Ex-UM @ Carlsberg Update - Game 4

Friday Dec 23, 2011 - as promised, a WIN! We beat Winepak narrowly 63-59. We started the game struggling on offense with both Ching and Ming Lip missing many in-close shots. Fortunately, our defense held up resulting in a low scoring 1st quarter 12-13. 

Click "read more" for more details.

Ex-UM @ Carlsberg Update - Game 3

Wednesday Dec 21, 2011 - a better showing last night though ultimately still a loss. Opponent (DNA) started well and we were down by 10 or more points very early. But we settled down, didn't allow them to pull away and kept chipping away at the deficit. DNA played well, hitting critical 3 pointers each time we drew near (for the game DNA hit 11 3-pointers!!) but with persistence, we finally caught up and after 3 quarters, even had a 1 point lead (61-60). Early in the 4th, DNA hit yet another critical 3 pointer and continued to hit critical jump shots after jump shots whilst we struggled to score on half court offense. Chee Ching Lew (who had scored 20 points through 3 quarters) uncharacteristically ran out of stamina in the 4th and scored only 2 points in the critical 4th quarter. This (both lack of Ching's usual scoring and our overall half court struggles) enabled DNA to keep a small 4 to 6 point lead. Still, for the most part we kept it close (fortunately for us Sem AwYong was "hot" throughout the game, hitting 5 3-pointers for the game). Unfortunately, in the last 5 minutes of the game, we again had uncharacteristic mental lapses / mistakes, with turnovers after turnovers, leading to easy fast break scores by DNA. With about 1+ minute left, we were still as close as 71-75, but 2 more consecutive turnovers (one by Sem and another by Poh Guan) put the game out of our reach. Final score : loss of 71-79.

Only one (Ching) of our 4 centers (Ming Lip, Thierry Tan and Cheong Kok Leong were absent). Whenever we only have 1 of our centers, we tend to struggle mightily to score. Yesterday, we practically didn't score at all on our usually effective "secondary break". Hope more (all?) of our centers will attend the next game.

To our loyal supporters, thanks for coming to support us last night. As promised to the supporters, we did play much better than we did last Monday, though I do apologize that we didn't close the game out well at all.

Do come support us again tomorrow / Friday night 7:30pm vs WINEPAK. We promise a WIN!

Ex-UM @ Carlsberg Update - Game 2

Monday, Dec 19, 2011 - an uncharacteristic poor showing by all of us today (myself, Poh Guan, Sem AwYong, Thierry Tan Chin Chuan, Chee Ching Lew, Cheong Kok Leong, Jeffrey Ng and Tan Chun Pin). Opponent played aggressive and active all game. Without our usual dribble penetrators (Ming Lip and Gan Chin Phang) opponent's defense grew more and more aggressive and put our perimeter players under pressure. Result : Lots of turnovers. Final score : 76-56 Loss. Apologies to supporters who came to support us as we did not put in a good showing. 

Our next game is WEDN 21 Dec, 7:30pm vs DNA. Players please confirm your attendance. Supporters do come support us again. We promise to put on a better showing!!

Ex-UM @ Carlsberg Update - Game 1

Sunday Dec 18, 2011 - Only 7 players attended today's game : myself,Poh Guan, Ming Lip, Thierry Tan Chin Chuan, Chee Ching Lew, Cheong Kok Leong and Jeffrey Ng (Hung). Opponent (Forged Racing) was a young team with reasonable skill and ability. Their 212 zone was very aggressive and active, causing many deflections and a few steals / turnovers, Still our man-to-man defense gave them trouble and we finished the 1st quarter ahead 15-9. 

They started the 2nd quarter well and went on a mini run with several 3 pointers to take a small 15-20 lead. From there we settled down and our steady man-to-man defense eventually wore them down. By half time, we managed to regain a slim 25-24 (having lost the 2nd quarter 10-15). 

The 3rd and 4th quarter saw our man-to-man defense just wear them downand as they got tired, their 212 zone defense was no longer as tough or active and we started beating them even in half court offense. We won the 3rd and 4th quarters 18-19 and 16-4, allowing us to finish with a final score of 59-36.

Whilst our defense was good, our offense (which only generated 59 points) seems a bit lacking. Hopefully it was because we were missing 2 of our high scorers in Phang and Sem. Which also means attendance tomorrow for our next game is important!!

Well done Ex-UM!

Carlsberg Cup / Subang Cup - Game 1 Preliminary Report

Although we lost the game 73-87, I was very happy with our boys' performance and very excited at the potential and future of this new team.

Click "read more" for more detailed report.
Suggest to leave comments (if any) on Facebook UMBT post as well as it seems easier to comment there.

UM Boys will play their first game tonight / Wed 14 Dec, 8:45pm vs. JK5 in Subang Cup. 

UM roster is as follows: 


1. Amirul Effendy
2. Raymond Tan
3. Teh Wai Heng
4. WongJack Sheng
5. Yap Che Kai
6. Alex Mah Mun Hao
7. Jerry Ng Chyi Chun
8. Max LeeYong Xin
9. Teh Soon Kiat
10. Trdy Chu Wei Hong
11. Xavier Loo Chin Chyi and 
12. Yip Weng Joe. 


Players please gather and meet at UM PJ Gate at 6:45pm today and leave for the games venue at USJ14 Court 9 by 7:00pm to ensure timely arrival and avoid being caught in bad after office hours traffic. 

See you all tonight and be prepared to play hard! Supporters, do come support our new 2011 UM team!!


Players 1-5 are seniors whilst players 6-12 are 1st year players. We have more new players than old ones ... that's why our 2011 UM team is "new".

Carlsberg Cup 2011 Schedule

Carlsberg / Subang Cup 2011 games schedule is out. Please note:

UM games on 14/12 Wed 845pm (JK5), 18/12 Sun 630pm (維意) and 19/12 Mon 730pm (WG Sport A).

Ex-UM games on 18/12 Sun 9pm (Forged Racing), 19/12 Mon 845pm (Shun Kee Seafood), 21/12 Wed 730pm (DNA) and 23/12 Fri 730pm (Winepak).

KL Open Update : Ex-UM v PSBT (today)

By tip-off time, there were only 5 players : myself, Sem AwYong, Cheong Kok Leong, Ming Lip and Chee Ching Lew! Gan Chin Phang as usual arrived at tip-off. Bik Yih arrived shortly after. But our starting 5 had a fantastic start, going on a 16-2 run to start, before settling for a 9 point 1st Quarter lead (22-13). We traded baskets for awhile at the start of the 2nd quarter before going on another big run to take our lead to 27 points (47-20) at halftime! At the start of the 3rd Quarter, PSBT went on a mini run of their own with a couple of 3 pointers, cutting our lead to 20, but we responded with another BIG run to take our lead back up to even higher - a 38 point lead (73-35) after 3 Quarters. After that, we were able to cruise to the final buzzer. Final score : 92-51. Ching had his usual strong game with 31 points and Sem had MANY assists on good passes (while scoring 10 points as well). I chipped in 12 points, Ming Lip with 10 points, Phang with 6 points and Bik Yih with 6 points (including a 3 point play) but the big surprise was Leong who played substantial minutes, played good defense, was active on half court offense and ran the full court on every fast break, scoring 14 points for the game! Leong attending the last 2 Ex-UM practice / friendly vs 5th college really showed its benefits and effect! Well done Leong and all Ex-UM players who played today! Cheers, Coach LY

Ex-UM Win-Loss Record

After our very successful run in Sultan Cup Subang Zone (where Ex-UM emerged Champions), there was a break of 2 weeks before our next game (in KL Open vs KBT and in Sultan Cup Inter Zone vs TNS). Unfortunately I was overseas during these 2 weeks (for work) and was not able to arrange any practices. The 2 week lay-off showed as we resumed our season in poor form, losing to KBT 54-64 (with respect, a winnable game) and 3 days later, losing again to TNS 74-82 (again, a winnable game).

However, as is usual for Ex-UM, the more we play, the better we play. Our play against TNS was better than our play against KBT and last night, we played our 3rd game (after the 2 week break) against Chinese Media in KL Open, where we further improved our play. A tough game throughout, we found ourselves trailing early (24-30 at half time) before we finally regained some of our old form to close the gap in the 3rd quarter (42-40 after 3 quarters). The game remained close throughout the 4th quarter and even though our usual main player, Phang, fouled out, we finally pulled away late in the game (with a couple of critical 3 point shots (by me!), a couple of critical 3 point plays (by Ching), a critical steal (by Jack) and great focus and defense all round!) for a well earned 59-52 win. 

Our play continue to improve but we are still not back to our Sultan Cup Subang Zone "Championship" form yet. Worse, our next game is 13 November, another 2 week break! It is therefore important that we (Ex-UM) continue to have practices these next 2 weeks to keep our form up.

With our win last night, our win-loss record now stands at 15-4! Well done Ex-UM.

Click "Read more" for the full list of this year's game results.

Cheers,

Coach Loke Yew

Sultan Cup Inter Zone Games Schedule

Click "read more" for full games schedule for Sultan Cup Inter Zone. All games are at Rawang (basketball court with roof - same as last year's venue).

KL Open Games Schedule - Changed (again!)

Please note that the KL Open Opening Ceremony has been changed to 23 October, 4pm at MABA Stadium.

Our game KBT previously scheduled immediately after the original opening ceremony date (on 16 October) has also similarly been moved to 23 October, 4:30pm. 

Please note the requirement that 10 players must attend remains. Please make an effort to attend the Opening Ceremony as well as the game after against KBT on 23 October, 4pm and 4:30pm respectively.

Some other games schedule were also changed (though not affecting Ex-UM's games). Click "read more" for the updated, full games schedule, together with the games results to date.

Cheers,
Coach Loke Yew

Champion Ex-UM Supporters!!

And many thanks to the BEST supporters ever ... You cannot find any better or more loyal supporters anywhere. You are all indeed the "Champions" of all supporters.

Sultan Cup Subang Zone Champions!!

Another historic moment in Ex-UM history! Our first Ex-UM Championship in Ex-UM's long and storied history! Well done all Ex-UM players.

COMPLETE Ex-UM Team!

A proud moment and great beginning in Ex-UM history. For the first time we have an Ex-UM boys and Ex-UM girls team in active competition at the same time!!

Ex-UM Competition Games Update

Ex-UM just finished a stretch of back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back, 5 game in 5 days, during which our win-loss record is 4-1. And we just finished a fantastic game against OAE, to win the best of 3 series 2-0, with a hard fought 71-61 win, without one of our best player, Phang, who had transportation problems.

We had an incredible 1st half, especially the 2nd quarter where the game flow was super-fast and ball movement was fantastic. We outscored OAE 29-14 in the 2nd quarter, with (super) fast break points after fast break points, taking a commanding 17 point half time lead. However, we lost our rhythm a little in the 3rd and 1st half of the final quarter and OAE slowly closed the gap, finally tying the score at 56-56. From there, we regrouped, finally found our rhythm back, and went on a game and series clinching 15-5 run to calmly and steadily close out the game.

Jack played a fantastic game, hitting critical 3 pointers, including the last 3 pointer which restored our double digit, 10 point lead, which was the final "nail in the coffin". From there OAE started hanging their heads and totally lost their spirit (despite their Coach's encouragement that "its not over! its not over!".

Click "Read More" for a complete summary of the games and results which has been updated.

Please note also that there has been changes to both Sultan Cup Finals game and some of the KL Open games. Changes has been highlighted in red (click "Read more").

Our Ex-UM win-loss record is now 12-2! Well done Ex-UM and keep up the good play!!

Cheers,

Coach Loke Yew

KL Open Games Schedule

Click "Read more" for KL Open's full schedule.

Please note that the Opening Ceremony has been moved to 16 Oct, Sunday and Ex-UM (B) has a game immediately after that.

All games are played in Salak South EXCEPT on 16 Oct (Opening Ceremony) where all games on that day only will be played at MABA Stadium.

Please note also that there has been some changes to the schedule (the table under "Read more" has been updated accordingly). The only change affecting Ex-UM is our game on 16 Oct:-

1. Previous game time of 3:30pm was a typo. The correct time of the game is 4:30pm (after the Opening Ceremony);
2. Our opponent is changed from PSBT to KBT as the organizers wanted a more competitive game on Opening Ceremony day. KBT is considered a stronger team that PSBT.

It is therefore important for Ex-UM players to make the effort to turn up for that game!

Cheers,
Coach  Loke Yew

Ex-UM Competition Games Update

It's been a busy and good start to Ex-UM's 2011/2012 season. This week, Ex-UM's schedule will be even more busy, with games almost daily.

Click "Read more" for a summary of the games and results thus far, as well as the upcoming games, including today's and the rest of this week.

Sultan Cup 2011 (Subang Zone)-Update

Below is EX-UM's game schedule for Sultan Cup 2011. All games are played at court 9, USJ14. Come support us!

SULTAN CUP 2011 ( SUBANG ZONE )
Date	Time	GROUP	Game	Team A	Team B	Result
07-09-11	7.30PM	A	1	ASIA TECH	ANONYMOUS	64-84
...WED....	8.45PM	B	2	TOFB	SJBC	83-76
09-09-11	7.30PM	A	3	EX-UM	TABT	85-51
FRI	8.45PM	B	4	SCCK	KUALA LANGAT BA	73-69
11-09-11	3.00PM	A	5	ANONYMOUS	EX-UM	51-87
SUN	4.15PM	B	6	SJBC	SCCK	58-60
14-09-11	7.30PM	A	7	TABT	ANONYMOUS	68-84
WED	8.45PM	B	8	SJBC	KUALA LANGAT BA	79-82
18-09-11	2.30PM	A	9	ASIA TECH	TABT	72-59
SUN	3.45PM	B	10	OAE	SCCK	74-40
19-09-11	7.30PM	A	11	TABT	USJ 20	49-106
MON	8.45PM	B	12	SCCK	TOFB	102-68
21-09-11	2.00PM	B	13	KUALA LANGAT BA	TOFB	77-68
WED	3.15PM	A	14	USJ 20	ASIA TECH	104-46
23-09-11	7.30PM	A	15	EX-UM	ASIA TECH	114-53
FRI	8.45PM	B	16	OAE	SJBC	69-39
26-09-11	7.30PM	B	17	OAE	TOFB	51-44
MON	8.45PM	A	18	USJ 20	EX-UM	77-82
28-09-11	7.30PM	A	19	ANONYMOUS	USJ 20	76-110
WED	8.45PM	B	20	KUALA LANGAT BA	OAE	67-47

01-10-11	3.00PM	GF	21	EX-UM	TOFB	81-44
SAT	4.15PM	GF	22	KUALA LANGAT BA	ASIA TECH	82-61
02-10-11	2.30PM	GF	23	OAE	ANONYMOUS	70-51
SUN	3.45PM	GF	24	USJ 20	SCCK	75-64
03-10-11	7.30PM	SF1 R1	25	EX-UM	OAE	68-58
MON	8.45PM	SF2 R1	26	KUALA LANGAT BA	USJ 20	57-85
05-10-11	7.30PM	SF1 R2	27	USJ 20	KUALA LANGAT BA	104-102
WED	8.45PM	SF2 R2	28	OAE	EX-UM	61-71
07-10-11	7.30PM	3/4 R1		KUALA LANGAT BA	OAE	77-83
FRI	8.45PM	FINAL R1		UJS 20	EX-UM	65-68
09-10-11	1.45PM	FINAL R2		EX-UM	USJ 20	71-56

KL Open Details

Ex-UM's KL Open 2011 season will kick-off this SUNDAY 2 October. Ex-UM girls team will play at 2:30pm v MVP Sport 1 whilst Ex-UM boys team will play at 7:00pm v Confucian B at Salak South.

This competition is Ex-UM girls' team's first, inaugural competition! Well done to Chai Ling who took the challenge to form Ex-UM girls' first team and congratulations to all Ex-UM girls on successfully forming our very first Ex-UM girls' team. 

Coach Bik Yih who kindly attended the Manager's meeting on our behalf, very kindly further drove around Salak South after the meeting, to look for the games venue! Many thanks, Bik Yih.

Details of the boys' teams' KL Open Grouping, the games schedule for the 1st 2 days (2 Oct and 9 Oct) for both boys and girls' teams, as well as games venue location details are as per below.

Please note the need to attend the Opening Ceremony on 15 October, 4pm at MABA Stadium.

Boys: Group A Group B Confucian A Confucian B Chinese Media (Blue) Chinese Media (Red) K-Sport EX – UM Sportkid PSBT Sentosarian KBT U – TAR (no comfirm) Anonymous   2-10-11（Sunday) 11:30am (G) Hong Wei A vs Hong Wei B 13:00pm (G) 人人橙 vs 人人黄 14:30pm (G) Ex-Um vs MVP Sport 1 16:00pm (B) PSBT vs KBT 17:30pm (B) Confucian A vs K-Sport 19:00pm (B) Ex-Um vs Confucian B  9-10-11（Sunday) 11:30am (G) Ex-Um vs Hong Wei A 13:00pm (G) Hong Wei B vs 人人橙 14:30pm (G) 人人黄 vs MVP Sport 1 16:00pm (B) Confucian B vs PSBT 17:30pm (B) KBT vs Anunymous 19:00pm (B) Sportkid vs SENTOSARIAN   Opening Ceremony  Will be on 15 Oct at MABA STADIUM (4pm). Each team need to send 10 players to line up during the opening ceremony (T-Shirts will be given out on that day). Games Venue / Location Address : Jalan 1, Kampung Baru Salak South Latitude : 3.089799 Longitude : 101.702863 (for iPhone / iPad users, just enter 3.089799, 101.702863 into the Maps app)   To All Ex-UM Supporters Come support us, especially our brand new Ex-UM girls' team!!

UM Practice & Try Out

UM 2011-2012 Season is starting!

We will have our first practice and try-out sessions starting this week, as follows:-

1. Wedn 28/9 NIGHT 7:30-10:45 PM at Gym 1 (Indoor Court)
2. Sat 1/10 MORNING 7:30-10:30 AM at Varsity Green (Outdoor Court)

We are also trying to secure availability of Gym 1 on Thursday night and will advise if we manage to secure it.

Meantime, for 1st year players (and reminder to our veterans), please note our following practice guidelines / rules:-

1. Be EARLY. Practice start time of 7:30 means you should be there at 7:00, to warm up etc. We start sharp at 7:30.

2. Be EFFICIENT. During practice, especially between drills or between drill and water break, do not walk but run / jog.

3. Practice HARD. Drills are run for short durations but we expect HIGH INTENSITY/ EFFORT.

4. Bring your own WATER supply (LOTS of it!). There is no water supply at Varsity Green and although there is a water cooler at Gym 1, 20+ people waiting in line to use that one water cooler is not efficient use of time.

5. Bring a simple FILE. We will handout printouts occasionally during practices.

6. Subject to the above, have FUN and ENJOY yourselves. Get to know your new team mates and make new friends whilst learning to improve your basketball skills.

See you all this Wednesday night.

Regards,
On behalf of the
UMBBT Coaching Staff
Coach Loke Yew

Sent from my iPad

UM Achievements Todate

I've been meaning to set out on one page, UM's achievements to date, for a long time now.

I've finally got around to starting it at : UMBBT Info Website - Achievements

I always believe "getting started" is more important than waiting to get it absolutely right / complete. I've therefore just started by setting out the more recent achievements. If you recall which year / season, which competition and the results, please state in the comments to this entry and I'll add it to our Info Website @ the Achievements page.

I'd also like to collect a team photo of each and every UM team over the years. If you have a team photo of your team, please email to me at : Coach LY's Email

Thank you.
Coach Loke Yew

Sultan Cup - Update

Ex-UM is also have a good run at Sultan Cup this year. Our results thus far:-

G1 v TABT (Win : 85-51)
G2 v Anonymous (Win : 87-51)

G2 (played today) was particularly interesting as there were only 3 players at the games venue at game time (Phang, Coach Loke Yew and Jack) due to many players being outstation and not being able play. After half an hour Coach Pin and Sem arrived and game started with just 5 of us! In the middle of the 2nd Quarter, Ching arrived. We played the entire game with just 6 players!

Fortunately, we all played a good game - Phang had many great assists, Pin scored in double figures (11 points) and Ching was our (usual) dominant, unstoppable player, scoring 43 points!! That's almost half our entire team score!!

Thanks to the Ex-UM players who rushed back from outstation to attend today and well done all!

Many thanks also to all the Ex-UM supporters who attended (there were more Ex-UM supporters than Ex-UM players today!!) today's game and continue to give us great support.

G3 will be against Asia Tech on 23/9 FRIDAY @ 7:30pm.  Come support us some more!

Ex-UM @ Xballer - Update

Ex-UM is having a great run at Xballer's Cup (played at Wawasan 4, Puchong) this year.

Our results thus far are as follows:

G1 v Anklebreakers (Win : 97-59)
G2 v Alpha Tomo Global (Win : 91-46)
G3 v MTV Digital (Loss : 66-95)
G4 v Serdang 8 (Win : 97-76)
G5 v MIDO (Win 79-52)

With the above results, Ex-UM is the runner-up in their group and advance to the Quarter Finals, which will be played on 13/9 TUES, 8pm against SuperSport.

Come support us!

Ex-UM's game schedule in Xballer Cup 2011 has been changed again. The revised game schedule is as follows:

8 Aug (Mon) 9pm Anklebreakers vs Ex-UM (WIN : 97-59)
21 Aug (Sun) 8pm Ex-UM v Alpha Tomo Global (WIN : 91-46)
27 Aug (Sat) 8pm Ex-UM v MTV Digital
29 Aug (Mon) 730pm Ex-UM v Serdang 8
4 Sep (Sun) 630pm MIDO v Ex-UM

Please take note of the change.

For the latest games schedule, check : www.Xballer.com/my/xbc

Come support us!

Xballer Cup - Game Schedule CHANGES

Ex-UM's game schedule in Xballer Cup 2011 for the game against Alpha Tomo Global has been changed. The revised game schedule is as follows:

8 Aug (Mon) 9pm Anklebreakers vs Ex-UM

21 Aug (Sun) 8pm Ex-UM v Serdang 8

24 Aug (Wed) 730pm Ex-UM v Alpha Tomo Global

27 Aug (Sat) 8pm Ex-UM v MTV Digital

4 Sep (Sun) 630pm MIDO v Ex-UM

Please take note of the change.

Come support us!

Cheers,
Coach Loke Yew