Kisumu’s Lakeside redefine Division One basketball below ex-Thunder coach

Kisumu’s Lakeside redefine Division One basketball below ex-Thunder coach

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Kisumu City-based Lakeside males’s basketball workforce is driving excessive after profitable six consecutive Division One League video games below the management of former Thunder coach Emmanuel Ochieng’.

With eyes set on reclaiming their premier league standing because the “Lakeside Thunder”, the workforce has rallied behind Ochieng’s mantra, “Back to Premier League,” and benefitted from the latest addition of two former Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) gamers.

Speaking to People Sport yesterday, Ochieng’, a former Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) participant fondly often known as ‘Ajush’ credited the workforce’s success to a structured enjoying tradition and the gamers’ dedication to the method.

He famous that Lakeside has defeated a number of formidable groups, together with Zetech University, Strathmore University, Absa, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and Kenyatta University (KU), as a part of their mission to reclaim their 2022-2023 premier league standing.

“We decisively won the six games, both away and at our Kisumu City home ground, Jomo Kenyatta Sportsground,” Ochieng’ maintained.

“Away at Nyayo National Stadium Gymnasium, we thrashed Zetech University 60-42 and beat Strathmore University 36-28. At the Ulinzi Sports Complex, we overpowered Absa 79-62 and JKUAT 108-70. At home, we dominated Kenyatta University 72-46 and outclassed Coastal Kings 92-56 before the Christmas break.”

He additional expressed his willpower to remodel Lakeside right into a top-flight workforce able to going through the newly topped KNBL Premier League champions, Nairobi City Thunder, upon their promotion.

He attributed the workforce’s unbeaten streak to the structured and systematised enjoying tradition he has launched, which ensures every participant understands their function and adheres to the method relatively than worrying about sport outcomes.

“So far, the players trust the process. Once it’s followed, the results take care of themselves,” he defined.