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Representing your country is important…
– Cadogan instils in IGG basketball squad
FINESSE!!! Some of the players on the 15-member IGG basketball squad go through warm-up drills at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday before practice.
By Edison Jefford
Robert ‘Bobby’ Cadogan wants the 15-member national junior basketball squad to know that representing their country is an extraordinary accomplishment as preparations for the mid-October Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) continue.
“Mental preparation is just as important as physical preparation; I have to let them (team) know how important it is to represent your country,” Cadogan told Kaieteur Sport at one of the team’s practice sessions at the Sports Hall.
Cadogan, who just returned from an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship in Mexico that dealt with High Performance preparation among other areas, said that the 15-man squad are the best players that could have been selected for the event.
“These are guys that came out to practice sessions and dedicated themselves. They went through weeks of rigorous training and now here they are,” the national basketball Coach indicated when presenting the players yesterday.
He said he is currently focused on getting the right chemistry and combination before the tour to 2009 IGG hosts, Suriname.
“I don’t know what the opposing team possess but we are preparing for anything that confronts us,” he noted.
Cadogan boasted that the weeks of training camps and practice sessions have helped the players to be better prepared mentally, physically and tactically.
The first squad included over 30 players with sessions lasting two-plus months.
Guyana are the defending IGG basketball champions and according to Cadogan it is hard to stay at the top.
He said that the team and the entire management staff will not be going to Suriname to lose and therefore winning is priority.
“A lot of these guys are pretty new at this level, so we have to prepare them.
We are in a situation where we are the defending champions and we are definitely going to defend the title,” a confident Cadogan told this newspaper.
He indicated that the team must understand their priorities and representing Guyana is the ultimate on the list. Cadogan, who also has a Diploma in Coaching from the University of Hungary, wants to also boost the players’ confidence.
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