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Colts courting Division I League title with blowout tomorrow
By Edison Jefford
Colts is aiming to run away with Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) Division I League
Kurt Elias
title tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when they face Plaisance Guardians in a deciding third game of a best-of-three series.
Colts is adamant that the game will not be as close as pundits say. President of the Club, Michael Singh told Kaieteur Sport yesterday that once his team plays crunch-time defence well, the game will become very easy for them to win on the offensive end.
“Once we stay defensive-minded, we will be able to close it out. I do not think it (the game) will be close; at the end of the day, we got enough talent and structure to win. We have to play crunch time defence,” Singh said.
“If we get a perfect game, it’s a blowout for Guardians. We have not played a perfect game yet,” he added. Singh believes that he has the weapons on the offensive end to comfortably win, which will change the trend of the best-of-three series.
The first two games were decided in the last seconds with Nikkoloi Smith shooting Guardians to a one-point win in game one, and an almost sweep in a three-point lost in game two. That is how close the series, which is levelled 1-1, has been to-date.
Singh proffered a reason why his team has not been as dominant as expected, despite them being the higher rated team in the clash. He said that they played game one without their guard Shelroy Thomas; in addition, he admitted the team has a new philosophy
“The team has a difference philosophy now that we got ‘Gypsy’ (Centre, Kurt Elias) – that is we are going
Shane Webster
inside to our ‘big men’; we got (Kurt) English, Shelroy and Dave (Thomas) offensively and that means that anyone can give us 20 points per game,” he boasted.
“We got to shut down players; we have to stop Nikkoloi. Plaisance Guardians are playing with a lot of confidence and that is something we cannot take for granted,” Singh added. Smith has been a Colt as recent as 2014, but went back to his foundation club.
Colts won the GABA Under-23 League qualifiers, Division I qualifiers, Linden Forbes Burnham title and made the National Senior Club Championships final last year. They are eagerly looking to add another accolade to their cabinet tomorrow.
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