A Crazy Night in Syosset
Medium Pimpin's Robin Howard looks to make a pass.
Week 5 action started off hot as Medium Pimpin’ took on The Real Cougar Captains. MP would take an early advantage over the RCC at half leading 41 to 25. The game was going smoothly until midway through the 2nd half when the scoreboard had a malfunction and lost power. The time and score were kept by hand and periodically announced for the player’s knowledge. Robin Howard of MP would lead both teams dropping 25 while adding 9 rebounds and 7 helpers (27.9 PPR). Howard would also play solid defense (4 steals; leads league with 4.7/game) and Mike Seff also of MP would chip in 21. Mike Diamond of RCC would have 21 in the defeat while Adam Lambert would contribute in a solid effort with 16, 5 and 10. MP improves to 3-1 while RCC fall to 1-3.
The First of two 9 PM starts would place the Cougar Captains vs A-List. CC would start off with a big lead only to see it dwindle down the stretch as AL hung tight outscoring CC in the second half. Many rebounds were to be had in this contest as 5 different players would register double digits led by CC’s PJ Nunez’s 18. Nunez would also contribute 26 points. Kerim Tulun (25 PPR) would have a huge game as he would put up 21 points and 17 boards, while shooting .50% from beyond the arc. Steven Grella would chip in 17, all in the absence of overall league leading scorer Ken Koerner who missed the game with a sprain ankle. AL would receive big games from Eddy Bhatia 22 points and 11 rebounds, Josh Nazarieh 21, 4 and 4 and Peter Tsadilas who would add 5 and 16 rebounds, 10 of whom came off the offensive glass. Despite the effort AL falls to 0-4 while CC while climb to 3-2 entering their bye week.
The second 9PM would be a power matchup as it would have the league leading Unstuck take on the second place No Mercy. This would be a battle between two of the top 3 scorers as Mike Mastro would square off with Brandon Dominick. This game was played on the court with the malfunctioning scoreboard. Although it was hard both teams battled through. NM would take early leads of 6 and 7 before settling on a 33-25 lead at the break. US would chip away with 5 and 6 points runs in the second half but clutch shooting by NM would lead them the way home. Mike Mastro despite a triple double with 21 points 17 rebounds and 10 assists would only shoot 3-14 (.21%) from the charity stripe. Jordan Oringer would add 20 points shouting .46% from beyond 3 point range. With NM’s Ming Wang nursing a broken finger Brandon Dominick would shoulder the load as he would lead all scorers with 30 points while grabbing 6 rebounds. Pershod Snuggs would help in the effort putting up 11 points and 9 rebounds. NM’s bench would only produce 9 points but proved to be vital. The key statistic from this game was US shooting .24% from the Free throw line, while NM would shoot .73 %. Unstuck get its first loss of the season falling to 3-1 while NM improves to 4-1
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