met up with brothers today to go out pay some stuff and after that its bball. results? super sucky. played 7 games and only won 1.

i don't blame it on our team chemistry. eventhough we nv played together for like almost one month, i don't think thats the main reason why we lost. we lost because we have no intensity on defense and we are executing the wrong offensive strategies. we are not playing our style of offense throughout and were beaten fair and square eventhough all our opponents were more or less on the same level as us. now, i will go through in details for the 7 games and all our mistakes.

game 1. 4 on 4. justin, jm, i and one noob vs 4 china men. were on par at first. jm, justin and i were doing our best to keep the game close but the freaking noob just makes things worse all the time. get the ball, nv aim, anyhow throw. pls lah, that isn't the way u play bball. want anyhow throw ball? go play dodgeball, even dodgeball need aiming lor. defensively wise, we were playing one on one defense, our best defending method. but he screwed it up by trying to help us to mark our targets and leaving he's wide open. nv grab rebound and rather smack it out of bound, a potential second chance on offense became a loss in possession. offensively wise? nv rotate, block all of our offensive paths and screw up our momentum. wah. no comments. same goes for game 2.

game 3, 4 and 5. 3 on 3. with 2 uncles and either one of the china guy or someone who i call uncle lebron. lol. why uncle lebron? cause he's wearing the lebron james jersey when he's playing. one of the uncle has a damn freaking nice shooting posture lor. i felt in love with his shooting posture the moment i saw it. its so perfect lor, especially his fade away, just like hisashi mitsui and he's damn accurate lor. found singapore's mitsui liao. thinking of asking him to take me in as his disciple. lol.

in all 3 games, we lost by quite a big margin. we were still executing the wrong offense and failed to grab rebounds. to make things worse, justin wasn't able to keep up with his opponent and instantly became a loop hole in defense. eventhough i always shut down the person that i'm defending, i wasn't able keep the game close. anyway, all the uncles are quite pro.

game 6. the only game we won. teamed up with justin and uncle lebron to take on the two other uncles and one of the china guy. won 7-6. kept on assisting each other.

game 7. played 2 on 2. uncle lebron and me vs the other 2 uncles. they wanted revenge so we gave them a chance to do it. mission accomplished for them. lost 6-7. was able to shut down the mitsui uncle but made a grave mistake during the critical moment and resulted in the lost. my fault there. cause i let mitsui uncle scored his only shot and it was the game winner. haix.

anyway. reasons why we lost so many games today.

overall, we forgot to execute our usual playing style. and that's for me to attract defense and create open shots opportunity for them. we forgot the rebounds and wasn't able to shut our opponents down.

justin. wasn't able to sink some important shots. wasn't able to keep up with opponents pace and gave them easy shots and thus the easy win for them on their part. failed to grab rebounds. cause of all these? low stamina, speed and intensity.

jun ming. wasn't able to see the offense my way. he's open for a pass doesn't mean that i'm open to pass. failed to grab rebounds. cause? forgot our playing style and still inexperienced.

as for me? i wasn't able to bring out my teammates' potential eventhough i tried passing to them. like i said, every team is almost on par in terms of skill level. and if we can lose by quite a big margin, there is something wrong with the team's floor captain and that's me. wasn't able to direct them to play our usual style, wasn't able to motivate them to play with intensity and so on. haix. still alot to learn. alot.

but still, its a learning experience bah. thats what justin said. and during our next session, justin wants me to teach him how to defend ppl properly and shut them down.

anyway, a friend sent me this and i find it interesting.

the silent treatment:

a man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 am for an early morning business flight. not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and lose), he wrote on a piece of paper, 'please wake me at 5:00 am' he left it where he knew she would find it. the next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 am and he had missed his flight. furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. the paper said, 'it is 5:00 am. wake up.'

men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

wife vs husband:

a couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. an earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position. as they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, 'relatives of yours?'

'yep,' the wife replied , 'in-laws'

women's revenge:

'cash, check or charge?' i asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase. as she fumbled for her wallet i noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.

'so, do you always carry your tv remote?' i asked.
'no,' she replied, ' but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'

understanding women (a man's perspective):

i know i'm not going to understand women. i'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax, pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.

w o r d s:

a husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day... 30,000 to a man's 15,000. the wife replied, 'the reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men' the husband then turned to his wife and asked, 'what?'

creation:

a man said to his wife one day, 'i don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.'

the wife responded, 'allow me to explain. god made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; god made me stupid so i would be attracted to you!'

who does what:

a man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. the wife said, 'you should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee.'

the husband said, 'you are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and i can just wait for my coffee.'

wife replies, 'no, you should do it, and besides, it is in the bible that the man should do the coffee.'

husband replies, 'i can't believe that, show me.'

so she fetched the bible, and opened the new testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says..........'hebrews'

lol. lame stuff. ok lah. ciao.