July 13, 2008 in Development, Feature, News
With all the various comments that have been flying around the website I decided to share a personal experience I had with regard to what progress in basketball is supposed to look like.
I’ll start by recalling to the best of my ability an experience I had back in 2002. That year, there was a USSASA tournament being held at Wits University where I was coaching the Gauteng provincial boys’ team and at the same time there was the Engen U17 four nation tournament taking place at Wembley in Johannesburg. With the USSASA tournament going well for the Gauteng teams, we decided to take the boys and girls teams to watch the Engen tournament in the evening. Lucky for us, the game of the day was South Africa against Angola so we were in for a good encounter. Read the rest of this entry →
Tags: Angola, Basketball, Engen, FIBA world championship, South Africa