SECOND QUARTER 2007 SECOND QUARTER 14 Issue 2 Volume THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION HoopsHoops forfor HealthHealth ALSO:ALSO: InsideInside thethe SydneySydney KingsKings TTransitionransition –– fromfrom offenceoffence toto defencedefence CoachingCoaching aa GrandGrand FinalFinal CONTENTS 1 In the News EDITOR Ben Hawes 3 Australian Development Camp GENERAL MANAGER, COMMUNITY BASKETBALL Michael Haynes 10 Running a successful Aussie Hoops clinic PHOTOGRAPHY Lisa McGinnigle, Geoff Tripp, Fiona Harding, 12 Hoops 4 Health Sydney Kings, Andrew Olsen ADVERTISING 15 Grand challenges: Sales & Marketing Department Tel: 02 9469 7200 Playing in a defensejobs WNBL Grand Final DESIGN & PRINT Southern Design & Print Group Tel: (02) 9587 7722 FIBA Assist – The transition from CONTRIBUTIONS & FEEDBACK 18 We welcome news items, feedback and offence to defence suggestions. 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Lindsay Gaze Barry Barnes Ian Laurie Merv Harris Dr Adrian Hurley Patrick Hunt Ken Watson Brian Kerle Ray Tomlinson Basketball Australia gratefully acknowledges its major sponsors: In the News... ormer Australian Post Boomers Assistant Coach Rob Beveridge, who Falso guided Australia to a gold medal in the Under 19 World Championships in 2003, has been appointed head coach of the West Sydney Razorbacks. In other NBL movements, the Wollongong Hawks secured the services of Eric Cooks as Head Coach, who agreed to a two-year contract. Beveridge was Assistant Coach with the Boomers at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 and coached at the FIBA World Championship in Japan in September last year. He was Head Coach of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 World U20 Select Team competing at the NIKE Hoop Summit and was a Scholarship Coach with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1993 and Assistant Coach of the Perth Breakers WNBL Team in 1994. He left the NSW Institute of Sport where he has Rob Beveridge (far right) in action at the NIKE Hoops Summit been head coach for the last ten years to take up the Razorbacks position. for the 2007/08 defencejobs WNBL season, The Dandenong Rangers appointed assistant Cooks, meanwhile, joined the Hawks roster as following the resignation of David Herbert. coach and current Australian Under 19 a player in 1997 for three seasons, captaining During his seven year stint with Canberra Women’s assistant Dale Waters as Head Coach the team in the 1999/2000 before taking an between 2000 and 2006, Buckle was assistant for this season. assistant coaching role the following year – coach to former defencejobs Opals and current Waters has had extensive coaching when they won the NBL title. Chinese Women’s National team coach Tom experience, including involvement in the In WNBL coaching news, the Townsville Fire Maher as well as five-time WNBL prestigious NCAA Division 1 tournament with announced former Canberra Capitals assistant championship winner and current Capitals the University of South Alabama, the WABL and coach Peter Buckle as their new Head Coach mentor Carrie Graf. defencejobs WNBL with the Perth Breakers. Australian coaches’ workshop greatly from the wisdom obtained by Goorjian AIS Scholarship coach during his four-country overseas tour in April he top men’s coaches in the nation asmanian born Rebecca Dick was where he was able to witness first hand how met at the Australian Institute of appointed Scholarship Coach for the basketball operations were handled in TSport in early May to discuss TAustralian Institute of Sport’s Germany, Russia, Lithuania and the United domestic and international trends in women’s basketball program in May. States. basketball and the tactics that must be Dick replaces Nicole Ireland, who is now the “Brian reinforced that the international game is undertaken to ensure Australia’s rise up AIS women’s assistant coach. the world rankings. becoming more athletic, that the athletes are becoming stronger and that the pace of the As Scholarship Coach, Dick joins the Australian The workshop was chaired by National game is increasing,” Patrick Hunt said. Sports Commission (ASC) scholarship program Intensive Training Centre Program Head Coach that aims to develop successful applicants into “We’re making strides in the right direction to Patrick Hunt and attended by Boomers future national team coaches. coaches Brian Goorjian and Gordon McLeod do that, but the challenge for us is to along with AIS and Emus (Under 19 men’s accelerate that development.” Prior to her appointment, Dick was the Community Basketball Development Officer for team) Head Coach Marty Clarke and World “It was a really good exchange of thoughts and Basketball Tasmania as well as being head University Games Head Coach Bruce Palmer ideas between the coaches and included the coach of the Tasmanian U18 women’s team and assistant Paul Mesecke. best ways to maintain the links between the and a National Intensive Training Centre National Intensive Training Centre Program, the The overriding theme that emerged from the Program (NITCP) support coach and assistant AIS, the Emus and the senior men’s team.” National Coaches Technical Workshop was the coach with the North West Thunder in the coaches’ desire to foster the Australian The next edition of Xs and Os will contain notes Tasmanian SEABL competition. underdog spirit while the coaches benefited from the workshop. www.basketball.net.au Official Journal of the Australian Basketball Coaches Association 1 In the News... Wheelchair scholarship Rollers qualifying for Beijing coach appointed he Australian Men’s Wheelchair team, asketball Australia in association the Rollers, have qualified for the 2008 with the Australian Paralympic TBeijing Paralympic Games after BCommittee and the Australian Sports winning gold at the 2007 Arafura Games in Commission welcomes the appointment of Darwin in May. Ben Osborne as the National Scholarship The Rollers scored convincing wins over Iran, Coach for Wheelchair Basketball, a first for Kuwait, Korea and Japan in front of strong Basketball Australia. home crowd support. Osborne will work with the New South Wales Justin Eveson of Perth was named tournament Institute of Sport’s (NSWIS) wheelchair MVP and was the competition’s leading point basketball program, the national men's and scorer while team mates Michael Hartnett and The Rollers were a crowd favourite. women's teams and APC in their talent Shaun Groenewegen were selected in the Photo Geoff Tripp identification program. tournament All-Star Five. He will assist in the development of individual Prior to the Arafura Games, the Rollers rivals Great Britain, Holland and Canada in the players, teams and administration programs as competed in the 2007 VISA Paralympic World pool rounds. well as developing his coaching knowledge of Cup, where they claimed silver, narrowly losing Captain Brad Ness dominated the tournament, wheelchair basketball. to World and Paralympic Champions Canada finishing leading point’s scorer at an average of The scholarship program is through the 49-47 in the final. 17.8 points per game. Australian Sports Commission Scholarship The Rollers charged into the gold medal game New coach Ben Ettridge now holds an Coach Program. undefeated following strong wins over arch impressive 7-and 1 win/loss record. Aussie World Championship assault and-1 won/loss record – equal best for the tournament. he Australian Under 21 Women’s team, the Sapphires, won silver at the The young Emus surged into the quarter finals T2007 FIBA World Championships for with six straight wins but suffered a Under 21 Women in Moscow, Russia in mid heartbreaking 73-72 loss to Brazil in the last July, losing the final to the USA, 93-76. three seconds of their do-or-die quarter final. After a narrow 2-point loss to the Americans in 210cm power forward Andrew Ogilvy emerged the opening game, the Sapphires charged into as a genuine superstar of the game, posting six the gold medal game on the back of a six double-doubles to finish third in the game winning streak with victories over tournament for most points per game, Hungary, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Canada and averaging 22.3 points per game and second in France. most rebounds per game with 9.7. Welcome Ben Osborne. Bendigo Spirit forward Jenna O’Hea finished “It really pushes your character traits to play at as the Sapphires leading points scorer, 4th this level successfully and these guys have Do you want to know what your overall in the tournament, averaging 16.5 really bought into this and have worked just so young players are thinking? points per game with Adelaide Lightning guard hard,” Head Coach Marty Clarke said.