SBL Standings 1. Yulon Dinos 22-8 2. Videoland 21-9 3. TTL 19-11 4. Dacin 17-13 5. ETSN 15-15 6. Azio 7-23 7. Bank of Taiwan 4-26

TTL Taiwan Beer 2007
Chen	Lin	Ho	Shan	Hsu

Asia-Basket.com All-Taiwanese SBL 1st Team 2007
Lee	Tien	Lin	Sanders

   SBL annual award: Lin Chih-jay named regular season MVP - 2007
Yes, I know it's weird, but the SBL finally announced its annual award Thursday -- FIVE days after the champion was determined.
And TB forward Lin Chi-Jay (192-G-82) came up as the big winner. Lin, who had won Finals MVP less than a week ago, was named regular season MVP as well, beating out Videoland import Jonathan Sanders in the media voting with a close score of 96 to 89.
Personally, I would have voted Sanders for my regular season MVP though. But I also understand very well the "politics" behind the media voting because most of them always favored local players over imports. It's sad and no one could do anything about it. Voting is politics, after all.
Not surprisingly, Lin was also on the list of the Best Five, which recognized a pair of backcourt players and three frontcourt players.
Dacin guard Wang Chih-chun, Yulon guard Lee Hsueh-lin and Sanders were all named to the best five for the first time.
Yulon center Tsun Wen-din won the defensive player of the year award for the second consecutive year, while first-year VL head coach Liu Chih-wei was named coach of the year after leading Videoland to a 21-9 regular season.
Tsun beat out import Delvin Thomas, who played for ETSN, 92-62 in the media voting.
Azio forward Chien Jia-hong was recognized as the most improved player in a lanslide score of 129-21 over Bank of Taiwan forward Hsu Chih-chan.
VL forward/guard Lee Wei-min, who transferred from TB to Videoland last summer, won the inaugural sixth man of the year award.
Dacin forward Yao Jun-jay was named rookie of the year. It's true that this is Yao's first year in the league but he was not really a rookie because he played for Dacin a couple years back in the A-League.

2006-07 SBL season awards:
Asia-Basket.com Taiwanese SBL MVP: Lin Chi-Jay (192-G-82) of TTL Taiwan Beer
Asia-Basket.com Taiwanese SBL Defensive Player of the Year: Tsun Wen-Din (203-C-84) of Yulon Dinos
Asia-Basket.com Taiwanese SBL Most Improved Player: Chien Jia-Hong (196-F/C-87) of Azio Eagles
Asia-Basket.com Taiwanese SBL Sixth Man of the Year: Lee Wei Min (185-G-81) of Videoland Hunters
Asia-Basket.com Taiwanese SBL Coach of the Year: Liu Chih-wei of Videoland Hunters
Asia-Basket.com Taiwanese SBL Rookie of the Year: Yao Jun Jay (192-F-82) of Dacin Construction

Asia-Basket.com All-Taiwanese SBL 1st Team
Wang Chih Chun (180-G-82) of Dacin Construction
Lee Hsaeh-Lin (176-G-84) of Yulon Dinos
Tien Lei (202-F-83) of Dacin Construction
Lin Chi-Jay of TTL Taiwan Beer
Sanders Jonathan (201-G-81) of Videoland Hunters

   Taiwan Beer beat Dacin 4-2 to win first SBL title - 2007
A broken play and a lucky shot gave Taiwan Beer, which almost closed down its basketball team four years ago, its first champion in team history. You could say, however, it's destiny.
Chen Shih-nian made a high-arching banked shot as the final buzzer sounded to help Taiwan Beer upset Dacin 69-68 in Game 6 of the 2007 SBL Finals Saturday and win the first SBL title in team history, wrapping up the series 4-2.
Lin Chi-Jay (192-G-82), who had 15 points and 11 rebounds in the game and averaged for 23.2 points and 8.3 rebounds in the seires, was named Finals MVP.
Trailing by 11 early in the second half, TB fought back to make it a tight game before the end of the third quarter, when Dacin led by two, 59-57.
With only 8 seconds to go and TB trailing by one, Taiwan Beer came out of the final timeout with a play to either let Lin Chi-Jay operate on his own or pass to Lo Shin-liang, who stationed at the left baseline. But Lin was never able to find an opening and Lo couldn't get off a shot with two Dacin defender coming at his face.
Lo passed the ball to Hsu Hao-cheng, who tried to make a cut. Hsu fumbled the ball a little bit before passing to Chen Shih-nian at the top of the key. The rest was history. Chen, who had only 5 points in the game, made a high-arching banked shot as time expired.
It's been a long way for TB from four years ago, when the state-owned company considered dropping its basketball team due to the pressure from the union. The union claimed that the basketball team did not bring any profit to the company and the company.
And what a change after four years. Last year, TB made it to the Finals but lost 4-1 to Yulon. Currently, TB is one of the most popular -- if not the most popular -- teams in the league. And finally, they took home a championship trophy.
Tien Lei, who has been playing on a broken right thumb since Game 3, was held to 8 points on 1-of-13 shooting. He also pulled down 11 rebounds.
Dacin, which had a 9-point halftime lead, was led by Chang Chi-feng's 15 points. Lin Yi-huei had 14 while Lee Fong-yong had 12.
Dacin lost for the second time in the SBL Finals. It was swept by Yulon 3-0 in 2005.