ok Everyone who thinks salpi is good.No there not sagesse rule!& are the best so
if think think sagesse rule just email me and recieve a gift.people who think
salpi rulz email me too so i know who you are.
Sagesse RULE!
"Casual <charmingyours@...>" <charmingyours@...> wrote:no matter
what we all say and try and blame this and that, Salpi's
absence from the basketball courts is REALLLLLLLLLLY felt... LOOK AT
SAGESSE TEAM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAGESSE MADE A HUUUUUUUGE MISTAKE AND THEY HAVE TO ADMIT IT!!!!!!!!!!



--- In lebanesebasketball@yahoogroups.com, lebanesebasketball
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Of course Salpi Chokarian remains one of the most prominent members
> of women basketball Lebanon has ever seen. The best of the best,
> including Salpi, were collected in a super team in Sagesse and were
> also part of the women national team. Salpi was more eye-catching,
> true, because she had had an in international career in Tunis and
> was tried for the WNBA!! And she tried more than all the rest in
> contributing to Sagesse's success. But in fact all the women team
> players were stars in their own right.
>
> But then suddenly Sagesse women team was folded followed by an even
> more disastrous decision for folding of the national women
> basketball team. As if the failures of our men national team
> reflected on all Lebanese national basketball programs. Remember we
> also didn't send any team to Pusan, again so odd. This shouldn't
> have been. Women basketball should have been kept intact from the
> side effects of the men side, the latter truly needing a shake-up
> and a younger image. But how can you improve on an already perfect
> women's team. Punishing the women team coach and the women players
> for failings in Indianapolis for men is unfair and short-sighted,
> proof that FLB never came with a valid alternative anyway and in
> case it will contemplate reforming the women program it will still
> depend on practically 90% of what it had already disbanded in a
> rushed futile decision. Even promise by the players themselves to
> play voluntarily without pay for a certain period met deaf and
> needlessly intransigent ears in FLB.
>
> Sagesse decision came as a result of not enough interest by the
> public in the women championships (meaning financial concerns). But
> there was no reason whatsoever to fold the national women team, as
> it was a candidate for winning practically most Arab titles hands
> down and possibly many Asian and provbably international titles.
The
> team comprised of a big number of naturalized international players
> by marriage, to such an extent that other Arab teams (Egypt, Tunis,
> Algeria etc) claimed Lebanon was playing with only one Lebanese
> (meaning Salpi) and 4 foreigners!! This transaltes: If Lebanon
> continues depending on this team, there is no matching competition
> from any other Arab power (traditionally Egypt and the Maghreb
> countries for obvious social reasons, as women basketball will
never
> reach a developed stage in the Mashreq countries except in Egypt)
>
> So although men basketball (main team and juniors) is getting the
> most attention, the national women team remains Lebanon's main
> chance for immediate basketball fame internationally and it is a
> shame to note that as yet, FLB has not concentrated on reviving the
> team and preparing it diligently for international meetings.
>
> Of course my best wishes for Salpi who endured so much injuries and
> sacrificed so much for the development of a good level of woemn
> basketball in Lebanon.


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