Crock cagers forced to take a break
Saturday, May 15, 2010
SOME things are just inevitable. Take the national basketball team, for example, the Brunei side were forced to take a break after half the team were on injury list.
The team are already in phase two of their training programme to prepare for the Belait Sultan's Cup, which starts today, but have decided to pull out of the tournament.
The team will also not be on the plane to Melaka to compete at the Malaysia Games (Sukma) next month.
"Sukma is just too much too soon for us. There are a lot of things for us to concentrate on especially that we're aiming for the SEA Games in Jakarta next year," said Kevin Reece, the national basketball coach, in an interview with The Brunei Times, yesterday.
"We are short on manpower at present as half the team are down with injuries. We need them to get physically better and I don't see the point of having an under strength team compete at the Seria tournament," he added.
"What I want to see from the team is improvement and they won't be able to do it at 95 or 98 per cent. We will need them to be at 100 per cent to produce that," continued the 49-year-old coach.
However, the American assured that the team are on road to recovery thanks to the facilities provided by the Youth and Sports Department under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (JBS).
"They are seeing the physios and I will talk to them on what can be done. There is no deadline for full recovery as well.
"The JBS team are doing a great job on providing the facilities to us
regardless of the players being in the A or B team," added the LA Lakers
fan.
The national coach, however, is keeping himself busy working with the healthy players on the squad.
"The team are currently working on their defence. We're focusing on our footwork as at the last tournament (the BBA Open Challenge Trophy) we didn't do as well when it came to moving our feet," said Reece. Read More...
Source: The Brunei Times
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