Warriors defeat Bulls after losing first match. 2:1. Georges Sassine scored 50 points.

Sandris Seja
Jul 24, 2024
3 min read

Updated: Jul 27, 2024

23.07.2024

S-Basketball game day. Tuesday. Bloom world academy.

Team squads were as follows:

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c0Rs7OvIlQ

Bulls were equipped with strong presence of Ayan and Hussein under the basket, a sharp shooter Chady Kassis and point guard Sandris Seja, who returned to the game after a several months break. Warriors had a very strong team with all-round fast squad including last week's MVP Georges Sassine and previous weeks MVP Fouad Kort.

Fouad Kort before the game (Warriors): We will try our best to win today and one of our strong points is our point guard who will help us to win in a strategic way.

Hussein El Sayed before the game (Bulls): Warriors are much faster, but we have a lot of strength in our team and hopefully we will be stronger under the basket.

1st game Warriors were caught by a surprise by Bull's sharp shooting from distance, Chady Kassis was often left wide open and made a lot of three pointers giving the Bulls a score lead. Eventually, Bulls were able to secure the win in this game mostly thanks to precise three point shooting.

2nd game Warriors made several amendments on the attack and on defense. Bulls were struggling to make shots this game and often did not have enough stamina to return on defense, hence Warriors scoring a lot of easy basket under the rim. Georges Sassine was always ready for break away run. Warriors crashed boards as well and scored many second chance points as Bulls were getting seemingly tired. Warriors made good moves by penetrating from the outside and found an open man under the rim quite often.

3rd and deciding game started with Warriors's offensive and several turnovers by Bulls. Bulls tried to hold on, and made several three pointers and managed go get some stops after switching to 2-3 zone defense, but could not keep up with Warriors tempo, Warriors made two crucial three pointers in the last minutes of the game (Serge Lichaa and Georges Sassine) which lead to a Warriors 30:24 final match win. Fouad Kort after the game: We played as a team, teamwork. Part of winning is that we played more on defense in the 2nd and 3rd game. I feel pretty good, we won 2:1 my team was a better team tonight.

Hussein El Sayed after the game: We had good games today. 1st game we shot a lot of threes and we made a lot of threes. We were a team that relied on three pointers. 2nd game we did not make a lot of shots and we definitely got tired, they are younger team, faster team. Congrats to Warriors. Overall we played good and hopefully we will win next one. Full game stats:

EFF formula: (Points + Rebounds + Assists + Steals + Blocks) - (Missed Field Goals + Missed Free Throws + Turnovers)

MVP - Fouad Kort - 36 points, 25 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks. EFF 44.

Tough pick between Georges Sassine and Fouad Kort, both achieved same efficiency rating of 44, however, Fouad had better shooting percentage and shot less shots, super performance by both.