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Flame tighten grip on first with win

January 16, 2006 - NBA G League (G League)
Florida Flame News Release


FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., January 16 - The Florida Flame tightened its grip on first place in the NBA Development League standings by posting a 107-94 victory over the Arkansas RimRockers in game six of the MLK Showcase at the Crown Coliseum on Monday.

Florida improved to 13-7 with its fourth straight win and stretched their lead to three games over Albuquerque and Austin, who are tied for second place. Arkansas dipped to 10-9 with its third consecutive loss and seventh in the last 10 games.

NBA-assigned players Earl Barron (Miami) and Dwayne Jones (Minnesota) both recorded double-doubles for Florida. Barron scored 22 and grabbed 11 rebounds, while Jones had 17 points and 20 boards. Andre Barrett also scored 22 for Florida, followed by Theron Smith with 19 and Austin Nichols with 10.

"It feels good to come in here and get a couple of wins after going through a tough stretch where we lost four in a row," Florida coach Jeff Malone. "We were mentally tough today. Whenever they made a run we didn't let them walk us down."

Florida used a 55-33 rebounding advantage to score 24 second chance points, compared to 12 for the RimRockers.

"We just can't give up so many second-chance points and get out-rebounded like we did and expect to win, but Florida deserves the credit, they were tough," Arkansas coach Joe Harge said. "Our shooters didn't shoot the ball well, but we will take the tape back and look at what we did well and what we didn't do well and try to learn from it."

Atlanta Hawks designee Donta Smith scored 18 points to lead Arkansas. Pape Sow, on assignment from Toronto, chipped in 17. James Lang came off the bench to score 14 and grab seven rebounds, while Brian Jackson finished with 10 points.

Florida returns home to host Tulsa on Wednesday. The RimRockers are host to Fayetteville on Thursday.

To check out the box score from this game, click on the link below.

http://www.nba.com/dleague/games/20060116/ARKFLA/boxscore.html

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