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 NACBA Top 30 Players to Watch in TorontoThe NACBA has released their annual top players you will want to check out at this year's 30th Annual North American Chinese Basketball Association Invitational Tournament. Which of the 30 players will perform to their expectations? |
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| Who Are NACBA's Dirty Dozen? Twelve unsung heroes who do all the little things under the radar to help put their teams in the best possible position to capture this year’s NACBA Mens Elite title. In honor of these key players, NACBA wishes to acknowledge the Dirty Dozen at this year's NACBAIT. |
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 NACBA Eh! - The 30th Annual NACBAIT Heads North of the Border to TorontoThe 2010 NACBAIT will be making a big return to Toronto during Memorial Day weekend. We expect over 80 teams this year to compete for Championships in 9 separate divisions. Be sure to stay on top of all this year's experience, as many exciting things are planned. |
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| NACBA Top 10 at 10 - The Women Have Game! 2008 marks the 10th year that the NACBA has officially hosted a Women ’s divisions. We honored the Top 10 players of the past 10 years, as well as our Most Outstanding player to date. These are the players who have made the biggest impact on our tournament. |
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Seattle Bladerunners - A Dynasty in the Making continued .... The Championship game was a matchup pitting two West Coast standouts- the Seattle Bladerunners (4-2) v/s Arizona Desert Jade (5-1). This may have been the best NACBAIT title game in the past 28 years, surpassed only by the legendary 1989 SF Saints-SF Blazers overtime Finals. Each team had a real shot to win it, and it went right down to the wire to determine who would be left standing. Seattle started off by winning the tap as Kyle Kiang tapped it Jim Shih, who missed from the baseline. Arizona rebounded, and Phil Heu Weller (19 pts, 5 reb, 2 steals) tickled the twine with a 3, only 30 seconds into the game. Stephen Chang followed that score up with a transition layup and it was 5 to zip, ADJ. But Seattle responded with a balanced formula, going to center Jim Shih inside and Austin Yuen outside. Phil Heu Weller hit a 3, and the score remained tied at 8-8 for quite some time. Dave Clarke (11 pts, 2-3 ft) came off the bench for Arizona at 14:20, and sank a 3 within seconds. Phil struck again, sinking yet another trey and then Kyle Kiang (14 pts, 9 reb, 8 turnovers, 3 treys) matched that one as the game looked like it may turn into a 3-point shooting contest. The Bladerunners were up by 3 with 2:19 to play. Before the end of the half, Seattle’s Tim Wang rifled in a triple from the corner, and Phil Heu Weller gracefully danced in for 2 points to make it 28-26 Seattle at the buzzer. The Bladerunners opened the half by going to Kyle Kiang and he hit an absolutely ridiculous 24 footer. Bennett Woodward answered back immediately. Wesley Hsu went to the rack, got fouled, and sank his 2 ft’s and Phil Heu Weller came back for 2 points at the other end. This game kept going back and forth as neither team would give up in the big game. Stan Hwang then came up with a huge steal, but Arizona couldn’t score off the steal. Top 25’er Jim Shih banked a textbook turnaround to make it 35-31 with 16:20. With 15 minutes to play, lead guard Austin Yuen cramped for Seattle and had to come out of the game. With Kyle Kiang already nursing an injured hamstring, and Jim Shih suffering from 3 straight days of tough inside banging, the ship began to sink for Seattle. Dave Clarke hit a pullup, Phil drove to the hole, Steve Chang’s popped a19 foot jumper and then drove to the basket to get 2 ft’s, and Arizona was up 39-35. Stanley Hwang displayed a nice up and under move to complete the 10-0 Arizona run and with 10:32, Desert Jade held court 41-35. Jim Shih finally broke the drought, making the score was 41-37, but Arizona was still the team in control and Jim had to leave the game shortly thereafter due to exhaustion. With 8 minutes, Steven Chang picked up his 4th foul after a charging call off a 2 on 1 break. Kyle was clutch from 20 feet, but Dave Clarke came back seconds later to hit his favorite elbow pullup jay to make it 43-40. Austin Yuen finally returned with 7 minutes to go and Jim came back with 5:31 for the stretch run. Steve Chang then sent home 2 ft’s to make it 45-40. Jim’s rest paid off as he got great position, sealed his man, and scored on a scoop to make it 45-42 with 4:30. Steve then attacked the rim with ferocity and Jim put the hurt on him with a strongman’s foul. Stephen got up, brushed himself off, and calmly hit both free throws to give Arizona the lead 47-42. With 3:20, Seattle’s Wesley Hsu followed up on his own shot to cut it to 47-44. Jim Shih then utilized pure strength and determination to score a bucket off a broken inbounds, but his chance at a 3-point play was negated by a lane violation, so the score was 47-46 with 2:10. Zona then threw up a shot that missed and Austin Yuen brought the ball into the frontcourt. As anyone would figure, he worked the ball into The Man, Jim Shih, who was fouled and swished 2 free throws to give the Bladerunners a lead at 48-47. Desert Jade came up the court from left to right, and Phil Heu Weller missed on a step back. Arizona immediately went into a trap and Phil scored off a deflected pass to make it 49-48 Arizona with 1:06 to play. Seattle had the ball, looking to recapture the lead, but Wesley Hsu was called for an offensive pushoff. Seattle the decided not to foul a team like Arizona, who would probably just sink the free throws. They chased the ball and eventually caused an AZ TO as Jim stole the ball. Jim kicked it ahead to Kyle, who was going to ram it down the hatch. But before he could slam it, Kyle was fouled. He hit 1 of 2 to tie it up at 49-49 with 35.9 seconds to play. Arizona looked to hold the ball for one last shot and got the ball to Phil Heu Weller, who was having a good game. Seattle unexpectedly jumped at him with gambling double team, and Phil inadvertently palmed the ball. The Bladerunners would have one chance with 24.3 seconds. Austin got the rock, but couldn’t find Jim Shih who was blanketed well inside, so he found Tim Wang instead. Tim Wang drove the lane. Kyle Kiang was standing in the corner, faked up and went backdoor as Tim found him for a perfectly timed dish. Kyle went up with determination to really dunk this one to put an exclamation point on it, but he was hit and sent to the line with 2.2 ticks left. Kyle hit the first to win the game and then intentionally missed the second one, as Arizona could not gather in the rebound in time to get off a shot. Final Score 50-49, Seattle Bladerunners. Nice job to Seattle on capturing their 3rd title in the past 4 years and 7th Final Four in the past decade! The word dynasty may finally be appropriate. << previous men's open division recap >> |
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