Tip Off
The New NCBL season has officially started this week and here is the first week match report. For those of you who don’t know when are the Division 1 and 2 games? Division 1 will only be starting at 4 Jan 2020. While, Division 2 will be starting on 29 Dec 2019. Mark your calendars.
Division 4 The Beginning
Division 4 games are generally quick, brutal and fast. The results were not very far off from our expectations as Blakefrost, Malaya Titans BC, Bayang Gelap Mob and GoStrong Rookies won in a very convincing manner. Looking at the state of the competition, it is still early to judge what will happen in the later weeks.
In a nutshell, or should we say – majority of Division 4 players were either playing to gain tournament experience, just for fun and etc. Games were mostly one sided, it’s either you have a very proper basketball team or it could be a “taman team”. Division 4 is like what we like to say – “Ice kacang” it’s cold at the beginning and it melts very fast in the later stages.
Division 3 The Frontier
Division 3 is a different monster, players here are tougher, meaner and way more experienced. We also have a few ex-nationals level players like Abang Masri sitting on a bench here in the Setiawangsa Raptors vs Lizard Alpha game.
Fun fact: Division 3 has more than 50 teams and it’s also the division with the largest number of teams. From our past interviews and stories with teams such as GoStrong, Titans, Phantoms and etc, Division 3 is a place where you learn how an actual basketball team works. It’s a place where players learn to solidify themselves in a team and the starting point for their NCBL journey.
The one who won their first games are as follow:
Except for Strongwind, Joker, Setiawangsa Raptors and Falcons which decimated their opponents by at least 20 points, most results are fairly were quite closed.
Joker vs Ghost game started off slowly on the 1st quarter and 2nd quarter with Joker having the lead at the 1st quarter and Ghost slowly caught up and tie the game. (20-20 at 2nd quarter)
However, Ghost ran out of steam around the middle of 3rd quarter and get pummeled by Joker badly. Fast breaks after fast breaks, Ghost was both buried and spirited away. Check out the video below for an interview with the Player of the Game.
Sunday was filled with Division 3 teams. We have battle of the Titans (where Ares going against Perseus and two other Titans teams going against PG Lightningbirds and Blizzards), Angkatan Tentera Malaysia going against Vipers and all the animals, elements and being you can think off.
Some games were very close such as Savages and Phantom B. Phantom B almost took the game but Savages managed to hold it in the last minutes to win the game.
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And that’s the end of week 1 for the NCBL 2019 and 2020.
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