Team manager of the basketball delegation for the Inter-Guiana Games(IGG), Chris Bowman,has all confidence that the junior national male team, which will be competing at the game’s basketballtournament thisweekend, will not only win the IGG title this year, but do so comfortably.The games begin this Friday, and the male basketball team will playFrench Guiana in their first match that evening at the Cliff AndersonSports Hall. Their eagerly-anticipated contestagainst defending champions Suriname isscheduled to take placeon Sunday evening.The last time the secondleg of the tournament was held in Guyana(2007), Guyana’s male basketball and volleyballteams had prevailed.However, last year,Guyana’s male team lost to host Suriname by one basket.The last time Bowman managed the team was in 2007; and when questioned by Guyana Times International Sport, he was overly confident that he has once again found a winning combination this year.“This is the bestgroup of young playersat the moment, and theyhave the type of talentthat is still being harnessed,”Bowman boasted.“Every time they goout on the floor they keep improving,” the formerGeorgetown Amateur Basketball Association(GABA) president said.The junior nation team sharpened theirskills last Sunday nightby trashing an under-23 compilation which includedquite a few of thetop third- and second-divisionclub players.Some of the starson the U-23 team includedShelroy Thomas,Orin Rose Jnr, Travis Williams and MarlonHaynes. The IGG team prevailed against theircompetitors 101-53.Bowman says he is especiallypleased at how theIGG team has been ableto dominate the talentedU-23 compilation.Apart from thatmatch, the juniorsalso defeated former Georgetown number oneteam Courts Pacesetters,and barely lost to Ravensand Pepsi Sonics by oneand two points respectively.Bowman regardedthose two losses aswins, because of the experiencegained againstthose top quality opponents.Chemistry is anotherone of the main qualitiesof the team, and itwas vividly demonstratedduring Sunday’s victory,which has beenone that Bowman elaboratedon. He also addedthat the team has quitea few lethal three-pointmarksmen with tremendousrange from beyondthe arc. For thesereasons, Bowman said,he feels that Guyana’steam should be the superiorteam, and totallydominate in this year’sevent.“I would be very disappointedand quitesurprised if any of thegames were closely contested,”Bowman mentioned.The former coach ofthe Disciples BasketballClub says he feels thatthe team has been flourishing,although all theplayers have not had opportunityto be fully utilised.“The team is deepto the 12th man, andI think that even thebench can win games,”Bowman added.The team will becaptained by one of thecountry’s top athletes,Akeem Kanhai, who waspart of the championship side back in 2007,and is now coached byMark Agard and JulianHaynes, both of whom coached him in 2007.
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Team manager of the basketball delegation for the Inter-Guiana Games(IGG), Chris Bowman,has all confidence that the junior national male team, which will be competing at the game’s basketballtournament thisweekend, will not only win the IGG title this year, but do so comfortably.The games begin this Friday, and the male basketball team will playFrench Guiana in their first match that evening at the Cliff AndersonSports Hall. Their eagerly-anticipated contestagainst defending champions Suriname isscheduled to take placeon Sunday evening.The last time the secondleg of the tournament was held in Guyana(2007), Guyana’s male basketball and volleyballteams had prevailed.However, last year,Guyana’s male team lost to host Suriname by one basket.The last time Bowman managed the team was in 2007; and when questioned by Guyana Times International Sport, he was overly confident that he has once again found a winning combination this year.“This is the bestgroup of young playersat the moment, and theyhave the type of talentthat is still being harnessed,”Bowman boasted.“Every time they goout on the floor they keep improving,” the formerGeorgetown Amateur Basketball Association(GABA) president said.The junior nation team sharpened theirskills last Sunday nightby trashing an under-23 compilation which includedquite a few of thetop third- and second-divisionclub players.Some of the starson the U-23 team includedShelroy Thomas,Orin Rose Jnr, Travis Williams and MarlonHaynes. The IGG team prevailed against theircompetitors 101-53.Bowman says he is especiallypleased at how theIGG team has been ableto dominate the talentedU-23 compilation.Apart from thatmatch, the juniorsalso defeated former Georgetown number oneteam Courts Pacesetters,and barely lost to Ravensand Pepsi Sonics by oneand two points respectively.Bowman regardedthose two losses aswins, because of the experiencegained againstthose top quality opponents.Chemistry is anotherone of the main qualitiesof the team, and itwas vividly demonstratedduring Sunday’s victory,which has beenone that Bowman elaboratedon. He also addedthat the team has quitea few lethal three-pointmarksmen with tremendousrange from beyondthe arc. For thesereasons, Bowman said,he feels that Guyana’steam should be the superiorteam, and totallydominate in this year’sevent.“I would be very disappointedand quitesurprised if any of thegames were closely contested,”Bowman mentioned.The former coach ofthe Disciples BasketballClub says he feels thatthe team has been flourishing,although all theplayers have not had opportunityto be fully utilised.“The team is deepto the 12th man, andI think that even thebench can win games,”Bowman added.The team will becaptained by one of thecountry’s top athletes,Akeem Kanhai, who waspart of the championship side back in 2007,and is now coached byMark Agard and JulianHaynes, both of whom coached him in 2007.