Shox 33, Huarache 59

NRF’s league is playing out, in some cases, like the NBA: Huarache (Boston) looks the strongest after a defeat in the finals last season and is led by a bald-headed vet; Uptempo (Lakers) aren’t consistent, have lost games they should have won and there is some doubt as to whether they can repeat but they have the most dangerous scorer in the league. And finally the Shox (The South Beach Amigos) were supposed to cruise through the league and smack every team in their way, but they haven’t dominated and no team truly fears them.

Spooky.

Another coincidence: In the first meeting between Boston and Miami, the C’s made it look easy (too easy) for good teams with interior defense to beat the treacherous-three. Huarache would take note and deliver the same message to this crew.

Huarache assaulted the Shox, opening up a 21-1 lead before the half even reached the midway point. Their defense? Superb. Their energy? Present from the jump. Their Patience and shot selection were as perfect as Rosa Acosta’s figure on the cover of King Magazine. OK, maybe not that good but you get the idea.

Jeremy Jensen (four points) hit the Shox first field goal to stop the 25-1 run with 6:57 to go in the first, but Huarache took a 33-12 lead into the break.

All-Star guards Terance Takyi and Billy Dodson teamed up for 40 points (Takyi: 27 points, five steals) and do-it-all forward Roscoe netted 12 points and grabbed five rebounds for the Killer Bee’s (Huarache solidified their Wu-Tang reference for the rest of the season with this win).

Bernard “Not the defensive dude” Bowen tried to get aggressive (11 points) and scored in the lane with a high floater over stretched out defenders. But his team’s chemistry was off, as he attempted a WTF alley-oop to Chad “wait ya turn, rook” Easterling (16 points, five rebounds), which ended in a Roscoe lay up on the other end. Takyi hit back to back three’s and Billy capped off the run with a wide open jumper from the top of the key, beating the Shox into submission (59-33) with 1:08 left in the game.

“We’ve smacked teams before but we didn’t expect this **** to go like that,” said the never bashful Darius Broadwater. “I mean, it wasn’t even competitive.”

When asked if the missing Shox players CGF, “Project Pat” Cassidy and The commish were a factor in the loss being so lopsided, Broadwater added “Maybe they score another 20 points but we’ve beating M************ by a lot. We’re like that Kentucky squad in ’96.”

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