Australia men's national basketball team

The Australian national basketball team of men, usually called in Australia Boomers, Australia represented in international basketball competitions. The strongest team of Oceania is at World Championships and Olympic Games, as well as a serial winner of Ozeanienmeisterschaft since the early 1970 years of regular participants.

History

As Australia's first international basketball star rank applies Eddie Palubinskas, the scorer of the basketball tournament at the Olympic Games 1976. Under the leadership of coach Lindsay Gaze, who had also been one of the major Australian player of the 1960s, and point guard Phil Smyth reach the beginning of the 1980s, notable successes such as the victory against the eventual silver medalist Italy at the Olympic Games in 1980, when Australia the second round missed only because of the poorer basket ratio, and the 5th place at the World Cup 1982.

In the further course of the decade and into the 1990s, especially Lindsay Gaze ' son Andrew Gaze led the team three times (1988, 1996, 2000 ) to the Olympic semifinals, without being able to win a medal. It has succeeded in numerous victories against highly rated opponents, including in 1988 against Spain, against Croatia in 1996 and 2000 again against Spain and against Italy and Russia. In addition, during this time accumulated several Australian players NBA experience (in addition to gauze Luc Longley, Mark Bradtke, Shane Heal, Chris Anstey and; Longley could only become sustainable in the NBA ).

However, after the 2000 Olympic Games in their own country, many of these players finished their National team career. Prompt missed Australia by the defeat against New Zealand in 2001 for the first time since 1968 Ozeanienmeisterschaft again a big tournament. However, at the same time a break has been completed, which meant mainly the rise of Andrew Bogut, who had led Australia to the Junior World Champion title in 2003 and 2005 as the first Australian No.1 pick an NBA Draft was.

Current squad

Performance in international competitions

World Championships

  • 2006 - first knockout round
  • 2010 - first knockout round

Olympic games

  • 2008 - quarter-finals, 7th place
  • 2012 - quarter-finals, 7th place

Ozeanienmeisterschaften

  • 2013 - Gold Medal
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