I totally enjoyed myself at the inaugural Singapore Challenge match between our Singapore Slingers vs Air 21 which hailed from the Philippines Basketball Association (PBA). Though it was a blow out 124-86 game, it was filled with excitement throughout the match. And the reason will be Eric Sandrin #14. Let's not forget "Doctor Ng" (Darren Ng #8) - whom we heard the teammates shouting out his new Nick on the court, akin to Dr J (Julius Erving) but this one here is a real doctor, who scored a whopping 28 points. Dr Ng started slow, with misses, but the faith by his teammate showed a different side of the new Slingers roster.
For the past seasons, I now see a different cohesive side of this newly form team.
Dr Ng push forth with his shooting and started making the big shots, threes after threes he rained just as the Filipino side did from the start taking a 17-11 lead at the start of 1st quarter. The game was face paced, which is known when taking on the Filipinos, they are fast, sharp and rough. Which leads us to the Dennis Rodman of Slingers - Eric Sandrin who had a double double scoring 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
This Korean American actually looks good (Eric, could you please raise your hand to identify yousrelf?) and plays a kick ass tough game. We saw him get hit, hacked, roughened by the Filipinos which many a times the Referees couldn't catch. And from our great courtside seats which Nic got us, we saw all the roughing of the match. But he never relent and gave his own sweetness.
Check out Eric's monster 2-hand Jam and watch where one of his feet lands!
With great Brewerkz beer served now, and Chilean wine as well. The game just gets better. In case you fans out there do not know, we're the only sport allowed to serve alcohol indoors!!
Later on in the fourth quarter when the lead was already horrendous, Air 21's Homer Se#16 try to make things rough and took it out on Eric, taking him on to the ground and trying to kick him!
Check out the Air 21's fans reactions.
Well I enjoyed myself so much in this game and because I lugged my DSLR over, I just did not cover the game, for more match reviews go to Slingers' official website, Jase or the best view from Darren himself..yes Dr Ng has a blog!
Game 2 against Air 21 will be played on Sunday 21st Sept at 4pm. So do come and soak up the atmosphere! And catch a glimpse of Eric before he does turn into Dennis Rodman! But Eric seems to get more girly screams of his name then Dennis!
Tickets start at $6-16. Tribute to Darren, 1st #8 comments I see here, get free tics from me at the indoor stadium before the match!
Other cute bloggers seen at the game are Precious and Daphne and a first-time-watching Sharon.
Ok to end with my great fun shot of the night, by Daniels #12 who had a Shaq like dunk! Daniels had 23 points for the night. We had 4 Slingers with double digit scores.
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