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Thank you! I'm sorry you didn't get to beat the surprising Australia despite our support. I guess Malaysian fans were not loud enough...

You seem to have a nice looking team with some depth and not only inside. I wish your team can do as well as the Philippines did during the world 2 months ago, with a bit of luck, they would have won 2 more games to get out of the group stage. As for us, we have a great starting 5 (considering our country's size) but we lack a bit of depth. We are all going to proudly represent Asia.

A win is a win

Norway is a good team despite its bad world rank (#60 before the game) and all young Malaysian players had this in mind when starting the game.

The first half went as planned, Malaysia managed to slowly make a small difference and ending the 2 first quarters with a 7-point margin. All this despite having our starting center, Chen Guangjie, in foul trouble.

Coming back from the locker room, Norway showed a better side of themselves, Malaysia struggled to follow the rhythm and only managed to save a single point advantage. The last quarter sounded promising and the ending was! With less than 30 seconds to go, Ricky George managed to dunk to give a 3-point advantage to Malaysia. On the following offense, Svein Vestli made a 3 pointer to tie the game. Last ball fell off in Huang Chengkang who went inside but his shoot fell short and the game went in overtime.

In overtime, Huang Chengkang took his responsibilities once more and managed to score the last basket of the game to give Malaysia the so desired 92-93. Norway had 3 opportunities to win the game after 2 missed free throws and 2 missed jump shoots, Malaysia celebrated the first win of their promising season.

It took our boys an overtime to get a lucky win against a good looking team but there are a few things which are to be improved, the free throws could have cost us the game. A win is a win and this one is putting us in good position before an easy game against the weak Pakistan.

Last edited by Nico4nicolas at 10/27/2014 1:44:01 PM

A disappointing no show

Our young Malaysian players were expecting to face the weak Pakistan to imitate what the NT did earlier today but it was a no show, Pakistan still doesn't have a team. While the Malaysian players use that free time to visit the country, I would like to seize this opportunity to talk about the recent history.

Flashback...

Season 27 Consolation Tournament, after a difficult start with 3 losses, the Malaysia U21 NT went on a winning with 5 straight wins to finish #30 and qualify for tournament bracket. Unfortunately, they fell short against the strong Lithuania which lost in semi-finals against the future winner, Serbia. In that team, there was already Ilayaraja Vikesh who is now playing his second consolation tournament! It shows the player's quality! Another member of that team was Steve Gabriel, current member of Malaysia NT.

Season 25 Consolation Tournament, the team lead by Xiao Daocheng and Jackson Victor, two current members of the Malaysia NT went on for a record breaking performance with only one loss against the strong Australia. Finishing #15, they drew many hopes against the matching Swiss team. However, despite a late run, Malaysia lost in a heart-breaking finish, with 2 points less than Switzerland, Malaysian's hopes died. To this day, it is the best performance of any U21 Malaysia NT.

The only other qualification was during Season 9 when Malaysia U21 NT finished #19. The recent successes in U21 competitions show a real improvement from a further past. This Season 29 expects to continue the improvement as high as it is possible to hope.

Hidup Malaysia!

That's a plan the Malaysia U21 NT manager can only be happy about. What I don't get is will you stop training the player if he still didn't fulfill his potential by the time he is 22-year old? The best example is Steve Gabriel, he almost reached his maximum salary by 22 but he still needs to be trained for the NT. Unless you find a manager who wants to take over the training to make your trainee a NT player. That's something I like to do even if I'm not the best at it.

I hope I will still be the Malaysia U21 NT manager (or assistant) when your Davis and my own trainee are 21 (Season 32), with a few other guys around, the team could be competitive but I didn't shortlisted many candidates so far. Season 31 team looks promising as well, there are many players being trained, they have the potential to be as good as this season. Next season (Season 30) won't be as good nor as deep as this season.