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Winnipeg Sea Bears guard Teddy Allen led all players with 28 points against the Calgary Surge, Sunday.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg\u2019s hopes of clinching a fourth-consecutive berth in the Canadian Elite Basketball League playoffs were put on hold for at least one more game, and their perfect streak at home ended at seven as it dropped to 11-6.<\/p>\n
Adding insult to injury, it was former Sea Bear Armani Chaney \u2014 who was released on June 15 \u2014 who iced the game on a step-back three-pointer. Chaney finished with 20 points, as the now 4-13 Surge look to salvage their season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just lost,\u201d said Teddy Allen, who led all players with 28 points and added seven rebounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly thought we were gonna win. We had the ball, one possession to win, and I turned it over. We still should have won, but we didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen\u2019s costly turnover in Target Score Time was preceded by a strange series of events.<\/p>\n
With a target score of 83, Calgary missed the first of three consecutive free throws to put the game away. The latter two shots were awarded after the Surge corralled a rebound, and as Adonis Arms went up for the put-back, the arena\u2019s horn inexplicably went off, putting the game in timeout. Officials also deemed that Arms was fouled as the horn sounded, which put the Surge back on the line.<\/p>\n
Head coach Mike Raimbault was incensed at the untimely horn, which may have negated his club\u2019s chance to regain possession and get back up the court. The fact that Isiah Osborne was charged with a foul also left him confused.<\/p>\n
Raimbault said he did not receive an explanation after the game about the horn, but it didn\u2019t matter since the Sea Bears blew their chance to put the game away on their final possession.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t change the outcome of how it went. I\u2019m not sure why the horn went off. I think it was unfortunate timing, but I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll get an explanation at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when you lose a close game, there\u2019s a lot of things that impact the outcome. Obviously, we had a poor third quarter. There\u2019s a lot of possessions that we\u2019ll look at and say, \u2018Hey, we would like to make better choices.\u2019 So it\u2019s hard to put it on one situation. I mean, we put ourselves in a spot where we needed to fight and play from behind, and when you do that, sometimes it catches you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Indeed, it did.<\/p>\n
After owning a 47-35 lead at halftime, the Surge screamed out of the locker room to the tune of a 26-3 run to take an 11-point lead. The charge was led by Chaney, who scored 10 points, including two of Calgary\u2019s six triples in the frame.<\/p>\n
It was unlike any quarter played by the Western Conference-leading Sea Bears this season. The basket looked like it had a lid on one end as Calgary outscored Winnipeg 36-14 in the frame, while Allen was held to a single point.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout watching it back, I can\u2019t say for sure,\u201d Raimbault said of what went wrong in the quarter. \u201cObviously the score went wrong for us, but it just wasn\u2019t a strong quarter for us in a lot of aspects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t CEBL photo<\/p>\n Sea Bears guard Trey McGowens had 12 points against the Surge in his return to play after missing one game due to a lower body injury.<\/p>\n While Winnipeg finished the quarter strong and carried that momentum into the fourth quarter, where it eventually regained the lead for a stretch, the club\u2019s shooting woes eventually caught up to it.<\/p>\n The Sea Bears fired at just a 33 per cent clip from the field, including making just six of their 27 attempts from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n The hosts scored just 33 points in the second half, as they looked anything but the prolific offence that has taken the league by storm this summer.<\/p>\n \u201cBasketball, some games you\u2019re going to miss shots. Some games you\u2019re going to make a lot of shots,\u201d said Emmanuel Akot, who had six points and nine rebounds. \u201cI think that\u2019s why our calling card is our defence, and I think we could have done a much better job today, but we\u2019ll look at the film and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n The silver lining for the Sea Bears is that Trey McGowens (12 points) and Trevon Scott (two points) returned to action after sitting out one game due to respective lower-body ailments. The club\u2019s playoff hopes are also still well within reach with seven games remaining in the fading regular-season schedule.<\/p>\n \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t Winnipeg, which began its busiest stretch of the campaign and will play three more games this week, will get a few days to rest before making the short trip to Saskatoon to face the Mamba (7-9) on Wednesday (8:30 p.m.).<\/p>\n Their clinching scenario will once again be win-and-in.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think our process really changes at all. We\u2019re gonna obviously look at the game and try to continue learning some lessons that are going to be important for us moving forward. We\u2019re going to prep for our road trip, and we\u2019re going to go play the next game,\u201d said Raimbault.<\/p>\n \u201cI think (that\u2019s) one positive about just kind of taking everything a day at a time and looking at what you need to do is we\u2019re not over-evaluating a win or a loss. We\u2019re looking at every single possession and just trying to be a little bit better, and there\u2019s certainly lots of things that we could have done better tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n winnipegfreepress.com\/joshuafreysam<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Joshua Frey-Sam Josh Frey-Sam reports on sports and business at the Free Press. Josh got his start at the paper in 2022, just weeks after graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College. He reports primarily on amateur teams and athletes in sports. Read more about Josh<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Josh produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.<\/p>\n \t\t
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