Wednesday 18 May 2011

Its a small world after all

Aj Mandani is a good friend of mine. He is the son of my coach and played in NCAA for basketball in divsion 2 of missouri state. He came back to canada durning the christmas brake and while spending time with his mother he came to our practice and showed us some collage level plays and drills. After out failure of a season we as a team were told that he would be our coach next year but we could not make a team. While sitting on the sidelines with some of my teammates we watch the success of his team. Eventually he was asked to play professional in the Phillippines. Aj Mandani Started his basketball career as a player for the Northstars. Aj and his brother lead the Northstars and won the teams first PHYBA championship. After his brother went up a division Aj had to lead the Northstar all alone. But in the end he could not lead them past the first round of the playoffs. On the offseason he worked on playing the game differently as a team player. The reason his team lost last year was because he was a one man show. The following year he lead the Northstars to their 2nd championship. He stopped playing for a while and went off to collage and played in the NCAA but no luck in getting a championship during his 4 year career. After graduating he took over his mother's postion as head coach of the Jaguars. While under his wing the jaguars went undeafted and held the leauge best record in PHYBA 6-0. That success was short lived as he was signed to play for the profressional filipino basketball leauge. This interests me because I have seen him play and it makes me wonder why now. He should have been signed atleast after his 2nd year in collage. But it goes to show if you work hard you never know where you will end up.

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