06 - Respect Your Elders

What's berasap, y'all? Selamat datang kembali, silakan buat macam rumah sendiri. Kalau kau tak kenal lagi, nama aku afiqPG, and this is part 6 of the 10 Things You Need To Know Before Playing In NCBL 2K11. After such a long and exhausting trip in part 5, we're going to go away from basketball for a while. But not too far away, though, no I don't stray that way. Part 6 is all about respecting your elders, and there's a few situations for this. Mostly, youngsters deal with people older than them in 3 situations; between teammates, between player and coach/manager/owner, and between players and otais outside the court. Now on to the three scenarios!

In case you haven't noticed, NCBL is not like MSSD or PPM where there's a specific age-range for teams. Instead, most teams have a mixed balance of youngsters, rookies, veterans and old guys. Now, I know ballers, and ballers are full of passion and they wear their hearts on their sleeves. Because of this, there are almost always 'pergaduhan kecil/dingin' that happen between the older guys and the younger guys. To avoid conflict because of generational gaps, there needs to be an understanding that all young players are panas baran while all old players are cepat terasa. Orang muda seharusnya lebih menghormati orang tua dan control sikit bila nak communicate dengan mereka. Orang tua pula seharusnya lebih memahami darah orang muda dan jangan mudah ambil hati bila orang muda ni 'agresif'. Baru team boleh main dengan peace, love and harmony, betul tak?

Now, for the second situation, it can be seen that most team managers/coaches/owners adalah lebih tua daripada mereka-mereka yang bermain dalam team tersebut. And because of this, isu yang paling selalu menjadi punca perselisihan adalah pemain-pemain tidak dapat faham halatuju sesebuah team. Ini sering berlaku kerana coach/manager/owner tidak berjaya communicate the direction of the team to the players. Dalam apa jua situasi, team korang sepatutnya kena bawak berbincang dekat luar court sebelum tournament mula. Buat la program karaoke macam Phantoms ke, pesta pantai PD macam Zero ke, kenduri kahwin macam UBSA ke, janji semua player/manager/coach/owner boleh sit down, drink and agree on the direction of the team, the style of play, expected performance and minutes. Kalau boleh make everyone clear on those things before season mula, insyaAllah berkurangan konflik dalaman di masa hadapan.

Lastly, between players and otais outside the court. If you notice, whenever there are matches at NCBL, there will always be some unfit-looking older people who come and watch teams play. If you've been to Batu 11, you know who I'm talking about. Yup, those old Chinese pakciks who come and watch simply because they love watching people ball. Anyways, I don't think there has been any real conflicts between the NCBL players and those people, but I just want to remind everyone (including myself) to be aware of them when they are there. If they look your way, just smile. If you sit close to them, don't scream too loud. I you're sitting and they're standing, offer them your seat. Sounds like I'm preaching but I'm just reminding, Itu je aku nak cakap sebenarnya.

Anyways, sorry if this post doesn't really talk about basketball. But I still think people should know about it before playing in NCBL. Just sharing some thoughts, aite. Peace!

P/s: Lagu iklan untuk korang hilangkan bosan. Layan.