Warriors seek first win vs El Tigre

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

 

THE Warriors are all hyped up and ready to notch their first win in Group A of the regular seven stars category of the LBC Cup when they take on El Tigre Marshalls tomorrow at the Brunei Basketball Association court in Batu Bersurat.

"The team is doing fine and we have been undergoing some practice sessions and are hoping to grab our first win of the tournament," said Michael Juan, playing coach of Warriors.

"I see that the team is getting to know each other's role now and we'll be banking on our defence to help lift us in Thursday's game," added Juan.

The Warriors have been handed the toughest task in the group thus far going up against two of the tournament favourites, ABMS and Palm Cafe, in their first two games. ABMS eventually thrashed them 103-74 and Palm Cafe left it late in their match to come up on top 111-96.

"In our previous two matches we had to go up against the favourites. It is quite unlucky that we have been placed in the difficult group.

"The thing is that we haven't gelled together properly yet prior to that and we lost some key players in the final moments of the match against Palm Cafe," said Juan.

When asked on what he thought of their opponents for Thursday's match, Juan replied: "They are going to be a tough team to beat as they are a good team. We saw that from their previous games they are well organised and I believe that their threats would be their defence and their fastbreaks which is key." Read More...

Source: The Brunei Times