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JBL Pro: Season 2009-2010
Aisin takes 2nd straight All-Japan title - Jan 13, 2009 The Aisin Sea Horses dominated the Hitachi Sunrockers 65-48 on Monday (Jan. 12th) in the 84th annual All-Japan Tournament held in Tokyo at the Yoyogi No. 1 Gymnasium to capture their 2nd straight All-Japan championship. Aisin led Hitachi 40-18 at halftime and never looked back. Aisn was led by last season's JBL MVP, PG Shinsuke Kashiwagi (183-G-81), who led all players with 16 points to go along with his 4 assists while PF Kosuke Takeuchi had 11 pts and 13 reb while battling his twin brother, PF Joji Takeuchi, of Hitachi. Joji had 13 and 10 in the losing effort while teammate Lamar Rice had 11 points for Hitachi. With only 1 import allowed in the All-Japan Tournament (just like the JBL regular season), Aisin clearly has a distiinct advantage over other teams with naturalized C J.R. Sakuragi (a.k.a. former NBA player J.R. Henderson) manning the middle. Sakuragi/Henderson had 13 points and 11 rebounds while his true import teammate, swingman David Young, had 12 points. Aisin has turned using a naturalized import to win All-Japan titles into an art form. In the early to mid 2000s, Aisin won 3 straight All-Japan titles thanks to the play of naturalized C Eric MacArthur. Notes: The 2nd half of the JBL's regular season begins this weekend with all 8 teams in action on Jan. 17th and 18th. There are only 13 regular season games left in the JBL's 2008-09 regular season. JBL All-Star game rosters set - Dec 6, 2009
East: PG Kei Igarashi (180-G-80) (Toyota Alvark)* PG Ryota Sakurai (194-G-83) (Rera Kamuy Hokkaido) SG Takehiko Orimo (190-G-70) (Rera Kamuy Hokkaido)* SF Akihito Inoue (201-F/C-84) (Rera Kamuy Hokkaido)* SF Taiji Sakai (190-F-84) (Hitachi Sunrockers) PF Joji Takeuchi (206-C-85) (Hitachi Sunrockers)* PF Shunsuke Ito (204-C/F-79) (Link Tochigi Brex)* Imports F Charles O'Bannon (198-F-75, college: UCLA) (198-F-75, college: UCLA) (Toyota Alvark)* C Cyrus Tate (203-F/C-85, college: Iowa) (Rera Kamuy Hokkaido) West: PG Takumi Ishizaki (188-G-84) (Toshiba Brave Thunders)* PG Shinsuke Kashiwagi (183-G-81) (Aisin Sea Horses) SG Shogo Asayama (192-F-81) (Aisin Sea Horses)* SF Tomoo Amino (196-F-80) (Aisin Sea Horses)* SF Kenta Hirose (193-G-85) (Panasonic Trians) PF Kosuke Takeuchi (205-C/F-85) (Aisin Sea Horses)* PF Jun Uzawa (197-C/F-81) (Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins) C J.R. Sakuragi (206-C-76, college: UCLA) (Aisin Sea Horses)* Imports C Tyler Newton (208-F/C-82, college: Pacific) (Toshiba Brave Thunders)* C Jerald Honeycutt (205-F-74, college: Tulane) (Panasonic Trians) *denotes leading vote-getter at position JBL All-Star game notes - Dec 6, 2009
Notes: Each team in the JBL has 2 more games left in the 1st half of the regular season. Due to the hiatus caused by the East Asian Games, no JBL teams played this weekend and no games are scheduled for next weekend either. The remaining 2 games of the 1st half will be played on the weekend of December 19th-20th. After those 2 games and the All-Star game on the 23rd, the annual All-Japan Tournament starts in the first week of January with the championship game scheduled for the 11th of January. The 2nd half of the JBL season will begin on the 3rd weekend of January with games scheduled on the 15th, 16th, and 17th of that month. |
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Aisin wins All-Japan tournament(Photo:jbl.or.jp/)
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