News, analysis, and commentary about the UCLA Bruins basketball program
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
More on former Bruins
First thing, it looks like Cameron Dollar's name is being mentioned as a possibility for the head coaching job at LMU.
Next, if you read the LA Times article I mentioned yesterday, then you know that JR Henderson and Charles O'Bannon met in the Japanese Basketball League playoffs. Yes, I know, this isn't exactly the future we imagined for them while they were at UCLA. Anyway, in a fit of fan overkill, i decided to look into the results of their series. You will be happy to know that JR, a member of the Aisin Sea Horses, played extremely well in the deciding third game against O'Bannon's Toyota Alvark team. JR had 37 points and 14 rebounds. Based on this box score and my severely limited Japanese language skills, I was able to figure out that O'Bannon had 17 points and 8 boards (luckily, he still wears #13 so I'm pretty sure it's him). i also saw that in the other games in the series, JR had 28/15 and 47/13 (yes, those are points and rebounds - i guess he likes playing in Japan)! JR's Sea Horses now will play the Toshiba Brave Thunders for the championship. if you are very interested and have a LOT of time on your hands, you can look through all of the box scores at the game results page (less time is required, of course, if you read Japanese fluently). You also might want to take a look at the league's homepage.
Next, if you read the LA Times article I mentioned yesterday, then you know that JR Henderson and Charles O'Bannon met in the Japanese Basketball League playoffs. Yes, I know, this isn't exactly the future we imagined for them while they were at UCLA. Anyway, in a fit of fan overkill, i decided to look into the results of their series. You will be happy to know that JR, a member of the Aisin Sea Horses, played extremely well in the deciding third game against O'Bannon's Toyota Alvark team. JR had 37 points and 14 rebounds. Based on this box score and my severely limited Japanese language skills, I was able to figure out that O'Bannon had 17 points and 8 boards (luckily, he still wears #13 so I'm pretty sure it's him). i also saw that in the other games in the series, JR had 28/15 and 47/13 (yes, those are points and rebounds - i guess he likes playing in Japan)! JR's Sea Horses now will play the Toshiba Brave Thunders for the championship. if you are very interested and have a LOT of time on your hands, you can look through all of the box scores at the game results page (less time is required, of course, if you read Japanese fluently). You also might want to take a look at the league's homepage.
Comments:
Hey, good job figuring out the box scores. You were right, of course, about Obannon's numbers. (I know Japanese)... And I must admire your tenacity in finding these guys on a foreign language page, one that is so different from English.
Go Bruins! ('83, '86)
Go Bruins! ('83, '86)
Thanks for the confirmation! I was hoping to find a site with more information in English, but there appears to be very little coverage of basketball in Japan. i guess the popularity of hoops still trails substantially behind other sports like sumo, baseball, and soccer.
Post a Comment
Fresno CA Direct TV can get you all the UCLA basketball games you want
