China celebrates Kobe's 4th championship ring.

The top teams held their dominance in the league with sharp shooting and intimidating defense. And there have been numerous great highlight moments every week: heavy dunks, huge rejections, ridiculously tough shots and sneaky moves in the paint.  But if you want to know what it really takes to compete in this league, here are some key stats!

Top teams: Canada One and 3D.  In the regular season, Canada One averaged 103 points each game while 3D kept their opponents to a measly 68.5 ppg.

Hot Shots (regular season)
Spend the off-season working on your defense so you can try and stop these hot shots!

Player	Team	PPG
Randy Nohr	Canada One	32.9
Mark Tasic	Run N Gun	31.6
Navi Sekhon	Canada One	30.8
Mike Baxter	EA Sports	27.7
Melvyn Mayott	Celtics	24.8
Igor Dutina	Sonic Boom	24.0
Jordan Yu	Run N Gun	23.3
Kyle Russell	EA Sports	23.0
Graeme McCallum	3D	22.4
Jason Hubbs	3D	20.7
Taylor Cherris-Wilding	3D	20.5
Paul Rother	Sonic Boom	20.3
Jamie Robinson	Bullets	19.3
Jeremy Alexander	Swat	17.8
Ben Lee	Bullets	17.2
Lucian Sauciuc	3D	16.6
Matt Mahar	EA Sports	15.4
Sean Maxwell	Canada One	15.4
Srdjan Vujovic	Warriors	15.0
Sherlan John	Swat	14.9

Playoff Clutch Players
In addition, to producing throughout the regular season, these guys stepped it up in the playoffs.  By improving their point production, hustling that extra step, nabbing more rebounds, and showing amazing heart in the playoffs, the following players turned in some great clutch performances.

Player	Team
Graeme McCallum	3D
Josh Booy	3D
Ian Sheffield	Bullets
Navi Sekhon	Canada One
Bob Hielttes	Canada One
Ron Putzi	Canada One
Patrick Caffrey	Celtics
Matt Mahar	EA Sports
Matt Ng	EA Sports
Srdjan Vujovic	East Van Warriors
Brian Scotland	Run N Gun
Noah Cantor	Run N Gun
Igor Dutina	Sonic Boom
Paul Rother	Sonic Boom
Chris Peerless	Swat

]]> http://www.vancouverbasketball.ca/blog/all-metro-league-standouts-spring-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.vancouverbasketball.ca/blog/ea-sports-wins-community-outreach-award/ http://www.vancouverbasketball.ca/blog/ea-sports-wins-community-outreach-award/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:51:07 +0000 admin http://www.vancouverbasketball.ca/blog/?p=353 Congratulations to EA Sports for hitting grand slam with the 2009 Metro Basketball League Charity Shoe Drive sponsored by Nike/New Age Sports!

Thanks also to everyone in the league that came out and participated in this charity initiative throughout the season.  It’s important to us that, as a league, we have a heart for community/charity and the entire Vancouver Metro League did an amazing job rounding up their kicks at home and donating to folks that need them more than we do.

EA came in with over 50 pairs of shoes!  EA Sports Metro League Team includes Jeff Atienza,  Mike Mahar, Matt Mahar,  Jeff Antwi,  Shane Luke,  Colin Currie, Phil Sinnott, Mike Smit, Matt Ng, Mike Baxter,  Zach Russell, Kyle Russell and Andres Rivela.

2009 Charity Shoe Drive brought to you by New Age Sports/Nike.  Visit New Age Sports for all your athletic shoe and apparel needs at the following Vancouver Locations:

The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2009

Check out Vancouver Metro Basketball League mention here