LovePenang Basketball Championship Cup is now at the Semi-Finals stage for the men’s division, and it was quite an exciting event!
The matches:
Hong Lim vs Sunrise Youngsters
MK Group vs Big Box 1
was played on Saturday, 27th August 2022 at 7.45pm and 9.00pm respectively, These were the teams that were fighting for the chance of glory among the several teams, separated by groups in the championship.
Hong Lim vs Sunrise Youngsters (Score: 65 – 118)
Hong Lim started the match with a lot of speed tried to maintain the score gap in the first and second quarter. However, Sunrise Youngster strategy made it quite hard for Hong Lim to maintain the gap by the 3rd quarter of the match.
With a lot of rebounds by Sunrise Youngsters and several missed shots by Hong Lim and a weak defense maintained throughout the remaining of the game, Sunrise Youngster saw the advantage and took it.
Sunrise Youngsters started to widen the gap in the 4th quarter, making it impossible for Hong Lim to catch up.
MK Group vs Big Box 1 (Score: 86 -67)
Big Box 1 started the match by taking the lead in the first few minutes of the 1st quarter. MK Group did several counter attacks to take the lead back, running down the clock against the opponent.
In the end of 2nd quarter, the score at an amazing draw of 37 points. But as the 3rd quarter started, Big Box 1 started to do several mistakes to allow MK Group to capitalise and take back the lead by 10 points.
As the 4th quarter enters, MK Group started to run down the opponent with back to back scores, punishing the opponent for their mistakes in passing the ball and taking too many long shots to the hoop.
In the last few minutes of the quarter, MK Group took the lead with around 20 points and held that point gap until the final whistle. It was a very exciting match for the fans in the stadium as both teams tried to score in uniques and entertaining ways, hearing their cheers everytime one of teams scored.
The Finals
We expect the finals to be a great matchup as we found out that both teams have met before in other competitions around Malaysia, making it sound like an ancient feud with each other.
This time however, only one team will take the crown and hold the bragging rights at this championship. We wonder who will it be?
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