Two wins vs. Rizing Fukuoka

Posted on February 11, 2009 6:44 AM

Well another great weekend came to an end in Nago, Okinawa as we took another two victories from the Rizing Fukuoka. Sunday's game was very intense and we came out a little flat and trailed by 15 going into the half-time break, 29 - 44. But we came out in the 3rd period and played very good defense and limited the Rizing to 7 points in the period and 3 of them came as time expired. We trailed by 4 going into the 4th and again plyed some good "D" and took a two point lead with about 24 seconds to go in the game and the Rizing got a layup with 8 seconds to play. We took a time out and setup a play which we were not successful at and the Rizing got another shot but released the shot after time expired or it would have counted. We took the game to overtime and our guys just did not give up. Mac made some great plays and Jeff and Bryan took care of the boards and we were able to pull out the 81 - 80 victory.

Sunday was a toatlly different game as we limited the Rizing to 22 first half points and had a 49-22 lead at the break. The period we came out a little too relaxed and let the Rizing put in 5 three pointers to cut the score to 63 - 52 at the end of 3.
We were able to maintain our lead and the Rizing got as close as 8 in the 4th and we took the victory 87-73.

Thanks to all of the great fans in Nago for your support and for cheering us to victory.

Thanks to all for making the Nago games a great weekend in Kings Basketball.

Coach