Final Score
Hanguk U21 54 - 82 Paraguay U21
Welcome to the live broadcast of our round robin game in the consolation tournament. We're in tough today against a bit more stronger opponent in Paraguay U21. They have an astonishing beast of a C Silvestre Robles
(34051046), thank goodness his gameshape is mediocre, or else this could've gotten ugly fast. He's their starting C today. We elected to go low post, and hopefully it'll attack his weakness a little. Our opponents put more enthusiasm in this game than we did, along with going with an outside offense to capitalize on good gameshapes from their guards. Also to note is a missed game-day prediction (GDP) on my part. Was only hoping that would keep it close, but we'll see how it plays out.
Opening quarter, we ended the quarter down 12-23. Not too bad. A bit of a slow start, combined with more enthusiasm put in by our opponents. Let's continue coverage in the 2nd quarter. Our rebound game is doing good so far, but we're relying heavily on it, as we're missing a lot of shots. With our offensive rebounds, it's certainly giving us an extra chance to score some baskets, but c'mon guys! We need to score! They're 7 for 18 so far in this quarter. We're holding up on defense, but again... we need to score to keep it close! Byung-Joon Nam
(36376202), (19 years old) scores his first basket in international competition with 3 mins to go in the quarter. Hoping this is the start of a long promising career for a talented prospect. We end at the half down 23-42. We come out swinging from the half, sinking in our first 2 shots. But Paraguay isn't gonna let us back into the game that easily countering us basket for basket. Kyung-Tae Jung leading a spark, coming off the bench towards the end of the quarter to try to ignite the offense. We fought so hard to have a winning quarter, but ultimately lost the edge, outscored 17-21. At the end of 3 Qs, down 40-63. Final Score 54-82. We broke 50, that's a positive. But ouch, 28 point deficit. That'll certainly hurt our point differential.
Overall, it was a decent effort on our part. Playing on enemy turf, and playing conservatively on effort, I couldn't have asked for more. Could've used some better game shape so that I can have more flexibility with the roster, but I know it's not your faults. You guys tried with proper minutes, the game engine just decided to do what it does. Keep up the good work in training and maintaining. We'll see what next week brings! =)
Last edited by Statsman at 5/18/2015 8:12:00 PM