$605 Million Dollar USA Team searching for go-to guy

Two days in and the USA Men’s basketball team are still searching for their closer. The jet lagged Americans practised yesterday in Melbourne City to find their legs and sweat it out after a fifteen-hour flight from Las Vegas. Today, they were sprinting, running three-man weaves and looking for their touch. Despite being labelled as a weak and undermanned squad, this 2019 version is still loaded with solid guards and wing players. Don’t be fooled, the talent runs deep in the USA. Collectively, the squad…

There seems to be three things you can guarantee in life - death, taxes, and a Boomers' fourth place finish at a major world tournament. After shocking the world in beating Team USA, and going 6-0 in the early rounds of the competition, Australia seemed to fall apart in the latter stages of the tournament, finding themselves yet again without any silverware to solidify their status.   The question is - why?        

Where to now for the Boomers? A look ahead at Tokyo 2020.

Fourth place. Those are two words which have haunted the Australian Boomers for over thirty years. In 1988, a fourth place was an astounding achievement for a basketball nation emerging from relative obscurity. In 1996, more of the same.   By 2000, however, it represented an underachievement.  We'd just brought our most talented squad ever til that point to the Sydney Olympics - our HOME games - and anything less than a medal was a bust. And bust the Boomers did. It would be 16…

Podcast: Lindsay Gaze on the NBL’s origins and it’s current need to expand

Head to iTunes to download this episode on your phone or iPod  Lindsay Gaze sits down with Dan Boyce on the Aussie Hoopla podcast to share how the Australia Boomers program came about and shares his stories from a career that includes either playing or coaching the men's national basketball team from it's inception in 1960 to 1984.   [caption id="attachment_6244" align="alignright" width="242"] Lindsay Gaze during his playing days[/caption] In what will be a two-part episode, Lindsay shares the stories of how basketball began in…

Bogut’s Top 5 Opponents

St. Mary’s Gaels in Australia – Everything you need to know

Intro the team Results in NZL Make sure comment on Aussies in team Links to tickets for all games below: Thursday, August 9: Gaels vs Melbourne United — 7pm @ State Basketball Centre, Wantirna South. Friday, August 10: Gaels vs Dandenong Rangers — 7pm @ Dandenong Stadium, Dandenong North. Sunday, August 12: Gaels vs Hobart Chargers — 2pm @ Derwent Entertainment Centre, Glenorchy. Tuesday, August 14: Gaels vs Illawarra Hawks — 7pm @ The Snakepit, Gwynneville. Wednesday, August 15: Gaels vs Sydney Kings — 7pm…

TEAM USA SUPERSTARS COMING DOWN UNDER

The Most Important Exercises That Everyone Neglects

Most athletes spend all their time working on the major muscle groups, exercises like squats and dead lifts are super important to a basketball player but just as important as these exercises is the often neglected balance and minor muscle group exercises. As an athlete, if you only train your major muscles and neglect to develop your minor muscles, balance and flexibility not only will you not be getting the results that you possibly could, you will be destined for injuries. Here we will provide…