20th October, 2017
National basketball team coaches, including Scott Nnaji, Ayinla Johnson, Adeka Daudu and Emma Odah, are presently drilling prospective Kwese Premier League players at the ongoing Kwese Prospect Camp in Kaduna.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a total of 65 young players are in the camp, participating in the inaugural edition of the basketball youth camp.
The players are being taken through various drills in the morning and afternoon sessions of at the outdoor courts of the Murtala Square in Kaduna.
Ebuka Ifeanyi, who is one of the players, told NAN the camp was one of the best things to have happened to his career so far.
“I believe with what I am seeing so far. l will not find it difficult in playing in the premier league soon. I want to get better mentally and physically in order to get recruited to play in the Kwese League,’’ he said.
Speaking also, Kwese Premier League Director, Ajibarede Bello, said with the level of enthusiasm displayed by the players in the camp so far the intensive three-day exercise would achieve its aims.
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“The camp will achieve its aims of preparing and shaping their character and skills to play in the league and national teams with what we have seen so far,’’ he said.
The President of Basketball Coaches Association of Nigeria, Scott Nnaji, also said the camp was a good initiative.
“It will also help the coaches use it as a routine to build players for the big league. We are going to train them so that we can have players in every part of the country.’’
He said many coaches had been involved in the camp so as to make sure the players got good attention of the coaches and help them progress to the next level.
“We are following new trends in the game and using them to build up these boys, who are 19 years and below, knowing full well that it will help them to develop as young players.”