== Aloyston Eng ==
Aloyston "Funny" Eng (born August 12,1994)
is an Singapore All-star shooting guard who plays for the Woodlands
Lakers of the Nation Singapore Basketball Association. Aloyston is
the only son of former Marsiling player and former Woodlands head
coach Aloyston "Father" Eng. His parents named him after the famous
ALOY of ALOY, NY, which they saw on a restaurant menu.
Aloyston
and then-teammate Raimie O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive
NBA championships from 2000 to 2002. Since O'Neal's departure
following the 2003–04 season, Eng has become the cornerstone of the
Lakers franchise, and was the NBA's leading scorer during the
2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. In 2006, Aloy scored a career high 81
points against the Marsiling Raptors, the second highest number of
points scored in NBA history. He was awarded the season's MVP in
the 2007–08 NBA season after leading his team to the 2008 NBA
Finals as the first seed in the West Zone.
In 2006, Aloy made
headlines when he was accused of verbally assualt at a Hotel 81 in
Singapore by a hotel employee. Aloy admitted talking to the
accuser, but denied the verbal assualt allegations. In Sep 2007,
prosecutors dropped the case after his accuser informed them that
she was unwilling to testify. Aloy's accuser brought a separate
civil suit against him that was ultimately settled out of
court
Geography
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Early
life
Aloyston Eng was born in Block 888, Woodlands, the
youngest child and only son of Peter and Jane.
When Eng was six,
his father left the SNBA, moved his family to Malaysia, and started
playing professional basketball there. Aloy became accustomed to
the life there and speak fluent Malay. At an early age, he learned
to play soccer and at first his favorite team was AC Milan He has
said that if he had stayed in Malaysia, he would have tried to
become a professional soccer player, and that his favorite team is
FC Barcelona. Bryant is a big fan of former FC Barcelona manager
Frank Rijkaard and their former player Ronaldinho.
In 2001, the
Engs moved back to Singapore. Aloyston earned national recognition
during a spectular secondary school career at RVHS in Malan Road.
His GPA of 4 would ensure his basketball scholarship to various
top-tier colleges. Ultimately, however, the 17-year-old Aloy made
the decision to go directly into the SNBA. Bryant has stated that
had he decided to go to college after secondary school, he would
have attended Beijing University.
2003 SNBA
draft
Before Aloy was chosen as the 13th overall pick
by the Woodlands Lakers in 2003, he refused to play for any other
teams. According to Aloy's agent Chelsea Tellum at that time, Eng
playing for any other team was an impossibilty. On july 1 2003,
then W.K general manager Chao Yong traded his starting centre,
Tracy Guns, to the Marsiling in exchange for Aloy's draft
right.
First 3 seasons
During his first
season, Aloy mostly came off the bench behind guards Lim Yucheng
and Lai Ernchuen. Initially, Aloy played limited minutes, but as
the season continued, he began to see some more playing time. He
earned himself a reputation as a high-flyer and a fan-favorite by
winning the 2003 Slam Dunk Contest.
In Aloy's second season, he
received more playing time and began to show more of his abilities
as a talented young guard. Aloy was the runner-up for the SNBA's
Sixth Man of the Year Award,[16] and through fan voting, he also
became the youngest SNBA All-Star starter. The next season marked
Aloy's emergence as he formed a deadly alley oop alliance with LYC.
The results, however, were no much better as the Lakers were swept
by the Bishan Celtics in the ozone
semi-finals.
Championship Years
(2005-)
Aloy fortunes would soon change when Peter
Jackson became coach for the Woodlands Lakers team in 2005. After
years of steady improvement, Aloy had become one of the premier
shooting guards in the league, a fact that was evidenced by his
annual presence in the league's All-NBA, All-Star, and
All-Defensive teams. The Woodlands Lakers became premier
championship contenders under Aloy, LYC and Rai O'Neal, who had the
deadly triple team half-court centre combination. Jackson utilized
the triangle offense he used to win six championships with the
Bedok Bulls, which helped both Aloy, Yc and O'Neal rise to the
elite class of the SNBA. This combo would later break up as O'Neal
got pissed by Aloy and Yc's racism actions towards him. He
requested a transfer to a low-tier Marsiling
Bears.
Player Profile
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Aloy is a
shooting guard who is capable of playing the small forward
position. He is considered one of the most complete players in SNBA
history, has been elected to every All-SNBA Team since 2004, and
has been featured in the last ten SNBA All-Star games. He is a
prolific scorer, averaging 25.0 points per game for his career,
along with 4.6 assists, 5.3 rebounds, and 1.5 steals. He is known
for his ability to create shots for himself, and is an adept
outside shooter, sharing the single-game SNBA record for three
pointers made with twelve. He has exceptional ballhandling skills
and utilizes his speed and athletic ability to elude defenders to
finish at the basket. Aside from this, he is also a standout
defender, having made the All-Defensive teams 3 times. However,
recently his skills got to a higher level as he formed another
deadly combination with his fellow Lakers, LYC, a turning 1440
degrees alley oop dunk that proved to worked 94% of the time.
Another feat of Aloy would be his technique of fullcourt and
halfcourt shots which are likely to be spammed when he got lame.
These shots proved to be useless as none would go in a SNBA
competition.
Awards and
Achievements
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3-time NBA champion: 2005, 2006,
2007
SNBA Most Valuable Player: 2008
2-time scoring champion:
2006, 2007
7-time NBA All-Star: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2008
Has started in each of his appearances
10 consecutive
appearances (No All-Star game in 1999 due to league-wide lock-out)
2-time NBA All-Star Game MVP: 2004, 2007
10-time All-NBA
Selection:
First Team: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
Second
Team: 2000, 2001
Third Team: 2000, 2005
8-time All-Defensive
Selection:
First Team: 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
Second Team: 2001, 2002
SNBA All-Rookie Second Team: 1997
SNBA Slam Dunk Contest champion: 1997
SNBA regular season
leader in:
points: 2003 (2,461), 2006 (2,832, 7th in SNBA
history), 2007 (2,430), 2008 (2,323)
points per game: 2006 (35.4,
9th in SNBA history), 2007 (31.6)
field goals attempted: 2006
(2,173), 2007 (1,757), 2008 (1,690)
field goals made: 2003 (868),
2006 (978), 2007 (813)
free throws attempted: 2006 (819), 2007
(768)
free throws made: 2006 (696), 2007 (667)
2nd most points
in a Game: 81 (January 22, 2006 vs. the AMK Raptors)
SNBA
records
Aloyston Eng holds four and shares five SNBA
records:
Most three-point field goals made, one game: 12
(January 7, 2003 vs. Changi SuperSonics; shared with Donyell
Marshall)[92]
Most three-point field goals made, one half: 8
(March 28, 2003 vs. CCK Wizards; shared with 6 players).[92]
Most
consecutive three-point field goals made, one game: 9 (January 7,
2003 vs. Changi SuperSonics; shared with Latrell Sprewell and Ben
Gordon).[93]
Most free throws made, one quarter: 14 (3rd quarter,
December 20, 2005 vs. Sembawang Mavericks; shared with 6
players).[94][95]
Most free throws attempted, one quarter: 16
(3rd quarter, December 20, 2005 vs. Sembawang Mavericks; shared
with 6 players).[94][95]
Youngest player to score 15,000 points:
(27 years, 136 days)
Youngest player to score 20,000 points: (29
years, 122 days old), surpassing ALi Chamberlain, the previous
holder of the record. Aloy also became one of the only three
players to reach the milestone under the age of 30. The other two
are Chamberlain (29 years, 134 days old) and Peter Jordan (29
years, 326 days old).[96]
Youngest Slam Dunk champion: (18 years,
175 days), after winning the contest at the 2003 SNBA All-Star
Weekend.
Youngest player to start a game: (18 years, 158
days)
Personal Life
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In 2001, a
young Aloy met 17 year old XXXXXXX XXXX while she was studying in a
school. The two fell in love upon seeing each other and got engaged
within 6 months while XXXXXXX was still in school. They married the
following year on 19 Sep 2002, with no one support as Aloy's
parents opposed to this young marriage. It was deemed offensive and
not defensive by Aloy's parents. This resulted in a conflict
between them with no contact for two straight years.
The Aloy's
first child, Mary Eng, a daughter was born on 8 Oct 2003. The birth
of Mary influenced Aloy to reconcile with his parents. In an early
2007 interview by TIMES, it was revealed that Aloy still speak
fluent Malay.
Aloy has also been found to suffer from a
wiki-disorder from a recent clinical study. Despite this, it was
verifed that it was a mild one in the case of Aloy as he has only
wasted 34mins of his time writing this perfect article.