Super 8: Macau Basketball Invitational

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Date: September 20-24 2017
Venue: Studio City Stadium
Site and Ticket: http://www.studiocity-macau.com/en/p...17-Asia-League

Formerly. the Asia League but FIBA was quick to threaten the organizers with a lawsuit in using the name "Asia League", so the budding club tournament was quick to rebrand into the Super 8 Invitationals.

Shenzhen Leopards
Zhejiang Guangsha Lions
Chiba Jets
Ryukyu Golden Kings
Fubon Braves
Seoul Samsung Thunders
Goyang Orions
Pauian Pure Youth

If you look at their social media accounts, they are heavily advertising the participation of Gilas Pilipinas, but one would look at the date and it's a month remove from the ongoing FIBA Asia Cup where the Philippine NT has already broken camp by then in order to rest or prepare for the new PBA season. Organizers are even bold enough to advertise poster boy Terrence Romeo in the site.

Most of the East Asian clubs here are preparing for their respective campaigns for the the new season of the CBA, SBL, B-League and KBL.

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Chiba Jets roster for the Super 8 Invitationals:

Tomokazu Abe
Yuki Togashi
Michael Parker
Aki Chambers
Fumio Nishimura
Gavin Edwards
Fumio Nishimura
Gaku Arao
Kosuke Ishii
Shuta Hara
Tony Gaffney
Ryumo Ono
Shunsuke Ito

Chiba this season is going uptempo as their "centers" Gaffney, Edwards and Parker are all natural PF. Only Shunsuke Ito, who is old is the pure center.

Also, Super 8 media said that FIBA now recognizes them... whatever that means.

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Goyang Orions roster for the Super 8 Invitationals

Moon Tae-Jong
Choi Jin-Soo
Jeon Kyu-Jun
Kim Doo-Su
Heo Il-Young
Cho Hyo-Hyun
Kim Kang-Sun
Lee Ho-Young
Sung Jae-Jun
Ju Tae-Su
Lee Seung-Kyu
Chang Moon-Ho
Kim Jinyu
Min Seong-Ju
Doron Perkins
Vernon Macklin

Lee Seung-Hyun is out due to armed forces enlistment. Aaron Haynes signed with Seoul SK. Kim Dong-Uk bolted for Samsung.

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Samsung Thunder roster for the Super 8 Invitational tournament:

Moon Tae-Young
Kim Tae-Sol
Kim Myung-Hoon
Choi Yun-Ho
Kim Tae-Hyung
Lee Kwan-Hee
Cho Han-Soo
Lee Ho-Hyun
Lee Dong-Yeop
Lee Jong-Goo
Ricardo Ratliffe
Cheon Ki-Beom
Sung Ki-Bin
Kim Dong-Wook
Markeith Cummings

Cummings is a late addition as Samsung replaced Michael Craig last week. Kim Dong-Wook returns to Samsung afer 8 years being in a Goyang jersey.

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Super 8 Tournament announced today that Pauian Pure Youth will be joining -- taking the spot of a spot intended for a team from the Philippines.

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Group A
Goyang Orions
Ryukyu Golden Kings
Pauian Archiland
Shenzhen Leopards


Group B
Chiba Jets
Fubon Braves
Samsung Thunder
Zhejiang Guangsha Lions

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Samsung Thunders is powerhouse with Ricardo Ratliffe in the paint. Goyang seems to be weak now with the departure of Haynes and military service of their ace player.

What do you think of the Taiwan teams, Fubon Braves and Pauian Archiland? Can they show some good basketball? I don't have any idea in their league.

Pauian will not field Quincy Davis, who is out due to injury. They are flying in Emmanuelle Jones and Edvinas Seskus, the Lithuanian standout from the selection that played in the Jones Cup. Pauian fron-court has depth if we factor in Wu Tai-Hao and Wu Hong-Hsing. That and their stable of veteran guards will be dependable.

Fubon, Joe Lin is expected but we'd want him to better facilitate more instead of forcing the tempo to go one on one. Jet Chang could suit up but in limited minutes. There's Tsai Wen-Tseng, Chen Hsiao-Jung and TJ Burke to expect contribution. Their import is Garrett Siler, former Pauian center.

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Aki Chambers is naturalized? So it means Chiba has three imports? Michael Parker, Gavin Edwards and Tony Gaffney?

Aki Chambers has attained his Japanese citizenship and is now considered a local player. Michael Parker is a naturalized Japanese and is now considered a local. See Aisin's JR Sakuragi.

Edwards and Gaffney are import players.

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Event is shown via FB Live. Choi Jin-Soo off to a good start, playing SF to PF for Goyang.

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Gotta love the addition of Ira Brown to Ryukyu. When in doubt, defer to Ira Brown.

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Momentum now favors Ryukyu as now they lead 42-31 versus Goyang. Goyang's offense started to go out of sync when they were going first post option on Macklin. Hilton Armstrong now in for Ryukyu.

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Ryukyu Golden Kings 84 - 83 Goyang Orions in OT. Announcers making it look like the game is crowded when the first row is pretty much empty.

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Day 1

Ryukyu Okinawa 84 - 83 Goyang Orions OT
Samsung Thunder 93 - 79 Fubon Braves
Chiba Jets 89 - 82 Zhejiang Guangsha
Shenzhen Leopards 86 - 74 Pauian Archland

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Day 2 was lackluster. Most of the games were treated like a mild scrimmage. Highlight of the day was Korea's soon to be naturalized player against Ioannis Bourousis.

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Shenzhen Leopards walked in the 4th. Poor sportsmanship and they caused gamblers money lol