Cameron Jones rose to great hero in the fourth basketball finals.
Cameron Jones (left) decided on a top-down victory for Bear Basket. Jaakko Stenroos / AOP
Kauhajoki’s Karhu Basket won the fourth final of the men’s basketball league and is thus one win away from the third Finnish Championship gold in its club history.
Karhu Basket defeated the reigning champion Salon Vilppa with a score of 85-82 and now leads the final series with 3-1 victories.
Karhu Basket started the match strongly and was at the top with 24 points, but Vilpas managed to close the gap.
Vilpas leveled the match 19 seconds before the end, but only 1.3 seconds before the buzzer Karhu Basket Cameron Jones succeeded in his three-point throw.
Jones threw a handsome 23 points in the match. On the cheat side, they scored the most points Bryan Griffin and Brian Fobbswho each scored 17 points.
– My legs felt good today and I found energy. The previous match felt more like a loss than a win for me because I made stupid decisions and almost messed up the whole thing, Jones said in an interview with Ruud.
Karhu Basket will be able to try to win the championship in Kauhajoki on Wednesday in the fifth match of the series.