Su Yi-jeh's clutch jumper that bounced off the back of the rim before it went in with 19.3 seconds left on the clock gave the Dacin Tigers the lead for good as they rallied past Taiwan Beer 91-89 at the Taipei Physical Education College Gymnasium Saturday night.
The Tigers now hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five first round playoff series.
An injured Lin "The Beast" Chih-jeh, Taiwan Beer's top scorer, took the floor by a storm with a game-high 32 points, but failed to make the pair of free throws with five seconds remaining that would have tied the game at 91-all.
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"We definitely would have had the advantage had it gone into overtime," Taiwan Beer coach Yen Jia-hua said.
Yen was referring to the fact that Tigers icon Tien Lei had fouled out of the game at that point.
The game began with the Tigers resorting to their well known 3-point attack that rang up nine 3s against a loose Taiwan Beer defense en route to a 56-49 halftime lead.
But a 13-0 run by the beer crew early in the third quarter helped the men in green to their first lead of the series, only to see the Tigers answer with an equally impressive run to keep their lead at six (75-69) heading into the final quarter.
Taiwan Beer was able to chip away at the Tigers lead with great efforts from Lin and point guard Chen Shih-nian on several fast-break finishes in the fourth quarter to claim an one-point lead with under a minute to go, setting the stage to Su's late-game heroics.
The Tigers had 19 offensive rebounds, giving them a host of second chances to score.
Bank of Taiwan 82, Dinos 87
Game 2 of the series between Bank of Taiwan and the Yulon Dinos had the bankers giving the defending champs another scare before the Dinos pulled away with a great late-game surge for the 87-82 win.
In a game that featured several scoring runs by both teams, it was the Dinos who took control of the first quarter with an 11-0 run to lead by 13 (25-12) after the first. Then came a 22-7 run by the bankers in the second quarter cut a Dinos lead as large as 19 to just four by the end of the first half (42-38).
Carrying their newfound momentum into the third quarter, the bankers enjoyed a brief 58-53 lead with under five minutes remaining in the quarter before the Dinos countered with a 14-0 run to reclaim the lead for good.
Bank of Taiwan guard Jien Ming-fu led all scorers with 26 points, including a solid 6-for-12 shooting from behind the three-point arc. But the bankers were held scoreless in the game's crucial final 45 seconds.
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