There was no lesson the week following the competition. Last Wednesday, I brought him for class and they played games on 3/4 court for the last 30 mins. Zaky definitely appeared to have taken in our advice and was playing better.
The competition was back yesterday morning. I was hoping that their team has more and stronger players this time. Other than the Wednesday lesson, we also had a few sessions at the basketball court and we hope it would help Zaky and help ourselves; another game that is difficult to watch is really too hard to bear.
We arrived on time this morning at 10.30am. I was glad to see more of his team mates including a girl with superb ball handling skills; I had been secretly watching her during training when she turns up. She is definitely a joy to watch.
While there were more and stronger players this time on Zaky's team, the other team still ended up stronger - in skills and physics. At the start, things were looking optimistic and Zaky was playing well. Yeah, he listened to what we told him. The girl was really an asset to his team. Her ball sense and control was so good!
From the game, it was obvious that Zaky's ball controlling skill sucks. Whenever he gets the ball, he dribbles for at most 3x, then he was eager to pass the ball regardless of whether he was tackled. In addition, he didn't look at where his team mates were and simply blindly throw the ball. Out of the 5 balls that he passed, 4 of them were threw directly to his opponent. Faint!
His team got thrashed again - 20 to 2. The 2 points were scored at the very last minute. Heng ah. While his team was bigger and stronger this time, they were all like playing the basketball game individually. Zzzzz. Only the girl was at times partnering with another stronger boy.
We again had harsh words for Zaky after the game today but also praised that he did better but only in the beginning of the game. I so think that he should work on his dribbling skills. Secret training on the way.
Mummy Lim
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