South Zone 1st Round: RI vs Peicai Secondary

Final Score:
RI 112-15 Peicai Secondary

RI swept aside Peicai by a margin of 97 points in the 2nd match of the South Zone tournament. Although we didnt reach our goal of keeping the opposition under 10 points for the whole game, we are still rather pleased with the result.

The first quarter ended with a scoreline of 28-7 in our favour, after their main post player made a few turnaround shots.

We upped the tempo in the second quarter, and limited them to just 4 points to lead 56-11.

The 3rd quarter showed many signs of tiredness as the scoreline came to 72-15.

The last quarter was by far the most memorable as we whitewashed them 40-0 with our half court and full court man to man defence.

As Coach puts it, he wants to see the fight and fire in us through our communication, defense intensity, and rebounding, and we must remain confident but not cocky after winning this match.

First Match of South Zone

Yesterday was the highly anticipated first match of the south zone tournament, against ACS I.

Final Score: RI 108-8 ACS I

RI played with great heart and blew away the opponents by a margin of 100 points.

Our next match is against Peicai on friday at 2pm at CCAB.

T Net Final

Sorry for the late post.

Final Score: RI 36-40 Jurong

RI lost the final to Jurong on the 16th of June in a closely contested match.
RI dominated the boards in the first half, to lead by a score of 20-18.
Evidently distracted by the half-time performances, we lost our concentration and played out a 3rd quarter in which they outscored us 14-7.
We weren't able to salvage the situation in time and we lost the match 40-36.
All in all, we could see their shooting and intensity of defense was better than ours.

We've gotta fight to make sure we get back on par with them!

RI-Unity

Final Score: RI 43-28 Unity

This game was played on 12/6/07 and was the final match of the 2nd round of the T-Net tournament, and was crucial in every sense of the word. If we had won, we would be through to the finals, having won all our 2nd round matches. If we had lost, we would have made it to the 3rd-4th placings. We WON and we're IN THE FINALS!

So the game was like this:

In the first quarter, we managed to stop their star tall player No. 3 and played great zone defense with communication rated 7/10 by coach (10/10 he says includes trash talking like "shoot" and "drive" and daring the opponent to do something) and the scoreline said it all-- 14-4 after the first quarter to us.

In the next few quarters, RI and Unity exchanged blows when they played man-to-man full court. Without their main star player who had apparently gone to genting, Unity appeared out of offensive threats other than their No. 3 who controlled the ball extremely well.

We won in the end by 15 points, a respectable margin by all sorts.

RI vs Unity

Raffles-Christchurch Secondary

Final Score: RI 59-31 Christchurch Secondary

This morning, we played the 2nd match of the 2nd round of the T-Net tournament.
We were up against Christchurch Secondary and their star Malaysian no. 12.

We started off with a 3-2 zone defense and clamped down on their star player's offense. We gave up some open looks, and the score settled at 12-10 to RI after a hard-fought first quarter.

In the second quarter, we played pressure defense and increased our lead to 25-16.

In the third quarter, their players seemed to have tired out and we put on the pressure with a 3 pt line man-to-man defense. Although the intensity wasn't as great as expected, we romped to a 40-22 lead by the end of the third quarter.

We played out the last quarter with average intensity and won the match 59-21.

Bad points:
1) Communication--coach gave us a 5/10 for this aspect of the game and there is much room for improvement
2) Rebounding--when to box out and when to rush in and get the ball (perimeter players must rush in and help too)
3) Game Intensity at the start--we dominated the first quarter with a great deal of the possesion yet the scoreline was only 12-10--we needed to finish our open baskets

Good points (from Coach):
1) First time we were able to maintain an average intensity throughout the game (consistent)
2) The WHOLE TEAM is back together

What Coach wants:
1) Talking to be 10/10 so that we frighten off the opponenents so much that they turn the ball over
2) Wants us to kill off all opponents such that RI would have a reputation which makes opponents tremble in their pants before they even get on court
3) More intensity

"Offense entertains, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships!"

RI (A)-Macpherson Secondary

This game marked the start of the 2nd round, and it ended with a final score of 57-26.

Coach had found out that their biggest threats were in their lanky and mobile posts, and ordered us to set up a 3-2 zone. This was a great tactic as we raced to a 26-5 lead in the first quarter. As we started our 3 point line man-to-man defense, it still looked bright as we romped to a 43-11 lead at the half. From there, we started to get cocky and felt that we had won the game already. Macpherson Sec outscored us 15-14 in a dispirited second half to end the game 57-26.

Lessons to remember:
1) Mindset--although we came ready to play (all the mental preparation and all) we didnt come ready to FIGHT and PUNISH the opposition for ALL 4 QUARTERS!
2) Adapting to defenses--this was no excuse as we had played the man to man since the beggining of the year
3) Fitness--we all were not very match fit and were panting after the first half

That's all so far we've got lots of training to do

RI (A)-Springfield Secondary

This was the last match of the 1st round of the T-Net tournament and was a "do-or-die" game as we had already lost to Cat High.

This game was played with much greater intensity and communication compared to the previous game against a weaker opposition, and the final score was 57-10. Before the game, we did our mental preparation (all the free throws and rebounding stuff) and we set a goal to limit them to less than 3 points a quarter, which we eventually achieved. All went well except for a few leaks here and there and the lack of energy in the last quarter. We ought to have punished them by an even greater scoreline but this match was the one which brightened us up as it was our first spirited performance of the tournament.

RI (A)-Woodlands Ring Secondary

This was the 3rd match of the first round of the T-net tournament.
The game was played with terribly low intensity, with the final score being 39-15.
We had beaten the same team by a scoreline of 70 points way way back this year, and it seems that we had gone into the match too cockily.
Our posts were outrebounded by their big centre who scored about 10 of their 15 points.

Main Lessons:
1) COMMUNICATION--we still did not talk AT ALL
2) Boxing Out--don't let their centre get all the rebounds
3) Contest the shots
4) HELP--when helping ask someone to cover the man you left to help your other teamate

T-Net 2nd Match

On 30th May, RI C Div team played it's 2nd match of the T-Net tournament
Final Score:
RI (A) 24-55 Catholic High
RI (B) 22-36 Pierce Secondary

For team A, this match was extremely disappointing for us, as we felt that we were able to challenge last years champions and potentially beat them in our first meeting of the year.
The match started off brightly with RI leading 5-0 in the opening minutes, but by the end of the first quarter, we were down by 7 points.
With their 3 tallies, Cat High out-rebounded, out-scored and when on a 10-0 run in the middle of the second quarter.
We didn't play particularly well in the 2nd half and we lost the game by 30 points.

Most important lesson:
TALK--we needed to communicate (whether its on defense, offense, helping or whatsoever)

For team B, quoting from Ryan Chin on the C Div Blog:
"hi guys, just an update about team b's match against peirce sec on 29th may. lost by 14 points 36-22. points were mainly given up coz of steals and fastbreaks by our opponents. they used the full-court trap for most of the game, which we didnt know really well how to break it and so we gave up many points because of mis-passes under pressure, and interceptions. we also lost out in rebounds, we are not boxing-out properly, and not going for the rebounds, ending up with our opponents getting the offensive rebound and putting it back into the basket. Well, we have learnt our lesson. we'll do better for the next match. =)"

First match for both team A & B

Final Score:
RI (A) 52-15 Hougang
RI (B) 8-76 Jurong

Quoting from Ryan Tan on the C Div blog:

"For team A, like i said during debrief just now, lacking defensive intensity and yeah i missed 10 open baskets, weixuan missed 4. But we addressed the problems after the game just now and i think it's good that we can always reflect over the game and have a nice debrief as a team. At the end of the day, it's quite evident that the margin of winning matters to each and every one of us so we can never take opponents lightly. We won today, convincingly, but we were way too overconfident. A win is a win, but still, yeah.

For team B, i think all of you gave up from the very beginning, all of you resigned to fate that a loss was definite. But that isn't the right spirit. No matter who the opponents are, this mentality makes it all the better for the opposing team, half the battle is already lost. But yes the skill difference, physical superiority was just far too hard to handle. But still, great job not dropping your heads. Especially ERIC LIP WEI DE. MAN OF THE MATCH. BEAUUUTIFUL TURNAROUND JUMPER FOUL IN. But the free throw, ahh i dont have to spell it out. HA. Zijian did a great job on their centre as well, so yes. Weihan too, never gave up, always sprinted back on defense, so i really must say the fighting spirit as the game progressed was impressive. Don't be too disappointed=)"

T-Net Tournament

Coach divided us into two teams, with team A consisting of:
Ryan Tan
Ravins Cheung
Chua Weixuan
Daniel Chander
Brandon Yap
Justin Chua
Jordaan Goh
Lawrence Gregory
Ding Jian Han
Brendan Sim

and team B consisting of:
Ryan Chin
Yuet Cheong
Benjamin Ng
Zi Jian
Eric Lip
Greg
Wei Han
Mohammad
Marcus
Yi Xuan
Nicholas

RI-Jurong

sorry for the late post

RI's C division team played a friendly against Jurong Secondary on 17th May at Spans.
The first half was played with full-blown intensity, with the opposing team's centre grabbing many rebounds. It ended 20-24 in favour of Jurong. The second half was when both coaches decided to rotate the bench and allow more players to play, and the match ended with Jurong winning 48-47.

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