2017–18 ABL season

The 2017–18 ABL season is the eighth season of competition of the ASEAN Basketball League. The regular season started on 17 November 2017 and ended on 28 March 2018.[1]

This article is about the basketball competition. For the baseball competition, see 2017–18 Australian Baseball League season.
2017–18 ABL season
LeagueASEAN Basketball League
SportBasketball
DurationRegular season: 17 November 2017 – 28 March 2018
Playoffs: 1 April – 2 May 2018
Number of games103 (90 regular season, 13 playoffs)
Number of teams9
TV partner(s) Cable TV
MNC Sports & Vidio
ABS-CBN Sports and Action
StarHub
MONO29
Eleven Sports Network
HTV
Regular season
Top seedChong Son Kung Fu
Season MVPLocal: Bobby Ray Parks Jr. (Alab)
Heritage import: Mikh McKinney (Chong Son)
World import: Anthony Tucker (Chong Son)
ABL Finals
Champions San Miguel Alab Pilipinas
  Runners-up Mono Vampire
Finals MVPBobby Ray Parks Jr.

Teams

Five teams from the 2016–17 ABL season returned for this season. One team, the Kaohsiung Truth, disbanded prior to the season. One team, Mono Vampire, returned after skipping last season, having played in the 2015–16 ABL season. The team plans to concurrently play in the ABL and in the Thailand Basketball League for the upcoming season. Three teams were accepted as new members: Nanhai Long-Lions, Formosa Dreamers and CLS Knights Surabaya. The Long-Lions are the developmental team of the Guangzhou Long-Lions, the Dreamers are an expansion team from Taiwan, and the Knights left the Indonesian Basketball League to play in the ABL.

Prior their first game, the Nanhai Long-Lions renamed themselves as the Nanhai Kung Fu. After partnering with Macau's Grupo Desportivo Chong Son they changed their name once again to Chong Son Kung Fu days before the season started.[2]

Alab Pilipinas renamed their team as the Tanduay Alab Pilipinas after securing a sponsorship deal with Asia Brewery, prior the season started.[3]

CLS Knights Surabaya renamed their team as "CLS Knights Indonesia" prior the season started.

Tanduay Alab Pilipinas was renamed as "San Miguel Alab Pilipinas" by 1 February 2018, when the primary sponsor was changed from Tanduay to San Miguel Beer Pale Pilsen.[4]

Venues and locations
Locations of ABL teams.
Team City / Region Arena Capacity
Chong Son Kung Fu Nanhai District, Foshan Nanhai Gymnasium 4,000
CLS Knights Indonesia Surabaya GOR Kertajaya Surabaya 3,000
Formosa Dreamers Changhua Changhua Stadium 8,000
Hong Kong Eastern Wan Chai, Hong Kong Southorn Stadium 2,000
Mono Vampire Bangkok Metropolitan Region Stadium 29, Nonthaburi 5,000
Saigon Heat Ho Chi Minh City Canadian International School Vietnam Arena 2,500
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas* Metro Manila Mall of Asia Arena, Pasay 25,000
Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan 5,500
Caloocan Sports Complex, Caloocan 3,000
Baliuag, Bulacan Baliwag Star Arena
Santa Rosa City of Santa Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex 5,700
Antipolo Ynares Center 7,400
Davao City University of Southeastern Philippines Gymnasium 7,000
Singapore Slingers Singapore OCBC Arena, Kallang 3,000
Westports Malaysia Dragons Kuala Lumpur MABA Stadium 2,500

Personnel
TeamHead coach
Chong Son Kung Fu Charles Dubé-Brais
CLS Knights Indonesia Koko Heru Setyo Nugroho
Formosa Dreamers Hsu Hao Cheng
Hong Kong Eastern Edu Torres
Mono Vampire Douglas Clark Marty
Saigon Heat Kyle Julius
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas Jimmy Alapag
Singapore Slingers Neo Beng Siang
Westports Malaysia Dragons Chris Thomas

Imports

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once. In the left are the World Imports, and in the right are the ASEAN/Heritage Imports. Flags indicate the citizenship/s the player holds.

Each team is allowed to sign two types of imports at most on its roster.

TeamWorld import(s)ASEAN/Heritage import(s)Former import(s)
Chong Son Kung Fu Justin Howard
Anthony Tucker		 Mikh McKinney
Caelan Tiongson		 Jonathan Bermillo
CLS Knights Indonesia Shane Edwards
Brian Williams		 Freddie Lish Goldstein
Keith Jensen		 Evan Brock
Duke Crews
Decorey Jones
Rudy Lingganay
Formosa Dreamers Ronnie Aguilar
Cameron Forte		 Charles Barratt
Kenneth Chien		 Jaleel Cousins
James Forrester
Reggie Okosa
Lenny Daniel
Erron Maxey
Hong Kong Eastern Marcus Elliott
Ryan Moss		 Tyler Lamb
Christian Standhardinger
Mono Vampire Samuel Deguara
Mike Singletary		 Jason Brickman
Paul Zamar		 Reggie Johnson
Patrick Sanders
Saigon Heat Maxie Esho
Akeem Scott		 Moses Morgan
Michael Williams		 Travele Jones
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas Renaldo Balkman
Justin Brownlee		 Lawrence Domingo Ivan Johnson
Reggie Okosa
Singapore Slingers Xavier Alexander
Christien Charles		 A. J. Mandani Ryan Wright
Westports Malaysia Dragons Bryan Davis
Chris Eversley		 Jawhar Purdy
Joshua Munzon		 Reil Cervantes
Solomon Jones
Curtis Washington
Patrick Cabahug
Marcus Marshall
AJ West

Regular season

Each team will play 20 games throughout the season, 10 at home and 10 away. Each team will play 8 other teams twice, home and away, for a total of 16 games, plus 4 more games against two teams, also home and away, taking the total to 20 games. This is how the teams were grouped on which teams will play each other four times:

  • Chong Son, Eastern, Formosa
  • CLS, Alab, Singapore
  • Malaysia, Mono, Saigon

Standings
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD PCT GB Qualification
1 Chong Son Kung Fu 20 15 5 1864 1638 +226 .750 — Semi-finals
2 Hong Kong Eastern 20 14 6 1949 1856 +93 .700[lower-alpha 1] 1
3 San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 20 14 6 1844 1681 +163 .700[lower-alpha 1] 1 Quarter-finals
4 Mono Vampire 20 14 6 2024 1957 +67 .700[lower-alpha 1] 1
5 Singapore Slingers 20 12 8 1651 1598 +53 .600 3
6 Saigon Heat 20 10 10 1963 1956 +7 .500 5
7 CLS Knights Indonesia 20 5 15 1614 1733 −119 .250[lower-alpha 2] 10
8 Westports Malaysia Dragons 20 5 15 1802 1974 −172 .250[lower-alpha 2] 10
9 Formosa Dreamers 20 1 19 1593 1901 −308 .050 14
Source: ASEANBasketballLeague.com
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head record: Hong Kong Eastern 3–1; San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 2–2; Mono Vampire 1–3
  2. Head-to-head record: CLS Knights Indonesia 2–0; Westports Malaysia Dragons 0–2

First and second rounds
Home \ Away ALP CKF CLS FMD HKE MNV SGH SGS WMD
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas — 94–91* 84–67 117–93 89–92 86–84 126–100 83–97 90–79
Chong Son Kung Fu 92–79 — 100–75 86–59 94–85 113–95 94–79 83–59 96–79
CLS Knights Indonesia 87–92 83–86 — 94–73 78–87 80–86 88–93 71–79 87–68
Formosa Dreamers 61–78 77–88 74–105 — 97–120 84–104 85–99 69–87 92–95*
Hong Kong Eastern 99–96 88–76 104–81 99–79 — 111–119 115–121* 82–79 104–92
Mono Vampire 87–114 105–92 98–85 93–85 105–112 — 116–104* 90–78 112–116**
Saigon Heat 87–95 96–93 114–86 75–80 118–115* 110–94 — 77–97 102–88
Singapore Slingers 80–89* 89–86 76–73 72–65 77–81 88–91 94–76 — 90–89**
Westports Malaysia Dragons 90–89 81–96 82–92 84–74 96–110 90–107 91–87 85–94 —
Source: ASEANBasketballLeague.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Matches with lighter background shading were decided after overtime.

Third and fourth rounds
Home \ Away ALP CKF CLS FMD HKE MNV SGH SGS WMD
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas — 101–63 80–90
Chong Son Kung Fu — 108–79 87–76
CLS Knights Indonesia 73–80 — 81–92
Formosa Dreamers 83–105 — 91–93
Hong Kong Eastern 77–88 99–93 —
Mono Vampire — 118–113 115–111
Saigon Heat 83–97 — 115–103
Singapore Slingers 69–82 64–65 —
Westports Malaysia Dragons 102–108 81–114 —
Source: ASEANBasketballLeague.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Playoffs
Main article: 2018 ABL Playoffs
 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
 
          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
Chong Son Kung Fu		 0
 
 
 
4
Mono Vampire		 2
 
4
Mono Vampire 		2
 
 
 
5
Singapore Slingers		 0
 
4
Mono Vampire		 2
 
 
3
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 		3
 
 
 
 
 
2
Hong Kong Eastern		 0
 
 
 
3
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 		2
 
3
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 		2
 
 
6
Saigon Heat		 0
 

Quarter-finals

The quarterfinals is a best-of-three series, with the higher seeded team hosting Game 1, and 3, if necessary.

Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 2–0 Saigon Heat 110–100 96–85 —
Mono Vampire 2–0 Singapore Slingers 85–82 85–82 —

Semi-finals

The semifinals is a best-of-three series, with the higher seeded team hosting Game 1, and 3, if necessary.

Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg
Chong Son Kung Fu 0–2 Mono Vampire 94–103 80–83 —
Hong Kong Eastern 0–2 San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 94–98 72–79 —

Finals
Main article: 2018 ABL Finals

The finals is a best-of-five series, with the higher seeded team hosting Game 1, 2, and 5, if necessary.

Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg4th leg5th leg
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas 3–2 Mono Vampire 143–130 (OT) 100–103 99–9383–88102–92

Awards

Finals awards
2017–18 ABL Champions
San Miguel Alab Pilipinas
(1st title)
Finals MVP
Bobby Ray Parks Jr.

End-of-season awards

The winners were announced before Game 2 of the 2018 ABL Finals at the City of Santa Rosa Multi-Purpose Complex in Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines.[5]

Local players
Week Player Club
17–19 November Kaleb Ramot Gemilang CLS Knights Indonesia
20–26 November Ivan Yeo Westports Malaysia Dragons
27 November–3 December Lee Ki Hong Kong Eastern
4–10 December Yang Tian You Formosa Dreamers
11–17 December Lee Ki Hong Kong Eastern
18–24 December Teerawat Chantachon Mono Vampire
2–8 January Chitchai Ananti Mono Vampire
9–15 January Ng Han Bin Singapore Slingers
16–22 January Delvin Goh Singapore Slingers
23–29 January Ebrahim Enguio CLS Knights Indonesia
30 January–5 February Bobby Ray Parks, Jr. San Miguel Alab Pilipinas
6–12 February Luo Yongxuan Chong Son Kung Fu
13–19 February Bobby Ray Parks, Jr. San Miguel Alab Pilipinas
20–26 February Wong Yi Hou Westports Malaysia Dragons
27 February–4 March Kuek Tian Yuan Westports Malaysia Dragons
5–12 March Luo Yongxuan Chong Son Kung Fu
13–19 March Song Shuai Chong Son Kung Fu
20–28 March Bobby Ray Parks, Jr. San Miguel Alab Pilipinas

Heritage imports
Week Player Club
17–19 November Christian Standhardinger Hong Kong Eastern
20–26 November Caelan Tiongson Chong Son Kung Fu
27 November–3 December Paul Zamar Mono Vampire
4–10 December Christian Standhardinger Hong Kong Eastern
11–17 December Tyler Lamb Hong Kong Eastern
18–24 December Tyler Lamb Hong Kong Eastern
2–8 January Moses Morgan Saigon Heat
9–15 January Michael Williams Saigon Heat
16–22 January Jason Brickman Mono Vampire
23–29 January Mikh McKinney Chong Son Kung Fu
30 January–5 February Mikh McKinney Chong Son Kung Fu
6–12 February Mikh McKinney Chong Son Kung Fu
13–19 February Christian Standhardinger Hong Kong Eastern
20–26 February A. J. Mandani Singapore Slingers
27 February–4 March Joshua Munzon Westports Malaysia Dragons
5–12 March Mikh McKinney Chong Son Kung Fu
13–19 March Freddie Lish Goldstein CLS Knights Indonesia
20–28 March Christian Standhardinger Hong Kong Eastern

World imports
Week Player Club
17–19 November Marcus Elliott Hong Kong Eastern
20–26 November Marcus Marshall Westports Malaysia Dragons
27 November–3 December Xavier Alexander Singapore Slingers
4–10 December Lenny Daniel Formosa Dreamers
11–17 December Xavier Alexander Singapore Slingers
18–24 December Patrick Sanders Mono Vampire
2–8 January Justin Brownlee Tanduay Alab Pilipinas
9–15 January Maxie Esho Saigon Heat
16–22 January Samuel Deguara Mono Vampire
23–29 January Marcus Elliott Hong Kong Eastern
30 January–5 February Renaldo Balkman San Miguel Alab Pilipinas
6–12 February Renaldo Balkman San Miguel Alab Pilipinas
13–19 February Mike Singletary Mono Vampire
20–26 February Chris Charles Singapore Slingers
27 February–4 March Mike Singletary Mono Vampire
5–12 March Justin Howard Chong Son Kung Fu
13–19 March Samuel Deguara Mono Vampire
20–28 March Justin Brownlee San Miguel Alab Pilipinas

Statistical leaders

Individual season leaders
CategoryPlayerClubAverage
Points Erron Maxey Formosa Dreamers34.00
Rebounds Christien Charles Singapore Slingers16.27
Assists Jason Brickman Mono Vampire10.43
Steals Travele Jones Saigon Heat3.33
Blocks Christien Charles Singapore Slingers2.93
Field-goal percentage Shi Jun Chong Son Kung Fu67%
Free-throw percentageMultiple playersMultiple teams100%
Three-point field-goal percentage Delvin Goh
Samuel Deguara
Nguyen Huynh Hai		 Singapore Slingers
Mono Vampire
Saigon Heat		100%
Minutes Xavier Alexander Singapore Slingers39.60
Fouls Bryan Davis Westports Malaysia Dragons4.14

References
  1. ABL 2017–18 Season Schedule
  2. "Kung Fu Partners with Macau Sports Club". ASEAN Basketball League. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  3. Sykioco, Leif (17 October 2017). "Alab eyes better finish in bigger ABL". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  4. Riego, Norman Lee Benjamin (1 February 2018). "Former champion returns to ABL as Alab Pilipinas backer". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  5. "Tucker, McKinney, Parks, headline ABL awardees | ABL". aseanbasketballleague.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
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