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WOMEN'S TUESDAY FOLLIES: London Olympic teammates Belinda Snell and Abby Bishop reach significant WNBL milestones this round, BA stuffs up, and maybe it's time to talk to FIBA.

The issues with FIBA, as far as I can see, is the fact it allows just one naturalised player per national team bound for Olympics or World Cups.

With Bendigo Spirit import Kelsey Griffin recently taking out Australian citizenship, it throws the Opals into the difficult position of having to choose between her and Leilani Mitchell for the Rio Games.

Mitchell also has naturalised but my question is, surely if her mother is Australian, the naturalisation should be classified differently to Griffin's.

Kelsey's parents are both American so she was a US citizen with no prior claim to any Australian heritage.

OK. I understand Mitchell wasn't born IN Australia so her automatic citizenship was American. However it would have been Australian but for the fact she was born in Washington.

No, she doesn't automatically qualify for Australian citizenship and had to naturalise to satisfy FIBA. What I'm saying though is her naturalisation requirement was simply a case of location, so surely Basketball Australia should take that back to FIBA.

Leilani's mother is Australian.

I believe that's a case which can be argued and won.

It would add another challenge for our national selectors too and so it should if our Opals - like our Boomers - genuinely are panning for gold in Rio.

BELINDA Snell is a triple-Olympian and a 2006 FIBA World Champion still getting it done at WNBL level.

This round the 34-year-old off-guard, swingman rattles up her landmark 250th WNBL game.

"Winning the WNBL championship with the AIS in 1998-99 was unbelievable. For a group of 17, 18 and 19 year olds to take out the national league was a huge feat," she said.

"It may have had something to do with the superstars in that team, such as Lauren Jackson, Penny Taylor, Suzy Batkovic, Kristen Veal, as well as our awesome coach Phil Brown.

"Winning the WNBL championship with Sydney Paragon Panthers in 2000-01 was also massive.

"Playing against Canberra in Canberra, we were not expected to win and came from around 10 down with two and a half minutes to go to win.

"It was such a fun year and I learned a lot from playing with Annie La Fleur (nee Burgess), and Rhonda Corkeron (nee Bates), Suzy Batkovic and Natalie Hughes came up with some huge plays in the final.

"It's nice to reach 250 games. I missed quite a few seasons in the WNBL to play in Europe so to still be able to get 250 games under my belt in the best league in Australia is a huge honour."

Snelly (above) will crack the milestone against Townsville Fire and her former championship teammate Batkovic.

CANBERRA's Abby Bishop will reach her 200th WNBL game on Saturday against Sydney Uni.

Bish (pictured below), also started at the AIS, back in 2005.

A decade later in 2014-15, she was the best player in the WNBL, cleaning up the league MVP award averaging 23 points and 10.6 rebounds.

Bishop has been named in the WNBL All-Star Five twice – in her MVP season last season and in 2008-09 - and also spent time playing internationally.

LAST week as she and her struggling Canberra Capitals almost prevented their losing record slumping into double digitsn in their home clash with Melbourne, BA - as the administrators of the WNBL - let the league down badly.

With the Livestats function not working, fans nationwide trying to follow what would turn into a thriller were left with directions to a non-functioning stats link.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

What stopped league GM Paul Maley from picking up the phone and dialling someone in the Caps organisation to say: "Please tweet and/or Facebook regular score updates every five minutes?"

That's part of the function of social media, surely?

For mine, it fell more to BA than to Canberra to keep fans uptodate. That was a very ordinary performance.

Maybe taking up Leilani's case with FIBA would make it more forgiveable.