VIDEO: Vancouver Bandits make it two in a row, downing Calgary<\/p>\n
Published 10:45 am Monday, May 25, 2026<\/p>\n
Vancouver Bandits occupy the top slot of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) Western conference with a record of three wins in four games, following back-to-back victories on home court in Langley.<\/p>\n
Following Friday\u2019s 111-88 win over the visiting Edmonton Stingers, on Sunday afternoon, Bandits did it again on home court, a 111-101 win over the visiting Calgary Surge.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bandits coach Kyle Julius called it a \u201cmessy\u201d win.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdding a new player right before is not easy,\u201d Julius explained.<\/p>\n
The new player this time was Jarkel Joiner, who most recently played for the Toronto Raptors G League affiliate, Raptors 905, and signed with Vancouver on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Joiner recorded 22 points and seven assists, one of three Bandits to score 20-plus points, alongside Jaelen House (27 points, nine assists) and Tyrese Samuel (21 points, 10 rebounds).<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s dunk ended the game in Target Score Time.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh man, it was fun,\u201d Joiner said. \u201cCoach gave me confidence, the players gave me confidence, and it was fun. I can score and I can guard, that\u2019s what they told me to do, and that\u2019s what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bandits led for all but five minutes of the game and never trailed by more than three points.<\/p>\n
Julius said the Bandits played \u201ca ton of one-on-one basketball,\u201d and that is not what he wants to see.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not really who we are or what we\u2019re about. So, the good news is we have guys that can really play one-on-one basketball at a high level [but] we\u2019ve got to kind of find a way to just get organized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julius especially wants to see improvement defensively.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like we\u2019re playing bad defense because we\u2019re a bad defensive team. I think we\u2019re playing bad defense because chemistry is not there yet. There\u2019s no real continuity from last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next, Bandits hit the road, playing three games in five days with stops in Niagara (May 29), Brampton (May 30) and Ottawa (June 2).<\/p>\n
June 6 in Kelowna, they play the Saskatoon Mamba at Prospera Place as part of Kelowna HOOPFEST.<\/p>\n
They are back at Langley Events Centre on Saturday June 13 to play Ottawa at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Vancouver Bandits make it two in a row, downing Calgary Published 10:45 am Monday, May 25, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-693184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}