After trailing the entire first half of the game, the KL Dragons rally to defeat Satria Muda BritAma 85 – 72.
The Dragons came out flat at the start of the game and struggled both on offense and defense. Satria Muda BritAma controlled the tempo of the game for much of the first half. They were able to score on Dragons’ defenders with dribble penetration, as well as high pick and rolls that created wide open 3 point shots. However, the Dragons scrapped back and managed to end the first half only down by 3 points, with the score standing at 53 – 50.
After sleep walking through the game’s first 2 periods, Dragons’ player, Nakiea Miller, finally decided to come alive. By game’s end, he recorded a double-double with 31 points and almost as many rebounds, 28 boards. Alex Hartman, the Dragons' leading scorer, who usually averages 20 + points a game had a more subtle contribution toward the Dragons’ win with 14 points. But the slack was picked up by the guard play of Guganeswaran Batumalai, who scored 12 points, and Rudy Lingganay, who scored 11 points.
The key to the Dragons’ turn-around was defense. Any good coach will tell you that defense leads to offense. Once the Dragons started stepping up the defensive pressure on Satria Muda BritAma, it lead to easy fast break points on the other end of the court. By the mid-point of the 4th period the Dragons were cruising their way to a decisive victory.
The Dragons will need to carry the lesson of defense first into their next game, when they face-off against the AirAsia Philippine Patriots, the #1 team in the league, on November 28, 2010 at MABA Stadium.
The Dragons came out flat at the start of the game and struggled both on offense and defense. Satria Muda BritAma controlled the tempo of the game for much of the first half. They were able to score on Dragons’ defenders with dribble penetration, as well as high pick and rolls that created wide open 3 point shots. However, the Dragons scrapped back and managed to end the first half only down by 3 points, with the score standing at 53 – 50.
After sleep walking through the game’s first 2 periods, Dragons’ player, Nakiea Miller, finally decided to come alive. By game’s end, he recorded a double-double with 31 points and almost as many rebounds, 28 boards. Alex Hartman, the Dragons' leading scorer, who usually averages 20 + points a game had a more subtle contribution toward the Dragons’ win with 14 points. But the slack was picked up by the guard play of Guganeswaran Batumalai, who scored 12 points, and Rudy Lingganay, who scored 11 points.
The key to the Dragons’ turn-around was defense. Any good coach will tell you that defense leads to offense. Once the Dragons started stepping up the defensive pressure on Satria Muda BritAma, it lead to easy fast break points on the other end of the court. By the mid-point of the 4th period the Dragons were cruising their way to a decisive victory.
The Dragons will need to carry the lesson of defense first into their next game, when they face-off against the AirAsia Philippine Patriots, the #1 team in the league, on November 28, 2010 at MABA Stadium.
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