Yes yes, gayJaye here. Posting about Friday's match and the next one to come. (PS. You all die! Now I owe all the teacher's drinks!)
Firstly, let me apologize for my seriously bad attitude that day. Shouldn't have just given up like that. Yep, I will try harder for the next match which... If according to plain, should be tomorrow. But I have to confirm with the teachers, cause Mr Lim said lunch, but I just remembered that during lunch, the PE teachers have lessons. -___-lll So anyway.
I'll talk about the individual stuff first den go on to some 'tactics' -.- stuff.
Anyway, the most important things have been said by Eggy already. Please remember about the passing part. Oh yes, not only don't thunder pass, if can, try not to do high passes. Err.. That is, when you pass, there are typically 3 kinds of passes (in terms of flight, not the passing, for passing I dunno are there what? 18 types of passes? *laughs*) Anyway. One is bounce pass, the other is straight passes, (ball flies relatively straight) and the last one is lob passes where the ball flies high. Kind of common sense, but I shall just talk about it here since I like talking about bball. =X Okay. Bounce pass is good if you can do it very fast, and you typically do it if the person has his/her hands in the air, trying to block you from shooting or doing high passes, or if he's jumping. The thing is, only use it for passes with short distances. Then, straight passes are what I like most, if you can do it fast like Jia, it's damn shuang. But can't travel as far as high passes. Err... I suspect it's easier to intercept than bounce pass, but I'm not sure. =X (Okay, for me, I use bounce and straight passes interchangably.) Lastly lob passes. Lob passes are SLOW AS HECK. So when playing with the teachers, if possible PLEASE DONT do lob passes. Firstly, cause the teachers are faster than most of us, secondly, they are taller, thirdly, they jump higher. All of which renders lob passes easy as heck to intercept. So yea.
Okay. Dribbling. Emm.. For the sec2s, your dribbling isn't too good yet, so when going down court, try to pass more than dribble. If you're going to dribble, remember to keep your heads up. If you look down, you're not going to see what's going on around the court, you don't know who's around you and who to pass to. So please look up. Secondly, if possible, don't stop dribbling until you see someone to pass to. Only then do you stop dribbling. Cause by stopping your dribble, you're kinda like cornering yourself to either pass or shoot. When you dribble, three things to keep in mind, low stance (bend your knees!), heads up (look for open ppl and ppl around you trying to get the ball), and PROTECT the ball! To protect the ball, you can use ur body to block the person, or use your free hand, position it in front, near the ball, so that if someone tries to take the ball, prevent him using ur free hand!
Oh ya, very important. DON'T backcourt. Backcourt means, when you (attacking) bring the ball to the half court line, you can't pass it backwards into your defense half anymore.
Err. What else. Okay. Defense. Jia En has been doing great, I think we all owe it to her, so must thank her ya? Venus as well. Okay, I have zero tips for intercepting, so you have to ask JE or Eggy or JY. I'm a rebounder. So. Rebounding, which I doubt most of you will be doing. But in case you are, the best tip I can give is to really want the ball. By wanting the ball more badly than your opponent, I think you're more than halfway there. Because when you want the ball, you'll really do all you can to get it. You'll really try your hardest.
But in terms of skills for defending, one thing. Stay low. You must always be lower than your opponent. As for where you should focus on, diff. people will tell you diff. things. For me, I focus on the ball, and if I'm playing against someone like myself, I'll focus on the person's stomach. If I'm right, Jia focuses on the person's stomach as well, but I'm not too sure. What's the difference? I think if you focus on the ball, it's easier for you to cut the person's dribble, but it's easier for the person to trick you too. (Cause your eyes follow the ball, not his movements). And if you focus on the person's stomach, it's more like trying to stop him from going forward and hindering/irritating him rather than trying to intercept the ball. (Stomach moves last, so when he fakes, you can tell.) But if you want to know who to learn from, I think the two best people are JE and Venus. JE is... I got nothing to say. But in defense, I think she's the best out of all of us. Venus... Venus, not to offend her, but in terms of defense skill, she has less than some of us, but in terms of defense, she's good. Why? Cause like Eggy says, she really wants the ball.You can tell. Which is why she makes up for it, and becomes a good as heck defender. :D:D
Shooting, I really can't say anything except seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, DON'T force shots. I think that was the number 1 thing that irritated me on Friday. -.-lll I mean, think of the people defending for you, trying to get the ball, and then you don't do anything and just waste the ball, it's very......... Ya. There's nothing much to say for shooting cause that just comes from practicing. Don't solo unless you really can.
Okay. So now, for the tactics... Whee. I post soon. I go for tuition first. -.-lll
