This week the main focus was working on different types of offense and defense. As for offense, we have worked on the different movements that each player could do and methods to create spaces which the offense can exploit. As for defense, we have worked on 2-3 zone, 1-3-1 zone, man to man and full court press defense. This week was mainly increasing our types of offense and defense that we could use so that we can play against teams which use many different types of offense and defense. And on Saturday, we had a match against Royal Institute at our OSC gym. The score was 41-50 and we were unable to beat them, however, overall I’m very happy with our performances.

Since it was the second match of this season, I was less nervous compared to last time, but it was still a challenge to face a team whom we don’t know what kind of basketball they play. However, we collaborated together to minimize their performance and maximizing our chance to make the baskets. In the first two quarters, we were just getting used to their basketball, but in the 3rd and the 4th quarter, we performed really well in defense and we were also scoring points by exploiting the open spaces, which is something we have been working on in practices. Although we lost the match, overall our performance was much better than last time

Hopefully next week we will also get to play a game against another school so that we can really learn our strengths and weaknesses, and adjust anything that is needed so that we can play at our best in the SAISA tournament.