Archers get blown out by Warriors

Jul 12
200912:25 pm

Posted by jp_abcede

The De La Salle Green Archers were shredded by University of the East, 46-65, to open the 2009 UAAP season on July 11 at the Araneta Coliseum.

The Archers could not get their rhythm going as they seemed disoriented whole game long. The last time they led was at the end of the first quarter with a 10-9 tally.

From there, it was all UE as the Red Warriors broke away for good in the second half, going ahead by as many as 22, 63-41, with a Paul Lee conversion, a few ticks before the two-minute warning.

This is the lowest output of the Green Archers since losing to FEU, 52-70, back in 2004.

No one from the green and white squad scored in double digits as James Mangahas made only nine points in 4/12 field goal shooting. He also accounted for seven rebounds and three steals.

Rookie Sam Marata and Peejay Barua both recorded seven markers.

Meanwhile, Pari Llagas topscored for East with 15 points, shooting 7/10 from the line, along with seven boards. Lee came up with 11 markers, six caroms, and seven feeds.

Paul Zamar and Elmer Espiritu both scored nine points with the big man notching 14 rebounds and three blocks.

Both teams started off slow as points came in trickles and turnovers and misses in droves with the first quarter scoreline resembling more like an American football game.

As the Recto-based camp picked up its pace, the green and white remained static. Pari Llagas started making headway, scoring seven of the last nine points of UE in the half.

The only semblance of a run the Archers did was a 5-0 counter-rally from a 4-0 spurt by the Warriors. Two fastbreak layups courtesy of Paul Zamar and Raffy Reyes made it a 21-14 affair midway of the second period. Bader Malabes scored on a three-pointer from the wing then Barua followed up Malabes' missed three in the next possession to trim the lead to two, 19-21, 4:25 remaining.

The red and white side just kept on piling the points in the second half as the Archers played lost and tentative. Set plays were slow to materialize and conversions were few and far from between.

The closest De La Salle got was three, 33-36, 3:24 in the third, Simon Atkins giving a bulls eye of a lead pass to Joshua Webb for a transition lay in.

Problems compounded in the fourth when DLSU-M went scoreless for six minutes, while eating UE's dust along the way. The UE gallery were chanting “Blow out! Blow out!” during a timeout break four minutes to go in the ballgame and the Warriors up, 56-41.

Stats worth taking note is that the Green Archers shot 24% at the field, 9/18 at the freethrow line, committing 22 errors, leading to 18 UE turnover points.

More Game Pics at http://greenarchersph.multiply.com/photos

Boxscores:

East 65 – Llagas 15, Lee 11, Zamar 9, Espiritu 9, Lingganay 6, Reyes 5, Acuña 4, Ayala 2, Alabanza 2, Acibar 2, Tagarda 0.

De La Salle 46 – Mangahas 9, Marata 7, Barua 7, Webb 5, Malabes 5, Villanueva 4, Ferdinand 3, Tolentino 2, Co 2, Bringas 2, Bagatsing 0, Atkins 0, Andrada 0.

Quarters: 9-10, 30-24, 43-35, 65-46.

Tagged as: DLSU Basketball, DLSU Green Archers, Green Archers, UAAP, UAAP Basketball, UAAP Season 72, UE Red Warriors

Subscribe to our RSS Feed
Subscribe by Email

Visited 1436 times, 1 so far today

Comments (6) Trackbacks (1) ( subscribe to comments on this post )

marts chua
July 12th, 2009 - 16:19

we have a big problem this season. we have no reliable big man and we don’t have a guy that can step up. remember how we used to have a ritualo or cardona or yeo or casio to make big baskets whenever needed? we don’t have that with this team. i thought we could rely on mangahas and barua to step up but they just don’t have the ability to create. here are other things i saw from yesterday’s game. ferdinand and co have shown no improvement at all. they have no post moves, no offensive abilities and no scoring capabilities at all. our wingmen like mangahas, malabes and barua can;t score on a consistent basis. the shooting from the outside was really bad. our point guards (atkins and tolentino) handle the ball too much that we end up having to take bad shots because the shot clock is running down. i also expected more from villanueva but he just kept forcing bas sholts inside. webb also kept forcing the issue. i think he;s trying to do too much that sometimes he’s out of control. and the rookies, confidence i think is the problem. i remember having 8 rookies in 2003. but we were able to show up every game and play decent basketball. the reason was cardona and yeo were there to step up everytime “natataranta ang team”. we don’t have that kind of leader with this team. i know i can’t judge the team based on one game. i hope franz pumaren can come up with an answer. but based on yesterday’s performance, even JESUS wouldn’t know what to do. I love LA SALLE and i hope that was just an off-night for the whole team. but, what if that was the real thing? then this just might turn out to be a really long season of woes for us.
bowandarrows
July 12th, 2009 - 20:29

While Archers are still soul searching, the rest are already on their “right” track. Even NU which I think a legitimate final four contender in this season. I hope this kind of blowout game might trigger something: Archer’s Heart of the champion attitude. ANIMO
James G
July 12th, 2009 - 22:07

I’m a stats guy and as a former coach, I always paid attention to these because they don’t lie. A FG percentage of 24% is downright horrible, just dismal! That basically means that your team is making 1 of 4 attempts and that, people, will NOT win you games! Two other stats that I always pay attention to are turnovers and rebounds, especially defensive rebounds in ratio to offensive rebounds. Turnovers that give up points can be worked on and corrected in practice but you have to limit the opponent to one shot on offense and your team has to be able to steal a few offensive rebounds during the game! Those three issues are concentration issues more than anything else so the players on the court have to pay more attention to the game than anything else going on around them! Shooting 50% from the FT line is also not a good stat and that too needs working on during practice! According to the final stats, DLSU lost by 19 points so if they had made 100% of their free throws, it would have been a 10-point loss and if they gave up half the turnovers that led to 18 of UE’s points, then we have a very close game at the end! It’s not that the DLS players are bad, it’s just that they need to shore up on certain fundamentals of playing this game!
johni
July 12th, 2009 - 22:35

Don’t lose hope. Keep the faith! Animo La Salle.
jack
July 12th, 2009 - 23:48

what will happen to us when we face the ADMU Eagles this first round.
Gerald
July 14th, 2009 - 16:24

Just do your best and God will do the rest! Animo La Salle!

COMMENT POLICY
All Comments posted have been moderated by the site administrators. Submissions will be reviewed to determine if they are deemed appropriate for public viewing. Comments that include profanity, personal attacks, or antisocial behavior such as "spamming" or "trolling," or other inappropriate comments or material will not be approved. We likewise forbid one-liner remarks and the use of SMS/Text shortcuts. All comments should be relevant to the topic and remain respectful to the authors and the readers. You are solely responsible for your own comments and the consequences of posting those comments.

Trackbacks are disabled.

Twitted by candiceuy

« The View from the Armchair (Game 1 vs UE) Postgame Bullets: DLSU 46 UE 65 »