There really is something magical that happens after the Octane Infinity yell “Infinity!” at the huddle during halftime. Or at least that what it seemed like as the Octane Infinity faced Yikes at The Courts in Beaverton, OR, on Monday, March 24, 2008.
Trailing by 10 points at the half, the Octane Infinity rallied back to tie the game by switching the defensive strategy from zone to man-to-man. With only a few seconds left on the clock, David Camp’s shot went in and out. As fate would have it, Yikes rebounded the ball, managed to sprint down the court and make the game-winning layup, pulling an upset over the Octane Infinity 76-74.
“In retrospect, we should have gone man-to-man from the beginning,” stated Jonas Reyes. “We actually had the size-advantage against most of their players. We’ll need to keep this in mind next time.”
Chris Turman had another one of his monster games. He had 30 points on 9-of-18 shooting from inside the 3-point arc and 4-of-5 from outside. He also pulled down 13 rebounds, and made three blocks.
Adam Crane scored 14 points and eight rebounds, and Edwin Tanedo added 12 points and seven rebounds. The stats didn’t reflect the intangible defensive plays that the Octane Infinity guards did, disrupting the Yikes offense and causing a series of turnovers.
“It would have been great to win this game, but it was fun to be part of it and have it so exciting at the end,” reflected Tanedo. “Anyways, good stuff tonight, almost our second victory and Chris’s shooting was freaking unreal!”
The Octane Infinity were without forward Scott Nelson, who was out of town.
Boxscore
| No. | Pos | Player | 2PT | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO | STL | BLK | PF | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | PG/SG | Adam Crane | 4-8 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | ||
| 21 | PG/SG | Jonas Reyes | 2-4 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 24 | SF/PF | John Le | 3-7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 26 | PG/SG | Edwin Tanedo | 1-3 | 3-7 | 1-4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | ||
| 30 | PF/C | Chris Turman | 9-18 | 4-5 | 0-0 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 30 | ||
| 40 | PF | Marcus Berger | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 51 | PF/C | David Camp | 3-8 | 0-0 | 2-6 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||
| 44 | SF | Scott Nelson | DNP | ||||||||||
| Totals | 22-54 | 9-28 | 3-10 | 52 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 74 | ||||
Credits
Statistician: Lisa Sander
Photographer: Amy Reyes
Writer: Jonas Reyes
Man-to-Man was indeed the way to go, but we cannot forget why we went zone in the first place. Although we had seven players contribute tonight, we only started the game with just five players.