Tauai enjoyed the time in Las Vegas - Jul 12, 2008 (by Eurobasket News)
Samoan J.J. Tauai (190-G-85, college: Bradley) played for Geneva in the Eurobasket Summer League ventured to the popular Tarkanian Basketball Academy on Tuesday evening. The group of forty players participating in the event featured guys with NBA, Euroleague, NBDL, CBA, ABA, NCAA and international experience. The ESL in Las Vegas featured the most seven footers and players over 6'9' than any other summer exposure event for the international market. [read more]
Samoan J.J. Tauai (190-G-85, college: Bradley) played for Geneva in the Eurobasket Summer League ventured to the popular Tarkanian Basketball Academy on Tuesday evening. The group of forty players participating in the event featured guys with NBA, Euroleague, NBDL, CBA, ABA, NCAA and international experience. The ESL in Las Vegas featured the most seven footers and players over 6'9' than any other summer exposure event for the international market. In his first game of the night Monaco beat Geneva 91:80. The game was a seesaw battle all night as the teams exchanged momentum swings throughout the game. Geneva was down at half time but came storming back and was in the position to win the game but did not benefit from a couple of dubious officiating no calls. Geneva had six players in double figures and had some really talented players on their team including Bennett Davison, Chad Bell, Derrick Franklin, Chris Brooks, Tremaine Dalton, J.J. Tauai and Joseph Frazier. J.J. Tauai produced 7 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists. In the 3rd Place game later Venice dominated Geneva 91:74 and played a lot better team basketball oppose to the night before. Nathan Green led the Venice squad with 17 points; 17 rebounds and 5 assists in an outstanding performance by a quality professional player.Jermaine Dailey had a great game which featured a few amazing dunks as he scored 10 points and grabbed 12 rebounds. Bennett Davison showed again why he has had an outstanding European career by providing quality play, great decision making and veteran leadership while adding 12 points and 5 assists to lead the Geneva team. J.J. Tauai collected 14 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assist. He played extremely will and received help from Joseph Frazier, Tremaine Dalton and Dedrick Bates but was overwhelmed by a talented Venice team.
SPG2007: Historical Gold medal for Fiji! - Sep 10, 2007 (by Eurobasket )
Fiji won its first-ever South Pacific Games Gold medal, the fijians easily defeated Guam in the final game. For the first time since 2001, New Caledonia did not win the Gold at the Pacific level, the caledonians lost in the Bronze medal game against Samoa. [read more]
Fiji won its first-ever South Pacific Games Gold medal, the fijians easily defeated Guam in the final game. For the first time since 2001, New Caledonia did not win the Gold at the Pacific level, the caledonians lost in the Bronze medal game against Samoa.
While the pool game was a close contest between Fiji and Guam (71-70), the Gold medal was an easy road for the fijians who were leading by 16 at half-time. In the last SPG edition, Fiji collapsed in the last game but this year they managed to keep their head cool and claimed the coutry's first SPG title. New Caledonia will not win a fourth Pacific tournament in a row, the caledonians were crushed by the host nation for the Bronze. Samoa was already leading 61-39 after three periods.
Gold medal game: Fiji - Guam: 95-58 Laisiasa Puamau 17pts 6/12FG - Andrew Borja 11pts 5/7FG
Bronze medal game: Samoa - New Caledonia: 85-76 Fia Gatolai 18pts 8/8FG - Fabrice Chaliot 18pts 4/5FG
Final Standings: 1- Fiji 2- Guam 3- Samoa 4- New Caledonia 5- Solomon Islands 6- American Samoa 7- Tahiti 8- Palau 9- Cook Islands
Samoa came out firing in the opening minutes of the bronze medal match up against New Caledonia and never looked back. A contrast from their disappointing performance to Fiji in the knock-out rounds.
At half-time Samoa was comfortably in the lead with 41-26 points. New Caledonia had difficulty in breaking Samoa's defense which led to costly turn overs of which Samoa capitalized on. [read more]
Samoa came out firing in the opening minutes of the bronze medal match up against New Caledonia and never looked back. A contrast from their disappointing performance to Fiji in the knock-out rounds. At half-time Samoa was comfortably in the lead with 41-26 points. New Caledonia had difficulty in breaking Samoa's defense which led to costly turn overs of which Samoa capitalized on. Play makers Trenson and Bradyn Akana's aggresive style of play put constant pressure on the New Caledonians rewarding Samoa with one too many free throws. Julius Barnes (186-G-81, agency: Octagon, college: Stanford) in a class of himself made a fantastic display of skills sealing Samoa's bronze medal win. Full time score being 85- 76.
SPG2007: Day 8 Results - Fiji and Guam for the Gold - Sep 8, 2007 [read more]
SPG2007: Day 7 Results - Fiji, Guam and Samoa leading the pack - Sep 7, 2007 [read more]
SPG2007: Day 6 Results - Start of the medal round - Sep 6, 2007 [read more]
SPG2007: Day 5 Results - Tahiti out of the medal race - Sep 5, 2007 [read more]
SPG2007: Day 4 Results - Guam, Fiji & New Caledonia qualified for the next round - Sep 4, 2007 [read more]
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