British Basketball League.... ugh

Rocastle · Dec 7, 2009

Basketball: Leicester Riders turn on record-breaking display

Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders handed out the biggest beating in BBL Championship history on Saturday night, trashing London Capital 110-38 in the most one-sided match in the city in almost 30 years.
The 72-point winning margin matches the previous league record of 109-37 set by Livingston when they crushed Crystal Palace in 1987.
It also marks Riders' biggest victory in the top division, dwarfing the previous record of 53 points which has stood since the 1974-75 season, and equals the fourth-largest winning margin in the club's history.
Riders made 30 more shots than their opponents despite attempting one fewer and, such was their superb ball movement, 35 of their 44 baskets had an assist attributed to them. Further evidence of Riders' excellent team play was that six players netted double figures and all six had at least as many points as London's top scorer.
Even without the baskets by their starting five, Riders would still have won the game thanks to 47 points from their reserves.

The mammoth victory looked unlikely in the opening six minutes as Riders struggled to score and London even took the lead at 7-6. But Adam Williams went on off the bench to spark Riders into life with eight points in a 13-2 finish to the first period.
Jason Johnson continued the momentum in the second quarter and moved Riders 25-10 clear. At 30-16, there were still the best part of seven minutes to play in the first half, but London were not allowed to trouble the scorers again as Riders rattled in 19 unanswered points to lead 49-16 at half-time. Williams netted a couple of triples to finish that run, capping a spectacular first-half contribution in which he hit all seven of his shot attempts, including three three-pointers.
Williams played fewer than seven minutes in the first half and still had 16 points to his name, as many as the whole London side mustered in 20.
Thirteen more points without reply in the third quarter had Riders ahead by 50, but the lead just kept on growing.
It got to a stage where the home fans were applauding London baskets out of sympathy but, on that front, there was not much to cheer in the closing stages. Capital made only two free throws in the last seven minutes as Riders finished the game with a spell of 21-2.
Riders: A Williams 22, Johnson 21, Wierzbicki 17, L Williams 15, Durant 12, Minor 11, Windless 7, I Westbrooks 3, A Westbrooks 2.
Capital: Ataha 11, Offiah 9, Gariba 9, Madike 5, Janusauskas 3, Knysas 1, Lutaaya.

This is the standard of Basketball we have to put up with here in the UK. The BBL is terrible. :(

roscoe36 · Dec 7, 2009

Thats awesome.

Rocastle · Dec 7, 2009

Ha, it's really not.

Does anyone know if any former NBA players have ever made it to the BBL?!

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