Thursday, July 7, 2016

FIBA OQT: Gilas vs Tall Blacks

We did our best.
(Photo credit: FIBA.com)

The Olympic Dream felt achievable versus France, the way Gilas played the other night and all, only for the New Zealand Tall Blacks to shut the door on our faces just hours ago.

We all thought that our country's bread and butter when it came to the sport of basketball is our ability to run and wreak havoc, that we were arguably the best at it among all six combatants in the FIBA OQT. We also flirted with the notion that despite being ranked just a few spots below the Tall Blacks, that we had a realistic shot at beating them and somehow making it into the next round. 

No and no.
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