Yang Jing-min and Emmanuel Jones scored more than 20 points for the second straight game as they bagged 22 and 21 points respectively to help Taiwan Beer rout the Yulon Luxgens 93-78 at the Taipei Gymnasium last night.
It was the Brew Crew’s team-best seventh straight victory, upping their league-leading record to an awesome 12-1 close to the midway point of the 30-game season.
Yulon put up a good fight in the first half against the top club in the league with red-hot shooting from forward Lu Cheng-rue, who nailed three three-pointer’s in a 14-point effort to muster a 40-40 tie at halftime.
However, things would take a nasty dive south for the defending champions in the second half when Taiwan Beer doubled up on them with a swirling 28-14 run in the third. They padded the lead to as much as 24 points, before running away with the 15-point win.
“I guess their game against Kinmen Kaoliang [the previous night] really took a lot out of them physically, that’s why the second half turned out the way it did,” Taiwan Beer skipper Yen Jia-hua said after the game, referring to Yulon’s emotional win over Kinmen Kaoliang on Saturday.
His troops will take a much deserved break over the next two days before Wednesday’s contest against Bank of Taiwan in what should be a relatively easy win.
The absence of All-Star center Tseng Wen-ding (gone for the season with intent to play in China) took its toll as the Luxgens interior defense proved no match to a superior Taiwan Beer inside attack.
TIGERS 76, BANK OF TAIWAN 64
Bank of Taiwan missed their chance to win three in a row by falling a dozen short against the Dacin Tigers earlier yesterday to close out the weekend on a down note.
Newly acquired Alexus Foyle showed great improvement on offense in a Dacin uniform by netting 19 points and 10 boards on a double-double outing, while he held the Bankers’ inside threat, John Vaudreuil, to six points in the first half as the Bankers led the Cats.
Even though Vaudreuil would end up with 17 points on the night in a solid showing statistically, the damage had already been done as his team fell behind by as many as 15 in the first quarter to set the tone for the rest of the game.
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