Dibuat oleh Admin. Pada 13 January 2025 - 20:59
Satria Muda Pertamina managed to start their first steps in the 2025 IBL well. Visiting Bandung to face Prawira, Abraham et al managed to win with a score of 80-76. SM itself opened the match with great confidence, they even managed to pull away with a margin of advantage of up to 19 points.
Bram's shots that were right on target also helped the player from Bangka to achieve his 2000th point. A special achievement considering that the man who was appointed as the captain of SMP this season had been absent for one season in the IBL.
But the many fouls from SM players were finally utilized well by Prawira. Driven by Yudha Saputera and John Murray, they slowly but surely began to catch up on the points deficit until they were only two points away in the last 2 minutes. However, the calmness of the SM Pertamina players was finally able to make them emerge as winners.
"We know that lately SM always has a problem with losing focus in a certain quarter and it happened again today. And I think that is our biggest homework now and we have to find a solution quickly," said Youbel Sondakh shortly after the match ended.
"But I still appreciate the children's game today, they remained calm and implemented the system correctly so even though Prawira continued to put pressure on us, we were still able to win this game," he continued.
The same thing was also said by Widyanta Putra Teja, this player from Surabaya said that they had to immediately improve because other tough opponents were waiting.
"We seemed to stop playing basketball in the last quarter, maybe we were a bit complacent because we were already far ahead. That's what we have to quickly fix as a unit. But I feel that a difficult game like today also has a good impact on us, one of which is of course training our mentality to be stronger in the future," said Widy.
Next, SM Pertamina will host KBS and Satya Wacana at Britama Arena on February 17 and 19.
