Comments on: Patriots beat Dragons to wrap up semi-final series 2-0

By: Sinigang Tampines

Sinigang Tampines — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:16:55 +0000

@3stars: i will. haha.

@jiaozi:

1. i bet you’ve never seen a whole lot of centers who play defense with their LEGS. playing defense even with “magical clean hands” alone gives the refs a reason to blow the whistle. Dixon is too experienced to know how fouls are being called.

2. unsportsmanlike fouls are given when the players didn’t go for the ball. much like giving cards in football. anything other than that is just contact. tell them to play chess if they don’t like hard fouls.

3. hahaha… that is just a lack of basketball know-how on your part. play more games (5-on-5 organized ball, not 3-on-3 or H-O-R-S-E) and you’ll find the answer to that yourself.

By: 3stars

3stars — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:21:29 +0000

@jiaozi..you obviously dont know much about the sport thats why you ask stupid questions like that (and as if breaking it down in number would add sense to it) and thats understandable.. im not going to attempt to answer your questions bec it will only lead to more nonsense questions id rather suggest that you start with buying some basic basketball strategy books and/or watch nba/euroleage and pay attention to the commentators and how they explain those basic things..

By: jiaozi

jiaozi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:43:05 +0000

Three points I picked up from the game.

1. How can one centre get fouled out and his opponent plays 35 minutes without a foul (magical clean hands maybe??). I think the refereeing was reasonable and KL lost the game on their own. I just think a bigger awareness of the WHOLE game is needed in the refereeing department of the ABL. You can’t have a good fair post play if one player is on four fouls and the other is on zero.

2. Three very big and obvious hard fouls in that game, I think it was two in the third quarter and one in the last quarter. Two of these were done by a bench player however only a personal foul was called. Was this unsportsmanlike play part of the third quarter turn around hype? I think they need to punish this type of play early in order to keep the league clean and respectable amongst the world basketball community.

3. When you are leading by 10 or more points you need to keep scoring in order to win the game. KL started to play very defensively late in the second quarter, using the whole of the shot clock, lack of inside penetration and complete lack of offensive threat. KL’s response to the 2-2 full court press was shocking and at one stage all five KL players were in the back court trying to get the ball up the floor.

Marcus Ch’ng should be picked up by someone for this league. I believe he has Malaysian heritage and could play as a local or worst case scenario an asean import.

By: Hanoi-Subsea pipelines

Hanoi-Subsea pipelines — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:08:50 +0000

but not UAAP or NCAA!

By: jerby

jerby — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:57:50 +0000

@han – the site is named after basketball

By: Hanoi-Subsea pipelines

Hanoi-Subsea pipelines — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:12:50 +0000

Les, perhaps cover other sports aside from focusing into basketball alone.

By: Les

Les — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:59:53 +0000

@jerby and Nards. Thanks for the worthy suggestions.

Not sure how I would execute being based in Singapore. However, I think if folks in Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines want to have a platform for their basketball stories, I welcome them on Red Hoops. You send it, we post it! : )

By: Nards

Nards — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:17:25 +0000

@Les, since the UAAP-NCAA starts in mid-July try looking at the PBL since some ABL filipino imports like Lingganay and Bandaying are members of the COBRA team composed of the best guards like Jai Reyes (a Rudy-Shee Fai hybrid) and Paul Lee (unstoppable) and Forwards like Pari Llagas and Nico Salva etc etc…

try watching or covering these events and you might discover which player can potentially bolster the ABL squads

Basketball Schedule in the Philippines:
PBL (Summer) UAAP-NCAA (July-October) and ABL (October-February)

La Liga Pilipinas has an obscure schedule…

PBA has 2 conferences: Fiesta Cup is May-August and All-Filipino is from October-March i guess…

By: jerby

jerby — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:30:40 +0000

Les, maybe you could cover other leagues around southeast asia. There are leagues in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. As for the Phils, maybe you can focus on minor leagues like Liga ng Bayan, Philippine Basketball League,the CESAFI at Cebu, UAAP and NCCA (forget the PBA..). and then at the same time give updates on major ABL players and then what the teams are doing to prepare for the next season. Also you may have a special feature on the National Team of the Philippines SMART GILAS. I know it might look like you will be giving special interest to this team but I’m looking at the financial returns for your site. There are millions of Pinoy basketball fans out there and for sure SMART GILAS will give you the hits that you need. No one in the Philippines is giving this team exposure. GILAS is becoming popular in the country. They beat the PBA All Stars and was able to place third in the Dubai Invitational even if they played all local against teams with three American imports. SMART GILAS is becoming a good copy. Their goal is to be able to play once again in the Olympics. That’s a tough goal but should they make it their story would be a good material for a book, a movie, etc… Just my two cents.. thanks

By: nolah

nolah — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:23:34 +0000

how good pinoy basketball players really are?

i really dont understand why most of us feel so proud on what the filipinos have in terms of basketball. we just dont know how to be humble thats the point. all of these asean (and i mean asean alone, because the koreans, the arabs and the chinese doesn’t see us as a formidable opponent since smart gilas) nations knows how good we play against them, we dont have to keep pressing it to them.

lets give everyone here a chance to play, learn and enjoy the game.