Another barnburner for the Pipeshow last night. What a game, 102-98 in overtime. A bigtime defensive struggle. There were stops on what seems like every possession. Just kidding. Neither team could cover a 97 year old grandmother with bad arthritis.
We got off to a really quick start (a first) last night and knocked down a couple of 3's early (another first). We ended up taking a 20-9 lead with about 11 minutes left in the first half. We were playing really good defense on top of getting pretty looks on the offensive end. After letting them get back in the game, we basically went back and forth with them for about a five minute span.
With a little over a minutes to play to the lead was down to three with Christian Taber aka Ainge at the line for two. He makes the first and missed the second, not very Danny Ainge like. We get a stop and then force up a bad shot on offense and Brandon Rieg gets a big time offensive rebound and goes straight up with and scored pushing our lead to six with 15 seconds left. We then foul them (not on purpose), they miss it, we push the ball up the floor and B Rieg hits a huge 3 to get momentum headed our way for the second half. We lead 46-37 at the break.
The second half did not start off well for us. Matt Quamann (one of the best shooters in the league) hits two 3's because we got under screens to cut the lead to two immediately. Not fun. We certainly didn't want to see him get hot. The rest of the second half was a see-saw battle with nine lead changes and tons of back and forth action. We made a free throw with 12 seconds left to put us up 92-90. Parker Hines, their starting point, brings the ball down and gets flustered with our fans and heaves a one footed 40 footer with about four seconds left. Noah Aguirre grabs the board (not quite as securely as we wanted) and we win....wait, not yet. Noah gets both of his arms karate chopped (seriously, I think they would've broke three cement blocks), loses the ball, Hines gets it and hit a fadaway jumper with .7 seconds left. Tie ball game, now onto overtime.
Overtime gets started both of our starting centers out of the game in Carl Hipp (more of this later) and Cory Polta. We started off with a really aggressive move to the basket by Mike that led to two made free throws. Mike then had another aggressive take and scored a layup. B Rieg was then fouled and made 1 of 2 for a five point lead with 1:26 left. Quamann made a layup and then Ainge missed a great look for 3 in the corner as Tyler Pannell made a great play and got a rebound on the back side, nevermind, he got called for over the back when he just flat out outjumped the guy that tried for a rebound. They make both free throws and it's a one point game again. They foul, B Rieg hits 1 of 2 to put it at 98-96. They miss a off balance jumper, Noah gets the board, passes to Ainge and he is fouled. Ainge knocks down both to give every one free tacos for the night (100 points). We basically left them score (not intentionally) to get it back to a two point game. B Rieg then gets fouled knocks down both from the charity stripe and we go up four to clinch the game, 102-98.
We had six guys in double figures led by Mike Campbell's 22. Ainge had 14, Carl had 13, both B Rieg and Noah had 11, and Andy had 10. We finished the game shooting 53% from the floor, 7-20 from 3, and 33-44 from the line.
We have the Row of Honor ceremony on Saturday at 1pm. The details can be viewed HERE.
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