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FIBA Oceania Championships - Australian U19s

Agree, as long as we are in Oceania, we have obligations to support international basketball competitions just like the other FIBA nations do.

The day we move to Asia, like the Soccer have done is the day we will have to compete against stronger nations, but until then we will remain the big fish in a small pond, along with the medium-big fish (NZ) of course...

Good for teams like PNG, Guam, New Caledonia etc. to get some international games.

In saying that, it is a pretty stupid tournament really:

- the age group is all muddled up: Australia have sent young kids, NZ and Samoa have 30 year old guys

- Samoa aren't even eligible, hence they can't medal and are in fact losing every game (0-20). For some reason they were allowed to compete. They aren't eligible because they have more than 1 naturalised player

- The results are lop-sided. One team scored 6 points, went 2-40 from the field. No further comment

- Travel for these teams wouldn't have been cheap. If your going to send them to an international tournament, at least make it more valuable and prestigious

thats like brazil playing australia at soccer
get buckets?

Our women beat Guam 97-6. Yes that's right, 97-6.

^ These kids are only 17 years old. Most other teams have adults who are in there 20s.

PNG isnt exactly a powerhouse basketball nation

^ just so you know they are playing against senior teams that include NCAA, NZBL, NBL and other professional players. They should not be smashing everyone.

Also, why would Krebs, McKay, Duflemire and Healy be playing for the B team?

Came across this on basketbawful, does the second paragraph ring any bells???

From Basketbawful:

... Alexis Miller -- a 23-year-old hippity-hop artist known as MaryJANE -- was granted a large stack of anti-Shaq paperwork based on her allegations that the Big Creepy "stalked her, threatened her with bodily harm and made harassing phone calls in which he breathed heavily into the phone before hanging up." (To be fair, the heavy-breathing may or may not have been intended as a threat. It's possible Shaq was on his cell phone and had just finished doing something very strenuous, like trudging up a flight of stairs or maybe walking ten feet.)...


... Now here's the moneyshot: The court affadavit quotes an e-mail from Shaq in which the Big Shakespeare said: "I dnt no who the fuk u think u dealin wit u will neva be heard from one phone call is I gotta make now try me. Sho me."

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Hmmmmmm uncanny??? Isaac we may have presecuted a bona fide NBA superstar from our (can i say our) site :/