Raffles Institution vs ACS (Barker Road) (48-51)
Points by Quarter
1st 2nd 3rd 4th
RI-------11------13-----12-----12
ACS----12-------17----12------10
This game started off with us trading baskets at an equal pace while maintaining our defense as we started getting into our offense early, hitting shots to open the game. We actually even had a 11-8 lead at the 2 minute mark of the 1st quarter, but Barker started generating offense by themselves by passing it to their point guard #11, to make plays or score points. This allowed them to eventually have the slight advantage over us, 12-11.
The 2nd and 3rd quarter were more of the same as we matched them pretty much point for point throughout this period of time. In the 3rd quarter, we were down by as much as 11 points at one point in time, due to us turning the ball over and allowing them to get easy fastbreaks on the other hand, which they were really good at. But we fought back to close the gap back to 5 by the end of the third, which was the lead they had originally during halftime.
Once we entered the 4th quarter, we continued to fight back and both sides traded many baskets. The Barker lead constantly fluctuated from 3 to 7 as it was a back and forth game. Eventually, it came down to a 3 pt game with more than a minute left on the clock. After running some time off the clock, #11 stepped back and calmly nailed a jumper to put them up by 5 once again. However, we did not falter and came back immediately the next possession with a layup on the other side to cut it back to 3 once again. There was 40 seconds left on the game clock and they drew a foul from us, resetting the shot clock back to 14. This burned more time for them and they eventually ran the clock down to 6 seconds before taking a long 3 that was an airball. Although they missed, we could not get the ball up the court in time to get a decent shot off, and ultimately lost by a margin of 3 pts.
Improvements
We have to handle the ball better and drive the defender when we are getting pressured as they often are off balance when they are pressuring us. If we had cut down on our turnovers, they would have had less fast break opportunities and we may have taken the game. We also got to dash back on defense to prevent fast break points.
Strengths
This was a game where we found our identity back after losing it for a period of time where we were not playing good basketball at all, making silly errors. In this game, we had an underdog status and did what we do best, Fight Back. We have not had such intensity ever since the season started and we finally got back our groove from our friendly games. Though this game resulted in a loss, we pulled the gap very close and this game served as a confidence booster to get us back into the style of playing that we wanted to be at.
Our next game will be on Monday against Queenstown Secondary. We will see if we can maintain the momentum and drive that we had today and carry it over to the rest of the games that we will play for the rest of the season.
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