Raffles Institution vs Guanyang Secondary School (23-40)
Points by Quarter
1st ------- 2nd ------- 3rd ------- 4th
RI: 0 5 13 5
GSS: 3 16 8 13
The game started off with neither teams being able to attack well. Both teams did not manage to get their engine running as the point remained 0-0. Guanyang then grasped their chance well, scoring a three pointer after a minor mistake in our defence. The first quarter then ended with only a score line of 3-0.
Second quarter was where the onslaught began. Guanyang’s full court pressure was working out extremely well and many bad passes were made by our team. With each inbound we tried to make, Guanyang went up hard against us, forcing us to make many weak passes. The opponent then made lots of easy lay ups from these turnovers. We were managed to score a mere 5 points in the second quarter, compared to Guanyang’s 16 points. The problem continued on in the third quarter. But however, towards the end of the third quarter, energy started getting back to us as we picked up momentum, getting a 6-0 scoring streak, dragging the point difference to 9 points.
Unfortunately, the problem that we encountered previously came back haunting us in the fourth quarter. Most of the time, we were unable to bring the ball up to half court and when we did, all it took was an errant pass to get the ball on Guanyang’s possession. From these mistakes, Guanyang went on a 9-0 run, completely killing off our momentum from the previous quarter. Eventually, Guanyang emerged victors with a final score of 40-23.
Today’s game was very poorly played, this resulted us as 2nd in our group. Guanyang was able to shut down our attempt to advance the ball with their full court pressure. This made our players panicked and not dare to offend, thus resulting in many weak passes and turnovers. Our offence was also extremely weak, with no one daring to go for the basket. Also we have lost this match; we would still be advancing into Round 2 as 2nd in the group. Here’s our match ups for Round 2:
Fairfield Methodist School
The challenging opponents we would be facing would be Fairfield and Catholic High. We understand that this would be hard for us, but we would not give up and cotinue to fight on. We already have nothing to lose and would fight hard for a spot for Top 4.
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