular season. The players don't score alot overall but if the opponent can't either it doesn't matter too much. Even so, Hoop magical has the league's leading scorer Maties Bover. Bover is a streaky shooter that pours in points extremely quickly, bearing most of scoring load for his team. In 9 games played against Chai Chee however, his shooting percentage is a horrifying 38.9% compared to his usual 47.0%. Therefore, in case Chai Chee does defend Maties Bover well again, role players such as fan favourite William Misa, averaging a career low 8.3 pts in his past 6 seasons with Hoop magical, must score in his place. Taking the ball to the hoop isn't that bad an idea as Chai Chee is a poor shot blocking team(5.9bpg). It will be a bonus if Hoop Magical's bigs can get the offensive rebound and pass the ball to Bover, however well or poorly he's shooting, as Magical is not that good getting offensive rebounds. Of course, Yiannakis Sarlis' injury might just give Hoop Magical an easy win over Chai Chee.
Chai Chee
PPG: 97.6(6th), RPG: 51.7(4th), APG: 19(10th), ORPG:13.3(2nd)
Lucjusz Wywijas: 33.3mpg, 16.2ppg, 2.4rpg, 89.5% FT%, 5th in League for FT%
Make no mistake, Chai Chee is in a serious disadvantage stepping into the game with Hoop Magical. Yiannakis Sarlis is still recovering from a sprained knee and doctors still estimates 2 weeks till recovery. If u're a Chai Chee fan, don't hope a miracle sprain knee treatment to be discovered tonight and certainly don't even dream that Yiannakis Sarlis will be playing the game. With that injury Chai Chee is missing 16.2ppg(top scorer in Chai Chee, tied with Lucjusz Wywijas), 5.8 apg(1st in team), 1.8 spg (1st in team). Its a huge void to fill and none of the other Chai Chee PGs can do so. The team's playoff hopes fall on Lucjusz Wywijas and Pedro Cafranga both who must put up monster numbers in terms of scoring. Plenty of isolation sets should ran for Lucjusz Wywijas and Pedro Cafranga since there's no guards that could set up teammates or run plays efficiently. Chai Chee should have no problem is rebounding against a weaker rebounding Hoop Magical team but they have to box out well to prevent easy put backs for Hoop Magical. Besides Bover, many of other Hoop Magical's players have problem scoring, shutting down Bover is a start to an uphill task for Chai Chee to win the series.
Last edited by big_boss_will at 8/5/2012 3:07:13 PM