YD vs TPA Dream11: Yulon Luxen Dinos will be playing hosts to Taoyuan Pauian Archiland in semi-final Game-3 of Super Basketball League, Taiwan on Saturday (IST). Dinos won the first two games in the series, winning 90-103 away in the game-1 and followed it up with too-close-to-comfort 91-89 win in game-2 to win the 3-match series. But unlike in the NBA, where the team winning the first four games doesn’t require to play the remaining games in the best of the seven-game series in the post-season, here in Taiwan, the games have to be completed. And so the third match will be played despite Dinos already wrapping up the series.
As far as the form is concerned, it’s clear that Dinos are in ascendency having won the last two matches, but it was Pauian who had a better regular season as they finished second with 17-15 record, behind only league leaders Taiwan Beer who finished with 25 wins and only seven defeats. But it’s worth noting that three of those defeats came against single opponent, and none other than Pauian. Dinos, on the other hand, were the third-best team in the regular season with 16 wins and as many defeats.
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Match details:
Teams: Yulon Luxen Dinos and Taoyuan Pauian Archiland
Match Timing: April 18, @ 02:30 PM
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Yulon Luxen Dinos vs Taoyuan Pauian Archiland team news:
Yulon Luxen Dinos: No injury issues for the hosts, while no player is expected to miss this match with suspension either. That means if a change happen on the roster, or any player is left out of the roster, it will be due to coach’s decision. But still, expect big guns like Sim Bhullar and Marcus Keene to lineup here, but Po-Chen Chou and Yi-Hui Lin both fight for a place in the starting five.
Taoyuan Pauian Archiland: The story of the series could have been entirely different had Pauian not lost their key player Charles Garcia ahead of the start of the most crucial phase of the season. But the club didn’t have any other option but to allow Garcia to leave the team due to the untimely death of his father. He won’t be playing in this game either.
In addition, the likes of Chia-Kang Li, Yao-Tsung Lin and Li-Huang Wen were all left out of the active matchday roster, so choose wisely.
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Yulon Luxen Dinos vs Taoyuan Pauian Archiland starting five:
Yulon Luxen Dinos: Cheng-Ju Lu, Po-Chen Chou/Yi-Hui Lin, Sim Bhullar, Kai-Hsiang Hu, Marcus Keene
Taoyuan Pauian Archiland: Edvinas Seskus, Chin-Yao Yao, Chen Guan-Quan, Yen-Tsung Shih, Wei-Ju Chien
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Grand League tips:
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Likely squads:
Yulon Luxen Dinos: Sim Bhullar, Kai-Hsiang Hu, Marcus Keene, Douglas Creighton, Yi-Hui Lin, Zier Lu, Lu Cheng-Ju, Po-Chen Chou, KE Wei, Liang Lu-Guan, Zhaonan Guo, Te-Wei Lee
Taoyuan Pauian Archiland: Edvinas Seskus, Yen Tsung Shih, Yao-Tsung Lin, Chun-Yen Peng, Wei-Ju Chien, Chia-Chun Wu, Chen Jian-En, Guan-Quan Chen, Yao-Tsung Lin, Li-Huang Wen, Chia Kang-Li, Chi-Wei Lee, Chin-Yao Yao, Tai-Hai Wu
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YD vs TPA Dream11 teams:
Team 1:
PG: M Keane
SG: C Peng
SF: Y Lin, S Yen-Tsung
PF: L Cheng-Ju, W Tai-Hao
C: S Bhullar (SP), C Guanquan
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Team 2:
PG: M Keane (SP)
SG: C Peng
SF: Y Lin, S Yen-Tsung
PF: L Cheng-Ju, W Tai-Hao
C: S Bhullar, C Guanquan
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Taoyuan Pauian Archiland are going through a tough period. They are not at full strength and are already done for the season after losing the first two games in this series, and the pride is all they will be playing for in this final game. But can they stop Yulon Luxen Dinos, and at a time when they are not at full strength, we doubt and predict another win for Dinos here.