Dragons Suffered Costly Defeat

The Dragons suffered a costly defeat to Tong Whye Temple last night 73-71. The lost made Home United Dragons to progress to the 3rd round more difficult with BAS new tournament implementation in this year's Milo Cup

BAS implementing a new system for the 2nd round, which we find it impractical and unprofessional, the top two team of each group will progress to the next round with another top two teams from another group. Which also meant that Tong Whye and Home United will again be in the same group and last night result will be brought over to the next round. This also mean that when the 2nd round starts, two teams will start off with a win and two teams will start off with one loss. Should Home United Dragons and Tong Whye successfully proceed to the final round of 6. Their results in the 1st round will be again brought forward to that round. This is what we call, unprofessional and amateur why of organising a tournament. 

Aside from BAS ever changing management and organising of such event, the match involved two of the most talented teams, Home United and Tong Whye looks like a grand final match. Both teams gone through a see saw battle before Tong Whye finally emerged winner in the dying seconds of the last quarter. 

Credits must go to Home United although they lost this important game. Without their big man for this game, the rest of the squad managed to neutralise Tong Whye's big man play, unsettling their flow of play and made Tong Whye's centers work real hard to get the ball. 

Tong Whye scored through their main center, No.12 and Home answered back with their long rage shooting and fast break. No.7 Larry and No.11 scored 13 and 17 points respectively. Six 3-pointers between the two players and a total of nine 3-pointers from the team to keep Home closely contested in the game.

When a team is able to scored so many points  and 3 pointers in a game and yet lost, we have to point out that Home United's defence last night was not really up to par. although they did managed to cut off the Tong Whye's center supply, they lost focus at times to let their opponent scored through easy fast break and basket. This should be something for the team to work on. 

Despite the lost, Home are still hopeful to qualify for the next final round. They would need to beat their next two opponents in order to stand a chance to qualify. If they keep up with the way they scores and brush up their defence, this team could be one of the most difficult team to beat.