UNDER 21 FLASH

DUE TO SMALL NUMBERS OF OFFICIALS AVAILABLE THE UNDER 21 WILL NOW BEGIN IN AUGUST.

I THEREFORE EXPECT THAT DEMARIO (PRESS MAH CLOTHES) PRESCOD WOULD ORGANIZE THESE PLAYERS BETTER AND MAKE SURE THEY PREPARE AND TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. I HAVE THE MONEY WHICH CAN BE RETURNED ANYTIME.

BASKETBALL TIPS.

A PLAYER ON JOINING A TEAM MUST ADJUST HIS SKILLS TO SUIT THE STYLE AND TYPE OF PLAY OF THAT TEAM.  THIS HAS NOTHIN TO DO WITH THE SKILLS OF THE PLAYER. THE PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE QUALITY AND LEVEL OF HIS OWN SKILLS. HE MUST ALSO BE WILLING TO LEARN NEW TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP HIM IMPROVE SAME. THE PROBLEM STARTS WHEN THAT PLAYER SHOWS THAT HE IS NOT LEARNING AND THAT HE DOES NOT INTEND TO LEARN ANYTHING.

THE NORTHERN DERBY TAKES PLACE IN B.C.C. ON SAT 19TH.

Arawak Braves and Mayhill basketball teams will meet this year at BCC. In the last two years Arawak Braves have been in control for most of the games only to throw it away when the game got physical and their coach shouted  PRESS.

I am confident that the same will be attempted this year again. Only because it has worked for the last three years.

What we know about Mayhill?  well i would say nothin. We dont know how they score their points. We dont know who plays point for them. We know that their coach is a fleet footed offensive player with wonderful post moves. We know that Albert is not strong in the key so we dont have to pay him any mind when he is there. We know that the red point guard dont hit threes he only drives to basket. We know that knots dont play hard against Braves because he loves Hutson and have great respect for him. We know that they dont hit the boards hard and they try hard not to put Braves under too much pressure. They will not press us they love to see our half court game. These are the things that i have learnt over the years that Braves believe about the Mayhill Team.

May the better team win.  The team for that game will be picked on Thursday after practice.

FACE YOUR WEAKNESS AND CORRECT IT.TAKE YOUR TAIL FROM BETWEEN YOUR LEGS.

The coach has noticed a continual drop in the attendance at the practice sessions. This is very surprising to him. He has pointed out that the players who are having very poor performances at the games are the ones missing most often. This is the place where you work on things as an individual and then in a team setting so why should they be avoiding it. The captian should try as soon as possible to address this situation. This is where winners are born.

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Just letting you know that you can respond to any article seen on this website by posting your comment. I must admit that i dont know how it is done but if you contact Mr Corey Graham he would only be too happy to give you information.

WINNING IS AN ATTITUDE WE HAVE TO CULTIVATE.

Are we playing to win?  Do we want to win?  This is a question i kept asking myself on my way to checker Hall on Saturday night after the Royals game. Why should these questions be in my head after i had just witness a very good performance by the Arawak Braves. Well, for one we lost a game we could have won easily and 2, it was on reflection of the discussion by the team after.  Something was missing. There was no passion. There was no emotion. No one there questioned why the few players we depend on to score the ball are just not doing the job.  Not one of them said what they did in their spare time between the other games to improve their poor shooting performances.  I am just wondering, now that we see the stats on our website three hours after every game if we will just turn up to the other games and just shoot poorly over and over and offer poor excuses after.  A question everyone should be asking is WHY DO WE GET SO CLOSE AND THEN ALLOW OURSELVES TO END UP SO FAR AWAY?

Guys am i alone with this feeling? Are you starting to wonder if we will ever develop a winning attitude? That little voice that with 1min, 39 sec left in the game tells you, wait! dont let them win this game. Let us build pressure on their main scorers while taking every precaution to make good shots on our offense. The entire team has to be involved they have to appreciate the situation. It cant be business as usual.

A winner is not someone who never lose. He is someone who knows how to lose and how to learn from that lost.  He knows that sometimes to get to a destination you have to go around the mountain if that is not possible he may have to go over and if thats not possible he will have to go through. Yes a winner equipts himself to handel all possibilities. There has got to be a goal set. There has got to be a belief that it can be achieved. There has got to be the commitment by individual players to make it happen. Only then can the team begin to play like winners. Winners react to situations as they occur. They stay clear of excuses because AN EXCUSE JUSTIFY THE ERROR AND THAT PERSON USUALLY DO NOT INTEND TO CORRECT IT.  They turn negative energy into positive energy everytime. No, never, and cant are words they avoid when on the court. A winner scores 9 of 18 in a game and is on the court next evening working on his shoot. If a winner misses 3 left hand lay ups in game 1 you can bet that wont happen in game 2.  Tireness and condition are physical states that dont exsist to winners. Somehow they get tired when the end whistle blows.

This is what is missing. The passion, the Challenge, the execution. Winning is not just about one game it involves our whole mental attitude to a series of task. It is an attitude we have to develop. It is mental, it is physical, it is about what has to be done to cross that finish line first. it is a seed that has to planted, grown and cultivated in this team. We have come to far to let teams who are not better than us get the better of us all the time. 

This seem to be a very popular quote nowadays. I will adjust it to suit our purpose because that is what a winner does. “LAST YEAR IS IN THE PAST, NEXT YEAR IS A MYSTERY BUT THIS YEAR IS HERE, WE HAVE PREPARED, WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR MOVE NOW. GIVE ME THE GIFT OF THE PRESENT, NOW. 

I will make this a new quote. i will make it my quote. That is what a winner does.