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Clifton Bush
- Nationality: USA/NZL
- Date of Birth: 1/09/70
- Place of Birth: Little Rock, Arkansas (USA)
- Position: SF
- Height (CM): 195
- Weight (KG): 92
- Junior Assoc: None
- College: Central Arkansas (1988–1992)
- NBL DEBUT: 8/09/05
- AGE AT DEBUT: 35
- LAST NBL GAME: 30/10/05
- AGE AT LAST GAME: 35
- NBL History: New Zealand 2006
- Championships: 0
- None
BIO: Clifton Bush was born in Little Rock, Arkansas (USA).
NBL EXPERIENCE
Clifton Bush made his NBL debut with the New Zealand Breakers at 35 years of age. He went scoreless in his first NBL game.
With the Breakers still searching for their first winning season, they chose not to re-sign Mike Chappell, the Breakers’ leading scorer from the past two seasons and appointed a new head coach Andrej Lemanis. Lemanis had played in the NBL during the 1980s and 1990s and spent the previous five seasons as a assistant coach with the Townsville Crocodiles.
Lemanis inherited a Breakers squad who had seen both its national team players, Pero Cameron (Gold Coast) and Dillon Boucher (Perth), leave for better opportunities on other NBL team’s.
Lemanis looked to build around its young turning core group, which included Aaron Olsen, Ben Pepper, Lindsay Tait and Paul Henare, who was named team captain with the departure of co-captain Pero Cameron.
Rugged defender Ben Thompson and New Zealand born Adrian Majstrovich (both via Perth) were added to the roster, as was the import duo of Rich Melzer and Brant Bailey.
The Breakers started the season poorly (1-5) and quickly made the decision to replace Bailey (18.3 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists) with Brian Green (18.9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1.5 steals).
Melzer (18.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.7 assists) would lead New Zealand in scoring while the Breakers continued to see strong development from young gun Aaron Olson (17.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.1 assists) and Ben Pepper (14.6 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks) was a force inside the paint. Bush averaged 1.9 points, 1.6 rebounds, and 0.4 assists, appearing in 7 of the Breakers’ games.
Lemanis’ first season in charge was not particularly memorable. During the season, the Breakers endured a team-worst eleven straight losses, but after making the personnel changes, the team split their final twelve games of the season and finished the regular season tenth out of eleven team’s (9-23).
As a development player, Bush would appear in only 7 games and average 1.9 points, 1.6 rebounds, and 0.4 assists.
Clifton Bush played one season in the NBL. He averaged 1.8 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 0.4 assists in 7 NBL games.
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NBL TOTAL STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | 35 | New Zealand | 9-23 (10) | 7 | 56.0 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 50% | 2 | 4 | 50% | 1 | 4 | 25% | 55% | 60% | 7 | Totals | 7 | 56 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 50.0% | 2 | 4 | 50.0% | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | 55% | 60% | 7 |
NBL PER GAME STATISTICS
| SEASON | AGE | TEAM | TEAM RECORD | GP | MINS | PTS | REB | AST | OR | DR | STL | BLK | TO | PF | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% | FTM | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% | HS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | 35 | New Zealand | 9-23 (10) | 7 | 8.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 50% | 0.3 | 0.6 | 50% | 0.1 | 0.6 | 25% | 55% | 60% | 7 | Total | 7 | 8.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 50.0% | 0.1 | 50.0% | 0.3 | 0.6 | 25.0% | 55% | 60% | 7 |
CAREER HIGHS
| POINTS | REBOUNDS | ASSISTS | STEALS | BLOCKS | TURNOVERS | TRIPLE DOUBLES | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
|---|
| Season | Team | PTS | AST | STL | BLK | FGM | FGA | FG% | 3PM | 3PA | 3P% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 27% | 37% | 43% | 56% | ||||||
| 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 5 | 10 | 50.0% | 2 | 4 | 50.0% |
NBA TOTAL STATISTICS
| YEAR | AGE | TEAM | POS | GP | GS | MINS | PTS | TRB | AST | ORB | DRB | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | FG | FGA | FG% | 3P | 3PA | 3P% | FT | FTA | FT% | TS% | EFG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | 35 | New Zealand | 9-23 (10) | 7 | 56.0 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 50% | 2 | 4 | 50% | 1 | 4 | 25% | 55% | 60% | 7 | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
COLLEGE
Bush grew up in Arkansas and played four years of college basketball for the Central Arkansas Bears.
As a sophomore in 1989/90, he started all 35 games for the Bears and averaged 16.8 points per game (587 total points) on.498 field goal shooting (220-of-442).
As a junior in 1990/91, Bush started in 33 of the Bears' 34 games, and scored a school single-season high of 682 points, good for 20.1 points per game (ranked eighth in single-season scoring averages) on.560 field goal shooting (263-of-470) and.563 three-point shooting (58-of-103).
He also recorded 280 rebounds (8.2 pg) and 62 steals (1.8 pg).
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