Brunei missed the Big Bens in Vietnam
Monday, March 28, 2011
YAP Chun Ping and Po Yung Hui are confident that the national team's Vietnam Basketball Federation National Cup campaign could have gone a lot better if veterans Benjamin Sim and Benjamin Lim were involved.
The team returned from Vietnam yesterday with a 1-3 win loss record, though two of the losses came in overtime.
Sim the team's captain and Lim weren't able to follow the squad to the tournament at Bach Dang Square in Soc Trang City because of work commitments, and Chun Ping and Yung Hui feel that the team suffered from the lack of height that the absent duo could have provided.
"The average height of the players we were up against was six feet ... We lack that kind of height," explained Chun Ping after the team touched down at the Brunei International Airport in Berakas yesterday.
"We were missing our big guys (Sim and Lim) and getting out-rebounded. If we had those two guys it would have been a different story," added the small forward.
The national cagers started with a 77-76 overtime loss to Can Tho on March 17, but bounced back with a 78-46 win over Ninh Thuan two days later.
Their hopes of returning with medals took a blow when they fell 64-54 to LQ Joton Inc last Monday, with their 66-62 overtime defeat to hosts Soc Trang on Wednesday condemning them to fourth in the five-team table.
Read More… The team returned from Vietnam yesterday with a 1-3 win loss record, though two of the losses came in overtime.
Sim the team's captain and Lim weren't able to follow the squad to the tournament at Bach Dang Square in Soc Trang City because of work commitments, and Chun Ping and Yung Hui feel that the team suffered from the lack of height that the absent duo could have provided.
"The average height of the players we were up against was six feet ... We lack that kind of height," explained Chun Ping after the team touched down at the Brunei International Airport in Berakas yesterday.
"We were missing our big guys (Sim and Lim) and getting out-rebounded. If we had those two guys it would have been a different story," added the small forward.
The national cagers started with a 77-76 overtime loss to Can Tho on March 17, but bounced back with a 78-46 win over Ninh Thuan two days later.
Their hopes of returning with medals took a blow when they fell 64-54 to LQ Joton Inc last Monday, with their 66-62 overtime defeat to hosts Soc Trang on Wednesday condemning them to fourth in the five-team table.
Source: The Brunei Times
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