Malevy Leons

[Da Coach]

Tomorrow's Championship game (Game 12- Portsmouth Partnership vs Jani-KIng) will be streamed at 6:00 pm Central time Saturday night -
The link to Game 12 will appear on this page tomorrow- https://go.prepspin.com/

Jani-King won 89-87 tonight. Here is their box score. Xavier Johnson had another poor night. Only 2 points - https://d2od76x949sv9u.cloudfront.ne...604/Game-7.pdf

[Da Coach]

Evaluation of Portsmouth players from an NBA draft evaluation expert-
"Don't let your client work out against Malevy Leons" - https://twitter.com/MavsDraft/status...73208206430287

Further analysis of Malevy Leons' - https://twitter.com/MavsDraft/status...50463701164093

[yoda]

A couple familiar names- Xavier Johnson of SIU, and Tristan Enaruna of Cleveland State. He had 23 points in Cleveland State's win over Bradley this past season in Carver Arena.

And yes, the announcers are horrendous.

Tristan Enaruna's brother played at Evansville- https://gopurpleaces.com/sports/mens...n-enaruna/5467
Xavier Johnson is not having a great tourney so far- averaging 4 ppg, 3 rpg, 2 apg

according to their posted schedule, Malevy's team plays two games today, Games 11 at 4pm (vs Mike Duman) & 12 at 6pm (vs Jani-King)

https://www.portsmouthinvitational.com/tournament/2024/schedule-results/

[Da Coach]

I'm pretty sure that schedule showing Malevy's team playing consecutive games is an error, especially since the team they beat last night doesn't show up on today's schedule at all. The consolation game at 4 pm should have Roger Brown playing and not Portsmouth Partnership.
Malevy's team play just 1 game at 6 pm (Central).

[yoda]

I agree, it didn't make much sense making a team play for the championship after just playing a game, but
they have now apparently corrected their schedule

[Da Coach]

I agree, it didn't make much sense making a team play for the championship after just playing a game, but
they have now apparently corrected their schedule

The streaming service hasn't corrected the error yet. It still shows Malevy's team (Portsmouth Partnership) playing at 5 pm Eastern (4 pm Central) and again at 7 pm (6 pm Central).
Note that the only game Malevy's team plays is the final championship game at 7 pm Eastern (6 pm Central) - https://go.prepspin.com/

[Da Coach]

Another pro scout at the Portsmouth Invitational seems to like Malevy Leons - https://twitter.com/OneMotiveSports/...20341426876779

[Da Coach]

Malevy is playing very well so far and I think he is the leading scorer in the game, so far (there are no live stats). His team, Portsmouth Partnership, leads Jani-King 29-20 with 3:34 left in the first half.
Here is the link to the video stream - https://go.prepspin.com/pit-game-8-friday-at-9pm-est/

Sean East has also been impressive for Portsmouth Partnership.

[Da Coach]

Malevy is playing very well so far and I think he is the leading scorer in the game, so far (there are no live stats). His team, Portsmouth Partnership, leads Jani-King 29-20 with 3:34 left in the first half.
Here is the link to the video stream - https://go.prepspin.com/pit-game-8-friday-at-9pm-est/

Sean East has also been impressive for Portsmouth Partnership.

Jani-King scored the final 12 points of the 2nd quarter to take a 32-29 halftime lead over Portsmouth Partnership.

[Da Coach]

Here are two of Malevy's first half points - https://twitter.com/PIT_Basketball/s...28569955492022

[yoda]

observations on the 1st half:
score is low (32-29) due to lots of sloppy play, turnovers, poor passing and a lot of bad shots taken.
For Jani-King, Hunter Cattoor is a career (5 seasons) 42% 3-pt shooter and shot well, Xavier Johnson played well &
actually made a 5-7 pt difference in the final minutes of the half & Enaruna looks very skilled.
For Partnership, Malevy playing well, East hits shots & Horne hit a couple but Domask has almost everything rim out,
one of which Malevy put back with a slam dunk. Their big guy Fiedler is kinda slow & ineffective.

[yoda]

Malevy &East both with impressive 3-point plays! Then Malevy with a big-league block leading to another Sean East 3-point play
Domask really struggling to get anything going offensively.

..also- these broadcasters are horrible, endless nonsensical babbling about completely irrelevant stuff

[Da Coach]

Jani-King wins the Championship 75-68 over Malevy Leons' team, the Portsmouth Partnership.
Malevy had a good game, but his team turned it over too many times, and gave up too many open shots and rebounds.
The stats will be posted soon.

[Da Coach]

Tristan Enaruna of Jani-King was named the Most Valuable Player

Final stats - https://d2od76x949sv9u.cloudfront.ne...32/Game-12.pdf
Malevy Leons with 10 points, 3 rebounds, and 2 blocks in 21 minutes.
Sean East was the game's top scorer with 24 points, DJ Horne had 10 points, Marcus Domask had 4 points.

Archived game video - https://go.prepspin.com/the-2024-pit...ay-at-7pm-est/

[yoda]

disappointing ending for Malevy's team. The personnel on the floor taking poor shots & playing poor defense while Malevy
was on the bench.

Box score shows Malevy with 10 pts, 3 reb, 2 blks but he changed many shots and caused several T/O
All the Domask, East & Fielder turnovers hurt...

https://d2od76x949sv9u.cloudfront.net/pit/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20205032/Game-12.pdf