HK GIANTS vs Sun Nic Gan

Sunday 24th was the last game of the first part of the season, against Sun Nic Gan. A must win game in order to start the second part with better objectives. With, for the first time of the Giants history, as many Hong Kong player than guailo. A good sign that we are becoming attractive and wide in terms of nationalities.

Well motivated and starting in defense, the first few minutes were as usual for us, a bit difficult, both in attack and defense. After 6 minutes played, the score was 2-2 only, with many missed occasion and mistakes. 

Thankfully our opponents had the same issues and no one could lead. We then passed the second gear and played a great handball, especially in attack with many good chance and a great accuracy. After 20 minutes, the score was 11-3 for us, giving us a comfortable lead. And the last 10 minutes were of the same kind, even with a defense slowing down. A quiet and easy first half, ended on the large score of 15-6.

But as we all know, when we are good, we start playing easy and make mistakes. And that didn't miss, with a second half starting well for our opponents, thanks to our weak defense. After 7 minutes, they scored already 7 goals, coming back 3 goals behind us. Time for a time out, to try to wake up everybody. And even if we started scoring again, we didn't improve the defense and gave away many easy goals, keeping them 3 goals behind. Until the 23rd minute, game was tight, with only lucky goals from our side replying to our lack of defense.

We then had another good run of 5 minutes, putting them 6 goals behind, before playing easy again and letting them come back close. A last minute with 2 goals from our right back and we ended another difficult game on the score of 29-24.

Despite a win, we played a fantastic first half before getting pretentious and playing very bad in second half. We need to improve our fitness, in order to play same level for the whole game. And that only improve by training.

Highlight of the game, Chen, back after his injury with a nice game and 8 goals, Berry and Chris that played well on the wings and fast breaks, and all the guys that came to support.

We end the first part of the season with 4 wins and 5 losses, so we must do better in the second part, winning the same opponents and winning a few more in order to reach the top 5. Reply on December 15th with the first game against YMCA.