hmmmmmmmmm...after a long 2 days of kicking butts,finally it's over..i was very glad that the tournament is now over..so,i can sit back and relax for a while because we're going to peninsular m'sia for national level HKSBP a.k.a the PPM(Piala Perdana Menteri)..
before that,the overall result for the tournament is as follows :
Champion : SM Sains Sabah(again)
1st Runner-Up : SM Sains Kuching(that's us,that's us!!!!!)
2nd Runner-Up :SM Sains Lahad Datu(hometown heroes)
4th Place : SM Sains Labuan
5th Place : SM Sains Miri
It was an honor to come on the stage during the prize-giving ceremony to receive the prizes..then,something sweeter for the team and for Edward personally,he was awarded the Most Valuable Player(MVP) award..the award is given to 1 player who scored the most points throughout the tournament..
That night,we took pics and spent our last night in SMSLD..it was an awesome trip for us..the next day,we went to the airport and flew back to Kuching..
and now,we have to prepare for the PPM..so,the training continued..........
Saturday, February 28, 2009
It's finally over...
I'm Back!!!
well,it's been a while since i wrote my last post..huhuhu..now,i'm back into action..hehehehe
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
End of a awesome weekend
Waddup,people???!!!
Last weekend,i turned the TV on to watch the 58th NBA All-Star weekend..it is an annual event for the NBA players,which will be held in different place each year..and for this year's All-Star game,the hometown for Steve Nash's Phoenix Suns was the host for the game...it was very interesting weekend event to be watched..lots of NBA's superstars and superstars from all over the country came to watch the biggest event of the year besides the finals,for basketball fans..hehehehe
well,back then,on the saturday night,before the big game on the day after,there was a few events that night,such as,3-points shootout,slamdunk contest and others..btw,before that night,there was NBA All-Star Celebrity Game and a few more events,but i don't wanna talk bout it,b'coz it damn BORING!!! and i bet,u wouldn't know who are playing on court:-)
well,back to the NBA All-Star Saturday Night.....
The first event was the 'Haier Shooting Stars'...it was a four-team matchup..and the objective is to shoot basketballs from 6 different spots..and the order are as follows:
Shot 1: 10-foot bank shot from right-side angle (Player A)
Shot 2: 15-foot shot from left side-angle (Player B)
Shot 3: NBA 3-point shot from top of the arc/straight on (Player C)
Shot 4: 18-foot shot from right-side baseline (Player A)
Shot 5: NBA 3-Pt. shot from left side angle (Player B)
Shot 6: Shot from just inside half-court/straight on (Player C, Player A, Player B, repeat)
the participating team that night were :
- Team Phoenix(Leandro Barbosa,Dan Majerle,Tangela Smith)
- Team Detroit(Arron Afflalo,Bill Laimbeer,Katie Smith)
- Team San Antonio(Tim Duncan,David Robinson,Becky Hammon)
- Team Los Angeles(Derek Fisher,Michael Cooper,Lisa Leslie)
The two teams with the fastest times advance to the final round. In the case of a tie, a shoot-off will be used to break the tie. The clock will be reset (a time limit of 1:00 will be imposed) and the team that makes Shot 6 in the shortest amount of time will, depending on the round, either advance to the finals or be declared champions.
A referee will be on-court to pass judgment on any violation of the rules. At discretion of the referee, instant replay may be consulted for clarification of rules compliance.
The team from Phoenix was almost perfect in the eighth annual Haier Shooting Stars competition at All-Star Saturday Night. But almost doesn't count, and Team Detroit came away with its second win in the last three years.
Phoenix hit its first five shots and made it to halfcourt in just 14 seconds, but the halfcourt heave was the team's undoing. The three shooters from Phoenix -- Leandro Barbosa, Dan Majerle and Tangela Smith -- needed more than 20 attempts there before Majerle finally sank one. By that time, Team Detroit was celebrating its victory.
Detroit needed 13 attempts to get through its first five shots, but only seven from halfcourt as the Shock's Katie Smith drained her third try from long distance. Smith helped her coach, Bill Laimbeer, become the first person to win a second Shooting Stars title. He teamed with Swin Cash and Chauncey Billups when Detroit won in 2007. Smith and Laimbeer were joined by Arron Afflalo this time around. They completed their final round run in a time of 58.4 seconds.
"I'm happy Katie got some more hardware," Laimbeer said afterward. "She has collected a whole bunch of gold medals with a WNBA championship and MVP. Now she has got another one."San Antonio, the defending Shooting Stars champions, was eliminated in the first round when David Robinson, Tim Duncan and Becky Hammon needed 15 attempts from halfcourt before Hammon sank one. They finished in 1:06. Los Angeles had a strong start, completing its first three shots in just four attempts, but needed 16 tries from halfcourt. The L.A. team of Derek Fisher, Lisa Leslie and Michael Cooper finished fourth with a time of 1:16.
Next,was the 'Playstation Skills Challenge'..it was an event to evaluate skills of the players to the highest level!!!(i guess)..All they have to do was to pass through a few obstacles and 'roadblocks' in the fastest time and win!!! Sounds easy,right??hehehe
The challenge is won by Chicago Bulls' guard,Derrick Rose..Finishing off his winning time of 35.3 seconds with an emphatic double-pump reverse dunk, the Chicago Bulls guard became the first rookie to win the PlayStation Skills Challenge when he defeated New Jersey's Devin Harris in the championship round.
"It means a lot," Rose said of the win. "I'm a part of history with some of the greatest players in the league that have won this award."
Rose, who leads all rookies with 6.3 assists per game, finished the course 4.4 seconds faster than the Nets' point guard did.
Rose also breezed through his first round with a time of 33.3 seconds, 3.3 seconds ahead of Harris, 4.2 seconds ahead of Cleveland's Mo Williams and nearly a quarter of a minute faster than San Antonio's Tony Parker's 50.8 seconds. The Spurs' point guard now holds the dubious distinction of having the two slowest times ever recorded in Skills Challenge history. In 2003, Parker finished the course in 45.5 seconds.
Rose, however, made his two runs look easy, never using more than two attempts at any station in either round. He admitted, however, one station proved to be a little nerve-wracking."The bounce pass," Rose said. "I knew when I got those two in, the crowd got to me and I came up a little short on my jump shots. I was scared a little bit."But the bounce pass was the hardest thing."
In the championship round, Harris found the top of the key jumper to be the most difficult. Harris has shown an improved outside shot this season, but his stroke left him when it counted. He needed four attempts to sink the 20-footer.Rose needed only two shots to complete the shooting station. And despite needing two passes to get through the outlet station, Rose had plenty of time to measure his funky dunk. Rose said he was inspired by a two-time Skills Challenge champ to finish off his win with flair."I always saw D-Wade [dunk] at the end," Rose said.Maybe next year, Rose can be the first player since Wade to go back-to-back."I really can't wait," Rose said. "Of course the season isn't over with, but next year -- this summer, I'll work harder, work on my weaknesses and just go hard throughout the whole summer."
Monday, February 16, 2009
We break da record!!!!(part 3)
After a day of training and trying to get used of the court,the day for the big games has arrived...so,here's a little bit of what happened on court(mostly) on the big day..
17/4/08
our very first match was against sm sains labuan,the 'big man' team..most of them wear XXL-sized underwear..hehehe..if u don't get it,i mean,they're incredibly huge..averagely,they're much bigger than us..i'm 5'6'' and i'm the center of our team,but,they have a few guards who are as tall as i am..so tall!!!!! but,as the games started,it showed that size doesn't really matter to kick butts..hahaha..b'coz we totally kicked their 'butt singh'..hehehehe...it was pretty a piece of 'kek lapis'..finally,the game ended nicely,with our 1st victory,we won by 64-20..pretty good,huh??
later that evening,was our 2nd match against the hometown heroes,sm sains lahad datu..before the game started,the crowd had already gone wild as they saw me naked..hahahaha..kidding..of course they go wild,b'coz they thought their 'heroes' are gonna kick our precious butts..but,as the game progresses,things turnd out to be the other way round..instead of they kick our butts,we kicked theirs in a very beautiful way..hahahaha..and something interesting happened in the game..something that i can be proud of..i blocked a shot of their shooter from beyond the arc..i mean,i really,BLOCKED his shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you know,how does it feel to slap a 3-year old kid with a hand og a king-kong??it was something that cannot be described with words or numbrs..hehe..(btw,make sure you imagine yourself to be the 1 who slaps te kid,not the kid,ok??)..the game ended with another victory for us,59-37..
everyone was happy with the result so far..and that night,we talked about how we're gonna beat SMESH tomorrow???????
18/4/08
our next game was against the standing champion,sm sains sabah..they've been dominating the championship for a quite some time and we planned to snatch the title from them this year and bring it back to kuching..in our history,we only beat this team on the year 2006 in miri..and we really wanna do the same thing this year..we played well in the match,but those guys were playing much better than us..we've been able to win the rebounding at both end of the court,but our finishing touch was a disaster..we tried our best to avoid turnovers and keep the rim clean,but at the end of the game,they beat us,fair and square..they've won by 7 points,43-36
in the afternoon,our last match in th tournament..it was against sm sains miri..we've been expecting another victory since the beginning b'coz we'v sen the way these guys played..most of their starters can't make it for the tournament,so the team is filled with their reserves..but,there was 1 guy,who stole the spotlight that evening..it was Leo(i'm sorry,i don't remember his fullname)..a strong,skillful and athletics player..i bet,he's the best guard in the entire tournament..in the beginning of the match,they really used this guy,i mean,his skills..he can really shoots 3-points,drive-in,fastbreak..everything..later in the game,we went man-mark..it was me against Leo..as a defensive type of player,i really marked him..and,the advantages goes to me,b'coz i'm taller,a little bit faster(but he's quicker) and more good-looking than him..hahahaha..kidding:-)
bla,bla,bla....
the game finished with a big margin on the scoreboard and a record for the tournament..we beat them badly,by 92-43...
p/s : i'm sorry,i don't have any pics from any of the games..so,if anyone have it..kindly,let me know,ok??
Monday, February 9, 2009
We break da record!!!!(part 2)
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So , after the line up was announced , we started our intensive training . We really have to put our head in the game . our aim 4 dis year tournament in SMS LD is to conquer the championship trophy n make a record of our own . so , practice is gonna be really tough this year . everyday,we were asked to run around the court.Then , do some stretching n loosen up our muscles. we were then told to do some lay-ups , under basket shooting , short-range , mid-range shooting..and for the shooters(guard) , they were told to practice more on their long-range shooting(3 points shooting) . And then,at the end of the session , we would have a training match between the seniors n the losers(kidding..i mean,the juniors) :-)
After a few weeks passed , finally , the time comes. We are going to Lahad Datu for the tournament..(i cant remember when is it,sorry)..upon arrival , we were taken to our dorms..i guess i should skip this one.hehehehe
Before the big games , we went to the court to have some practice a lil bit..
And after practice.......
Race to the MVP
That's not to say any of the eight guys following Nos. 1 and 2 can't jump into the one of those spots. They can. And if they do, they'll receive the same treatment. But for now, we're going to shine the spotlight on the top two guys. I think you know who they are.
Team Record :: 39-9
Last Week's Rank - 1
If there were any player in the league who could trump the reigning MVP, it is LeBron James, who has been our top MVP candidate for nearly 80 percent of the season. Two days after Kobe dropped a new-MSG-record 61 on the Knicks on Monday, James followed with a 52-point, 11-assist, nine-rebound night on Wednesday.
While LeBron didn't explicitly express his desire to top Bryant's epic total, he actions spoke far louder than any pregame proclamations on Wednesday. LeBron attacked the Knicks from the outset. He didn't do it with Kobe's flair or smoothness, his game is still too raw and more powerful than Bryant's, but he attacked, and the Knicks were helpless.
As for his other body of work, James has been extremely consistent. Only twice in the new year has James failed to score 22 or more points in a game and so far, his February (39.3 points, 7 rebounds and 7.3 assists) could surpass his historic January (27.5 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 8.2 apg).
Team Record :: 40-9
Last Week's Rank - 2
What else can you say about Kobe Bryant, his nearly immeasurable skill level, his intensity, his drive and his focus? Here's one thing: instead of rubbing his teammates the wrong way, he has rubbed off on them, especially on this current six-game road trip.
There was no better example of this than in the Lakers' hard-fought 110-109 overtime win against the defending champs in Boston. Instead of backing down, the Lakers looked the Celtics in the eye and did not flinch. Kobe's teammates are nowhere as talented as he is (heck, few players ever have been), but it doesn't take talent to gird yourself against an ancient, hated foe.
It takes confidence and guts, and Kobe's steel has given his young teammates a collective self-confidence they had not had in the past.Is that valuable? You bet it is. Is it the most valuable? We'll see. The Lakers get another stern test on Sunday when they visit the Cavaliers, who are undefeated at home.
We break da record!!!!
Dis 1 is about 2008 SMSK's basketball team....
the story begins..
It was a very dreamful year 4 da players especially da seniors(apek,edu,david,syifa n I) coz we hv been training like crazy 4 2008 hksbp basketball tournament.in the beginning,b4 the players line up r announced,da usual users of da court already started our drills n training..the players that we hv been expecting 2 represents da skul r those who already in the team the year b4..n luckily we hv our fav coach,Mr Chan with us..hehehe
This guy started to train our players in 2007(this is the year when he get really serious in training us)...he taught us a lot of drills,skills n everything important in bball(shortform 4 basketball)..dis year,he planned 2 focus more on our shooting,coz basically,we hv already mastered(sort of) other skills,such as dribbling and dunking..?????juz kidding..
after a few weeks,full of torment n tiredness,finally,the moments that we've been waiting 4..da list for skul players r out..
#4-Ikhwan
#5-Fizi
#6-Afiq
#7-Din
#8-Mon
#9-Edu
#10-Apek(captain)
#11-Ashraf
#12-Syifa'a
#13-Comat
#14-David(vice captain)
#15-Mijan
p/s: guys,correct me if im wrong,k??
huhuhu..so tiring lorrr..i'll continue later :-P
