Advantage to Sheffield Sharks after the first leg of the playoffs: 94-70 - against London Lions

A strong second-half performance from Sheffield Sharks gave them a 24 point cushion over London Lions going into Sunday's second leg playoff.  Sharks put in a good home performance despite missing Colin Sing and Patrick Horstmann who are still out injured, leaving only 10 on the bench.

After a scrappy start that saw London often lead be a few points, Sharks came back to square it 33-33 midway through the second quarter.  Some good point runs allowed Sharks to break away and ease to 55-41 early in the third quarter.

Mid-way through the second quarter the game was all squared at 33-33. However a 7-0 run to end the half and another 8-0 run to start the third quarter gave Sheffield a 55-41 lead which they built on to run out 94-70 winners on a night when other fancied teams struggled.

Jerrold Brooks was MVP with 31 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds and 1 steal. Mike Tuck and TJ Robinson also scored 19 points each.

 TJ Robinson at the tip

 

 Brandon Hogg breaks through.

 John Barber keeps the ball

 Sam Toluwase claims two points

 TJ Robinson for two

 John Barber for two

 TJ Robinson

 TJ Robinson goes for a floater

 Jerrold Brooks pulls up the Lions defence

 Brandon Hogg goes for two

 Jerrold Brooks runs through the Lions defence

  Jerrold Brooks holds off the Lions defence

 George Brownell on the ball

Mike Tuck takes a free throw.

Jerrold Brooks ghosts past former Shark Nick Lewis.

Kyle Odister brings the ball out from defence.

Jerrold Brooks get blocked out.

Jerrold Brooks takes the free-throw.

TJ Robinson jumps for the basket.

Brandon Hogg gets blocked out.

Jerrold Brooks found space easier to find as the game went on and racked up his points tally..

Kyle Odister takes a free-throw.

John Barber breaks through the Lions defence.

MVP Jerrold Brooks

Sheffield Sharks pull away to victory over Leeds Force

Sheffield Sharks - confirmed as Yorkshire's #1 Basketball team for another year!  A scrappy encounter with Leeds Force (3 technical and plenty of ordinary fouls) saw Sheffield Sharks and Leeds Force even at 44-44 at half time with Sharks missing the high-line defence of Colin Sing who was out injured.  Sharks pulled away at the end to run out 81-70 winners which sees them edge closer to that play-off place.

 T J Robinson makes an early dunk

 Coach Atiba Lyons pulled out late with sickness so acting head coach Ariel Parrucci stepped up to the plate

 Jerrold Brooks jumping for two

 Kyle Odister shoots a long two

 Jerrold Brooks jumping again

 Brandon Hogg runs the line

 Sam Toluwase muscles in for two

 Mike Tuck shoots some free throws

 MVP T J Robinson

Sheffield Sharks continue their fine run with victory over Bristol Flyers

Sheffield Sharks ran out 70-43 winners over Bristol Flyers at the EIS, Sheffield and continued their fine run of recent wins which has seen them climb the BBL table.

Flyers had benefited from a two-week break since ending 2015 with a defeat away at Leicester Riders but started this game sluggishly, ending the first quarter down 17-10.

Sharks increased their lead to 11 midway through the second, before a couple of threes from Mathias Seilund saw Bristol get within two points of Sheffield.

But it wa not enough as a terrible run of nearly 6 minutes without a point followed forthe visitors , falling 18 points behind.

Sharks continued to dominate and a series of turnovers let them round out the third 55-35.

The fourth went the same way and allowed Sam Toluwase a home debut. 

 Mike Tuck contests the tip

 Colin Sing gets the dunk

 Mike Tuck on the break

 TJ Robinson goes for the slam

 Jerrold Brooks - cleared for takeoff

 Apparently, this is NOT a foul

Greg  Streete checks on his foul

 Kyle Odister shoots for two

 Jerrold Brooks on another break

 Kyle Odister rounds it out to 70-43 with a foul throw

Colin Sing was a deserved MVP -  10pts,  3blocks and overall strong defence