After a close loss in their first group game against Portugal Coach Liburd’s side fought hard against Belarus but experienced a tough 61 – 58 loss. Belarus started with a quick 4 – 0 run but Great Britain quickly got back into the game. From then the lead went back ‘n’ forth, but a missed …
Ovie Soko will be at the Great Britain basketball team’s crunch match with Kosovo in Manchester on Saturday night. The 28-year-old GB forward won’t be rejoining his team-mates on court after his stint in the hit ITV show Love Island. But he will be at the National Basketball Performance Centre at Belle Vue to support …
The Great Britain U16 men grabbed a narrow 84-83 win over Iceland a nail-biting first placement game. The first quarter started tightly with the teams trading baskets neither gaining an advantage. A big block by Michael Belle saw GB push out to a 21-17 lead as they went to the second period. The second quarter …
The GB U16 Girls started their European Championship campaign with a narrow 46-41 loss against Portugal. Great Britain where slow out of the gate and allowed Portugal to get out to an early 12-2 lead on the back of 15 turnovers in the quarter. Coach Kenrick Liburd managed to get his side back on track …
Veteran centre Eric Boateng is enjoying life under the ‘unique’ guidance of Great Britain coach Nate Reinking. Boateng, 33, has been around long enough to have played with the new GB play-caller for their country. The pair were team-mates for years before, in 2012, Reinking started out on a coaching road that has led him …
Great Britain went down to Romania in their final group game of the Fiba U16 European Championship in Podgorica after a strong quarter was undine by turnovers. The game started in cagey fashion with both teams struggling to open the scoring but, it was finally opened through Pharrell Wallace-Steele with a strong coast-to-coast move. GB turned up the …
Great Vritain’s Under-16s went down 105-70 to a strong Belgium side after winning their last two. The Belgians came out strong and forced James Vear’s team into an early timeout after just five minutes as after taking an 18-9 lead. Out of the timeout Quinn Ellis hit a quick three followed by a transition basket from …
GB scored their second win in the U16 Division B tournament 45 – 62 against an Austria side lacking in confidence and now rooted to the bottom of Group D. A poor first quarter from both sides saw only 8 made baskets and 19pts total, as GB edged a 10-9 lead. The second quarter saw …
Great Britain pulled out all the stops to put together a complete 4th quarter, breaking open a close game to beat Luxembourg 71-54. GB took the final frame 23-2 after some aggressive play to attack the basket on offence, whilst forcing Luxembourg into tough looks and turnovers in reply. Luxembourg eventually shot 1/14 in the …
GB remain very much in the hunt for a podium finish and promotion to Division A from this tournament, but it will not be through a place in the final as they fell 86 – 68 to the class team in the tournament, Finland, in a high scoring and entertaining semi-final. Up against the only …
Details GB v Luxembourg FIBA EuroBasket 2021 Pre-Qualifier Saturday 10th August, 7pm National Basketball Performance Centre Intro GB will be hoping to go two for two as they look to build on Wednesday’s win over Kosovo at the National Basketball Performance Centre on Saturday night. Opponents Luxembourg are also looking to maintain their winning start, …
GB U20 Women booked their place in the FIBA U20 Europe semi-final as they beat Israel 67-47 in Kosovo earlier today. The game started with GB taking an early lead through Holly Winterburn (20 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists), who scored eight straight points for GB. However, Israel kept pace with the team and a …
