Wow, it was garbage time by the 4th quarter. Well we only put our reserves in at the final 6 minutes, but our starters sat out the whole 4th quarter. Against HK U21, 5th best team in the world. That's quite an achievement I should say. Well yea, we were the only team trying out there. They probably underestimated us too, and made some questionable choices in their lineup. But I still didn't expect the blowout.
It was an overall team effort tonight - with 5 players hitting double figures. We outrebounded them 64-50, but none of our players broke double figures in rebounds, with all but 1 player grabbing at least 3 rebounds, and the only one who didn't make that amount was Abd Jalil, who only played 5 minutes (even then he had 2 rebounds). We shared the ball pretty well too, with almost all our players who played more than 5 minutes getting at least 1 assist. The only one who did not get any assists was Ng Liang Boon. We were also miraculously good from the charity stripe tonight. With a 64% free throw percentage, we hit the second most free throws in a game tonight, missing only 2 out of 20 tries. The only time we hit more was against Australia U21, but that was from 32 tries (63%). We had a 90% free throw rate tonight.
Our next game will be against Philippines U21. We are definitely outclassed by them. Let's just hope our boys put up another amazing performance.