Tagged with: FIBA World Cup
Unprecedented things keep happening in the basketball realms of New Zealand and we’ve just had the men’s and women’s FIBA U17 World Cups so you’d better believe the list is now a little longer.
The task was thus: World Cup Qualification. The Tall Ferns were placed in a group hosted by Puerto Rico, having progressed this far thanks to their fifth place finish at the Asia Cup last year
A little over a year ago, the only basketball team from Aotearoa to ever make the semi-finals of a FIBA World Cup event at any age grade, men or women, were the Tall Blacks of 2002. Now it’s happened twice in twelve months.
There’s one thing you can never doubt about any Tall Blacks team: no matter who’s got that black singlet on, they’re going to bring the passion, the commitment, the mana that has become a prerequisite for this team
The Tall Blacks always bring a certain level of mana with them no matter who’s reppin’ the jersey. There’s going to be passion and cohesion and defensive grit. Regardless. That’s just how this team operates