Been a long minute since the last entry but since that blowout loss to Half Man, Half Amazin’s Ice Tea squad, the team has bounced back well with two solid wins over Standard & Poor and X-Men (College) who went in at 5-1. Controlled both games from beginning to end, weathering 2nd half runs in both. Still a long way to go. More on that after the cut, but first to a little business…
As promised, shout outs to the winner of the 2009 Pan Asian American Games… NY D-Unit, repping India and Bangladesh, taking the Men’s Elite division… squad included former Pace (G) Thomas James, Stevens Tech (G) Nakul Rao, York College (G) Usama Nausrudeen, Cooper Union (F) Vic Manocha and Bounce regular (G) Mo Hoque… big ups to Polytech sophomore (G) Arjun Ohri (Poly’s leading scorer as a soph) for taking tourney MVP, dropping 22 ppg. The Unit just won the Chicago Indo-Pak National Championships this past weekend, too.
Shout out to my underdog Taiwanese squad, too, for making the Chip.
Big ups to the U.S.A.B. Warriors high school squad, too, for taking the Men’s Intermediate division… congrats to (G) Joe Chin (15.5 ppg, 6 apg) for earning tourney MVP honors.
Back to the K1x Lower Manhattan action…
Haven’t been able to post the footage of the 70-62 win over S&P yet but game balls go to Shawn Delos Reyes and former JBL forward Yoshi Kagitomi for a combined 30 pts off the bench on 13-18 combined shooting. Shawn pulled a couple of nasty blocks, I’ll get that vid up. S&P’s #4 was a tough guard, big, deceptively quick and versatile.
X-Men (College) looked disappointed to see us warming up on the other side of the court and 40 Cal was laying into us on the mic, but deservedly so, after our blowout loss to Ice Tea. And accordingly, X-Men came out flat. We took advantage of that and got off to a fast start. Our ability to make a high percentage on mid-range jumpers and 3s outdoors continues to be our advantage. Got out to an early lead and held it all game. Gotta give it up to that X-Men guard–I’m not sure I caught his name right but I think it was Mark Everest–dropped buckets on everyone we threw at him.
Game ball for this one goes to Jake Choi, the man with the K-pop do, for a team-high 18 pts… big ups to Jake for flying all the way out from South Korea to ball with us, repping that NYC-Seoul flavor. My girlfriend is jealous you know Eun Ji Won from 1N2D.
Don’t know who we’re playing tonight but we’re guessing by now, they’ll see us coming, gotta be ready for that. 6:30pm… K1X Lower Manhattan Classic at Houston St. & Chrystie… the sun is out.
July 30th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Casey Lee says:
Word up Ren! I see you down there at the LMC doing big things! It’s always a pleasure to add the diversity piece to NYC streetball and let the world know that basketball is the center piece that brings us all together.
Jake Choi looks like he does work with that rock! His hairstyle sounds like music to his handle and bad business for his opponent’s ankles – K-POP! Bucket! hahahaha
July 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Seldom Seen says:
Congrat’s to NY D-Unit…big shout out to our brother Mo (pictured left of trophy between #31))…I’m very happy to see this court assasin back out there after overcoming a serious torn ACL knee injury…my dude can play and score with the best of the best from Far Rockaway, Jersey City, Chicago, D.C, LES (his original home grown stomping grounds)and of course the 14th St Y (home turf)…I see you too Vic…word up!