Thursday, February 26, 2009

The match was held at 26 February, 4pm at Singapore American School’s indoor courts.

It was the third match of our ISIBL tournament. Despite the scoreline, we could not play any worse than we could. With almost everyone having the mentality that we're gonna lose badly, we started the game nervous and anxious, causing many many turnovers and mistakes on defense, ending the first quarter 14-5. In the second quarter, we played a 3-2 zone and our defense slightly improved. However, we just made too many mistakes on offense like the centres dribbling due to anxiousness, key players creating too many turnovers, ultimately ending with an astonishing scoreline of 28-10.

The second half showed much better play after we switched to a 2-11, and the pressure we gave SAS resulted many turnovers, and we limited their scoring to just 5 in the third quarter while Chun Cheong help narrow the scoreline with a couple fast breakaways. The last quarter we were determined to do our best to catch up, putting pressure on SAS with a full court man-to-man defense. However, due to the large margin in the first half, the game ended in SAS's favour, 41-28.

Lessons from this match:
- Look to pass after getting rebound, be slow to dribble.
- for PGs, swing the ball to the wings soon.
- Every chance at offense is precious, treasure every shot.
-Do not give up just because we think we're weak
- posts must screen fast when running boxes.
- pressure your guy even when he's without the ball.
- open your mouth and TALK, call for the ball.

MVPs:
RI: Chan Chun Cheong
SAS: Brian Paul, Tiga Deleastillo

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