Blog about Two NBL Games

I recently watched two National Basketball League of Canada games. The first one was between the London Lightning and the Moncton Miracles at the John Labatt Centre in London, Ontario and the other was between the Oshawa Power and the Summerside Storm in Oshawa, Ontario. In the first game, I watched as the Lightning destroyed the Miracles 122-100 Thursday night in a thrilling matchup. The hero of the day was Gabe Freeman who collected 34 points and an even more impressive 15 rebounds. DeAnthony Bowden scored 23 for the Lightning and Shawn Daniels, the big man in the middle scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Here's the boxscore.    I also embedded a photo highlights with rap music kind of video about the game above the text. All in all, it was a great game and I especially enjoyed the Rogers TV commentators during the web stream comment on the backup centre Jamari Spears (wears #35 for the Lightning) about some of his moves, saying "Hey, that's a Shaq move!" Now, onto the next game...

The Summerside Storm came into Oshawa last night and put on quite a show, thrashing the Power to the tune of a 119-97 final score. Summerside's hero was Chris Cayole (wears #34 for the Storm) who put on a shooting display knocking down 6 of 8 3-point field goal attempts and scoring 26 points overall. As I watched the game, I remember thinking, "Wow, is Summerside ever great at hitting 3's?" In fact, Summerside overall would make 11-21 from the 3-point line. Here's another scary statistic: in every quarter except the 4th, the Storm would score at least 30 points or more throughout the game. In the 4th, Oshawa outscored Summerside 27-22. Oshawa's failure in this game was free-throw shooting. The team would only make a lousy 16 of their 44 attempts. Overall, the game was disappointing for me as I wanted the Power to win as they are also in Ontario just as the Lightning. Anyways, here's the boxscore.

With the recaps out of the way, I will sign off. Remember the Lightning don't play again until Dember 2nd. However, the London Knights do play tonight in Erie against the Otters. Game time is 7 PM. Until then, goodbye.