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Islaudin has now retired, he is around 31 years or so.
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Need to contact him. Hope he is on facebook.Originally posted by kashmirbasketball View PostComment
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India already have two new Islaudin, the Bhullar brothers.Originally posted by raichu08 View PostComment
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Great job 3Scout4India. I used to be a big fan of Robinson but unfortunately he didn't have talented players on the team with him.
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Robinson is a great talent even though limited competition in India he is that good exposure is what India lacks playing competitive basketball every now and then will make them betterOriginally posted by Khalid80 View PostGreat job 3Scout4India. I used to be a big fan of Robinson but unfortunately he didn't have talented players on the team with him.To becomes Asia's Best, we need to compete against the World's Best..
1 Big 4 small > 5 out offense.Comment
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Indian National Team
This is the current roster of Indian senior national team.
4 Sambhaji Kadam (179-G-80) of Young Cagers
5 Talwinderjit Singh (182-G/F-86) of Young Cagers
6 Hareesh Koroth (185-G-84) of Young Cagers
7 Haraplsinh Vaghela (174-G-85) of Young Cagers
8 Sunil Kumar Rathee (195-F-91)
9 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi (192-G-91) of Young Cagers
10 Prakash Mishra (180-G/F-82) of Western Railway Mumbai
11 Vineeth Revi (202-C-84) of Young Cagers
12 Abhilek Paul (180-G/F-86)
13 Jayram Jat (189-G/F-81) of Young Cagers
14 Dinesh Coimbatore (193-G-85)
15 Jagdeep Singh (199-C-86) of Young Cagers
Head Coach: Aleksandar Bucan (Serbia)
There are some very good prospects such as Briguvanshi or Rathee. But India have many talented players all over the world that deserve to be in the squad.
To become a real threat to other asian nations, India must add taller and more talented players such as centers Timir Patel (6'10, 1986), Sam Singh (6'9, 1985), brothers Tanveer (7'2) and Sim Bhullar (7'4), Ram Carlo Sharma (198, 1980) or outside players such as Anish Sharda (191, 1982) or Dipanjot Singh (6'3, 1989).
I'm working on it
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I'm looking for the pics and info of Indian league, do you have it ?
anyway those 2 guys born in 1991 are they really good..?
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Nope.Originally posted by satria_muda View Post
Vishesh Bhriguvanshi is really good.
All’s Well That Ends Well in New Delhi
NEW DELHI, July 6, 2008 -- This was the day when campers went all out to prove themselves as the best and most deserving to be selected as the East and West All-Stars, to lay out all they had learned over the past three days and ultimately be crowned the 2008 Basketball without Borders Asia All-Star.
The morning started out with a flurry of activities, where NBA players joined camp director Dean Cooper to host a Jr. NBA/ WNBA clinic at the Siri Fort Sports Complex for over 100 children who had been invited by the Basketball Federation of India. Kids arrived almost an hour before the clinic began and even though it soon started raining, it couldn’t dampen their excitement of receiving NBA-style training in their own backyard.
Kids were broken down into groups and taken through shooting and rebound drills, while players cautioned them to be careful on the slippery courts. Kyle’s station was especially rowdy, when they had to
Back at the American Embassy School, campers attended the second session of the HIV/AIDS education and prevention life skills seminar hosted by the Modicare Foundation. They were reminded that as young athletes, they are going to be role models for the people at home, and they have a social duty to behave responsibly. After classes, they took to the courts for a last round of games to warm-up and simply enjoy the last morning of drills and training with their fellow campers from all over Asia.
Where Basketball without Borders Asia All-Stars Happens
The 2008 BWB Asia All-Star game was a spectacle to behold. It contained not only the best 24 players of the camp, but a half-time show and a rocking crowd. In front of 300 plus fans, the East and West Stars were neck-and-neck, by half-time the West Stars were leading by a 32-29.
Four contestants took to the courts during half-time for the 3-point contest. Park Jung Hoon from Korean beat Yuki Mitsuhara from Japan in the first round by 8-5; while Lim Ming-Hui from Chinese Taipei edged out Ivan Makarchuk from Kyrgyzstan by 7-5. Lim and Park proceeded to the final round but tied it at 6 shots, but Lim proved himself to be the Ray Allen from Chinese Taipei and knocked Park out by one at 7 to 6. Kyle Korver was no threat to Lim’s title as he defeated Kyle 7-3.
It was a blow-out when the West Stars continued to dominate the second half of the game, with Lim Jong Ill leading the team to victory at 74:53 and was crowned Nike MVP of the All-Star Game.
Dong Hanlin from China won the Frequent Flyer Award presented by American Airlines, recording the highest jump amongst all campers. The DHL Playmaker award went to Joseph Zaloum from Lebanon, and Xu Tao from China was given the sportsmanship award by Tata Consultancy Awards. But it was India’s own young talent Vishesh Bhriguvanshi who won the loudest cheer and applause in the gym, becoming a hero when he was named Nike MVP of the Basketball without Borders Asia camp!Comment
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the lineup isn't as tall. Opposite of what I expected.
anyway sir, are there taller players in the pool?Comment
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Originally posted by 3Scout4India View PostThis is the current roster of Indian senior national team.
4 Sambhaji Kadam (179-G-80) of Young Cagers
5 Talwinderjit Singh (182-G/F-86) of Young Cagers
6 Hareesh Koroth (185-G-84) of Young Cagers
7 Haraplsinh Vaghela (174-G-85) of Young Cagers
8 Sunil Kumar Rathee (195-F-91)
9 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi (192-G-91) of Young Cagers
10 Prakash Mishra (180-G/F-82) of Western Railway Mumbai
11 Vineeth Revi (202-C-84) of Young Cagers
12 Abhilek Paul (180-G/F-86)
13 Jayram Jat (189-G/F-81) of Young Cagers
14 Dinesh Coimbatore (193-G-85)
15 Jagdeep Singh (199-C-86) of Young Cagers
Head Coach: Aleksandar Bucan (Serbia)
There are some very good prospects such as Briguvanshi or Rathee. But India have many talented players all over the world that deserve to be in the squad.
To become a real threat to other asian nations, India must add taller and more talented players such as centers Timir Patel (6'10, 1986), Sam Singh (6'9, 1985), brothers Tanveer (7'2) and Sim Bhullar (7'4), Ram Carlo Sharma (198, 1980) or outside players such as Anish Sharda (191, 1982) or Dipanjot Singh (6'3, 1989).
I'm working on it.
Sharma is playing in the PBA, forgot which team though. You'll be better off getting someone much younger.Keep running, big boy.Comment
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Dong Hanlin, who won the Frequent Flyer Award, is now playing for Guangdong in the Chinese Basketball Association, China's top league. He is listed as being born in 1991. Xu Tao, who won the Sportsmanship Award, recently was the center of the Chinese team that won the Asian Under-16 Championship. Players on that team could be born no earlier than 1993. This would mean that Xu would have been no more than 15 when he won this award -- if you believe he was born in 1993.Originally posted by 3Scout4India View PostComment
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India has taller players in youth squads. Such as Pethani Rekin Shantilal (206, 1990), Shadab Khan (206, 1992) and Dishant Vipul Shah (203, 1992).Originally posted by kaiziken_pinas View PostComment
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Interesting story from SLAM Online.... Corruption exists in almost all Third World countries, but this is outrageous... Reminds me of "Slumdog Millionaire",
March 9, 2010 8:00 am
Basketball at Gunpoint
The harsh realities of corruption in Indian Basketball.
by Karan Madhok
Sport is supposed to be different. Sport is supposed to be a platform where a combination of talent, practice, and luck mesh together to create an alternative reality. In a vast and culturally dense country like India, the population is divided amongst millions of subgroups by state, language, caste, color, profession, and politics.
But sports, and in our case, basketball, is supposed to be different — when basketball players step on to the court, something in their nature changes. They are no longer the desk clerk, the IT technician, the law-student, the father of two, the Hindu, the Muslim, the Marxist, or the liberal. They become basketball players. All the other staples of community division go out the window — the rich man doesn’t always win, the darker one isn’t discriminated against, the educated holds no advantage over the illiterate.
Well, all that is supposed to happen, anyways.
There are not many who take the sport seriously in India, but for the small population who do, basketball is their lifeline, their way out of dreaded pigeonholing in everyday society, where a boy in the service class will take a government job just like his father and a girl — any girl — will be married off sooner than she can learn to pronounce “Independence”. This is obviously not the trend in the modern, urban, upper-class Indian society; but the majority of middle and lower class ball players prefer to live in the alternative reality where their jump shot is more valuable to the world than the caste they were born into.
For these serious ball players, the basketball court is held in reverence, respected like a temple, where all other realities become blurred away leaving room for something that puts them on a common playing field, something that is fair.
But what is the point of reverence when it is nothing but a farce? When games are played not to win but to pave way for the ‘natural order’ of sport in the country; when results are determined not by the team with the more talent but the team with the stronger voice?
Here is the latest example: Last month, the All India Inter University Basketball tournament, featuring the best college-level talent in the country, concluded in my hometown of Varanasi. Hosted by the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), this tournament featured the best four teams from each of the four zones in the country. 16 teams took part in this exciting competition, which featured two local teams in the final — the hosts BHU versus the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV). BHU beat MGKV 63-56 to lift the trophy in front of their home fans, and thus became the best university basketball team in the country.
But the result is far from the complete truth. Players from visiting Delhi and Rajasthan universities alleged that they had to forfeit or lose their games over threats at gunpoint!
To everyone’s shock (or perhaps not), the entire starting five of the MGKV squad didn’t play a single minute in the tournament’s final against the BHU. These included 23-year-old Vikram ‘Dicky’ Parmar, the best player in the tournament, and one of the most talented young players in the country. The excuses for this ranged from “mild injuries” to “protecting the players from future injuries”.
Really? Why would you protect your players in the FINAL of the most important basketball tournament of their time in university?
The truth is this: It had been agreed from before that the MGKV coach would only play his reserves against BHU in the final, so that BHU could win their hometown tournament and BHU’s longtime revered coach KN Rai would be given a victorious retirement party.
The game itself exposed this charade further — after trailing for most of the three quarters, MGKV reserves actually made an amazing comeback in the fourth and took a one-point lead against BHU in the final two minutes. At this point, the MGKV coach had a word with his second squad, and subsequently, MGKV players practically gave up, loosening up their defense and standing around as the BHU scored freely to pick up a victory.
The most shocking fact about this farce isn’t that the above mentioned incidents took place; it is that everyone involved with the tournament and the teams taking part in the finals silently let it happen. The crowd, although uncomfortable with the happenings on court, simply sat back and watched. The media made a soft whimper about it on the following days, but the organizing associations turned a blind eye. Even the coaches and players of MGKV could only respond with a sigh, agreeing “these things just happen.”
They just happen. When I spoke to former UP player and Varanasi-based basketball coach Jitendar Kumar about this incident, his only response was that these things are “natural” in such tournaments — everyone from the referees, gun-toting bullies, and even opposing coaches and players get involved in making sure the home squads take the trophy. The teams agree to the result: That is what is supposed to happen because it always does.
Let me also add Varanasi has had a reputation of being uniquely illustrious in churning out national-level basketball talents. Unfortunately, this ancient city, also known for attracting pilgrims and tourists from around the world, happens to be in one of India’s major crime belts across Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
In the days following this story, I received a range of reactions from the fans. Subhash Mahajan, who is a basketball coach in rural parts of India, shared that he wasn’t surprised with the result, adding the sport is tainted on every district, state, or institution level in the country.
Players from the other teams who took part in the competition also complained of how the atrocities could take place under the nose of some of the event’s organizers. I can’t think of an apt NBA equivalent — how about Gilbert Arenas threatening the Lakers at gunpoint to lose the NBA Finals, right under David Stern’s eye. The gunpoint thing may not be completely unimaginable in Arenas’ case, although the thought of the Wizards in the Finals may be a bit too farfetched.
A reader of my blog, Vivek Taterway, once shared this tragic story: “My brother, who had mistakenly scored a goal at a University Football Tournament many summers ago at their rival’s home ground, barely escaped with his life. He actually ran off before the game ended! Today that event is recalled at family gatherings with loads of laughter but the irony cannot be missed.”
If the biggest university-level championship is treated under such conditions, we are doing nothing but corrupting the very core of what will shape our national sport teams in the future. What is the point of being true to basketball when those who run it won’t be true to you? If Indian authorities are really serious about promoting basketball as a major sport in India, it should first clean out such practices in all levels — a task much easier said than done, and for as long as our authorities remain corrupt, there is no chance of any serious attempt at this.
Basketball (and sport) is supposed to be an escape from the harsh realities from life’s other trends and professions, but we have unfortunately become used to accepting a corrupt system as the only reality. We need a united effort in the fans, players, and federation to fight against this. Let’s not convince our players to corrupt the one thing in life they love most: basketball.
Karan Madhok works as a Communications Officer in an international school in the Himalayan town of Mussoorie, India. He is a former journalist for The Times of India newspaper and a lifelong basketball fanatic. Read more of his work at his blog, The Hoopistani.aim low, score highComment
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http://www.ptinews.com/news/631847_F...ague-in-MumbaiIt's good news, but I'll be honest: I'm not very optimistic about basketball development in India.First professional basketball league in Mumbai
Mumbai, Apr 29 (PTI) The country's first professional baseketball league is to be hosted by Mastan YMCA, the cradle of basketball in Mumbai that has produced some of the finest hoopsters, from May 5-15.
The inaugural Mastan Basketball Professional League for men and women, sponsored by Lakadawala Developers and organised by the Basketball Federation of India, will present a unique opportunity to the country's leading players.
For a change they would not represent their clubs or companies but would be playing in teams picked by the BFI, prompting players from different states, backgrounds and styles to play together, a media release said today.
While a pool of 80 players will be selected to form eight men's teams, 40 women players will be picked to form four women's teams.
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