http://www.nst.com.my/sports/badminton/badminton-bam-mulls-reshuffling-kien-keat-boon-heong-1.122114
While we all praise the fighting spirit of LCW, how about we start a discussion on whether KKK/TBH attitudes are acceptable. They put up a good fight in first match and despite having several game points, they lost concentration and eventually lost the first game (so typical of Malaysian pairs that I could give tens of examples of matches where they were leading and eventually failed to win). Well, for whatever reasons that was, they should try their best to play second game. Their second game attitude was like a WTF attitude, just keep lifting the shuttle as if they are daring the Koreans to keep smashing harder (and the Koreans did, and crushed them). I mean, yeah it's a bit disappointed to have lost first game when you should've won, but as a professional how could you just give it up totally without any spirits after that, especially that is an Olympic medal match, not any other Open tournament match.
I can see the disappointment face expression of the Koreans during the Bronze medal match for not being able to advance to the final (you can totally tell that they are not as excited as in the semi-final), but they still show a good fighting spirit. Compared to the Malaysians their attitude is clearly unacceptable.
While we all praise the fighting spirit of LCW, how about we start a discussion on whether KKK/TBH attitudes are acceptable. They put up a good fight in first match and despite having several game points, they lost concentration and eventually lost the first game (so typical of Malaysian pairs that I could give tens of examples of matches where they were leading and eventually failed to win). Well, for whatever reasons that was, they should try their best to play second game. Their second game attitude was like a WTF attitude, just keep lifting the shuttle as if they are daring the Koreans to keep smashing harder (and the Koreans did, and crushed them). I mean, yeah it's a bit disappointed to have lost first game when you should've won, but as a professional how could you just give it up totally without any spirits after that, especially that is an Olympic medal match, not any other Open tournament match.
I can see the disappointment face expression of the Koreans during the Bronze medal match for not being able to advance to the final (you can totally tell that they are not as excited as in the semi-final), but they still show a good fighting spirit. Compared to the Malaysians their attitude is clearly unacceptable.