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Hi Everyone.

Sorry for late update as I have been busy in setting up a new company and has very little time to update whatever that is needed to be updated. Previous few times, it took me at least about 3-4 hours to gather all the information, just to update BBAXN and this blog. I planned to do this tomorrow hence please bear with the lack of info. Appreciates.

BTW, for this upcoming match against MaraStark, it will start at 5.00 pm hence everyone needs to be at 7-Eleven by 2.30 pm. Before, I always make it 3 hours before match time. However, it takes the team approximately 1 hr 20 mins to reach ACS court thus I give a little more time. Hopefully we wouldn't be late. However, all players are advised to have an early lunch (11 am) to avoid stomach upset, as well as plenty of fluid. Those that are not feeling well, please inform Jason by Friday Night (BEFORE 10 PM) so that he could settle the official 12 players.

Against MaraStark, we must be careful of their Ang Moh Center (Lott) as he has performed exceptionally well in their previous match against Pasaway. Definately we need to play more box-out, without drawing unnecessary fouls.

For this 5th match, Jason has volunteer to "watch the match" and will act as a coach. Hence, the Captain role will be given to Guo Hui. Please take note that in whatever sports, COACH MAKES THE FINAL DECISION ON THE COURT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OVERRULE HIM, OR I WILL BAN THE PLAYER FOR NEXT MATCH. As Jason will be trying new tactics, listen to him and play accordingly. In the future, one of the 3 players (Jason, Guo Hui & Ah Hao) will need rotate to "watch the match" WITH NO GAME PARTICIPATION.

Personally, I will also look out for players that do not put in 100% commitment into their play - e.g. no effort in running back to defense, finding offensive space, soloist, etc. I will also look into the performance scoreboard which Cheng Khai is keeping track, to see players that have not perform well - e.g. low percentage scoring, low contribution in rebounds/steals, etc (but case-to-case basis). In regardless of whoever the person is, even if Jason, Guo Hui or Ah Hao, if performance has been consistently bad...

I have a few incoming players who have signaled their interests to play for us - i.e. Weide, Cheng Khai, Bing Shu, Jian Hong, etc. So work hard to keep your place. If you think you're unable to commit or cannot take the pressure, keep me informed so that I could give the space to someone else.

Last but not least, my overall comments for previous match is extremely negative hence I keep the comments to myself. For those believe that he or the team has perform well, don't kid yourself. Bad is bad. Good is good.

If you look at the match report, the junior team (JJ, A&W, ZX, JW and BP) has scored 16 points for their quarter (with Guan & Guo Hui). The first 3 quarters, we have scored 18, 16 and 16 points respectively. Defensively, we lost 29, 27, 26 and 23 points respectively. If we tally, we have:

1st Q: - 11 pts (minus 11 pts)
2nd Q: - 11 pts
3rd Q: - 10 pts
4th Q: - 7 pts

While we can perceive that the opponents & referee may give chance to our junior team, their scoring abilities is on par with the senior team and due to their "small" defensive abilities, they didn't draw too much fouls. Kudos to all the junior players.

Anyway, I'm happy that Jerome Pang & Derrick are likely to play this week (two of my previous MVPs). However, I hope that additional one or two of the big guys would volunteer to focus on being a GUARD/CENTER (AND WILLING IN TRAINING TO BE A GOOD DEFENDER - Rebound/Block). We are really lousy at the back.

PS: ALL PLAYERS ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO SIT ON BENCHES. BENCHES WILL BE STRICTLY FOR NON-PLAYERS, INCLUDING SUPPORTERS (WITH PRIORITY TO LADIES), NON-PLAYING COACH AND MANAGER (Myself).

PLAYERS SHOULD SIT TOGETHER, FOCUSING ON THE MATCH ALONE. FOR EXAMPLE - BENCH ON CENTER - PLAYERS SIT ON ONE SIDE, SUPPORTERS (IF NO MORE BENCH SPACE) SIT ON OTHER SIDE.

NONETHELESS, AS APPRECIATION TOWARDS THE SUPPORTERS UNDERSTANDING & KINDNESS, I WILL PERSONALLY SPONSOR DRINKS. PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED WHO IS COMING AS SUPPORTERS.

That's all for today. I spent nearly 1 hour to type this and it's nearly 6 am. Good Nite.

PT, TM.

Take Note

Our next match with Serangoon Boiz will be at 6.30 pm, NOT 7.00 pm.

Jocelyn's PhotoMontage Contribution

*Not All From Yew Tee Knights. Mostly Players From New Court.

3rd Match Report (Pasaway)

Match 3. Finally, we won our first match.

Team Pasaway has been a physically challenging team that put pressure on both of our defense and offense. There were heated times especially during moments of disagreeable referee decision, but all well ends well, as both team are matured enough to cool down.

As you can see from the quarterly results, we have been fighting tooth-for-tooth, and recovered our victory through leveraging on free throws.

Our coach-cum-player, Guo Hui has scored an impressive 19 points but our MVP of the match Derrick Teo has contribute 10 points, 4 steals and 5 rebounds. Jerome Pang, a potential MVP, also bought home 8 points, 1 steal and 5 rebounds.

All-in-all, YT Knights have performed well and hopefully continue similar performance for the rest of the seasons. We also thanks Pasaway for being a sporting team and wish them luck too.

Statistics For 3rd Match (Against Team Pasaway)

Overall MVP: Derrick Teo
Scoring MVP : Guo Hui
Defensive MVP: Derrick Teo
Potential MVP: Jerome Pang

*Fouls Will Be Readjusted to Minus 3 Points.

1. Jerome Pang
Scored 8 Points (8)
4 Chances Scored (20)
1 Chances Missed (-5)
1 Steals (3)
5 Rebounds (15)
0 Blocks (0)
4 Fouls (-12)
TOTAL : 29 Pts

2. Jia Wei
Scored 2 Points (2)
1 Chances Scored (5)
2 Chances Missed (-10)
1 Steals (3)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
1 Fouls (-3)
TOTAL : -3 Pts

3. Guo Liang
Scored 7 Points (7)
4 Chances Scored (20)
2 Chances Missed (-10)
0 Steals (0)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
2 Fouls (-6)
TOTAL : 11 Pts

4. Dan Lee
Scored 14 Points (14)
7 Chances Scored (35)
12 Chances Missed (-60)
2 Steals (6)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
2 Fouls (-6 + Additional -10)
TOTAL : -20 Pts

6. Teck Meng
Scored 7 Points (7)
5 Chances Scored (25)
6 Chances Missed (-30)
0 Steals (0)
1 Rebounds (3)
0 Blocks (0)
4 Fouls (-12)
TOTAL : -7 Pts

7. Guo Hui
Scored 19 Points (19)
10 Chances Scored (50)
8 Chances Missed (-40)
1 Steals (3)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
4 Fouls (-12)
TOTAL : 20 Pts

9. Keng Guan
Scored 2 Points (2)
1 Chances Scored (5)
1 Chances Missed (-5)
1 Steals (3)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
0 Fouls (-0)
TOTAL : 5 Pts

10. Marvin Pang
Scored 3 Points (3)
2 Chances Scored (10)
5 Chances Missed (-25)
1 Steals (3)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
2 Fouls (-6)
TOTAL : -15 Pts

11. Jason He
Scored 3 Points (3)
1 Chances Scored (5)
4 Chances Missed (-20)
1 Steals (3)
0 Rebounds (0)
0 Blocks (0)
1 Fouls (-5)
TOTAL : -14 Pts

13. Tzer Bang
Scored 4 Points (4)
3 Chances Scored (15)
1 Chances Missed (-5)
2 Steals (6)
1 Rebounds (3)
0 Blocks (0)
4 Fouls (-12)
TOTAL : 11 Pts

15. Derrick Teo
Scored 10 Points (10)
8 Chances Scored (40)
3 Chances Missed (-15)
4 Steal (12)
5 Rebound (5)
0 Blocks (0)
4 Fouls (-12)
TOTAL : 40 Pts

Great Game... But...

Overall, we had a good game and it's our first win! 78-76. As expected, Guo Hui & Derrick performed well and that Jerome Pang has been positively contributing. Nonetheless, it's unexpected that key players such as Marvin Pang and Jason He have been disappointing. Also, I would hope that in the future, Dan (Ah Hao) would stay cool and be within the referees' good books. Personally, I feel that referees' have made several bad calls and also has not taken action in ensuring safety of the players (there's a pool of sweat) which some players accidentally slipped.

However... the most important thing would be...

On behalf of Knights Management, I apologize and personally responsible for screwed-ups situations on team formation. We will try to make sure that each and every players have adequate chances to play. It's really difficult to balance between getting a team to win and having everyone to play. My sincerest apology to Jia Jun, Brandon and Alvin Wu. Thanks to Alvin Yen for sacrifice his slot so that others could have a chance to play - TEAM COMES FIRST spirit !!!

For our upcoming 3 matches, I will field in ALL 5 JUNIOR PLAYERS (Jia Wei, Jia Jun, Brandon and Zi Xuan) to handle 1 quarter, and pick 7 SENIOR PLAYERS INCLUDING ONLY 1 COACH, while the other coach at sideline advising on game play. I expect to see that this Junior Team will be able to meet up to expectation. All statistics will be recorded and in the future, used to evaluate players' commitment and performance. For senior players not included, I would appreciate if you could come down to show your support towards the juniors and all attendance will be recorded.

In the next 3 matches, we will meet up the following team (and their previous 3 matches' result):

Serangoon Boiz (Win / Loss / ?)
MaraStark (Loss / Loss / ?)
Pirates Bravo (Loss / Loss / Loss)

Currently, the strongest team would be Team J (Straight Wins with Top Scorer Junichi Kataishi with 71 points), followed by Amigos, Spartans and Askals, each with 2 wins. Instagators seems strong also.

PS: Thanks To Our Die-Hard Supporters - Jocelyn, Jia Li, Ben, Bird, Jerome Tan and special gratitude to Cheng Khai for his effort & assistance in keeping statistics, and Xing Li for her help to become out team photographer.

Individual Training

As per discussed last night, I hope that everyone understands their weakness and have a work plan on how to improve on the weakness throughout the season.

TZER BANG & JIA WEI
Offensive & Defensive Rebounding

JEROME PANG & BRANDON PEH
Offensive Psychology

KENG GUAN
Shooting & Steals

JIA JUN & ALVIN WU
Ball Dribbling

GUO LIANG & JASON HE
Leadership

I will work with Jason & Guo Hui on the exercise and measurements for all of these. To improve, use your free time to visit the court to do some self-practice and get a buddy to help.

Overall, I hope that all of you got at least 3-4 skills that could contribute towards the team. Here will be some of the training & measurement, which I will work with Guo Hui & Jason, to implement within the usual training.

SHOOTING
Shooting is overall important, so I wish to see a good accuracy of 30% for 3 pointers, 60% for 2 pointers and 90% for free-throws. 30 shots at each distance.

DRIBBLING
Dribbling is also essential, especially with both hands. Dribbling across court for 4 times, switch hands, in less than 1 min 20 secs.

STEALS & PASSING
Good steals and passing can turn the game around, since we're playing half-court press. 5-5 monkeys within half-court. 2 Teams. Passed 50 Times. If steal more than 25 times, passer team lose. If pass successfully more than 25 times, stealer team lose.

REBOUNDING
Rebounding, whether offensive & defensive need good jumping skill and great anticipation. 2 teams of 3 players pick their spot while 1 person blind shoot (for fairness) for 25 times. Team with least rebounds lose.

Circular From BBAXN (PLEASE TAKE NOTE)

Please note during the game

Match Date: 2-October-2007 | Match Time: 19:15:00 | Match Venue: ACS Court 3 Wombats vs Mars

Post game, one of the Wombats played hurled abusive language towards the on court officials.

BBAXN has subsequently suspended the player for 2 midweek league games.

Please be reminded:-

As sport players, we are all guilty of verbally challenging the decisions of Referees. However, feeling aggrieved regarding Refereeing decisions should be no justification for physically threatening Referees and / or continuously confronting them, furthermore for certain players to indicate referees are racist or biased can not be tolerated.. Such incidents will be dealt with strictly by the BBAXN Disciplinary Committee to ensure the safety of all Referees.

Referees can make mistakes during the game (or miss intentional fouls between two players) and certain calls can of course make a big impact on the game (and can cause tempers to rise), hopefully over the season the good calls and the not so good calls will even themselves out, but all teams must be aware the BAS referees are the appointed officials of the league and must be respected on the court regardless of good or bad calls.

BBAXN has requested to the BAS referees to always call serious fouls regardless if no disadvantage is gained and to act on the side of caution rather than let the game flow. This request has been passed down to the officials.

In basketball fouls will always be committed; this is part and parcel of the game. Some fouls are more dangerous than others, however regardless of the nature of the foul players must get up and walk away from the incident and allowing the referees to control the game. Contesting with the opponent every foul will of course lead to high tempers raising. In this instance BBAXN strongly encourages team managers to substitute the players concerned to allow them to “cool down” for 5 mins or so, allowing the players to continue in the court again increases the possibility of an incident happening.

BBAXN naturally does not encourage Trash Talking by any team in the league especially if insults are thrown as again this can ignite tempers to be raised… and we encourage all team managers to remove such players from the game for a short period of time to cool down. Every team manager must play their part to ensure the safety of all players in the game taking pro-active action to diffuse potential incidents.

Finally players (and supporters in some instances) storming the courts when an incident happens should never happen. Team managers must remind their players that entering the court without the referees permission is not permitted and must be actively enforced. Generally a shove and a punch will diffuse if left to the referees and the other players on the court rising above the situation at hand. Should a team wish to protest regarding certain incidents or referee decisions the correct course of action is of course for the Team Captain / Mgr to calmly approach the referee table to ask for an explanation if still unsatisfied the team can write a formal citation to BBAXN who will follow up with the BAS Chief Referee.

2nd Match Report (Amigos)

LINK TO MATCH REPORT

Before I comment on the match, here's something trivia... On Sunday, the first prize for 4D was 1451. This game, we lost at 65-51 with a point difference of 14. Hmmm....

Anyway, we have lost our second match to the Amigos. But compared to our previous match against Team J, the team felt more relaxed and focused, and I believe that we will continue to improve throughout the season.

During our first half, it was a tough fight especially against their experienced two forwards (#1/#69) and center. However, we improved on our defensive tactics, and had been holding the first half to 6 points difference.

During the 2nd half, Amigos net 18 points during 3rd quarter and 13 points for the 4th quarter, while Knights net 10 points and 13 points respectively.

Our team begin to shine in the 4th quarter, as we held a half-court press and limit our opponents, while our MVP Derrick Teo helped to score 9 points (include 1 point in first half) and ended with 1 steal, 2 offensive rebounds and 1 block. And also, our key players such as Dan, Jason, Teck Meng, Marvin shoot with better consistency and had about 50% scoring rate. One of our youth players, Jia Wei has pot 3 out of 3 shots.

Luckily during the match, our Coach Guo Hui came and help to organize the team, constantly switching the team for better communication & feedback. Guo Hui stated that our team actually improved and has capabilities to win matches.

KNIGHTS, WE CAN DO IT !!!

MVP Calculation

MVP (Most Valuable Player) is a player that not only can score points effectively but also contribute in assists, with offensive & defensive plays such as rebound, steal, block, etc.

In the future for Yew Tee Knights, we will set a fundamental calculation for our MVP based on points system. At every match, one of our reserved players will help to mark down all the scores, plays, assists, etc.

- For Every Points Scored = Add 1 Points
- For Every Chance Scored = Add 5 Points
- For Every Assist = Add 3 Points
- For Every Chance Missed = Minus 5 Points
- For Every Block/Steal/Rebound = Add 3 Points
- For Every Foul = Minus 5 Points
- For Foul-Out = Minus 10 Points

For Example (Top 3 Scorers, Based On 29th Sep 07 Match Against Amigos)

Derrick Teo
Scored 9 Points (9)
6 Chances Scored (30)
4 Chances Missed (-20)
1 Steal (3)
2 Rebound (6)
1 Blocks (3)
2 Fouls (-10)
TOTAL : 21 Pts

Teck Meng
Scored 10 Points (10)
5 Chances Scored (25)
2 Chances Missed (-10)
0 Steal (0)
0 Rebound (0)
0 Blocks (0)
2 Fouls (-10)
TOTAL : 15 Pts

Dan Lee
Scored 8 Points (8)
4 Chances Scored (20)
4 Chances Missed (-20)
0 Steal (0)
0 Rebound (0)
0 Blocks (0)
3 Fouls (-15)
TOTAL : - 7 Pts

Team Photo

Players Not In Picture: Alvin Wu, Zi Xuan & Guo Hui

Team Players

Here is our list of players:

0. Brandon Peh
1. Jerome Pang
2. Jia Wei
3. Guo Liang
4. Dan Lee (Assistant Coach)
5. Alvin Yen
6. Teck Meng
7. Guo Hui (Coach)
8. Alvin Wu
9. Keng Guan
10. Marvin Pang
11. Jason He (Captain)
12. Jia Jun
13. Tzer Bang
14. Zi Xuan
15. Derrick Teo

Welcome To Yew Tee Knights

Welcome To Yew Tee Knights Official Blog

Who Are Yew Tee Knights
Yew Tee Knights is a social basketball team, formed by close-knitted basketball kakis around Choa Chu Kang Crescent/Drive. Our home court (aka NEW COURT) is behind Block 690A of CCK Crescent, and while we usually at the court at night, the Knights trained on every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Hopefully this team will continue to be active for the next few years.

How It's Formed
Happens that our Team Manager, Peter Tan received an email from BBAXN inviting him to form a team to participate in the competition. As one of those active players on the New Court, Peter invited all his basketball kakis to form a team and sponsored 50% of the overall costs. We registered at the very last minute and quickly bought our team jersey from Queensway Shopping Centre (brand - Converse).

And the rest is history.

How To Join Us
Yew Tee Knights is mainly for players that stay (or used to stay) around Choa Chu Kang Crescent/Drive. We conduct training every week and if you wish to join in the training or enquire about joining the team, please come down personally to speak to our Team Manager (Peter), Team Captain (Jason) or Coaches (Dan & Guo Hui).

We also actively looking for freelance physio and photographer (or videographer), who could help out.

Sponsorship
Currently, Yew Tee Knights is sponsored by Virtual Office Singapore which is one of Singapore's leading virtual office provider.

There are other sponsorship opportunities:

• Transportation (Chartered Bus)
• Bottled Drinks (12x 1.5L Bottles)
• Training T-Shirt (16 pcs with Printing)

Please contact Peter Tan, Team Manager for details.

This Blog...
This Blog will be about the game schedule (for those lazy players who don't wish to refer to BBAXN website), past game statistics, training schedule, players photos, etc.


I hope that Yew Tee Knights will be able to become one of the Top 3 of Division 2.