Caribolakeranjang: Universiti Malaysia Terengganu Outdoor Basketball Court

This outdoor court located inside Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) formerly known as Kolej Universiti Sains dan Teknologi Malaysia (KUSTEM). In 2007, major enlargement of the area was done to put in more hostels for new courses's students. Aside from new hostels, they also upgrade their sports facilities, with new stadium and of course this court been build in.

Okay enough with the history. This court equips with glass backboard, with anti-slip paint surface of the court. Perfect condition for the bounced ball but will result worn out your shoes faster. I love this type of surface, well you might have different opinion. Nothing feel better than grip graps you get, better shooting and better ball handling!

Previously lots of friendly game organized here, with well known east coast basketball clubs from Kemaman and even from Kota Bharu Kelantan. Last time 4-Sides friendly matches were organized here between Eastsider BC (Kuala Terengganu), SESMA Alumni (Kuala Terengganu), Aces BC (Kemaman) and also KB Blades BC (Kota Bahru). This gathering was one of the initiative to develop and promote basketball in east coast Malaysia, indirectly create good bonding in between players and also create healthy communities. The players were very passionate and not stingy to shared each other experiences in basketball. More event like this to be organized more in future!

SESMA Alumni

We ballin We chillin!

Training Drills: 4 Minutes Layup Drill to Improve Passing, Finishing and Ball Execution

Okay, this is one of my all-time favorite drills for passing, finishing, communication and conditioning.

Setup

• Set up four passers, with one at each elbow on both sides of the court.
• The rest of your players will form two lines, at opposite ends of the court, right where the right lane line and baseline meet. (see the diagram below)
• Each line has one ball.

Execution

1. On your command, the player at the front of the line will hit the passer at the elbow, then start sprinting down court, making sure to stay wide.
2. The passer will hit them back, after which they’ll make a full court pass up to the passer at the next elbow.
3. The passer will then hit the player back just as they pass them, allowing them to finish strong with the layup.
4. The goal is for the players to score 110 points in 4 minutes. Layups are worth 2, misses and turnovers are -1, and a bad rotation is -4

Rotations

1. Every 30 seconds, we rotate the passers.
2. Designate passing spots as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, with the 4th passer joining the layup lines and the rest of the players sliding up one spot, and a new player coming into the 1st spot.
3. It’s up to the players to figure out who’s going where, but you will let them know once every 30 seconds has passed

Coaching Tips

Make sure that all players are using proper chest pass fundamentals, snapping the ball and finishing with the thumbs down and fingers pointing out.

Passers should call the name of the person they are passing too, so there should be a constant noise of names being called out throughout the drill.

Pass receivers should show a proper target, catch the ball with soft hands and step into the pass to catch it.

 Variations

• Left handed layups (simply move the line to where the left lane line and baseline meet)
• Bounce passes, baseball passes, or overhead passes instead of chest passes
• Add a token defender at the rim to put the layup shooter under some pressure

This article was written by Coach Pat in online-basketball-drills.com

Basketball Tips: Keep Energize and Strong Throughout the Game, Suggested Meal for Game-Day

Game day: Where all hard work and pain from training desperately need to show results. The main item that will influence the outcome of your training, is your preparation of battery (meal) on the game day. So what to eat?

The pre-competition meal or food that is eaten on the day of the competition, is very important. This is the food that the athlete will use to provide fuel to the body during the game. Because it is a well proven fact that food eaten just before a game will not help perform any better, it is necessary for the athlete to eat meals at the right time. Here is what we want to accomplish with the pre-competition meal:

• Allow for the stomach to be relatively empty at the start of competition.
•  Help avoid being hungry during the competition.
• Keep plenty of energy available for competition.
• Avoid stomach upset.
• Provide plenty of fluids for the body.

I have always believed in a diet high in carbohydrates (avoid fats, grease) about 1-2 hours before game-time or practice (you need time to digest it). Players should eat enough to feel their hunger is satisfied, but not overeat or stuff themselves. If it is a larger meal (lunch or dinner), eat at least 2 to 3 hours before the game; if it is a snack (you already had lunch or dinner earlier), eat the snack 1 hour before the game.

Suggested foods:

Some kind of pasta is a good lunch or dinner choice.

Others:

Cereals and grains
Vegetables
Crackers
Peanut butter crackers
Peanut butter sandwich
Pancakes
French toast
Bagels
Orange juice
Apples
Bananas
Grapes
Lean Meats

Avoid dairy products high in fat. Low fat yogurt would be fine. Adequate fluid intake is important before and during the game to avoid dehydration but again, too much is not good medicine. In addition to water, sport drinks or fruit juices are good choices.

If your practices or games are late in the afternoon, make sure you eat breakfast and lunch that day. Some fruit like bananas or oranges one hour before the practice or game would be a good booster.

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Health: Maintaining Good Health Diet, Nutrition Tips for Athletes

As important as your training to improve your game, maintaining your health with a good diet also crucial. When you exercise hard for 90 minutes or more, especially if you're doing something at high intensity that takes a lot of endurance, you need a diet that can help you perform at your peak and recover quickly afterward.

Load Up on Carbohydrates
Carbs are an athlete's main fuel. Your body changes them to glucose, a form of sugar, and stores it in your muscles as glycogen. When you exercise, your body changes glycogen into energy. If you exercise for under 90 minutes, you have enough glycogen in your muscles, even for high-intensity activities. But if your workout is longer than that, eat a diet that gets about 70% of its calories from carbohydrates, including breads, cereals, pasta, fruit, and vegetables, to achieve maximum carbohydrate storage. On the day of a big event, eat your last meal 3 to 4 hours before exercising, to give your stomach time to empty. Avoid eating sugary or starchy foods within 30 minutes of starting an activity; they can speed up dehydration.

Get Enough Protein, But Not Too Much
Protein doesn’t provide a lot of fuel for energy. But you need it to maintain your muscles. The average person needs 1.2 to 1.4 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight a day. That's about 88 grams of protein for a 150-pound person. A strength athlete may need up to 1.7 grams per kilogram of body weight. That's about 150 grams of protein for a 200-pound athlete. Getting too much protein can put a strain on your kidneys. Instead of protein supplements, eat high-quality protein, such as lean meats, fish, poultry, nuts, beans, eggs, or milk.

Go Easy on Fat
For long events, your body turns to fat for energy when carbohydrate sources run low. Most athletes get all the fat they need by following the basic dietary guideline to eat mostly unsaturated fat from foods such as nuts, avocados, olives, vegetable oils, and fatty fish like salmon and tuna. Avoid fatty foods on the day of an event, since they can upset your stomach.

Drink Fluids Early and Often
Intense exercise, especially in hot weather, can quickly leave you dehydrated. Dehydration, in turn, can hurt your performance and, in extreme cases, threaten your life. Because intense exercise makes you lose fluid quickly, it's a good idea to drink fluids before as well as during an event. Athletes should drink 8 to 12 ounces of fluid every 10 or 15 minutes during an event. When possible, drink chilled fluids, which are more easily absorbed than room-temperature water. Chilled fluids also help cool your body down. 

Replace Lost Electrolytes
Sweating removes both fluids and electrolytes. Electrolytes help transmit nerve signals in your body. To replenish them, reach for sports drinks. If you’re also losing a lot of fluid as you sweat, dilute sports drinks with equal amounts of water to get the best balance of fluid and electrolytes.

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Basketball Tips: Most Common Biggest Basketball Shooting Mistakes, and How to Improve Them

As I think wanna shooting was everything in basketball game, how you take the shot is very crucial. So how to get more consistency in your shooting form? Share with you this article of basketball tricks, perhaps can help you improve yours!

For most of these fixes, you are going to need to start away from the hoop and take hundreds and thousands of shots. You can find a wall and do this by yourself or find a line and shoot it back and forth to a partner. Once you begin to feel comfortable with your adjustment, take hundreds of shots really close to the basket and gradually move out.

Thumb on Shooting Hand

Players often have the ball sit on the tip of their thumb on their shooting hand. This position is awkward and forces the body to strain to hold the proper shooting form. In order to be a good shooter, you have to be comfortable. It you don't strain, your elbow sticks too far out.

How to improve it?

You need to have the ball rest on the side of the thumb rather than on the tip of the thumb on every shot. It may feel awkward at first, but it will help tremendously and more of your shots will travel to the dead-center of the rim. If you can not determine when you are doing this, you may need to have someone critique your shot or video tape it.



Thumb on Guide Hand

Some players flick the ball with their thumb on the guide hand when shooting the basketball. This will cause serious problems for the shooter and the ball will often spray left and right. It's tough enough to judge the distance, yet add another factor of left and right into the equation. Most players develop this problem when they are too weak to get the ball to the rim, and the habit carries through their teenage and adult years.

How to improve it? 

You can squeeze your thumb against the index finger on your guide hand. This will not let you shoot the ball with the thumb. If the problem still continues, take your guide hand off of the ball by about a half-inch and shoot with one hand. Make sure your guide hand stays still. You can also use a shooting strap to keep your guide hand and thumb still. This is a very effective way to break this habit and keep your guide hand from moving.


Unnecessary Jerky Movements 

These jerky movements can cause you to become an inconsistent shooter:
Twisting the body, and Fading backwards, and to the left or right.

How to improve it?

You need to evaluate when this jerky movement is happening and what type of jerky movement is occurring. This may mean you need to video tape your shot if you have nobody to help.

Two major reasons players twist their body when they shoot is:
Their feet are not aligned correctly, and They bring their guide hand down too early. 

Make sure your feet line up correctly before every shot. This means you may need to pivot more as you receive the pass or as you step into your shot off the dribble. If you use a hop, make sure that you are turning enough while in the air to align your feet properly as you land. If your feet are not set correctly, this will force your body to twist while shooting to try to compensate for it.

If you bring your guide hand down too early, it brings extra movement into your shot that causes you to twist your body. If you don't believe me, sit in your chair and shoot with one hand and bring your guide hand down to your waist at the same time. What naturally happens? Your torso will twist. That's why it is important to keep your guide hand extended in the correct position.

Pro players use this method to stop their upper-body from twisting when they take shots when they are off-balance or their feet are not aligned appropriately. It helps keep their upper body from twisting during the shot. I do NOT advise for players under the age of 18 to practice this shot, because it can mess up your mechanics. A good way to stop leaning is to step towards the basket on the catch. This brings your momentum towards the basket rather than fading or leaning.

You may also have analyzed when the player starts to jerk their body or lean in a certain direction. The player may only do a jerky movement when dribbling to the left and pulling up for a jumper. If this happens, they need to take hundreds and thousands of repetitions doing that same type of shot with great shooting form.


No Arc - Flat Shot - Flinging the wrist.

If you are missing a lot of shots because you have a flat shot or you don't seem to get many shooter's bounces, it could be because you are flinging your wrist or have a flat shot.

You can check to see if you have this problem by bringing the ball to your set point and then bringing it straight down. If your shooting-hand lands on top of your head (or the back of your head) instead of grazing your forehead, then you've got a bad set point.

How to improve it?

Move the ball forward so that when you bring it straight down, the back of your shooting hand grazes your forehead. Practice shooting to yourself from this position until it becomes your new set point.

You should reinforce your new set point by daily form shooting close to the basket. In fact, you should rebuild your shot slowly by stepping back one step at a time as you establish consistency from a given range, using the new set point.



Shooting after the Top of your Jump.

Players who shoot past the top of their jump will often develop a hitch and jerky shot. The same with players who try to jump as high as they can on every shot. A player should focus on shooting before the top of their jump for a few different reasons; 

Quicker release: If you shoot before the top of your release, it gives the defender less time to recover to defend the shot.

Make more shots: The shot is fluid which results in a smoother and softer shot because you don't stop the shot motion at any point in your shot.

Longer range: If you shoot at or after the top of your shot, it takes a lot more upper body strength to get the ball to the rim. If you shoot as you are going up, the momentum from your legs help carry the ball a lot farther. Try shooting away from the hoop when doing this.

How to improve it?

This one is pretty simple. You need thousands of repetitions shooting the basketball before the top of your jump. In order to fix any of these problems, you are going to have be persistent and focused. "Sometimes, you have to take two steps backwards, to take three steps forwards." What that means is that your shot will most likely become worse before it gets better. Always keep the long-term in perspective. Who cares if you don't shoot the ball well during summer league, if you'll be able to shoot lights out once basketball season rolls around!

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NBA Draft 2015: Full result list of all first and second round selections

The 2015 NBA draft was held on June 25, 2015 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It was televised nationally by ESPN.National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The draft lottery took place on May 19, 2015. The Minnesota Timberwolves won the draft lottery to earn the first overall pick in the draft; it marked the first time in Timberwolves history that they would receive the first overall pick through the lottery, as well as become the third one they'd receive in a row after a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers gave them the 2013 and 2014 first overall picks in exchange for Kevin Love. This draft also gave the Los Angeles Lakers the second overall pick after jumping over the Philadelphia 76ers and the New York Knicks within the draft lottery.

Highlights from the draft include the first Dominican Republican to be the first overall pick (Karl-Anthony Towns), the highest amount of Kentucky Wildcats selected in the draft lottery (four with Karl-Anthony Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, Trey Lyles, and Devin Booker), which tied the North Carolina Tar Heels in 2005 for most players selected in the lottery by one school; the tied record for most Kentucky players selected in the draft, the second Latvian to have been drafted in the first round (Kristaps Porziņģis), the first former high school player to have skipped college to play in China that was selected in the draft (Emmanuel Mudiay), and the first Indian to have been selected in the NBA (Satnam Singh Bhamara), who was also the first player since 2005 to have been drafted directly from high school (albeit as a postgraduate). Other noteworthy announces that came out of the draft included the official announcement of the passing of the last pioneer of the original NBA, Harvey Pollack, around the third pick and the upcoming resignation of the league's president of basketball operations Rod Thorn  in August after the end of the first round.

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Basketball Tips: How to quickly reduce pain of finger jammed and get back into the game

It was very painful when you have jammed finger not only physically hurts but mentally also, especially during your game. You will start losing your shooting form, and your ball handling getting worst. I want to share you how to reduce the pain but this only applicable when you have minor injury. Please, please, please consult doctor for further treatment afterwards.

How its happen

Finger injuries occur in almost all sports and are particularly common in basketball players. Injuries to the fingers in basketball players range from minor injuries requiring little or no treatment to severe fractures and dislocations that can require surgery. Happens all the time, try to intercept a pass but mis-time your reach, and instead of catching the ball with the palm of your hand, it hits the tip of an outstretched finger, jamming the digit back in towards your hand. While you may not have a broken bone, a jamming a finger can cause tendon damage, and tendon damage is much easier to treat if it is treated quickly. The key to correctly assessing and treating these injuries is to determine the exact diagnosis and initiate treatment as quickly as possible.

Finger injuries can result in a variety of symptoms including pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity, and change in position. However, the severity of the symptoms does not always correlate with the severity of the injury. A minor injury requiring minimal treatment can produce significant pain and swelling, and in some instances, the symptoms of a major injury are minimal pain, swelling, and stiffness. Consequently, it is important that an orthopedist or hand specialist evaluate all finger injuries. Tendons are similar to rubber bands, tough fibers that connect your muscles to your skeleton. When damaged, they can lose elasticity, or even “curl up” like a rubber band snapped after stretching too far, and that can make treatment and recovery a much more difficult proposition. If you jam your finger and it swells, resist the urge to tape two fingers together and keep playing.

Slowly wrap tape around

How to tape finger
Taping your fingers in a proper manner will ensure that the tape does not slip off during practice due to sweat, provides you with the right amount of support, and allows for some flexibility to bend your fingers. Taping fingers can be good for athletes such as rock climbers, jiu jitsu, BJJ, wrestling, judo, basketball, or volleyball where sprained fingers are common and you need support with the flexibility to bend your fingers during practice to grip an arm, a ball, or a lapel. Sports tape can be used to support injured fingers but can also be used to prevent injuries as well.
The trick is to use a good quality athletic tape and use an “X” design. The X design is best because it will not fall off and does not hinder the athlete from bending their fingers.

No, Don't overdo it!

Caution

Do not take this method granted. Taping an injured finger is not always the answer and minor swelling and pain does not always mean a minor injury. For that reason, finger injuries should be evaluated by an orthopedist within the first 24 to 48 hours after injury.

Training Drills: Improve Ball Handling as Important as Creating Gameplay, Basketball Dribbling Drills

The rules is simple, if you can handle the ball well, for sure you can control your opponent's and play the game as you want it. Players always not take into accountability their ball handling practice, tend to do more shooting drills.  Keep your eyes up when dribbling the basketball, dribble the ball as hard as you can and dn’t be discouraged if you mess up. It means you’re pushing yourself!

Here's shared some of the basketball dribbling drills, that can improve your handling skills. This simple drills only takes 2 minutes per day, to be done anytime anywhere. Click on the link. Starts now!

"Two minutes of ball handling a day, keeps the turnover's away"

Never Too Late Basketball Two Minute Warmup Ball Handling

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Basketball Dribbling Drills

1. Ball Slaps: Continuously slap the basketball from one hand to the other. This is a great drill to start with to get your hands ready for the workout.

2. Straight Arm Finger Taps: While making sure to keep your elbows locked, tap the basketball quickly back and forth straight out in front of you. When you become good at this drill start moving the ball up and down.

3. Wraps – Around Ankle: Wrap the ball around your lower leg/ankles without letting the basketball touch the ground.

4. Wraps – Around Waist: Wrap the ball in a circle motion around your waist.

5. Wraps – Around Head: Wrap the ball in a circle motion around your head.

6. Wraps – Around the world: Involves combining the wraps around the ankles, waist, and head into one drill. Start by wrapping the ball around your head, then bringing it down and around your waist, and finally around your ankles. Then back up to your waist, then head, then waist again, etc.

7. Wraps – Figure 8 Around Legs: Wrap the ball in a figure 8 motion around your legs.

8. Wraps – Around Right Leg: Starting with your right leg in front and your left leg back, wrap the ball around only your right leg.

9. Wraps – Around Left Leg: Starting with your left leg in front and your right leg back, wrap the ball around only your left leg.

10. Wraps – Double Leg, Single Leg: Start with your legs together. Step your right leg forward and circle your right leg with the basketball. Then immediately step back with your right leg so that your feet are together and circle both legs. Then step out with your left leg and circle it before stepping back together and wrapping the ball around them both. Continue this process.

11. Drops: Start in a squat position with both hands and the basketball in front of you. The aim is to drop the ball between your legs (only a few inches off the ground), let it bounce once, then take both hands behind your legs before catching it. Then dropping the ball again from behind and taking both hands back to the front and catch it. Repeat.

12. Straddle Flip: Similar to drops but instead start with one hand in front and one hand behind while holding the ball between your legs. The aim is to quickly flip the ball up and inch or two, swap hand positions from front to back, and catch the ball before it hits the ground.

13. Machine Gun: Kneel down onto the ground and alternate both hands to keep the ball as low as possible to the ground. The ball should stay in the same spot.

14. Spider Dribble: Start with your knees shoulder width apart and bent. The ball should stay underneath you the entire time of the drill. Dribble the ball with your right hand, then your left hand, then reach your right hand around behind your knee for a dribble, and then your left hand behind your knee for a dribble, and then back to your right hand in front. Continue this.

15. Pound Dribble – Ankle Height – Right Hand: Dribbling the basketball a couple of inches off the ground with your right hand.

16. Pound Dribble – Ankle Height – Left Hand: Dribbling the basketball a couple of inches off the ground with your left hand.

17. Pound Dribble – Waist High – Right Hand: Making sure to be in stance, pound the ball as hard as you can into the ground at around waist hight with only your right hand.

18. Pound Dribble – Waist High – Left Hand: Making sure to be in stance, pound the ball as hard as you can into the ground at around waist hight with only your left hand.

19. Pound Dribble – Shoulder Height – Right Hand: This is used to get the player out of their comfort zone. Pound the ball as hard as you can while dribbling at around shoulder height with only your right hand.

20. Pound Dribble – Shoulder Height – Left Hand: This is used to get the player out of their comfort zone. Pound the ball as hard as you can while dribbling at around shoulder height with only your left hand.

21. Dribble around Right Leg – Right Hand: Start in a wide stance. Keeping the ball low to the ground, dribble the ball in a circle around your right leg with only your right hand.

22. Dribble around Left Leg – Left Hand: Start in a wide stance. Keeping the ball low to the ground, dribble the ball in a circle around your left leg with only your left hand.

23. Dribble Figure Eight: Again starting in a wide stance. Dribble the ball in a figure 8 motion around both legs using both hands.

24. Kills – Right Hand: This drill involves dribbling from ankle to shoulder height. Start by dribbling the ball at your ankles and gradually dribbling the ball higher on each bounce. When you get to as high as you can ‘kill’ the basketball by stopping it a few inches off the ground and dribbling back up to your shoulder.

25. Kills – Left Hand: This drill involves dribbling from ankle to shoulder height. Start by dribbling the ball at your ankles and gradually dribbling the ball higher on each bounce. When you get to as high as you can ‘kill’ the basketball by stopping it a few inches off the ground and dribbling back up to your shoulder.

26. Crossover Dribble: Cross the ball continuously in front of your body. Make sure you’re crossing over wide.

27. Behind the Back Dribble: Cross the ball continuously in behind your body. Make sure you’re crossing over wide.

28. Scissors – Alternating Between the Legs: Start with your right foot forward and left foot back. Cross the ball between your legs and jump to switch the positioning of your feet so you can immediately cross the ball back to the other side. Every time you go through the legs you should be switching feet.

29. 3-Dribble Crossover: Pound the ball 3 times before crossing it over in front of your body. Then pound the ball 3 times before crossing it back. Repeat this process making sure that you’re pounding the ball hard.

30. 3-Dribble Through the Legs: Pound the ball 3 times before crossing it over through your legs. Then pound the ball 3 times before crossing it back. Repeat this process making sure that you’re pounding the ball hard.

31. 3-Dribble Behind the Back: Pound the ball 3 times before crossing it behind your back. Then pound the ball 3 times before crossing it back. Repeat this process making sure that you’re pounding the ball hard.

32. Triples – Crossover, Through the Legs, Behind the Back: The drill must be performed in this sequence: crossover, between the legs, behind the back, through the legs. Continue this sequence.

33. Front V-Dribble – Right Hand: Using only your right hand, dribble the ball from side to side in the shape of a ‘v’ in front of your body.

34. Front V-Dribble – Left Hand: Using only your left hand, dribble the ball from side to side in the shape of a ‘v’ in front of your body.

35. Side V-Dribble – Right Hand: Using only your right hand, dribble the ball backwards and forwards beside your body in the shape of a ‘v’.

36. Side V-Dribble – Left Hand: Using only your left hand, dribble the ball backwards and forwards beside your body in the shape of a ‘v’.

37. Freestyle: Using all the moves in your arsenal, while staying in a stationary position, combine as many moves together as you can. Be creative and work on your handle!

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The New York Knicks are the biggest mystery of the NBA Draft 2015

Hours before the 2015 NBA Draft, nobody knows what the New York Knicks are going to do with the No. 4 pick. After posting a franchise-worst 17-65 season, landing the No. 4 pick was a disappointment for the Knicks, who hoped to land in the top three to nab one of Karl-Anthony Towns, Jahlil Okafor, or D’Angelo Russell. After those three, there seems to be an uncertainty about who the best players are, and for the Knicks, there are a number of options.

If the top three plays out as expected, they could look at Emmanuel Mudiay, a 6-foot-5, explosive point guard who skipped college to play professionally in China. They could also look at Kristaps Porzingis, a 7-foot 19-year-old Latvian player with a tantalizing combination of skills. Duke’s Justise Winslow or the intriguing 19-year-old Mario Hezonja from Croatia could be the Knicks’ pick as well. This is the Knicks’ highest draft pick in 20 years, and with needs at just about every position, there’s a lot of pressure on the Knicks to nail it.

With numerous gaps in their roster, the Knicks are also the team most frequently discussed in trade rumors. Some people in the NBA world believe that the Knicks would be willing to trade down in the draft to get back a veteran player and a lower pick. Though Phil Jackson said there’s only a “five percent” chance the Knicks trade down, he did acknowledge the Knicks are listening to offers.

The Knicks have so many options that it makes them the most unpredictable team at the top of the draft. The Lakers could also be wild cards and do something unexpected, but at No. 2, there seems to be an obvious decision to make between Okafor and Russell. The Sixers have a tendency to think outside the box, but with their roster construction, it seems that they would target a guard to complement their big man duo of Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid. The Knicks, meanwhile, are directionless, and will be the team to watch the as their pick approaches.

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Basketball Outfit: Jordan Melo M8, Most Worth Value-for-Money Basketball Kicks

Initially, the Melo M8 was released as soon as Carmelo joined forces with the New York Knicks. The colorway was inspired by the team’s colors which are orange and blue. The shoe comes packed with visible Max Air in the heel and Zoom Air installed in the forefront for high performance. Since he's a versatile forward that can post up, handle the ball and slash from the wing, I was really interested in playing these to see how they feel and perform. And its comes out very worth of money spend.

Shine bright like a diamond!

The thing I like the most of this kicks is because of lots of protection and padding around your foot. Nothing like the super light and minimal kicks of today. The shoes sit on a Air Max heel and a Zoom Air for foot combo cushioning, which turns out was very responsive when cutting and landing even though it sits a little higher than what I'm used to. There are no heel notches inside the shoe or a heel cup on the outside like the Hyperdunk. If you lace the shoe up to the top you will get the lockdown feel you need.

Meanwhile the tongue is made of a thick mesh and provides the only heat and moisture release.The M8's have a mostly flywire upper with a firm touch around the ankle area. Orange patent leather on most of the toebox and running along the sides up to the ankle area. Normally after a couple of wears you start to see the toebox crease and on certain shoes it will start bowing in high wear areas but the M8 is very stiff and rugged even.

Normally after playing 2-3 hour of basketball on a sometimes my heels, arches, knees and pretty much everything hurts. However after playing the Melo M8's I didn't feel any pain in my feet or knees! Very surprised that I loved the cushion so much as I tend to dislike the inconsistent feeling that combo cushion setups bring. However, the heel was wonderful and provided plenty of cushion while the forefoot did the exact same thing. The foam used was nice and soft as well. Since the shoe is fairly rigid the softer foam helped out quite a bit with the fluidity of the heel to toe strikes while in transition.

Sort of No-Look-Pass HAHA

Overall the Jordan Melo M8 is the most comfortable shoes that I had wear so far. Not to be bias because I am big fan of Carmelo Anthony, but this one had really kicks me into the game. The shoe stands as one of the best models in Carmelo’s signature line. Plus this one I had the orange colour version, well its shine me more (HAHAHA). Nothing feeling better than having a great game.

Caribolakeranjang: Chendering Basketball Court, Kuala Terengganu

Chendering is well known as Industry area, which mostly comprises with manufacturing factories and workshops. Who can expect there is very good condition of semi-open basketball court within this area? Chendering is located approx around 30 minutes from centre of Kuala Terengganu City. If you are first time to crash this court, you might want to get assist from locals around this area. Or get a friend who had been there before to guide you, since its quite difficult to reach the courts because of many junctions around this area.

The court is built up with grandstand stage and surface finish was good. Area under the backboard (inside the 3-point line) and all perimeter lines were coloured using paint. To ensure your safety please ensure your kicks not worn off because its a bit slippery. Of course you do not spoil your game and worst is your body memory of the drills, with injuries. 

There is time when the area are used for some events, you might want to book the court before invite the teams for friendly or tournament. The players do not visit the court on daily basis (i think) but you will love it here if you come in group. Quite numbers of tournament be held here, include MSST and also others open basketball tournament. Earlier this year the was open tournament organized by Persatuan Pengusaha Bengkel Kuala Terengganu. Was not directly involve with the tournament, but invited by friends to join their game because of some of the original players was not available. Why not right? Always a Yes when come to basketball!

Team sponsored by ATLAS ICE for the PPBKT Open

Basketball Tips: The Art of the Fouls in Basketball Game

Even though basketball is not a game that requires a lot of body contact, but the contact is likely to occur during the game. From the body contact actually, lot of possibilities drills that you can create or also help for your teammates play, either in defense or offense position. But if you overdo it, might result you getting a foul. In the event of contact, the referee gave the foul to the player or team. Each fouls will be recorded by the registrar. There are two types of fouls or a mistake in the game of basketball, which are individual fouls and team fouls.

Individual fouls
If the player refuses, hold, illegal block or hit an opponent, which prevented him from continuing the game or create a shot, it is called as fouls or individual mistakes. In a game of basketball, a player can not commit the fouls for more than five times. Fifth time the same player commit a foul, he will be ejected and not allowed to continue the game.

Team fouls
When a team commits total of five fouls in a quarter of the basketball game, any subsequent offense on the opponent, the team will be blamed. Penalties for the offense is two free throws awarded to players who are been fouled.

It is the matter of how we make use of the fouls. It might be advantages in terms of reduce the time wasting of the opponent (especially when they lead), or even broke the morale of the opponents. Of course they will not go easy on us, so its the point of how use the aggressiveness of the opponent, take advantage of it and if possible, create a foul. More fouls to them, more advantages we are right?