SBL regular season games will resume on February 3 after a three-week long break of the Lunar New Year and Taiwan’s presidential election.
The last game was played on January 8, approximately one week before the January 14 presidential election and later the nine-day Lunar New Year vacation.
A couple of things worth mentions:
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Yulon
Kevin Johnson 18p+17.2rb+3.1a+2b
Lu cheng-ju 16.3p
Chou Po-chen 10.7p+7.1rb
Chen Chih-chung 9.6p+3.3rb+4.4a
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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[Antoine Broxsie]
Taiwan Mobile has decided to release former NBA draft pick Marcus Fizer for his bad attitude, local media reported.
Fizer, who played for TM in only one game, told the team his injury flared up and did not practice with the team since then. He asked not to play this week.
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Pure Youth will have to find a replacement for Terence Dials, who had to leave Taiwan after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament, and it has locked up 6-9 forward Quincy Davis, local media reported Thursday.
Davis, who played in China in 2010 and Turkey this year, averaged 10.4 points, 5.3 rebounds during his four years at Tulane University.
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Import players are making their impact felt in the opening week as the 2011-12 SBL season tipped off in the central city of Miaoli on Saturday.
6-7 Kevin Johnson had double-doubles on consecutive games and led Yulon to a 2-0 start, beating Pure Youth and KKL respectively. Johnson had 22 points, 23 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals against PY and 28 and 22 against KKL.
A pair of former NBA players also turned in solid performances. Marcus Fizer had 23 points and 13 rebounds in his debut and led Taiwan Mobile to a comeback win against Bank of Taiwan, 66-62.
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Defending champion Taiwan Beer has run into problems in recent weeks with finding the import it needed, releasing two players before testing 6-7 forward Dennis Carr.
TB released DeAngelo Collins and Antoine Broxsie. Broxsie went on to be tested by KKL, which released Rashad Jones-Jennings.
Jones-Jennings played last season with Pure Youth and captured the SBL rebounding title.
Current SBL imports are:
Yulon: Kevin Johnson, Humboldt St.
Dacin: Noel Felix, Fresno St.
TB: Dennis Carr, Embry Riddle (NAIA)
KKL: Antoine Broxsie, Oklahoma St.
BOT: John Vaudreuil, Minnesota-Duluth
PY: Terence Dials, Ohio St.
TM: Marcus Fizer, Iowa St.
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