Something to make you go hmm?!

11:50 PM Ellis 31 Comments

I heard this from a friend in the basketball community but couldn't bring myself to believe it. Our womens' national team which took the trip to the Ivory Coast with so much controversy and problems did as bad as.....hmmm. This story is as written on the FIBA Afrique website.
photo: courtesy FIBA Afrique

Game 1
Cote d'Ivoire dominated Ghana ( 106-24 ) during the first game of the coupled qualifiers Afrobasket Women 2011 / African Games 2011 of the Zone III.

After a slow start, the ivorians are going to reveal what was their fatal weapon during all the game, the full court press defense.

This defense is going to hamper the ghanaian a lot which struggle to align no more than two passes. The very aggressive ivorians get back balls and proceed on fastbreaks.

Ivorians make many fouls but Ghanaian do not manage to take advantage of it.

The 1st quarter ends in the score of 22 to 7 for Cote d'ivoire taken by its captain Kouyaté Mariama who finishes better scorer of the game with 20 points.

Same story in the second quarter where Cote d'ivoire intensifies its defense and makes the break.

The second half-time will be the copy of the first one.

All the efforts of Julemana R. of GHANA (12 of 24 points of her team) will be of no use and the game ends with the score without appeal of 106 to 24 for Cote d'Ivoire.

The return game will deceive on Sunday, November 07th, 2010 at 3 pm in the Forum of the University of Cocody.


Scorers

Ghana : Julemana R. ( 12 ), Sadat B. ( 5 ), Awuni G. ( 3 ), Ntow G (2), Bonney A. (2).

Cote d'ivoire : Kouyaté M (20), Kouyaté K. ( 19 ), Fofana M (16), Bognigni A. (10), Ouattara F (10), Kolga M (8), Djedjemel E. ( 7 ), N' Goran B. ( 7 ), Camara S. ( 5 ), Berté S. ( 4 ).

Game 2

During the game 2 of qualifiers Zone III Ladies (CAN / Africa Games 2011), Cote d‘Ivoire have largely defeated Ghana 124-33.

Aggressive defense, address and fastbreaks are the ingredients that helped Kouyate Mariama and its partners to achieve this big performance.

Ivorian players easily won the 4 quarter (25-6, 25-8, 32-8, 42-11).

Kani Kouyaté with 27 points finished top scorer of the game. For the Ghanaians, Sadat B scored 16 points.

Thanks to this double victory, Cote d'Ivoire get its ticket for the All Africa Games

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FIBA Coaching Course Diaries

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Coaching Course Diaries
Day 4
Finally!, a diary report not posted on the next day.

Participants and instructors started trickling in with about thirty minutes to 1pm but the class started around 1:21pm with 20 participants present. The class increased to 22 as others came in later.

Class got more intensive.

First talk of the day was on symbols used to draw basketball drills/plays which was handled by Mr. Keita Kabassan. He spent about 40 minutes to go through the various symbols, their uses and importance.

He allowed a lot of class participation during his explanations and then later called students to the board to draw out diagrams of drills they had written down in an assignment he gave the day before.

Meme Falconer took the floor first and spent about 10 minutes drawing out drills he'd written down in words while he explained them to the class. After him was Seth Okine a.k.a commando of C.E.P.S basketball. He also spent time to take the class through a different set of drills he'd written down.

The class went on a short recess during which the chairman of the Greater Accra Basketball Association, Mr. Baafi showed. He indulged in a convo with Mr. Keita and Coach Lawal. He spent the rest of the afternoon with us, just observing the class.

The resumes and Mr. Keita takes us through another topic; "coaching strategies". Within a short while the kids to be used by participants for their practical work arrived. The court was then cleared and the first group of student-coaches consisting of commando(CEPS), Martin(Kumasi), Antwi(Police) and Stephen(Police) took to the floor. They took the kids through defensive sliding and passing.

Mr. Iddrisu Gamel veep of the GBBA in charge of techincal development shows up to also observe proceedings.

The whole class converged to analyse their colleagues' performance with the kids. A lot of concerns were raised and corrections were made where necessary. The second group also made up of Grace(U.E.W), Isaac(Dynasty Hoops), Feranmi(DC Dynamics) and Allon(HCH) took the kids through shooting. They spent about 15-20 minutes with the kids and the class converged again for an analysis of their work. Mr. Keita and Coach Lawal added their final remarks and the class was adjourned.




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FIBA Coaching Course Diaries

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Coach Lawal demonstrates a drill to the class

Coaching Course Diaries
Day 3

Finally the class moved to the basketball court at the West African HQ of the Church of Latter Day Saints located at 57 Independence Avenue, North Ridge, Accra.

The day started as usual with a prayer but this time from nobody else but yours truly. About eighteen participants were present as at the start of class. A couple of guys joined today including Tema Youth coach, Emmanuel Quaye a.k.a Rubberman.

The first part of class today was a presentation by Coach Lawal on Mini Basketball. He took the class through how to handle different age groups during the Basketball teaching process. It was broken down into 6-7yrs, 8-9yrs and then 10-12yrs. Some of his main concerns were avoiding complex drills when teaching kids and also not putting kids through too much intensive physical activities as it disrupts their bodies ability to grow well at that tender age.

the class in session

Mr. Keita occasionally inserted some points during Coach Lawal's talk. He spoke of allowing kids some room during a practice even when they make mistakes and then getting close to them and correcting them instead of yelling at kids.

We hit the court for the first time for Coach Lawal to demonstrate some of the drills he made mention of. The class seemed to gain more understanding for the practical session as almost everybody took turns at the drills.

The class then took a 30-minute break during which a gift of soft drinks from an unidentified classmate was shared for refreshment.

Class resumes with another lecture on "how to organize training session" by Mr.Keita.This took about 30 minutes at the end of which he ask the class to come up with a 30-minute training session on passing. the class spent some time to discuss what they had written down then we hit the court again.

Fun, fun, fun... that's exactly what the second practical session was all about. As four course mates were made to team up as a coaching body and were given four other course mates to act as kids. The coaches were to run a training session on shooting and dribbling using the lessons they had just been taught. The course instructor just stood back and observed as they took turns to perform their responsibilities. Rubberman made the class more interesting as he acted like a kid who'd never played the game and committed a lot of errors which the coaches had to fix. Mr. Keita made it know he was quite impressed about the performance during his closing remarks. the class hurdled up and closed the day with a big TEAMWORK shout on three!
Mr. Keita places a lot of emphasis on teamwork

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