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Darren Wilson

Years ago

Australia ranks second in basketball?! Wow.

Suggest that in Brisbane and Sydney that BA whack an add on homeless people as soon as possible.Guessing it would be cost efficient and who knows, some of them might even be out of pocket ballers?

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Beantown

Years ago

Hey guys, interesting conversation. The community engagement stuff is really important. So is FTA TV.

There are two things that got me into basketball:

- Mark Davis turned up to my primary school after the championship win in 1986 and did a clinic. I was sick that day, but my friend was suddenly a convert and joined the new school basketball team and he got me interested soon after.

- In about 1988 I discovered late night channel 7 delayed broadcasts of that years playoffs. I remember Davis, Bill Jones, Pearce, Green, Ali and others beating up on an overmatched Melbourne Tigers (I think with Colbert and Simmons) before getting beaten by the Perth Wildcats (Pinder, Crawford, Grace, Ellis)

I'm willing to bet there are a ton of people my age who can point to a similar introduction to basketball in the late 80s.

So Isaac and others, do you think the amount of time major players spend doing clinics at schools and the like has decreased significantly since the late 80s for example?

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Years ago

Aussies have been number 2 in the world since the Opals won the World's. Our junior teams ie. Sapphires, Emus, Crocs etc are always finishing top 4 if not winning. Boomers the only team not to finish around the medals recently.

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MACDUB

Years ago

Exactly-The Women's team is the best in the world and the junior teams usually do an exceptional job(e.g last years world champs where they were something like 8-1 (w-l) but just lost the quarterfinal to Brazil)
The fact that Aus. is no.2 overall, doesn't suprise me one bit.
Remember that the reason why we do such a great job internationally and yet we cannot run a league within our own country is because alot of our best talent is overseas e.g Bogut in NBA, Anderson is Europe same with Nielson and Newley
If these guys were in the NBL, the NBL would be much much stronger

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Anonymous

Years ago

That just shows how basketball has lost its touch with other sports. The only real decent league is the NBA. The Euroleague is physical and has good players but if you can't make it in the NBA you're considered a nobody.

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