Your Nottingham Hoods Basketball side are Play-Offs bound!!

Vladan Dragosavac’s side have put in a mammoth effort since the turning, winning eleven of their thirteen outings, and putting up three-figure scores in five of those successes; a double-header of successes against the Worthing Thunder on 21/22 March, coupled with results elsewhere, sees the Hoods qualify for the inaugural BCB Play-Offs.

And they celebrated this past weekend with victory, at Harvey Hadden, against Essex Rebels, taking their current winning streak to three matches – their only two losses this year have come against top-five outfit, Yorkshire Dragons (mid-February, 94-100), and at BCB league leaders, Reading Rockets (mid-March, 77-93).

The year began with a six-match winning streak, which included rivalry successes against Derby Trailblazers, and a 104-87 score over Loughborough Riders, another century was put up against visiting London Cavaliers (109-69), whilst the Thunder were dismantled by a combined 220-175 earlier this month.

Both of those games would see multiple Hoods players post 20+ points, Tyrone Williams with 27pts, 5rebs, 3asts in the first game, and Bryce Johnson (pictured against the Rebels) notching 26pts, 14rebs, 5asts in the second.

Early February signing, forward Abiodun Adedo, is certainly enjoying the freedom of Nottingham, well Worthing, putting up 15pts, 5rebs on night one, and 24pts, 8rebs, 3asts on night two, as the Hoods clinched that all-important play-off berth – in his eight games thus far for the Hoods, Adedo has registered 82pts, 39rebs, 7asts.

Last time out, on Saturday night at Harvey Hadden, the Hoods took care of the visiting Rebels with a, low-scoring, 89-57 success; despite the Rebels taking the early lead, the Hoods closed out the first period with a 19-7 advantage.

Again, the Rebels struck first in the second period before the Hoods proved too strong and stretched their advantage at the half to 41-22, one which was further increased in the third with the Hoods now ahead by 35pts (73-38) going into the fourth, the visitors eventually rallying to bag fourteen points to the Hoods’ six, in the final six minutes.

Williams topped the scoring against the Rebels with 24pts, 5rebs, 3asts, Johnson adding 22pts, 9rebs, 3asts, and Donnell Nixon II, who’d posted 38pts over the two games with the Thunder, added 17pts, 3rebs, 6asts here; Johnny McKew replied for the Rebels with 15pts, 1reb, 1ast of his own.

There are just two games left of the regular season for Dragosavac’s Hoods, early April seeing them first on the road at Milton Keynes Breakers (4 April), before finishing with a home clash against Birmingham Rockets a week later (11 April), they in fourth and third in the BCB standings respectively, six points ahead of the Hoods.

*Article provided by Peter Mann (Senior Correspondent).

*Main image @hoodsbasketball Bryce Johnson in action v Essex Rebels.