‘Statistics’
* The final stats says it all: They shot better than us overall, while we shot miserably off the floor. They were 55% from the two-point area, to our 38%, and they were 32% from the three-point area, to our 26%. This reflects our problems on offense, and on defense against [...]
‘Statistics’
* At the half, the Iranians had a seventeen point lead, hitting 65% percent of their two-point shots, while we hit only 38%; Rebounds was surprisingly close, Iran only had five more at 20 to 15. They did have 10 more assists, and five more steals, 7 to 2. They shot [...]
‘Statistics’
* The 2-point Field Goal percentages at the half were actually close, expect that the Japanese took about 10 more attempts than us. They also had seven more rebounds than us, but we had seven more three point attempts, and hit a higher rate of them at 38% to their 33%. Another [...]
‘Statistics’
* Stats for the RP NT for the games before the South Korea game: 21 turnovers per game, and 24 fouls per game.
* Stats for Sonny Thoss before the South Korea game: 5 points, 3 rebounds per game. A bit lame, especially in terms of rebounds for a big man. [...]
‘Statistics’
* Stats shown at the start of the game: RP team averaged nineteen point seven (19.7) turnovers per game. I was expecting higher numbers, but nevertheless, that’s a bit high for any team.
* Willie Miller in the last three games (prior to the Lebanon game) averaged 14 points, 6 rebounds, 3 [...]
‘The Japanese National Team’
* One thing about this Japanese team, is their flexibility on defense. They don’t stay with a particular type of defense very long, they are able to adjust quickly within a quarter from zone, to man to man, to zone again. Very flexible. And unpredictable.
* I am [...]
The whole Philippine basketball community was rocked recently when the FIBA Central Board reinstated Graham Lim in the FIBA Youth Commission. To those not familiar with the background of Mr. Lim, and as to why this development would be such a big deal to Philippine basketball, well, let me just give a short background [...]
* Favorite play early in the game: “Andi Mark” makes a steal off the Lebanese PG, and scores off him by a spinning, fade-away shot. Lebanese PG tries to take it back by going coast to coast …. only to have his shot blocked by Giles. Lebanese PG then fouls “Andi Mark” [...]
* Just saw the video thru “Justin TV”. It’s quite pixelated, hard to see who is doing what. Gotta start memorizing the jersey numbers, it seems thats the only way to identify the players.
* I think Barroca should change his name to “Andi Mark”. It actually sounds better. [...]
Another major international tournament, another failure for the RP NT to reach its goal of at least second place in Asia.
‘The RP NT’
This team is arguably the best the PBA can offer at the time. It has a pair of fast and superb playmakers in “The Mighty Mouse” Jimmy Alapag and “The Furious” Jayjay [...]