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Years ago

This week in basketball: 20 years ago

The picture is unfortunately very grainy on the old VHS (like the NBA hall of fames games on One HD), but nonetheless it was great to go back and watch it.

Giants had an imposing front court with Scott Fisher, Tim Dillon and Ray Borner, with Cecil Exum coming off the bench. Wayne Carroll, David Graham and Mark Leader headed their back court.

Cannons in addition to Smyth, Kennedy and Dufelmeier, also had big Willie Simmons (complete with goggles( and Simon Cottrell. Gee big Willie knew how to block a shot!

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Beantown

Years ago

Thats a nice piece of history to have LC. The few NBL games I ever taped are probably in landfill somewhere these days!

I like that BA have got themselves a historian and will presumably get him to keep posting articles on their site on a regular basis. Over time it can hopefully become a great online repository of NBL and Boomers history for diehards to reminisce and new fans to learn about.

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Years ago

This article made me pull out the old tape from the deciding game between Canberra and North Melbourne.
Good times.

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Beantown

Years ago

Good reading that. I'd forgotten what high scoring games they were. 165-110 and 142-82 is just ridiculous! So is the image of Fisher playing 'run and run and run' basketball! WTF?

Love the fact that the Kings had to take the bus back home after getting walloped that badly and then stopped at a pub to get hammered on the way home as well! Bit different to today's league thats for sure.

Would I be right in thinking the Sixers went out at the hands of the Wildcats that year? I remember around that time I would watch the Sixers play in Perth or at the Glasshouse and marvel at the way they always seemed hopelessly overmatched by very powerful teams, yet would manage to scrap their way through, only to lose gallantly at the end. (Bit like watching the English soccer team really).

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Years ago

Anyone know if Reesy made the all-star team? Results were to be on the NBL website 1/12/05

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