EBC Day Sixteen: Don Diva vs. Long Island’s Finest By C.Y. Ellis
07.18.2006 - Updated on 07.18.2006
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Rob Hines again does his best to drag DD back into competition after the break, and his hustle appears infectious when his teammates join him in crashing the boards to bring it to five following a pull-up trifecta from The Nursery Rhyme. However, LIF quickly regain control of the glass, scoring back-to-back-to-back second-chance baskets to start running away from their opponents at the ten-minute mark.
While Don Diva exploit LIF’s closed defence with three threes in as many minutes, they can’t hang with them in the key, where they give up countless layups and hooks to rack up a double-digit deficit with seven and change left in the game. Although a quick three, steal and breakaway bucket make a thirteen-point difference only eight, that’s as close as DD get for the rest of the game, their foul-and-fire plans backfiring on them in the closing minutes. With Diva down fifteen with sixty-three ticks remaining and neither team looking interested in the game, the referee calls it, ending things at 86-71 and giving Long Island’s Finest their first win of the season.
- CYE in NYC
