Prysmian are cruising along in under-21 basketball tourney

Yee Chun Leong
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Thursday, April 29, 2010

PRYSMIAN are looking good as one of the teams to beat and they believe that can take it all the way at the Second Under-21 Brunei Youth Basketball Championship at the Kampung Baru basketball court in Seria.

They ended the group stages with a perfect record to top Group B and move into the quarter-finals.

The side from Seria are averaging winning margins of just over 34 points per game and averaging 83 points per game in their four victories so far in the tournament. Their biggest triumph was a 111-35 thrashing of Binaan Janah Jaya on April 17.

However, they will have to take care of business as usual against Yun Hin tonight and win their semi-final game the day after before entering the
final on Saturday that the pundits had predicted.

Prysmian have every right to be confident against Yun Hin, who are coming off three consecutive losses heading into tonight's game.

"We're confident that we can win this match as we have played against them before. We have a very good chance and we want to play against Easyway so hopefully we can both make it to the final," said Yeo Chun Kiat, the forward who will spearhead Prysmian, in an interview with The Brunei Times, yesterday.

"We managed to train yesterday (Tuesday) and we're focusing on tightening our defence. If we can pull if off then we'll get our offence going from there," added Yeo.

"We have the height and size advantage as well so we'll have to use that to the max and play our low post game," continued the 17-year-old.

The key big men in the line-up for Prysmian include Darren Wong and Liew Ming Yang.

On the other hand, Yun Hin know the task at hand but know that there is
nothing to lose with what Prysmian are capable of.

"We'll just have to play the game with teamwork and stay focus the whole time even if we're winning or losing. We joined the tournament for the sake of having fun so we know it's going to be difficult without any practices prior to the game," said Dominic Tang, shooting guard of Yun Hin.

The game will tip off at 7pm.

The other quarter-final match pits American International Industries (AII) against Starz Boutique at 8.15pm.

Source: The Brunei Times