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The 2016 League of Legends World Championship approaches and Flash Wolves and Ahq will be looking to make the League of Legends Masters Series (LMS) proud, gunning for the bracket stages.The history of the LMS is a bit of a rollercoaster compared to the other major regions. Taipei Assassins (TPA) swooped in out of nowhere and took the Season 2 World Championship, but future Taiwanese teams failed to replicate the same result. For two years, the Taiwanese teams played in the Garena Premier League (GPL) with Southeast Asian teams - teams that werent so competitive due to their lack of resources. As a result, their performance took a hit.However, once Taiwan split from the circuit to form the LMS with Hong Kong and Macau, the level of competition was raised and quality of play improved as a result. Nowadays, Taiwan remains the main benefactor from the split and has shown up much stronger at international events, making the bracket stage of the last two Mid-Season Invitationals and last years World Championship.Heres a look at the regions long trek:Season 2Taipei Assassins: 1stTaiwan received its first opportunity to play at the World Championship in 2012 after only North America, Europe and Southeast Asia participated in Season 1. TPA strolled in as the sole representative for Taiwan, having dominated the Garena Premier League with a 27-1 record. Infrastructure hadnt quite been set up in Taiwan or Southeast Asia, so it was easy pickings for a team with a gaming house, analyst and head coach. The team was also known to scrim on the North American servers, as well as practicing with Chinese and South Korean teams. Taiwan itself was still in a development phase, but it was pretty clear TPA were not to be trifled with.Coming into the tournament, the solo laners of TPA were focused on, as Wang Stanley June-Tsan showed a huge champion pool in the GPL and a tendency to innovate, being one of the first to abuse Hextech Revolver stacking on Vladimir. Kurtis Toyz Lau was also well-known for performing well on farm-focused champions like Karthus, Anivia and Orianna, champions that would be key to the mid lane meta.At Worlds, the team certainly shone true for Taiwan, as it outclassed the likes of South Koreas Najin Sword in quarterfinals and were able to defeat tournament favorite -- Moscow 5 -- with Stanleys splitpush Nidalee in the semifinals. In the finals, some people still werent sold on TPA being able to take the title off the elite South Korean team, Azubu Frost. But yet again, the team showed up. TPA took the first competitive World Championship title 3-1 and were on the top, showing that Taiwan was not to be reckoned with.Season 3Gamania Bears: 5th-8thGamania Bears came in a much different team than Taipei Assassins, as it was rather mediocre in domestic play, but qualified out of a lightning-in-a-bottle phase. At the time, Ahq e-Sports Club and Taipei Snipers (TPS) were certainly better teams, but played below their level and choked in the qualifier.Gama Bears had some talent and were a quirky bunch, but it was fortunate to defeat such teams. The roster was built entirely out of rookies and seen as a bit of a non-factor. 15-year-old Huang Maple Yi-Tang and 22-year-old-Chen Winds Peng-Nien led the Gamania Bears in playstyle and if anything was going to happen for the team, it would stem from the duo.Maple was an extremely aggressive mid laner as he broke onto the scene while Winds was more patient and facilitated pretty much anything that happened in the game. AD carry Hsiung NL Wen-An was also a decent carry in his own right, but lacked flexibility. Regardless, the lineup was young and fortunate to be there, especially since Ahq was the better team that failed to qualify from Taiwan.Unfortunately, the team didnt have the chance to prove its mettle against anyone at the World Championship, as it received a bye into the quarterfinals and drew eventual winners SK Telecom T1 as its opponent. It was a quick two games for Taiwan this year as the boys were sent home packing after facing the South Korean juggernaut.Season 4Ahq e-Sports Club: 9th-11th Taipei Assassins: 14th-16thSeason 4 was the first time that Taiwan had the opportunity to send two teams to the World Championship. Prior to this, Southeast Asia and Taiwan had their own respective qualifiers. It was no surprise that the representatives for the World Championship would be Ahq e-Sports Club and Taipei Assassins, as both had fought each other for two straight years now. Ahq kept it together and Taipei Assassins rebuilt from its disastrous 2013 season, where the majority of the championship roster left.This time, they both had a chance to prove their worth and Ahq were even able to perform in front of the local Taiwanese crowd.Taiwan was still flying under the radar after its mishaps in Season 3 and, to be fair, the depth of the teams was not particularly great. However, there were certainly stars worth talking about coming into the tournament. Ahqs Liu Westdoor Shu-Wei and Sa Greentea Shang-Ching finally got their chance to shine on the international stage after last years qualifier breakdown, while Winds was happy to be able to return with TPA, after his short stint with Gamania Bears.Unfortunately, TPA would fall flat. Despite a certain amount of expectation surrounding the lineup, they were only able to steal a win away from SK Gaming. However, Ahq e-Sports Club certainly showed up to the tournament with an aggressive skirmishing style, with Westdoor and Greentea putting on a show with their mechanical prowess.In a group with Samsung White and EDward Gaming, Ahq was prepared not to advance, but a few miracle hooks from Greentea onto EDGs Zhu NaMei Jia-Wen netted a tie for second in the group. TPA bottomed out, but Ahq showed some fight and a glimmer of hope for Taiwans future.Season 5Flash Wolves: 5th-8th Ahq e-Sports Club: 5th-8thBy this time, Taiwan had clearly made some improvements since the establishment of the LMS, but its historically poor performances still left some fans skeptical. Flash Wolves made its first trip to Worlds, but many remembered four out of five players as members of the Gamania Bears. On the other side, Ahq was making its second straight return on the back of a dominating Summer season and had high hopes for going deep in the bracket.Compared to years before, Taiwanese teams had even more talent to boast with Flash Wolves having world class players in Hung Karsa Hau-Hsuan, Maple and Huo SwordArT Shuo-Jie. Ahq werent without its own stars either, with top laner Chen Ziv Yi and AD carry Chou AN Chun-An. Despite this, the Taiwanese teams were still not expected to make it out of the group stage.However, the teams showed hope with Flash Wolves defeating South Korean team KOO Tigers in a massive upset and Ahq making a strong comeback against Fnatic. The second week of Worlds was the bounce-back Taiwan needed as Flash Wolves won yet another game against KOO Tigers and eventually secured first seed in the group.Meanwhile, Ahq narrowly secured second in its group after a tiebreaker with C9. For the first time in World Championship history, not only did a Taiwanese team advance from the group stage to the bracket stage, both teams did. Although Ahq and Flash Wolves fell easily in the quarterfinals, it was a fantastic run. Taiwan came back and showed that its talent and teamplay cant be taken so lightly. There is a fire inside them that can no longer be ignored. Angels Jerseys China . Pedro scored from a pass by Lionel Messi in the 33rd minute and added two more goals in the 47th and 72nd after Valdes saved his second penalty in four days following his stop in Wednesdays 4-0 over Ajax in the Champions League. Los Angeles Angels Shirts .C. Lions has come to an end. Banks told TSN on Jan 2 that he had no interest in playing out the option year of his contract with the Lions in 2014, and he again made that clear in a conversation with Lions GM Wally Buono last week. https://www.cheapangels.com/ . 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New York Knicks president Phil Jackson said Carmelo Anthony?can play the role that Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant played in their teams triangle offenses, but he believes that Anthony sometimes breaks a team rule by holding on to the ball for too long.Carmelo a lot of times wants to hold the ball longer than -- we have a rule: If you hold a pass two seconds, you benefit the defense. So he has a little bit of a tendency to hold it for three, four, five seconds, and then everybody comes to a stop, Jackson said in an interview with CBS Sports Network that aired Tuesday. That is one of the things we work with. But hes adjusted to [the triangle], he knows what he can do and hes willing to see its success.Jacksons comments were prompted by a question about whether Anthony can fit in the triangle offense. Jackson made it clear he believes Anthony can.He can play that role that Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant played, Jackson said. Its a perfect spot for him to be in that isolated position on the weak side, because its an overload offense and theres a weakside man that always has an advantage if the ball is swung.Anthony is playing well through the first 21 games of the season, averaging 23.5 points (43.6 percent shooting), six rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. He scored 35 points to help the Knicks beat the Miami Heat?114-103 on Tuesday night.At 12-9, New York is three games over .500 for the first time since the 2012-13 season.Were kind of a team thats learning who we are, Jackson said in the interview with CBS Sports Network, which aired before the clubs win over the Heat. ... Were just starting to get a groove into who we are.The Knicks play the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night, the first meeting between the two teams since LeBron James took offense to Jackson referring to his business associates as a posse.Jackson said that he regretted talking about another teams player when he made the comments about James in an interview with ESPN.coms Jackie MacMullan.We are not supposed to discuss other teams players in this position that I have here. So I violated one of the tenets of our thing, Jackson saidIn addition to addressing his comments about James, Jackson also shared his thoughts on the resistance to the triangle offense in the modern NBA. Jackson ran the triangle while winning an NBA-record 11 championships with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. The Knicks, though, have struggled with the offense, winning a total of 49 games over the past two seasons. That lack of success has led to public backlash oof the triangle.ddddddddddddI think there are two reasons, Jackson said of the resistance to the offense. One is its always a little bit of a pie-in-your-face type of thing to say that this [the triangle offense] has been the reason for winning. The reason for winning, obviously, is good players. And when good players want to play together and they join in a form or a format to play together, then really good things happen.I think the other thing is, simply, it becomes something to attack, Jackson added. And I think its easy to attack it because it doesnt promote basic basketball thats being played now in the NBA, which is an open floor. Keep the lane open, allow the opportunity of guard play, screen roll play ... big men rolling the lane, and then 3-point shooting. But theres a place for it. It doesnt matter. Its still basketball and theres still a place for it.The Knicks are running aspects of the triangle offense under first-year coach Jeff Hornacek, but scouts say that they are running it much less than the previous two seasons.Hornacek confirmed this, as well, saying late last month that the Knicks were running the triangle nowhere near 50 percent of the time.Some Knicks players expressed their displeasure over the offense earlier in the season, according to sources, because they felt it didnt suit their personnel, particularly point guard Derrick Rose, who has traditionally thrived when using pick-and-rolls.Triangle aside, Jackson also gushed over Kristaps Porzingis, the player who has emerged as a rising star after the Knicks drafted him in 2015.Hes a unicorn. Hes just a standout guy. You dont see people like this playing basketball with the grace, speed and athleticism that he has. And the ability to shoot the ball as well as he can shoot the ball, Jackson said.Porzingis is averaging 20.6 points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game for New York. He was booed by some Knicks fans on the night Jackson and the teams brain trust selected him with the fourth overall pick.Kristaps turned out to be that unique player, that one that has things you just dont see on the basketball court, Jackson said. He does things that are unique almost in every game. His size is defining. Defensively, he changes the game a little bit. Hes still not a great strength player, post player. Offensively, he shoots 2-pointers, he can run the court; theres a lot of things hes still learning what he can do. ' ' '