IBL Basketball News: The head coach of the Indonesian National Team, David Singleton, revealed the reason why his team lost when they faced Hong Kong, Sunday (30/8) local time. He said that the Indonesian national team players played slowly in the first half.
Facing Hong Kong, whose FIBA ranking is below Indonesia, Yudha Saputera and his friends are certainly favorites to win. But who would have thought, Hong Kong showed a more aggressive performance, causing the red and white defense to become confused. With a slow start in the first half, Indonesia had difficulty turning things around in the third and fourth quarters. In the end, Indonesia lost with a final score of 70-81. David Singleton also revealed what was wrong with his team’s game.
“In the first half, it was clear that the defense was not good. We faced a Hong Kong team with good playmaking abilities. Meanwhile on the offensive side we also lacked physical play. We will learn from this defeat. Moreover, in this tournament we have to realize that it is difficult to turn things around if we are too far behind. The most important thing in this tournament is how to challenge ourselves. Compete with pride as national team players. We actually responded well in the third quarter. But several mistakes also occurred in the fourth quarter. So we didn’t finish the match well,” said Coach Dave.
This defeat is certainly a blow and a valuable lesson for Indonesia. Because, the power of basketball on the Asian continent is now getting stronger and more evenly distributed.
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