Thursday, July 31, 2008

U-14 Nationals RI 74-26 Bukit Panjang Government High

It wasn't as easy as it looked. It was definitely to be a hard match, we knew right from the start that Nationals definitely wasn't going to be easy. Memories from our horrific lost last year kept appearing in our minds, and we wanted to ensure that such problems would not return to haunt us again. In order to keep our minds 100% focused on the match, we even asked for a postponement of the class tests on that day.

Yet for some reason, almost half of us came to the match afraid. And it showed. The match was played out in a tense manner, with a sincere lack of communication between players. Even for the senior players, we made that very same mistake, which caused both our offense and defense to break. For our full-court pressing, the communication was almost non-existent, allowing the Bukit Panjang point guard to break the press entirely by himself.

On the offensive end though, we never actually ran a good 1-4 play. There were just too many little mistakes that were going on, whereby there was always someone who did something wrong, eventually rendering the entire play useless. Definitely, we would have to work upon this in order to make sure that we improve ourselves for the remaining of our Nationals, lifting our level and never making the same mistakes again.

We'll be needing communication to pull us through no matter what is to happen in this season.

Dream.Team.Fight.Win.
Nationals.
Coach
This is the Nationals. On the court there is only 1 acceptable mode, and it's "War-mode". To all the players, you cannot step ont othe court if you are not in the right frame of mind.
Today's game was not hard at all. We only needed to open our mouths and decide to talk. But only some did. So we struggled the entire game. The reason we stretched it to a 48 point margin was simple, we just used superior physical ability to overwhelm them.
On the bright side, Jordaan shot very well, and it was good to see Lawrence play 20 min in his all-out style. Bryan did well too and showed much better fitness.

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