QF : UM v UPM

What a game! UPM started the game aggressively and incredibly
strongly, especially on offense. Defensively, this was our first test
against a zone defense and UPM played a great aggressive 1-2-2 zone
defense.

Despite our players' best efforts including us going to our 2-2-1
three quarter court zone press, we found ourselves down 7-23 after 1
quarter!

Howeer, both coaches and players continued to believe in our team and
our system and continued to plug away at the lead.

Slowly our offense started to come together and we started to score.
We scored 18 points in the 2nd quarter, but UPM continued to score as
well. Our largest defecit was 23 or 25 points!!

We continued to have faith and continued to play hard on defense,
making it tougher and tougher for UPM to score. Slowly we started to
close the gap. Our 3/4 court zone trap started to cause more and more
turnovers. And finally our 3 pointers started to fall for us. By the
end of the 3rd quarter, we had caught up and were only down by 2
points!!

In the 4th, surely and steadily, we started to overtake UPM. UPM
stayed mentally tough as well and would not let us pull away,
repeatedly closing the gap to 2 or 4 points each time we tried to pull
away. However as the game wore on, UPM's players started to run out of
gas and our press created more and more turnovers whilst 4 different
players hit critical 3 pointers.

Finally, with about 2 minutes left and us up 6 points, we went into
our "4-down" delay tactics. From there we either scored or UPM were
force to foul and our players made their free throws.

Final score : 82-71! UM wins!!

Next game = semi finals vs UUM tomorrow / Saturday afternoon 1pm.

Regards,
Loke Yew, Khor

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