MASUM 2011 - Results

UM played a good game to win their final 3rd / 4th placing match against UUM for a medal placing. Final score : 74-49. Well done UM.

Coach LY

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MASUM 2011 - Semi Finals Results

Sad to report that UM lost it's semi finals game vs USM today 81-85. Our players played their hearts out and almost pulled the game out. But some late game mistakes cost us. Players now have to focus on preparing for tomorrow's 3rd / 4th game vs UUM at 9:30am.

Coach

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MASUM 2011 - SF v USM - Supporters

Our loyal and early arriving supporters! T-minus 20 minutes to game time.

MASUM Semi Finals teams

Unexpected, surprising results in the other (men's) bracket. Home team, UPM lost to UUM (65-69) and last year's finalist UiTM lost to UIAM 86-75.

MASUM 2011 - QF v UTM - Results

UM won their QF game vs UTM : 77-38. Semi Finals time CHANGED to 8:30pm tonight vs either UMP or USM.

Regards,
Loke Yew, Khor

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MASUM 2011 - QF Supporters

Our loyal supporters - Fwuji and Sharon!

MASUM 2011 - QF v UTM

The boys are warming up, getting ready for our Quarter Finals game against UTM. T-Minus ... er, actually it's game time already!! We are waiting for referees to arrive.

UMBBT Bilik Operasi

We've been operating out of Pin's nearby condo (doing stats, reviewing videos etc) and we've converted his dining area into our "bilk operasi"!

New Addition to Coaching Staff

Prior to our game vs UMS, we officially initiated Zhen into our Coaching Staff with the presentation of the customary "Coaches' whistle" from the Head Coach to the new Assistant Coach.

Zhen had already been helping us as an Assistant Coach since Centralized Training and throughout MASUM but we thought he deserved official and formal recognition.

Welcome to the Coaches' family, Zhen!

MASUM 2011 - G2 vs UMS - Results and Detailed Stats

Our boys played another excellent game today against UMS, winning 77-39.

We did not have as good a start as we did against UPM. I didn't expect us to and cautioned our boys before the game not to feel pressured to "repeat" the excellent start we had against UPM. Despite my caution, I felt our boys still felt like they "had to" have the same fantastic start so that although we were still playing well, because we were not playing as "dominantly", our boys' spirits were somewhat down early in the game and they "tried too hard" on defense resulting in some uncharacteristic early fouls.

We finished the first quarter with a slight lead (14-10) but was clearly in control of the game. With encouragement, our boys quickly settled down, stopped trying too hard and we had as dominant a 2nd quarter as we could, holding UMS to just 4 points in that quarter whilst running off 17 points to take a commanding 31-14 lead at the half.

From there we just stayed focused and continued to outscore UMS in the 3rd (26-18) and again had a dominant 4th quarter, holding UMS to just 7 points in the final period. Final score : UM wins 77-39.

As a team, we again achieved many of our team stat goals, with 87 shot attempts (lower slightly than the UPM game but still good), an even more dominant performance in rebounds, achieving 75%
Defensive rebounding efficiency (getting closer to our goal of 80%) and 51% Offensive rebounding efficiency (exceeding our goal of 50%!) and maintaining our 0.9 points per possession.

Team captain Ching #13 again led the way with another double-double (18 pts, 11 rebounds) and we had contribution and scoring across the board, not just from 1 or 2 players. Above are the detailed player and team game stats.

Well done again UMBBT.

Tomorrow we have a heavy schedule, with Quarter Finals (against UTM) at 8am and Semi Finals (vs either UMP or USM) also tomorrow at 5:30pm.

We are ready for tomorrow's challenges and we look forward to continuing our good run. Will post results here again tomorrow.

MASUM 2011 - Day 3 Update

Coaches at pre-game lunch, final strategy meeting. T-Minus 1 hour to game time. Players are already at games venue getting ready and we are headed over now.

MASUM 2011 - Results Update

Above are the results of the various teams and games as at today. Some groups' champion / runner-ups have already been determined. Our group will depend on our game this afternoon vs UMS.

If we are group champions, our QuarterFinals opponent will be UTM and (assuming we are successful at QF) our Semi Finals opponent will be either USM or UMP.

MASUM 2011 - Day 3 Update

Coaches (except for Coach Tak Wing who is at work) at our customary pre-game breakfast strategy meeting. T-Minus 4 1/2 hours till game time.

MASUM G1 v UPM - Full Stats

Apologies for the late update on the detailed stats for our game 1 vs UPM played this last Sunday. We've been busy all day Monday scouting other teams and (later in the evening) supporting the girls team in their game 1 vs UiTM (which our girls won narrowly 56-55 on a last second 3 point shot!).

Above are the detailed game stats for the boy's game 1 vs UPM last Sunday including player individual stats with individual shot chart, turnover analysis and team stat analysis.

Our team captain Lew Chee Ching #13 as usual gave us his usual double-double, this time with 18 pts + 15 rebounds (10 on offensive end!), even though he did not shoot well from the 3 point line.

Both our usual 2nd top scorers, ex-captain Jensen Lim #7 and (current year's) co-captain Jinn Wen were limited as Jensen was struggling a bit with the flu whilst Jinn Wen suffered a bone contusion on his right knee fairly in the game. Jensen could only go short stretches for us because of his flu and we shut Jinn Wen down early in the game when we thought his movements on court were not his normal gait. Despite the flu, Jensen contributed 5 points whilst playing his usual excellent defense, though we had to hold Jensen's minutes to just 15 minutes (well below the 20-24 minutes we expect to play him). Jinn Wen also contributed 5 points and 8 rebounds despite his even more limited playing time (11 minutes).

Heng #4 stepped up big, shouldering Jensen's minutes as well as his own and had an excellent game, contributing 16 points, with many inspiring and big 3 point shots, with 3 assists and a team leading 5 steals!

Hau #12 has now been dubbed Ginobli-Hau as he was virtually unstoppable one-on-one with "Ginobli-like" head / shoulder fakes and impossible looking drives to the basket, making him our 3rd highest scorer with 15 points as well as playing his usual aggressive and hard-working defense, getting a team high 6 deflections and 7 rebounds.

Meantime, Raymond #15 and Min Jia #8 both stepped up and shared the responsibilities of covering Jinn Wen's minutes, with Raymond playing very aggressively and drawing foul after foul on UPM and Min Jia continuing to show his ability to knock down open 3 point shots,forcing UPM to stay honest on defense and unable to provide help defense.

Our veteran Kelvin #11 who had been struggling lately with his shot, showed signs he is regaining his touch (contributing 10 points) but better yet, he took my advice to him (that he can contribute and be effective for our team in so many additional ways, not merely shooting) to heart and played excellent aggressive defense and crashing the boards hard each and every possession getting 8 rebounds, 6 of which on the offensive end!

Both our point guards Amirul #10 and Jack #9 played excellently, running our offense smoothly and efficiently no matter which combination of player was on the floor.

Overall, the team performed well achieving or getting close to many of our team goals. We got off 99 shot attempts (our goal is 100), maintained a high offensive rebounding efficiency of 46.6% (our goal is 50%), taking good care of the ball with only 12 turnovers (our goal is to keep to 8-12) and achieving a 0.9 point per possession offensive efficiency (our goal is 1).

Our shooting percentage is still a bit short of our goals (2PT @ 37% - goal 44% and 3pt @ 18% - goal 35%) but we certainly shot much better than recently in UCBL by still being aggressive in taking shots but now also assessing whether we are "open" before shooting. Our aggressiveness on offense also shows in the number of free throws we attempted (38) as compared to UPM (18). However, as rightly and astutely pointed out by Fwuji in his comments below, our Free Throw % definitely needs improvement!

At the same time, our aggressive defense caused 32 turnovers, 2/3rds of which we created by our steals and aggressive defense whilst holding UPM to just 28% FG% and more importantly limiting them to only 65 shot attempts! That means we got to shoot the ball 34 more times than UPM!

Well done to all our boys. A good first step for our boys but it is still ultimately that (and our boys fully understand it) : a first step.

Our journey continues today against UMS at 3:30pm.

Come support us at UPM or support us in spirit and in heart from wherever you are at!

MASUM G1 UM v UPM

A team photo before the start of our first game. MASUM 2011 boys' basketball team.

A good first step in our journey towards our ultimate goal. Our first game was against UPM in a rematch of last year's quarter finalists. Last year UPM had presented a really tough test of our team, putting is in a 27 point deficit before our boys gamely clawed back and won last year.

A year later and still employing our patented aggressive man-to-man defense but sporting a new, high-octane, super fast paced offense, our boys showed our team had gotten even stronger this year, we were able to take UPM totally out of their normal game, lead the entire game and won comfortably. Final score : 85-52.

Well done UM boys!

A good first step. Our journey together continues. Tonight, a video session to see where we can improve further and tomorrow we shift our focus onto our next opponent, UMS. We will be able to watch UPM v UMS tomorrow, so we will have a good idea what our next opponent will be like.

Thanks to all Ex-UM who made the trip specially to UPM to support our team and to the many more who sent supporting and encouraging SMS-es. Thank you. Keep supporting us and stay tuned here for more updates.

MASUM - Dinner

A good dinner for our hard working and well deserving boys. Tomorrow, our journey (which started way back in July 2010!) continues as we face our first challenge. Join us at UPM if you can, otherwise join us in spirit and support us! UM, UM, UuuuuuuuM!!

MASUM 2011 - Living Quarters

Living conditions are, sadly (as usual!) quite deplorable. Made worst this year are several of the rooms are facing west and gets intolerably hot in the afternoon. We will have to find alternative "shelter" for the boys the next time they need to rest in the afternoon.

MASUM 2011 - Test Court

Our boys testing out the court ... Very "colorful" court with many different colored lines. But our boys are used to this type of court and very quickly acclimatized themselves. No problems!

MASUM 2011

> It's that time of the year again ... MASUM 2011. Our boys have checked into UPM. Our first game is tomorrow against the home team, UPM, at UPM Dewan Serbaguna (right next to UPM Gate 8). Our boys are ready, well prepared and confident.
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> Here they are warming up together and getting ready for our "test court" session shortly.
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> Stay tuned as we try to keep all updated on our activities here!
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UCBL G6 vs Taylor College

UM played their 6th game in UCBL against Taylor's College which turned out to be a close "nail biter" game. A game where we were "in control" throughout most of the game (we had the lead for 36mins) but couldn't pull away. There were 3 lead changes in the last 28 seconds! Final score UM win 72-71.

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MASUM 2011 Schedule

It's that time of year again! MASUM 2011 is just around the corner (26-30 June 2011).

UM boys team has been training hard and are already in the 2nd week of Centralized Training. The team looks good and we are excited to chase the Championship again.

The game schedule is quite tight, with games as follows:

Sun 26/6 3:30 pm UM v UPM
Tue 28/6 3:30 pm UMS v UM
Wed 29/6 8:00 am Quarter Finals
Wed 29/6 5:30 pm Sem Finals
Thur 30/6 1:00 pm Finals

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UCBL G5 : UM v HELP Stats

UM lost game 5 to HELP college. HELP college were mainly African players, all big sized, agile and great leapers / jumpers. Final score : 60-76.

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UCBL G4 : UM v INTI Stats

UM won it's 4th straight game in UCBL last Sunday 29 May 2011, defeating INTI College 68-54.

Well done UM!

Click "Read more" for more details of the game and for the Boxscore Stat Sheet.