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IGG National B/ball Camp on this weekend
Linden, Kwakwani players set for arrival
HARD WORK!!! Georgetown-based IGG short-listed players undergo a stretch drill during a practice session at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last evening.
By Edison Jefford
The National Inter–Guiana Games (IGG) Basketball Camp that will bring together all the players who were short-listed for the event, is expected to commence this weekend, when the ‘out-of-town’ ‘ballers’ arrive for preparation.
While the Georgetown-based players have enjoyed training for over six weeks now other candidates were not as fortunate, because of logistical reasons. However, players from the Linden and Kwakwani areas are expected in town.
Kaieteur Sport learnt yesterday that three Kwakwani players are already being housed at that National Gymnasium while eight players from Linden will arrive this weekend with the Berbice-based guard, Richard Mohandatt.
Akeem Khanai and Orin Rose will lead the players coming from Linden to join a 16-man Georgetown-based squad that was in training for quite sometime.
Guyana will be taking a serious approach to preparing the IGG teams.
National Coach, Robert Cadogan, who has been working three times per week with those GT-based players, told this newspaper yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall that he expects the preliminary touring squad to surface.
“We want to cut the squad this month end. We will have a few practice matches before to see how the guys are meshing.
We have a lot of school talent, but the Guiana Games are a next level of basketball,” Cadogan indicated.
The National Coach, who will benefit from a modern training programme in Mexico that is directed addressing the preparation of national teams among other areas, informed that he is trying to move the players beyond school ‘ball’.
Cadogan is expected to attend the Olympic Solidarity Scholarship course from August 22 to 29 which means that his assistants will have to deputise with the IGG squad while he is absent. Abdullah Hamid may have a role to play here.
“We are not 100 percent there but we are getting there,” Cadogan said when assessing the Georgetown practice session yesterday.
He said that the cream of the crop from the IGG National Camp will seek honours in Suriname.
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