As I watched the teams in warm-ups I did not think that Olympic looked very good. Olympic left the court then came back out around 5 minutes before the game and looked a little better but many shots were missing and the players looked tense for some reason?
The tipoff came and Olympic could not hit anything and shot out to a 4-0 lead; and they were looking pretty good. Olympic then went on a 10-0 run to jump up on Berry 10-4. A timeout was called and Berry got right back in sync and went on a 8-0 run to finish the first period on top of Olympic 12-10.
Not a lot of scoring but a very entertaining game.
Berry pushed out to a 5-point lead after hitting a 3-pointer with foul. Then Olympic roared back to take a half-time lead of 24-23. There was a lot of defense; Olympic blocking shots but having a hard time making their own shots.
A half-time I got to thinking about how good of athlete Nick Dawson was on the floor. To be a big body guy, he moves very nicely.
Olympic finally took control of the game in the second and much of that was the play of Josh Smith. Jos played well the entire game but really stood out to me in the fourth.
With the win Olympic clinches their 4th consecutive conference championship. Even more impressive Olympic won their 50th consecutive Conference game.
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