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Photos: 2012 Thome Cabalan Finals
The
Braves got revenge against a short handed Tema Youth team in this year's
finals and gained domination over Accra Basketball again by winning
both the Accra League and the Thome Cabalan Memorial tourney. Here are
few photos from the day.
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Thome Cabalan Memorial Tourney Here At Last
Nonetheless, this tournament has always been worth watching and often remains a subject of much discussion among Accra basketball folk. The last time it was held i.e in August 2010, Tema Youth did the do by doing the GABL's undo-able; beat the Braves. But then over the year and a half, Tema Youth has seen their own share of problems both on and off the court, and after losing to Magic during the 2012 GABL, a lot questions hang as to how well organized they remain as a team.
Unless there's a team out there with much more talent and dedicated guys, one might hate to this, but the Braves are going to have a cruise to the trophy. Not forgetting how much ridicule they suffered after the 2010 finals loss to TY.
To what happened on day one, short-roster-ed Police team beat a Djimate-and-Pappoe-less Holy Family in the opening game 70-55 and then there was the shock. A six man Panthers team beat a full house Fire team plus two coaches 81-38 to close the day.
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KB7 Grabs 30 Boards!
He promised and delivered; just that the delivery was just a couple of weeks late. |
| KB7 puts up a shot |
For those of us on Sacksville Panthers' forward Kwame Boamah's bbm we have memories of him putting up a status promising a 30 rebound game earlier on in the season before a game. It was around the same time LAL center Andrew Bynum had grabbed his career high 30 rebounds. That certainly fueled Kwame's ambition. But he could not deliver the promise then, as that was earlier in the season and Panthers' always almost had a filled roster; which meant less minutes for him.
Talk of making use of an opportunity. With just 6 Panthers present yesterday for their match against the Tema Youth, Kwame had the chance to fulfill a promise everybody including himself had forgotten about. Well, he played 40 minutes, had 13 points and grabbed a whooping 30 rebounds; in somewhat of a perfect mix too, 15 offensive, 15 defensive. It couldn't have been any better.
Long story short, dude delivered the package. Just that a few people would have been dead already if it was to be in some other business... go figure!
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