Ramsey Williams of the Barracudas goes for two. He finished with 9 points. (Photo 1 by Rogelio Amat, courtesy of ABL)
Jakarta, Saturday, October 23, 2010 — The visiting Brunei Barracudas won their first game of the ASEAN Basketball League season when they beat home team Satria Muda 87-70.
The Barracudas were led by Chris Commons who scored a game-high 36 points. Commons also had two teammates contributed a double-double each, with Chris Garnett scoring 18 points and 21 rebounds, while Bryan Faundo had 16 and 17.
After losing their first three games of the season, the Barracudas welcomed back former head coach Bong Ramos to lead the team again.
Bong said that he just had three session of practice with his team before facing Satria Muda.
“I just told the players my philosophy in basketball at first practice. Then I just organizing small things in offense so that they can execute well. In my opinion if I can make the field goal up to 40 percent, we will win this game and actually my prediction is right,” said Bong after the game. The Barracudas shot 42% (34-of-81) from field-goal range.
Bong watched Satria Muda play against Slammers last weekend but he said he was not spying on Satria Muda.
“Barracudas asked me to join on Monday. I had some business to do last week [in Jakarata],” he continued.
Chris Commons said the presence of Bong made the offense run well.
“It seems that I could scored very easy but it wasn’t. It’s just my teammate helped me much to got the open space to execute like the coach asked,” said Commons.
Satria Muda assistant coach Tri Adnyanaadi Lokatanaya said that their strategy didn’t run well.
“We planned to make one of the Barracudas starters foul out by attacking straight to the basket individually. But they managed to escape the foul until the end of the game,” he said.
The Barracudas improve to a 1-3 win-loss record while Satria Muda have now lost two games in a row and fall to 1-3.
The Barracudas will travel to Kuala Lumpur next to face the Dragons on Saturday, October 30th while Satria Muda will face the unbeaten Philippine Patriots in Manila on the same day.
Chris Commons goes for two of his game-high 46 points for the Barracudas. (Photo 2 by Rogelio Amat, courtesy of ABL)
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