33-31: Our Win against Dian Harapan

For our second game of the year we were able to play our sister school, Sekolah Dian Harapan – which is run by the same foundation as we are.  Overall our guys played a solid game, showed a respectful attitude towards their opponents, and were able to emerge victoriously at the end.  Despite some of the hiccups, it was a good game.

There were a few low points:

• Our normal referee was out sick, so things needed to be thrown together in the last few minutes before the game began.
• Victor-y fouled out, but thankfully it was near the end of the game so he was able to use his height to dominate throughout each quarter.
• Woo Kim, ‘Von, and Baby J. also approached five but thankfully never hit that number before we made that final countdown from 30 seconds.
• Chi Wonder Boy managed to trip over himself on a fast break and chipped his tooth pretty bad. We’re praying he’ll be able to get it fixed.
• Jay Walk wasn’t able to play as much as we’d have liked cause his legs just weren’t getting into the game.

But there were some definite high points:

• El Niño played every minute of the game.  He led from down low and from out front.  He brought “the storm” towards the end that solidified our win.
• All in all we ran the offense that we’ve been working on for a couple of weeks now.  We managed to bring the pace of the game down and played the game we wanted to play by controlling the ball.
• Baby J. hit his first three from the top of the key.
• Woo Kim, Jay Walk, and Victor-y continuously got their bodies into the mix, often being able to triple team Dian’s big men Andre and Rico as they’d lay it up from beneath the bucket.
• It was a sight to see when El Niño got his 3-foot-3 stature five feet off the ground to send the flying from their big man’s hands.
• There were a lot more shots taken from outside the three, which put some points on the board. ‘Von got a couple of them in there.
• Hyun Sung Hero’s game was exactly what it needed to be.  He was everywhere that he needed to be.

Compared with our game against Anglo, tonight’s was amazing – especially attitude-wise.  Even though our guys got knocked down and a couple of calls weren’t the best, they brushed it off, played the game we’d been practicing, and brought it home.

Well done men.

If you took any photos of the game, hit me up using the “contact” form to the right and I’ll get them posted here.