Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all UM and Ex-UM members.

Hope the new year 2008 will be a FANTASTIC one for each and everyone of you.

Carlsberg Open 2008 - Schedule

As at the date and time of this post, the Games Schedule is still not out yet.

The competition is scheduled to start on 5th January 2008. When, the first games for UM and Ex-UM will be will, of course, only be known when the schedule is out.

In the meantime, please note that there will NOT be any opening ceremony on 5th January 2008. The games will start first and an opening ceremony (if any) will be held late January 2008.

Next Practice

We are not sure whether we can get Gym 2 this Wednesday 2/1/2008 for UM basketball practice. We may only know on Wednesday itself.

I will post and sms as soon as we know for sure.

Ex-UM players are (as always) welcomed to continue to join in and attend UM's practices. However, Wednesday night practices will, starting January 2008, be full, formal practice (drills etc.)

Friendly with ISKL

Friendly match against ISKL basketball team on 12th January 2008, Saturday, 2pm is confirmed.

I will probably go directly from work. Please make arrangements to go to ISKL by 1:15pm.

Next Practice

We may be able to get Gym 2 opened tonight.

Please go to Gym 2 first. If it is not opened, please proceed to 4th College.

Merry Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas to all UM and ex-UM players!

Enjoy your holidays but remember to stay fit!!

Friendly with ISKL

ISKL (Ampang Campus) would like to play a friendly match with UM on 12th January 2008, Saturday, in the afternoon. Since I work half day on Saturday mornings, I am trying to fix the game for 2pm.

Current (2007/2008) UM Boys' Team Members please confirm (by adding comments to this post) whether you can attend or not.

Thanks.

MASUM 0607 Champion Team

click here for more info ...

Next Practice

Next Ex-UM/UM combined practice is as follows:

Day : Wednesday night
Date : 26 Dec 2007
Time : 8-10:45pm
Venue : UM, 4th College Outdoor Court.

Unfortunately, the indoor Court at Gym 2 is not available next week.
Also, 4th College's basketball court is usually covered with (a LOT) of leaves, so bring brooms and be prepared to sweep.

Carlsberg Open 2008 - Info

Pursuant to the Manager's meeting on 13/12/2008, the teams taking part in the competiton have been grouped as follows:

Group A : Sunday, TMT, Court-9, Survival, Carlsberg.
Group B : Lian Yew, Ex-UM, LiParis, Puchong BA, Xieli.
Group C : UM ,TDRA, Lian Yew B, CSK, TABC
Gourp D : Dynamic, SST Team, Sword, YSL, Garden Home.

Top 2 team from each group advances to the 2nd round.
All 8 teams are then divided into 2 groups of 4.
Top 2 teams advance to Semi-finals.

Carlsberg Open 2008 - Info

Both UM and Ex-UM are taking part in this competition.

The Competition is scheduled to be played beginning 5/1/2008 and will be played at USJ Court 9, which is currently under renovations to add a "roof".

Mid-Sem Report

We did not manage to get much practice done during the 1st Semester of this season for several reasons.

1. We were not able to book any indoor Gyms for practice. As a result the usual Wednesday night practice had to be done outdoor at Resident Colleges (RC). Whilst RC5 has been very supportive, the lighting at RC5 court is quite poor. A few practices were held at RC12 but had difficulty getting the flood lights turned on consistently. And many practices were rained out.
   
2. Head Coach Loke Yew changed jobs and his new Co worked on Saturdays. As such the usual Saturday morning practices were changed to Friday nights ~ and suffered the same difficulties as Wednesday night practices.
3. Many veteran players, for various reasons, missed many practices.
   

We managed to cover and teach some individual fundamental skills but there are still much to be covered and we hardly covered any team fundamentals and have not even properly covered 1 team set (offense or defense).

For the 2nd Semester, the Coaching Staff's plans to remedy the situation are:-

• Ensure we at least get to book the indoor Gym for Wednesday nights
• If we are unable to book the indoor Gym for Friday nights, to move the 2nd session to Sunday mornings (no lighting issue and less likely to be rained out)

However, the Coaching Staff still needs each and every current player to rededicate themselves and to recommit to attending practices regularly. Remember, we are MASUM DEFENDING CHAMPIONS. Every team will be looking to defeat us next year.

And the championship we won last year was a result of the veteran's 4 (or at least 3) years' continuous dedicated and committed effort. Last year's 1st year players (this year's 2nd year players) must NOT take the championship for granted or think that it is very easy to achieve.

Coach Loke Yew

Next Practice

Wednesday 19/12/2007 - 7:30-10:45pm @ Gym 2, UM

- as most current players are back in hometown for Semester break this month, ex-UM players have been invited to attend and practice will be less formal ~ more in the form of social games.

Universiti Malaya Boys Basketball Team (UMBBT) Website

Purpose of this Blog

A website was previously set up under tripod. However updating information on that website proved too time consuming.

It is hoped that by using a "blog" instead, information can be more easily and quickly updated so that information are current.