Training

Monday night training went on as usual. This time around the attendance was much better with 14 players attending training. Although Zoe, head coach, could not make it, Leonard, captain took over the training as the under 13 boys had one more game for Sin Chew Cup.

Training started with the usual warm up sets then followed by full court figure 8. Then players were separated into two groups. One team on each side of the base line. Players were asked to do basic lay ups, each team entering 20 balls. The first to enter the 20 balls will win. The looser from the first round had to do a full court sprint in 10 seconds. Although they did not managed to finish their first run in 10 seconds, they managed to do it after their third try. It was a good attitude as they never gave up to finish their full court sprint in time on their first try, but kept trying to finish it. Another round went on and the looser had to do 4 half courts in 40 seconds. By the second try they managed to finish it. After all the running, they got their water break.

After the water break lack of discipline from Justin made the team have to do 3 half courts. He did not listen to instructions and that caused the whole team to run extra. This teaches them to be more respective to their coach and also listen to orders plus being more discipline. After the punishment, the players were all paired up with their own skills and ability. Then they were separate into two rows each standing opposite their own players they were paired. Then they competed with one row on offence and one row on defence. The team which could make 10 baskets in the least time wins. The looser had to run to the half court and pump 10 then back to base line and pump another 10 then did a half court sprint.

The under 13 players then practiced a diamond zone defence. For the first time doing it, they managed to do well. They practiced it for quite a long time then played a short game of 5 on 5 against the seniors. Training ended after the 5 on 5 was over.

Here is something for all the players to learn from and read about it. And hope it does changes the players. PLEASE change after reading! :)

This picture shows that only with proper attitude and discipline we will get 100% of what we want to achieve. If we only work hard it only close to perfect but with proper attitude and discipline you can achieve a 100%. So please change you attitude and discipline to get a 100%. But do not forget to work hard too. :)

Training

Training was delayed a little later today due to the weather and the wet court. Tho the attendance was considered quite poor which only 8 players turned up.

After the court dried, training started with our basic warm up sets. Later after finishing the warm up sets in just a short time, the players started to do lay ups. They had to make 8 in a row to finish one set. Players had quite a hard time to get the ball in because of the wet board but still they managed to finish the task. They moved on to the 3-point line and did lay ups without using the board. 8 lay ups in a row too. The same sequence was used from both the zero degrees 3 point. This time at zero degrees, players had to do a fake and cut. Before the players had their water break, they had to enter two free throws in a row before they can get their drink. For those who didn't get two in a row will have to do push ups 10 times per miss.

After the water break, the training went down to 7 players due to a player leaving training early because of personal reason. The 7 players were divided into two teams. One team consisting 4 players and the other team only 3 players. They were asked by their coach to play against each other in different situations. After playing 4 sets in 4 different situations, players did jump board and training ended.

*To those players who cant make it for training please inform coach or team captain or team assistant captain. Please have a good reason why player cannot make it for training