Our first five reflects so well on the game in Oz
THEY did it! Penny Taylor and Erin Phillips today joined Patty Mills, Aron Baynes and Joe Ingles as players to win Championships at the highest club levels in the world this year.
Australia needs to know what Sandy has achieved
LET’S be truly clear on what Sandy Brondello achieved today.
KEN COLE: Time to tell players what is required
HALL of Famer KEN COLE writes for Basketball On The Internet with a further message for the Boomers: I'VE thought about this a lot prior to the World Cup and it's clarified my thinking.
BA should get on the front foot - but won't
IT IS a crying shame Anthony Moore doesn't take his seat as Basketball Australia CEO until October 13 because right now our federation should be showing some onions and seeking legal advice on Goran Dragic's defamatory tweet.
New-look Opals have plenty of shine
EXPECT the Opals to again shake the FIBA World Championship for Women to its foundations, despite the absence of many of its long-revered faces.
Dear FIBA, you owe Australia an apology
DEAR FIBA, You owe Basketball Australia, the Australian Boomers and the Australian public an apology.
Good morning, friends - it's Boomer time
THE intragroup stage may be over but before we move on to the wee hours of Monday morning, it would be remiss to not revisit the Boomers' best moments from the Group D games.
It's a lottery - the answer for FIBA
IF FIBA genuinely has any stake in ensuring its international events are pristine and played with no foxing - let alone fixing - then it needs to revisit its post-intragroup stage.
Boomers just played it smart
LET'S get something really straight here. Losing to Angola tonight did not in any way guarantee the Boomers a third-place finish at the FIBA World Cup.
LJ out and times they are a'changin'
LAUREN Jackson quietly undergoing hip surgery today on top of her knee rehabilitation delays may finally be signalling the inevitable changing of the Opals guard.

