Caledonia Gladiators are currently top of the WBBL and head coach, Chantelle Handy, admits she often lets her thoughts drift to becoming champions…
Often, elite athletes banish all talk from within their inner circle about results.However, Chantelle Handy is a refreshing diversion from the norm.
With 14 league games played this season, Gladiators are top of the WBBL, two points clear of London Lions, who have two games in hand. “It’s a big one this evening. London have been doing great things in Europe and putting British basketball on the map so it’s a great opportunity for my players to go up against that kind of talent,” she says.“I’m a big believer that, on any given day, anything can happen. Yes, London are a top quality team but if we go out there and play our own style then I’m confident we can stick with them. A basketball game is a basketball game – you don't know what'll happen.
With six games remaining until the play-offs, which will determine the league winners, nerves are beginning to creep into every squad but Handy is confident her side will be unaffected, as much as is possible, by the end-of-season anxieties that can so often see a team’s title challenge derailed. “We might be top of the league but we can’t relax. We’re a team that plays with a high-intensity so if we let that mindset slip, we let our whole identity slip.”
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