The Lady Panthers played the second game of their young season yesterday against a KL Select Team from Putra Jaya. The opponent, like the last one, was a high-caliber team of select players from the region outside of Kuala Lumpur. The Lady Panthers found it difficult to set their own tempo despite working throughout the week on ways to break the press and dealing with man-to-man pressure. As it turns out the Lady Panthers had three quarters of frustration and difficulty with KL-PJ.
The first half found the Lady Panthers behind and only having scored 8 points on offense. The third quarter was even more difficult. But in the fourth quarter the Lady Panthers put together a string of great defensive stands using a half-court pressure defense. The adjustment to a 3-2 defense also helped. The defensive stands led to a number of turnovers which, in turn, led to a number of offensive opportunities.
Though the final score (a 62-28 loss) was not what we had hoped going into the game, and leaves the Lady Panthers 0-2 for the season, the fourth quarter gave glimpses of the level of play that the Lady Panthers can reach. It should be noted that, apart from a good number of forced turnovers, the Lady Panthers scored 17 points in the fourth quarter alone, hustled on both sides of the floor, played a tenacious defense and generally showed a great improvement to the first game of the season.
We look to take this to next week's games, which will match the Lady Panthers up against a KL Select team on Saturday at 4:30 pm. But, for the time being, it's back to practice and hard work for the Lady Panthers.
The first half found the Lady Panthers behind and only having scored 8 points on offense. The third quarter was even more difficult. But in the fourth quarter the Lady Panthers put together a string of great defensive stands using a half-court pressure defense. The adjustment to a 3-2 defense also helped. The defensive stands led to a number of turnovers which, in turn, led to a number of offensive opportunities.
Though the final score (a 62-28 loss) was not what we had hoped going into the game, and leaves the Lady Panthers 0-2 for the season, the fourth quarter gave glimpses of the level of play that the Lady Panthers can reach. It should be noted that, apart from a good number of forced turnovers, the Lady Panthers scored 17 points in the fourth quarter alone, hustled on both sides of the floor, played a tenacious defense and generally showed a great improvement to the first game of the season.
We look to take this to next week's games, which will match the Lady Panthers up against a KL Select team on Saturday at 4:30 pm. But, for the time being, it's back to practice and hard work for the Lady Panthers.
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