Aspac gets 2nd win Kobatama finals

Aspac gets 2nd win Kobatama finals

JAKARTA (JP): Powered by Bobby Parks and Felix Bendatu,
defending champion Aspac of Jakarta yesterday pipped Pacific of
Surabaya 95-78 on the second day of the Intercity Professional
Basketball League's final leg.

With the victory, Aspac, behind which most of the Senayan
Basketball Hall's spectators threw their weight, have remained
undefeated since the league's kick-off here in September and
maintain its lead. On Tuesday it whipped Hadtex of Bandung 92-73.

Parks racked up 33 points, mostly through his applause-
inviting dunks and accurate free throws.

Parks' teammate, Raheem Oates added 23, but it was Felix who
showed amazing accuracy at zeroing in on three-pointers and
remarkable agility in intercepting. He made half of Aspac's treys
and 38 percent of the steal intercepts.

"They show equal skills, of which we lack," Pacific's coach,
Willy Winoto said, "Their players are far taller than ours."

Willy added that actually there were many golden chances to
even up the score but his players missed them due to faulty
shooting. This was made worse by an emotional Mike King whose bad
temper, and tendency to foul, was easily provoked. "He is by
nature temperamental," Willy said.

Aspac's manager Irawan Haryono said his team's victory lay in
its strategy to make Mike King and Wallace Manns, who together
scored 61 for Pacific, error-prone.

"You saw Mike King get frustrated? We succeeded in persuading
him to errors, on which we capitalized," said Irawan. Pacific's
fouls gave Aspac 23 free throw shots, 13 of which were sunk.

But Aspac's power to provoke errors induced a fight in the
first half between Aspac's forward Mohammad Rifki and Pacific's
play maker G. Indrawan. Both claimed to have been elbowed but it
was not clear who landed the first blow.

The dispute involved the two team managers who exchanged
abusive words, but the referees calmed them down a few minutes
later.

In another match yesterday, Indonesia Muda of Jakarta beat
Bima Sakti of Malang 85-66.

Today Hadtex of Bandung will fight against Pacific, Bima Sakti
against Siliwangi of Bandung, Aspac against Pelita Jaya of
Jakarta and CLS of Surabaya against Indonesia Muda. (arf)