Season: | 2022–23 |
Club: | Cape Town Tigers |
Chrtitle: | President |
Chairman: | Raphael Edwards |
Coach: | Florsheim Ngwenya (BNL) Rasheed Hazzard (BAL) |
Championship1: | yes |
Championship Win: | yes |
League: | BNL |
League Result: | 1st in Group A |
Playoffs Result: | Champions |
League2: | BAL |
Playoffs2 Result: | Quarter-finalist |
League2 Result: | 3rd in Nile Conference |
Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
Champions1 League: | BNL |
The 2022–23 season of the Cape Town Tigers was the 3rd season of the South African basketball team. The Tigers played in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) for a second straight season, following their win in the Road to BAL's East Division.
In the 2023 BAL season, the Tigers were coached by former New York Knicks assistant coach Rasheed Hazzard. They were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Stade Malien, their second consecutive year in which they were eliminated in this round.[1]
Domestically, the Tigers were coached by Florsheim Ngwenya and made their debut in the Basketball National League (BNL), South Africa's sole professional league. They went undefeated and won the semifinal and final by wide margins to be crowned South African champions for the third time.[2]
The following Tigers roster played during the 2023 BAL season. Josh Hall played for the Tigers in the Nile Conference.[3]
The following Tigers roster played in the 2023 BNL season between June and July 2023.
No | Player | |
---|---|---|
0 | Dumisani Gebashe | |
3 | Dylan Whitbread | |
10 | Lebesa Selepe | |
11 | Lebohang Mofokeng | |
14 | Nkosinathi Sibanyoni | |
23 | Akeem Springs | |
24 | Sita Conteh | |
25 | Pieter Prinsloo | |
34 | Somusa Mthembu | |
41 | Braydon Wooley | |
44 | Gloire Kabange | |
45 | Rabbi Belolo | |
HC | Florsheim Ngwenya |
All games were played at the Mandeville Indoor Hall in Johannesburg.
Gameday | Date | Opponents | Result | Record | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 4 June 2023 | Mpumalanga Rhinos | W 65–83 | 1–0 | |
2 | 11 June 2023 | Egoli Magic | W 76–47 | 2–0 | |
3 | 25 June 2023 | Western Cape Mountaineers | W 106–46 | 3–0 | |
4 | 9 July 2023 | Limpopo Pride | W 97–51 | 4–0 | |
5 | 8 December | Free State Warriors | W 36–107 | 5–0 |
After all games.[4]
|-| ≠ || 1 || style=""| 37.9 || .300 || style=""|.375 || style=""|1.000 || 4.0 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 ||style=""| 17.0|-| || 4 || 34.6 || .400 || .083 || .750 || 4.5 || 1.8 || 1.8 || 0.0 || 15.8|-| || 6 || 34.8 || .356 || .300 || .783 || style=""|7.8 || 3.7 || 1.3 || 0.5 || 13.7|-| || 6 || 30.6 ||style=""|.478 || .235 || .524 || 5.3 || 2.3 || style=""|2.0 || 0.2 || 13.5|-| ~ || 3 || 29.0 || .389 || .222 || .444 || 6.0 || 1.3 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 12.7|-| || 6 || 30.1 || .357 || .294 || .810 || 4.5 || 2.2 || 0.3 || style=""|1.0 || 11.2|-| || 4 || 29.7 || .429 || .250 || .909 || 3.8 ||style=""| 4.3 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 9.3|-| || 2 || 18.1 || .400 || .333 || style=""|1.000 || 4.5 || 0.5 || 1.5 || 0.0 || 5.5|-| || 6 || 9.4 || .294 || .000 || .750 || 1.8 || 0.0 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 2.2|-| || 5 || 16.2 || .200 || .167 || .167 || 2.4 || 1.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.8|-| || 3 || 10.4 || .200 || .000 || .500 || 2.0 || 0.7 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 1.3|-| || 2 || 6.4 || .000 || .000 || .500 || 0.5 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.5 || 0.5|-| || 4 || 6.8 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0|}≠Acquired during the season
~Waived during the season