{"id":343630,"date":"2021-05-06T06:02:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=343630"},"modified":"2021-05-06T06:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:02:34","slug":"strictly-business-sweeps-foes-in-17u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/strictly-business-sweeps-foes-in-17u\/","title":{"rendered":"Strictly Business sweeps foes in 17U"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_343632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343632\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Strictly-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strictly Business swept their matches and ultimately conquered the 17U division of the inaugural Battle of the NORF 3-on-3 basketball tournament that concluded last Sunday at the As Matuis basketball court. (Kimberly B. Esmores)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Strictly Business swept their matches and ultimately conquered the 17U division of the inaugural Battle of the NORF 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament that concluded last Sunday at the As Matuis basketball court.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly Business, which included Leopoldo Naraja, Derrick Atalig, Freddy Pelisamen, Lucio Aldan, and Frankie Satur, edged K-Town with a 9-7 victory to take the 17U division of the inaugural 3-on-3, single-elimination basketball tournament last Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from besting K-Town, the champions also prevailed in its match against K-Rollers but no results were recorded. <\/p>\n<p>Naraja said the team\u2019s strategy was to use the pick-and-roll and to always stay one step ahead of their opponents. <\/p>\n<p>Naraja emphasized that the secret for the team was to play with heart. Naraja even compared the drive to win to one of the team\u2019s matches in the Rollers Basketball Association\u2019s league.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played great because we played our hearts out just like our Rollers game. We lost one game  but in the championships [in the RBA], we came back and won the most important game. It feels exactly like that, that\u2019s what I mean about playing our hearts out,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, Naraja said they managed the win because they communicated well and played efficiently as a team. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team communicated well and we really worked as a team to win this. The competition was definitely pretty hard with everyone playing their best. I know everyone wanted the win but I think at the end, it just showed who wanted it more which is us,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>In term of preparation, Naraja said he and his team trained together about twice a week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t really practice together for the 3-on-3 but we practiced together for Rollers practices so you can say we practice two times a week,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strictly Business swept their matches and ultimately conquered the 17U division of the inaugural Battle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":343631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}