I know I haven't been around to do this much at all this season, but today's schedule fit, so here goes:
Today's Game:
Hanguk U21 110 - 100 Cyprus U21
Today's game doesn't make a big difference for Korea U21, but we're mainly just playing spoilers, as this win would be critical for Cyprus' odds of making it into the knockout stage of the consolation tournament. Both teams giving it there all for this game, with Cyprus getting the homecourt advantage. They figured we would play inside and geared their defense against our big men, hopefully this plays out to our advantage.
On to the first quarter.
Early on, we're digging a whole with shooting fouls. 3 out of their 6 points were scored on free throws. But it does look like we're making a conscious effort to hold on defence as so far, it's been a low scoring game. Everyone is contributing. It's good to see Hee-Ho Moon on the scoring list, after a long hiatus off the lineup with injuries. At one point we were neck and neck on the scoreboard. After the first quarter, score is 21-27. We weren't able to convert any shots in the last 3 minutes of the quarter.
So far in the 2nd quarter, the same story, foul troubles. Falling behind, 1 point at a time. Sung-Ryong Kim, the man of the hour. And being only 20 years of age. We'll count on him to lead the team next season, but not just Kim, we have quite a stack of talent heading into next season. Hopefully we can bring it! Back to the game. Kwang Chul Kim is in a bit of foul trouble. An even quarter right up until the end. We trail 44-52.
3rd quarter just not our quarter. Making it painful to watch
exciting 4th quarter... only down 3 with 1 minute to go... everything happening too fast to type anything
Mul-Jib Lee ties it with a triple!
We're going to overtime! Way to squeeze out some extra minutes in the last game of our season. Now let me catch my breath for a minute...
We get the first basket of the overtime period. They are driving it to us, but nothing is sticking. Only point they got in the quarter was as result from a free throw. Way to hold down the D! No looking back now, we've built ourselves a double-digit lead. It took us a while, but there IS something worth celebrating about on the U21 side of Korea's NT program. The NT did great this season, led by EGM-Perpete, almost making it into 2nd round of International play.
Last edited by Statsman at 1/11/2016 12:53:22 PM