# 2022–23 Cape Town Tigers season

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.
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.

## Players
### BAL roster (April – May)

The following Tigers roster played during the 2023 BAL season. Josh Hall played for the Tigers in the Nile Conference.

### BNL roster (June – July)

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 |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Win % |
| BNL | 4 June 2023 | 30 July 2023 | Group phase | Winners | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 643 | 373 | +270 | 100.00 |
| Road to BAL | 22 November 2022 | 27 November 2022 | Elite 16 | Winners | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 386 | 331 | +55 | 080.00 |
| BAL | 27 April 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Nile Conference | Quarter-finalist | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 423 | 476 | −53 | 033.33 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1,452 | 1,180 | +272 | 068.75 |
Last updated: complete Source: Competitions

### Basketball National League

All games were played at the Mandeville Indoor Hall in Johannesburg.

#### Group phase

| 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 |

#### Final round
### Basketball Africa League
#### Nile Conference
#### Playoffs
## Player statistics

After all games.
Cape Town Tigers statistics :
| Player | GP | MPG | FG% | 3FG% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Marvin Smith$^≠$ | 1 | 37.9 | .300 | .375 | 1.000 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 17.0 |
| Evans Ganapamo | 4 | 34.6 | .400 | .083 | .750 | 4.5 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 15.8 |
| Michael Gbinije | 6 | 34.8 | .356 | .300 | .783 | 7.8 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 13.7 |
| Samkelo Cele | 6 | 30.6 | .478 | .235 | .524 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 13.5 |
| Josh Hall$^~$ | 3 | 29.0 | .389 | .222 | .444 | 6.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 12.7 |
| Pieter Prinsloo | 6 | 30.1 | .357 | .294 | .810 | 4.5 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 11.2 |
| Zaire Wade | 4 | 29.7 | .429 | .250 | .909 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 9.3 |
| Parby Musongela | 2 | 18.1 | .400 | .333 | 1.000 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 5.5 |
| Nkosinathi Sibanyoni | 6 | 9.4 | .294 | .000 | .750 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 2.2 |
| Lebesa Selepe | 5 | 16.2 | .200 | .167 | .167 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| Lebohang Mofokeng | 3 | 10.4 | .200 | .000 | .500 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| Skumbuzo Mthembu | 2 | 6.4 | .000 | .000 | .500 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Dylan Whitbread | 4 | 6.8 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
$^≠$Acquired during the season $^~$Waived during the season