Fukuoka Road Trip

Posted on December 23, 2008 10:18 AM

Well Kings Fans we tapped off another great weekend in Kings Basketball by taking down the Rizing Fukuoka in a two game series on Saturday and Sunday.

We won the first game on Saturday 90-88. After leading the game 44-24 at the break we maintained most of our lead up until the final six and half minutes of the game. I believe that was the best first half of basketball I have seen us play as a Team this season. Then we did not play very well in the second half giving up 24 in the 3rd and 40 in the 4th. We did not play good defense against the three point shooters and they were able to hit 7 three's in the 4th and had a couple three point plays. The bottom line was we were able to pull out the game and get the win.

Sunday was alot better game as a whole. We took a 46-40 lead going into halftime after some solida play from our big men which saw the Rizing big men get into foul trouble early on. We came out in the 3rd a little flat and trailed by 53-54 with 4:43 to play in the period but we stuck together and were able to close out the period 62-56. At the start of the 4th period we were able to extend our lead to 69-58 with 6:58 to play in the game.
We kept going inside to the big men and we hit our free throws down the stretch and our guards did a great job of taking care of the ball and we were able to close out this game 81-72 and complete the weekend sweep in Fukuoka.

Great Teamwork Kings!

Coach