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AC: Tall Ferns cut down
AUSTRALIA took its FIBA Asia Cup record to 2-0 tonight, demolishing trans-Tasman rival New Zealand 82-44, a Gold Medal rematch against Japan looming larger with each day.
36ers get it right - on the floor
ERIC Griffin was the first to make a big impression and Obi Kyei is an exciting athlete, the 36ers tonight smacking a heated NZ Breakers outfit 93-67 at Adelaide's ancestral home, the Titanium Security Arena.
AC: Opals brutalise Manila folders
AUSTRALIA tonight fired a shot across the bow of its FIBA Asia Cup opponents in Bengaluru, India, smashing the Philippines 123-57 in a powerhouse performance by the world's #3 ranked nation.
Blitz bitz and some WC and Asia Cup stuff
CHALLENGED to speak with their feet and show up for NBL Blitz games, Tasmanians used their heads and turned last week's annual preseason tournament for the Loggins-Bruton Cup into the most successful of all time!
FLASHBACK 133: April 16, 1989
*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe or post whatever I find for you.*
36ers in new PR debacle
THE Adelaide 36ers are in the eye of another public relations disaster, apologising today to an Aboriginal artist who yesterday exposed the NBL club on social media for offering her a contra arrangement for designing an Indigenous Round uniform.
WC Wrap: When 4th is your best, and worst
IT was a magnificent FIBA World Cup tournament for an Australian team which made history (twice), played its heart out, filled a country with pride at its erstwhile endeavour and finished three rankings ahead of the USA.
WC: French resistance wins Bronze battle
FRANCE tonight produced a 46-29 second half to claim its second FIBA World Cup Bronze Medal while denying Australia its first 67-59 in a sad end to what had been an absorbing and exciting Boomers campaign in China.
WC: There's still a Bronze Medal to win
LOSING their FIBA World Cup semi final to Spain 88-95 in double-overtime last night in Beijing left our Boomers gutted, but with a Bronze Medal at stake tomorrow against France, there's no time to ponder what may have been.
WC: Oh brother! Boomers done in double O/T
IT WAS Pau Gasol who cost Australia a Bronze Medal at the Rio Olympics and tonight his brother Marc buried the Boomers in an epic and heart-breaking 95-88 double-overtime semi-final of the FIBA World Cup in Beijing.
