i can't get my ass down to slp. so decided to blog. hmmmm. nth much ytd bah. repaired my mp3. nv went for pool with them. but met up with jm and justin for bball.

well well well. one day after i felt so proud of our accomplishments. the tide turned. the grandmaster, master and disciple team didn't do well ytd.

played 4 games ytd. won the first one. and went on a three game slide after that. game 3 was the most embarrassing. well. kinda pissed with myself on my performance. i'm wondering why i'm kinda low on my scoring output these 2 days? i can't seem to hit my fade away jumpers and turnaround jumpers. cold period maybe? haix. when our team need some boost. i can't provide it. and i can't even manage the floor well. i can't run the play and can't dish out nice assists for my teammates. today, we didn't lost on skills. we lost on strategy and intensity.

game 1. 3 on 4. 4 strangers. erm. we won 11-9 i think. almost was unable to hold on to our 8-4 lead. ok. we were new to the other team. didn't quite know their playing style. so i hogged the ball for some moment. missed 3 shots. it kinda made them think that i will be taking the scoring load. i kept passing the ball to jm and justin for some easy shots. but they sort of figure out my tactic and decided to marked them more liao. so i drive the lane and confuse them a little bit. took advantage of their confusion to push to a 8-4 lead. i think they figure out that i'm the only one that can control the ball more freely and one of them decided to mark me full time. making the job of setting plays up and driving the lane tougher for me. to make it even tougher, they rotated the person marking me. meaning two of them will take turn in guarding me. smart play. trying to tired me out. they are good, stole my ball several times. the game was even out at 8-8.

decided to get a little bit more aggressive and scare them a little. went to the basket. scored. 9-8. went to justin and jm on various occassions. but didn't finished the play. my fault bah. nv pass them the ball quite nicely. plus justin nv run around, so the defence was stagnant. concentrated in the paint. i can't drive with 3 of my opponents in the paint. good thing jm helped to rotate abit. and we somehow managed to get the ball to justin by confusing his defender up. gave a block to my loyal defender. nice man. thought i only can drive, shoot and pass. give u one block right in the face arh. lol. and that's how we ended the game. 3 on 4. still can win. lol.

game 2, 7 points to win the game. its 3 on 3 from now on. lost something like 5-7? yah. remembered that its quite close. erm, this time alot of problems came up. first, i can't really score from far. second. jm was off. third, justin didn't used his size to our advantage. ok. first up, knowing that i can't shoot well, i need to change to other methods of scoring. and that's driving. but justin, having no ball sense, nv rotate and try to sort of disperse the concentrated defense in the paint. unable to drive, i shoot. miss alot of freaking shots. jm leh? i went to him for 3 pointers, can't get any one of them down. jia lat liao. everyone off. as for justin? went to him. he nv bang the shit out of his defender, instead twist here twist there. accuracy affected. hardly get a shot down. so i have to find some ways to get close to the basket, and thats to confuse my defender with my dribbling. and took some close range turnaround jumpers. good thing jm and justin grabbed some rebounds off my missed shot and converted them into some points.

defensively wise, we were abit laggy. they tricked us by scattering us around. and took us one to one. they went to our weaker side, justin. he just fell down. was damn tired. so they went to him. they don't really shoot against jm. he's ki xiao on defense. and when they miss, they can get another rebound and shoot from close range too. justin nv used his size against them. he's too tired. i'm most of the time further away from the board. so left jm jumping against them. we lost on rebounds. as the saying goes, control the rebounds and u control the game.

game 3. 7 points game. lost 7-0. well. no comments. i don't even feel like shooting properly and driving. just pass them the ball and let them take charge.same prob on offense. justin nv rotate. he's too tired, can't blame. defensively, we gave them open shot. didn't even make an effort to challenge every shot.

terrible lost. jm and i sort of scolded justin? not really scolded. but asked him to be aggressive. rotate abit. don't seh rebound but grab rebound. use his size. draw defense away from the paint. and make an effort to contest every shot.

game 4. 11 points game. lost 10-11. damn it. we did everything nicely. justin sort of fired up. used his size and bang the shit out of his defenders and those ppl going for rebounds. hahahahahahaha. our tactics work. our opponent were very cautious of driving now. so they shoot more. and by the way, their shooting sucks.

offensively, both jm and justin rotate. at first i gave them the ball. open shot for them. so they marked them more tightly now. so due to this, the paint was less concentrated. i had alot of opportunities to drive. this is our problem. i beat my defender in a one to one match up situation. but i can't take on 3. firstly, its damn tough. next, there's no way for me to move in the paint with so many ppl in there. with them using one on one marking. i drove to the hoop, made some shots. due to that, they focused on guarding me whenever i was driving. so left either jm or justin open. so i just need to give them the ball. wahahahahaha.

nice plan, everything went smoothly until jm tore his pants. lol. so jm can't run. no rotation. all they need to do is mark justin and me. and when they were on offense, they go to jm as he can't run and jump. so whenever one of us tries to fill in for jm, they pass to their teammate and 2 on 1 the leftover defender in the paint. nice one lah. so lose lor. if not can win.

think thats all, sch tml. gonna slp liao.