Shanghai Sharks defeated Pure Youth Construction 80-62 on Monday and won the four-team 2012 Straits Cup Invitational with a 3-0 record.
Shanghai only led by one at the half but limited PY to 9 points in the third period with the help of strong defense from Tseng Wen-ting, who had 5 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals, and Zhang Zhaoxu, who tallied 15 points, 12 boards and 4 blocks.
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[Lin Chih-chieh, left. Tseng and Tien, right.]
Shanghai Sharks beat Zhejiang 58-53 on Saturday in the central Taiwan city of Taichung and led the four-team 2012 Straits Cup invitational tournament at 2-0.
Dacin Tigers defeated Pure Youth Construction 82-76 on the same day for a revenge of a 4-0 sweep by PY in the SBL Finals earlier this year.
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The 2012 Straits Cup basketball tournament will take place from Oct. 12-14 in Taipei and the central city of Taichung with four teams from Taiwan and China competing in the annual cross-strait tourney.
Shanghai Dongfang Sharks, Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank of the Chinese pro league CBA will match up against a pair of home teams — defending SBL champion Pure Youth Construction and Dacin Tigers, the runner-up last season — in the three-day tourney.
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Nam Wah basketball club from Hong Kong, China emerged as a surprising winner of the 2010 Straits Cup Basketball Invitational after a three-way tie in the four-team tourney.
The Hong Kong club tied with Fujian Xunxin SBS of China’s Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and Taiwan Beer of Taiwan’s Super Basketball League (SBL) at 2-1 after a round robin games. Macau Fukien basketball team was 0-3.
Fujian won three of four titles since the tourney started five years ago. This is the first time the tourney has been held in Taiwan.
In other news, it has been reported several months ago that Yulon PG Lee Hsueh-lin could sign with Beijing Shougang Ducks. TB PG Chen Shih-nian is also in talks with a Chinese basketball club.
TB head coach Yen Chia-hua was quoted by local media as saying that Hsu Hao-cheng could leave TB and join Dacin Tigers, and Dacin’s Huang Bao-tse could sign with his old team Taiwan Beer again.
Chen Shih-nian scored 10 of Taiwan Beer’s 12 points in the overtime as TB beat Fujian SBS 92-88 Friday in the 2010 Straits Cup invitational tournament. Lin Chih-chieh had 4 three-pointers in the 4th period for TB, which led by as many as 12 points earlier in the game.
The fifth edition of a cross-Taiwan Strait tournament is being held in Taiwan with four teams participating. The four teams are: Taiwan Beer, Fujian SBS Xunxin from Chinese League CBA, Hong Kong champion Nam Wah and Macau Fukien basketball team. The tourney is played at Taipei Municiple Arena and National Yilan University Stadium.
Hong Kong’s Nam Wah routed Macau Fukien basketball team 104-56 Friday.
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First of all, I’m sorry for the long absence as I’ve been too busy at work recently.
Well, the 2007 Straits Cup tournament concluded three days ago as Shangdong finished first in the tourney, winning all four games, and Jiangsu came second with three win and one losses. But…did anyone care about the final result after the “Meng Da Incident”?
Things went bad — in fact, very bad — after Meng Da punched Wu Dai-hao on the Sept. 4 game. Taiwanese basketball fans were furious at Meng Da and Jiangsu, but Meng and Jiangsu did not publicly offer their apology to Wu until more than 24 hours after the punch.
Taiwan Beer subequently pulled out of the tournament. And Meng Da was asked by the Chinese Basketball Association to leave Taiwan immediately.
Oh, yeah, the game results… There were only two games played in Hualien since TB withdrew from the competition. Shangdong beat Dacin 76-70 on Sept. 5 and Jiangsu beat Dacin 85-77 the following day.
A minor incident happened on the last day again. CTBA officials tried to pursuade a number of fans in the stands to STOP waving and displaying Taiwan’s national flag. It was reported by several news channels and caused another controvercy.
CTBA claimed that the “Olympics format” was applied in the tournament, which means Taiwan participated the event under the name of “Chinese Taipei” and neither national flag should be displayed nor national anthem sung in the tourney.
For those of you who don’t understand the “Olympics format” and political relations between Taiwan and China, I urge you to do a little homework. Anyway, it does make any sense to me that the so-called “Olympics format” should be used in the tournament. After all, this is only an invitational tournament being held in TAIWAN!! Fans have the rights to support their national team and wave any flag, sing any song, shout at anyone.
I really don’t think we will be seeing a Straits Cup tournament after this year after all these troubles.
Standings:
1. Shangdong 4-0; 2. Jiangsu 3-1; 3. TB 1-2; 4. Dacin 0-4.
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