Ghanian Basketball (M)

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Ghanaian basketball is a growing sport in the country, with increasing popularity, especially among the youth. The sport is organized under the Ghana Basketball Association, which oversees national leagues and competitions. Despite limited infrastructure and funding, Ghanaian basketball players show great passion and talent, with many aspiring to reach professional levels. Key events like the Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges (UPAC) Basketball Championship have helped develop the sport locally. However, Ghana's basketball scene still seeks more international exposure and support to reach its full potential.visit

[Husnain11221]

Ghanian basketball is making strides globally, showcasing impressive talent and athleticism. As the sport grows in popularity, it's inspiring to see how different cultures embrace and develop their unique styles. Just as kilmaplanter thrive in diverse conditions, so does Ghanian basketball talent.

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Hey Guys!!! Happy New Year....Been silent but back to report on news on the GH ball scene, will copy and paste from some Facebook posts as well...stay tune!!!!

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Seven Foot Ghanaian, Malik Kuwornu, Recruit Report

Read full review on 1st Online Ghana Sports Portal

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Hoop Dreams Extreme Reality Basketball TV Show

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[Czarkazem13]

Interesting read. Thanks for the posts.

[Ciscorlie Horford]

nice to see the game growing

[Federoy]

Hey, good stuff capecoasthoops! Africa as a region is the least represented on this forum, so it's always good to see someone reporting news/updates from the continent. Keep up the good work!

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HCI Minibasket Update: Spartans still winless, lost 24-11 to Air Benders

Five fingers are not the same. This can be seen clearly in the mini league. Although Spartans is a fine collection of players they still seem to struggle and yet to find their winning form. During the week you could see the individual efforts they put both into their workout and classes. Air Benders on the other end seems to be developing on their rhythm and to have the most improve player of the week, Thompson A. who shot 5-11 from the field mostly from offensive rebounds. Spartans played excellent. Ayishetu S. was brilliant. She helped her side with four points, a steal and surprisingly one turn over. She was aggressive to the basket on several occasions. Her team mate which is also their star player Ebenezer A. came late and enter the game at the beginning of the second quarter. The match up with Justice A. of Air Benders had him in check. All his shots and lay-ups where highly contested. Although he highly anticipated a win ‘AB’ could only settle in for four points in their lost

AIR BENDERS ROSTER AND STATS

FG 3PT FT REB OFF DEF AST STL BLK PF PTS

Belinda A. 2-5 0-0 0-0 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 4
Pa Kwesi H. 2-7 0-0 0-0 3 1 2 1 0 0 2 4
Justice A. 1-11 0-0 1-2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3
Thompson A.5-11 0-0 0-1 7 3 4 0 2 0 1 10
David M. 1-3 0-0 1-1 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 3
Ebenezer G. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Emmnuel B. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
John B. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

SPARTANS ROSTER AND STATS

FG 3PT FT REB OFF DEF AST STL BLK PF PTS
Ayishetu S. 2-2 0-0 0-0 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 4
Ebenezer A. 1-4 0-3 2-4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 4
Christina A. 1-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Michael G. 0-3 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Lordina B. 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Richmond E.0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thomas E. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
George B. 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

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HCI Minibasket Update: Undefeated Sky Walkers win 14-6 over Spiders

Round one of the HCI Minibasket League came to close this Saturday with all teams having played three games. Sky Walkers seems to still be in the sky and untouchable winning three straight games. Although they play team game Samuel A. aka ‘Sammy’ stood out for the second week running scoring most his side points shooting 4-15 from the field and 4-6 from the foul line. On the Spiders side of the court, the duo of Michael A. aka ‘Jordan’ and John B. had a bad day as both had foul problems early in the game. This had them out of rhythm as they had to stay in pace with Sammy’s constant drive in the lane. He alone foul out both players early in the third quarter. The Spider bench put up a monster defense. Most fans thought Sammy will have his field day but to all amazement they held him to fewer points and kept his team mate out of sync. In the absent of both their stars, Spiders had Comfort A. to step up and she did scoring a field goal but that was not enough to get them into contention.

We looking forward to an exciting second round which starts next week. Will Sky Walkers go all the way undefeated? “No Way” says Jordan, we will get back in form second round. Morale still looks high in the camp of the preseason champs.

SKY WALKERS ROSTER AND STATS

FG 3PT FT REB OFF DEF AST STL BLK PF PTS

Samuel A. 4-15 0-0 4-6 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 12 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting**************0-0 4-6 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 12******end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Shalline A. 0-2 0-0 0-0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0

Oscar G. 0-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Doris W. 0-3 0-0 0-0 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0

Emma. A. 1-7 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Felicia A. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Louretta D. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Ernest E. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Rebecca T. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SPIDERS ROSTER AND STATS

FG 3PT FT REB OFF DEF AST STL BLK PF PTS

Michael A. 1-5 0-3 2-4 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 4

Comfort A. 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2

Catharine B. 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

John B. 0-4 0-0 0-0 4 0 4 0 0 0 5 0

Mavis F. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Daniel K. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Emma. M. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Pauline D. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Desmond S. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0

Eric S. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Samuel B. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

[mvblair]

I always look forward to your posts, Claude. This is another good post. Thanks, man!

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DEFINING A LEADER Posted by ReboundGH

DEFINING A LEADER Posted by ReboundGH



LEBANON HOUSE - I am not an advocate for "one man contractors" but Yotives 31 13 rally in the 4th quarter wouldn't be talked about if not for the man above. Damn it! the guy was on fire, he virtually nearly carried the team on to victory.

Yotive after trailing the Reformers team ( who were having a field day at work) for the first three quarters (came into the 4th quarter with a 20 point deficit 50 - 30) realized they still had a chance. Because Reformers weren't playing any extra ordinary ball game and could be stopped easily.

This is crunch time where leaders are born. Even among the greatest of players very few a able to stand up to perform in the 4th. From nowhere, the dread locked man in the blue uni just took up the mantle, shooting 2's lights out, jumping out of bounds to scoop loose balls, taking it to the hole for easy lay ups....the fans just showed him so much love...but then too soon time caught with Yotive and it was too late to finish their rally.

But still much love to the dread locked guy in the Yotive team..one love

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Time to rebound...the entire game was full of strong and physical defense


LEBANON HOUSE - The Magic team can certainly continue to call Lebanon House the "evil forest". They are 4 - 4 at their home court. They won their second straight game there after a 3 game loosing streak at the prisons court in Cantonments.

This game for me, over lived its expectation. It was fun filled and competitive through the entire 40 minutes of action. Both teams started the game playing very good quality defense not allowing any cheap shots under their watch. The game was aggressive on both sides of the floor and was becoming sought of barren until Magic's PG, Jordan knocked down two pointer 3 minutes after tip off that set things off. HF won the quarter 8 - 6. Mainly due to the fact that Magic's players made a couple of bad defensive decisions.


Ivan grabs a rebound for Magic

Magic simply took charge from the second quarter, quickly taking a 6 point lead early to leave HF trailing all day. Magic's players once again rose to the occasion apart from dee double who didn't have a very good day and had limited playing time. Their front courts performance was just amazing, they held HF's big man to less production the entire game. Rebounds were their job for the day, if u ask me and more importantly they hit those high percentage shots in the paint on the offense as well.

As predicted in the preview, HF had their own problems to deal with, Germain played full time with a not so well healed rib injury, Djimatey played bad on the day, their coach got angry with the team ( and was seen sitting away from his team without any chit chat after the game)
and most of their players just failed to perform.


Djimatey was too selfish on the day. He just didn't have trust in any of his teammates. he ran the fast breaks alone barely dropping dimes, shot 0-7 from behind the arc and still didn't stop shooting. For us here we think, he killed his team slowly.




Djimatey showed absolutely no trust in his teammates

But then it wasn't over until it was over, Holy Family tried somewhat of a rally with about 3 minutes to go on the clock. They switched to man on man defense to try to limit the Magic's scoring and rather ended up over fouling(Rodney had 4 fouls in the 4th; the only quarter he played in). But then it was too late, magic was also running their own unseen rally. Tsatsu Blocked a Victor Ziga lay up to start the rally and from then Magic was out of range for HF....



Gemain played 40 minutes with a not so well healed elbow injury

Magic now prepare to meet C.Y.O...are we in for another upset?...I don't think so because the Magicians from Tudu seem to be getting their stage work together after a very bad campaign last season.

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MAGICIANS meet the HOLY FAMILY Posted by ReboundGH

words Theophilus Mensah....photos Ellis Lamptey

LEBANON HOUSE - Tudu based Magic meets Mataheko based Holy Family tomorrow at the Lebanon House (named the evil forest by the Magic team). Magic is looking better right now with a team PPG of 53.7 compared to the 49.7 of HF. Beefing up their squad at the mid season with two hard working forwards (Daniel Danso a.k.a dee double and Ataa Anu). They also come into this game having won their last game after loosing to CEPS the before. It is very certain their 40 point blow out of the Jets has really increased the confidence and morale of the team. The entire Magic team just stood to the occasion that day. With Tsatsu, Theo and Francis Blocking shots, Ivan and Jordan knocking down shots from range and everybody else playing their roles well like they did, HF will have a lot to ponder over on both ends of the floor. They are currently placed 7th on the standings with 11 points and only separated from Holy Family at the 6th position by a 10 PD.


Magic huddle up before the Turbo Jets game

Holy family are not looking good right now but their certainly not looking bad neither. its been a tale of bad luck for them this season. Their coach was suspended during their game with TY. Their biggest weapon in the form their big man is not playing good due to an injury he obtained in the TY match. Djimatey is not playing too well and to make matters worse they've lost their last three matches.


HF's big man, Gemain playing with injury

But then this is basketball; anything can happen ( I need not remind you C.Y.O's upset of TY). Holy Family's coach returns from suspension as well and magic will certainly come in with their A game to maintain their rise in the L. We wait to see what X factor helps either team to win.