MVP award in basketball tournament was fair

Dear Editor,

I refer to a letter in SN, April 8, 2009 by Mr Linden Alphonso, President of Royal Basketball Club pertaining to his player Dwayne Roberts (Brown Sugar) (‘Why was Dwayne Roberts not named the most valued player of the basketball tournament?’). He said that Roberts should have got the MVP in the just concluded next level knock-out tournament.

In that tournament there was one MVP prize. Mr Alphonso’s club contested the finals against  Ravens where they lost 64-76 − 1st Qt 20-10; 2nd Qt 42-20; 3rd Qt 64.40, all in favour of Ravens. Mr Roberts was given the best defensive player of the tournament because of his defensive stats. Both teams reaching the finals played four games. As said before, it was a knockout tournament; if it had had a league format, though Ravens won, with those kinds of stats Mr Roberts would have got the most.

Playing 4 teams out of 16 it is fair that the player with the best overall stats on the champion team got the MVP, and that was Mr Ryan Gullen. It has nothing to do with Georgetown or Linden or any other part of Guyana. So Mr Alphonso shouldn’t involve the GABF or the association or the promoters. The Technical Director takes full responsibility for that decision. If Mr Alphonso looks carefully he would see it was a fair decision.

Keep doing the good work for basketball in Linden.

Yours faithfully,
Dennis Clarke