RI 60-30 Presbyterian High School

As this was the last match before our upcoming EOYS, we wanted to play well and give it our all. We were also not playing against their main B division team, but coach told us to still play our hardest.

Things didn't go as planned.

Right from the start, we struggled a little, especially with one of our forwards missing consecutive rebounds and making mistakes. We weren't hitting our shots and one of our players was 0 for 4 beyond the arc, with only a few baskets by our posts that salvaged the situation. The second quarter we rotated a bit more and changed to a 1-11 and came up with more ball pressure, trying to force turnovers from their inexperienced players. Sadly, one of our wings was too pre-occupied guarding his own man and did not take the ball when it rolled past him. Also, one of our post players kept losing his man and did not apply pressure denying his man, which could say wasted the efforts of our perimeter players. There were numerous times when we were running the break we did not finish properly and we did not take full advantage of our chances at the charity stripe. We ended 7-20.

Second half we came out with a 3-22 and that stretched the scoreline a lot. We came up with a lot of good traps and steals that led to easy fast break points and we were disruptive. However, there were times where we couldn't trap properly and they broke through our traps and had easily layups on the other end. Also, most of us were not playing with the right mindset and coach had to keep most of the players on the court and with no ensuing substitutions, the players were worn out and it became more evident as the game progressed to the end, where we ended 30-60.

Today's game is the last game till our examinations are over. Probably because of term 4 DMP modules and exams most of us were distracted and could not focus consistently throughout the game. We also have to work on our fast break 2-1 opportunities which we did after the game. Also, we shouldn't get overconfident that we played well today because today's team was not PHS b division team, and that team would be much tougher. Take a good break, maintain your fitness, and hit the books and notes till October 18th.

MVPs:
RI

Chun cheong

Bryan

PHS:

Brendi

RI 87 Greenview 48

In this game, we missed too many layups on the break and did not take care of the ball well. Also, our defensive rebounding has to improve as we let them have quite a few offensive rebounds. However, on a more positive note, we managed to get a lot of offensive rebounds ourselves. From this, we scored many second chance points. Our zone press worked quite well but there is still room for improvement. We let them have a couple of open layups during our press.

Every player must learn to run the fast break. We cannot just stand and watch one of our teammates go on a one on three fastbreak by himself. The trailers must be present at all times during a fast break. Finally, we cannot afford to miss that many layups during a match. The missed layups cost us at least 20 points in the game. Fortunately the game wasn't a close one, but this will definitely affect us when we play against better teams.

MVPs
Greenview: John Ng, Mark Ng

Ri: Alex Loh, Bryan Chng

RI 52 CHS 45

We started the game off with a three courtesy of Mark. WE played a zone defense but we let them get quite a few offensive rebounds. On offense, we wanted to get the ball to the high post in order to break down their zone defense.
Our finishing was quite poor as we missed numerous chances on the break.
As the game wore on, players started to get breathless and we slowed down the pace. Cat high managed to get a few threes and they came within 4 at one point.
We have to improve on our game on monday. We let our opponents get too many rebounds and we have to learn to box out well. Our halfcourt offense has to be sharper and we have to move the ball around the court quicker.

CHS MVP: Vincent, Yang Ming

RI MVP: Bao Kun, Mark

ACSIS U16: RI 70-23 Overseas Family School

Coming in from a decent performance on Monday, we were determined to do better and further improve on our attack and work on our defense. Despite the scoreline today, it is no reflection of our improvements and our execution.

We exploded right from the start, with our centers just dominating the inside well and defensively, our point guard did a very good defensive job of pressurizing the OFS perimeter players, who were weak in ball handling, coming up with a bunch of beautiful steals that led to easy baskets on the other end, with our wings pushing the pace. However, execution wise we were not perfect, we only had our chances because of the lack of post defenders on our centers.

For the next three quarters, we ran our break well and we went into a 3-22. Despite forcing many turnovers, we realised that it was not because of good defense, but because that our opponents was a raw team and had poor ball handling skills, not because of our excellent defense and whatsoever. There were even times, where we got into a perfect trap position but the other defenders just ball-watched and did not move, wasting the efforts of the team. On offense, we slowed down our pace and though we still manage to get baskets here and there, we were not working well as a unit, only doing the very basics of passing without running any of our set plays. We had fine outside shots from Bao Kun and two threes from Yao Zhong that widened the lead and our posts had our momentum going on. We ended the game 23-70.

Today's game scoreline really does not show our performance. Though we had a few things going here left and right, we are still not working together AS A TEAM, and today we relied a lot on individual skills against weaker defenders to create the blowout scoreline. That is unacceptable. Playing against opponents without their star shooter and them weak in fundamentals, we have to fine tune and perfect our game, and we can only do that if all of us aim high for perfection, only then will our team efforts fall into place. Have a good rest, and brace yourselves for a match with our friends at the other side of Bishan tomorrow.

MVPs:

(RI)

Yves

Bao Kun

(OFS)

Nick

ISIBL U16 RI 44-31 United World College

Today starts of the day of our U16 ISIBL tournament!

After coming in and warming up, we readied for a physical game and coach went through our plays before emphasizing the importance of defense again, and putting in the sec 2s to start the tournament.

Our offense sparked off right from the very start, where Mark knocked down a three in our very first play. We played aggressively from defense and gave UWC a hard time. On the offensive end, we were flowing from beyond the arc. With the combined efforts of Mark, Chun Cheong and Bao Kun, we had 5 threes already in the very first quarter! We pulled ahead quickly and furiously and ended 8-18, with Bao Kun sealing his free throw after a nasty foul. However, our full-court trap failed as we let one of their players have an attempt to go for the layup with 3 seconds left on the clock.

In the second and third quarter , we rotated more of the team into play. However, not only did we let them grab the rebounds over our heads, there were some long rebounds that we could have taken and we allowed the UWC players to hustle and throw it back into the court to continue running their plays. On defense however, Yao Zhong and Bao Kun did us proud by constantly harassing the UWC point guards, coming up with about 3 steals and always deflecting the ball and upsetting the UWC play. Unfortunately, we slowed down on the offensive end and rushed more and more into our attack, spamming incessantly and unnecessarily.

The last quarter, we calmed down and executed more and more. There were times where we could have done better but it was still okay.

Today for the first game of the tournament, most of us sec 3s were out of competitive basketball for too long and we did not take enough shots and/or set ourselves up properly. As seniors of the team we have to contribute more on that. On defense, today we learnt that 2 seconds of lethargy can ruin a whole near 24 seconds worth of defensive efforts, so BOX OUT, hustle for those loose balls, and we can move on to offense because rebounds win championships.

(RI):

Bao Kun

Yao Zhong

(UWC):

no. 18