New Zealand national basketball team

New Zealand New Zealand
Nickname (s)	Tall Blacks
Association	Basketball New Zealand
FIBA member since	1951
FIBA world rankings	19th
Trainer	Nenad Vučinić
World championships
Participation in the finals	5
Best results	4th place (2002)
Olympic games
Participation in the finals	2
Best results	Preliminary round (2000, 2004)
Continental championships
championship	Oceania Championship
Participation in the finals	22nd
Best results	Gold (1999, 2001, 2009)
(As of September 8, 2014)

The New Zealand men's national basketball team, mostly called Tall Blacks in New Zealand or Dominion Finance NZ Tall Blacks due to sponsorship , represents New Zealand in international basketball competitions.

The name is a reference to New Zealand's successful national rugby union team , the All Blacks , and was introduced as the team's name in 1990. Her greatest success by far is reaching the semi-finals at the 2002 World Cup .

history

In the Oceania Championship , which has been held for the first time since 1971 , New Zealand regularly lost to Australia until 1999 and was never able to qualify for a World Championship or the Olympic Games at that time. Nevertheless, she took part in 1986 as a short-term replacement for the team of the Philippines in the World Cup, where she was eliminated with only one win after the preliminary round. In 1999, the Tall Blacks were able to win the Oceania Championship for the first time and thus qualify for the Olympic Games, although Australia, as an automatically qualified host of the Olympic Games, did not take part in this.

At the following Oceania Championship, the victory against the Australian selection and thus qualification for the 2002 World Cup was achieved for the first time. Although their only NBA player Sean Marks failed in the third round game due to an eye injury for the rest of the tournament, New Zealand reached the quarter-finals, where surprisingly the selection of Puerto Rico could be defeated. This was also the first time that an oceanic national team made it to a World Cup semi-finals. After losing to Serbia and Montenegro and Germany , New Zealand finished the tournament in fourth place.

For the following Olympic Games and World Championships, Oceania received two starting places each, so that New Zealand's participation was practically guaranteed. At the Olympic Games they were eliminated again in the preliminary round and also in the 2006 World Cup, the success of the previous World Cup could not be repeated, as the tournament for New Zealand was over after the intermediate round. Except for Sean Marks, who had ended his national team career in 2004, the core of the team around captain Pero Cameron and the guards Kirk Penney and Phillip Jones remained the same. At the Oceania Championship in 2007 an away win against Australia succeeded for the first time, but the decision in the series had already been made, so that New Zealand took part in the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Athens in July , but failed there in the quarter-finals to Greece .

Current squad

New Zealand's squad at the 2014 World Cup

player No. Surname birth size info Calls society Guards ( PG , SG ) 4th Lindsay Tait 01/08/1982 190 Wellington Saints 5 Everard Bartlett 02/06/1986 191 Hawke's Bay Hawks 6th Kirk Penney 02/11/1983 196  Trabzonspor 8th Jarrod Kenny 09/17/1985 186 Hawke's Bay Hawks 9 Corey Webster 11/29/1988 185 New Zealand Breakers 15th Tai Webster 05/29/1995 193  Nebraska Cornhuskers ( NCAA ) Forwards ( SF , PF ) 7th Mika Vukona 05/13/1982 198 New Zealand Breakers 10 Thomas Abercrombie 07/05/1987 198  ASVEL Basket 11 BJ Anthony 07/20/1988 198 Wellington Saints 13 Casey Frank 10/23/1977 203 Waikato Pistons Center ( C ) 12 Isaac Fotu 12/18/1993 203  Hawaii Rainbow Warriors ( NCAA ) 14th Rob Loe 08/05/1991 210  Saint Louis Bilikens (NCAA)

Trainer Nat. Surname position / Nenad Vučinić Head coach Pero Cameron Assistant coach Paul Henare Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning Team captain swell League homepage Status: September 2014

Performing in international competitions

World championships

1974 - did not qualify 1978 - did not qualify 1982 - did not qualify 1986 - preliminary round 1990 - did not qualify

1994 - did not qualify 1998 - did not qualify 2002 - 4th place 2006 - round of 16 2010 - round of 16

2014 - 15th place 2019 - 19th place

Olympic games

1972 - did not qualify 1976 - did not qualify 1980 - did not qualify 1984 - did not qualify 1988 - did not qualify

1992 - did not qualify 1996 - did not qualify 2000 - 11th place 2004 - 10th place 2008 - did not qualify

2012 - did not qualify

Oceania Championships

1971 - silver medal 1975 - silver medal 1978 - silver medal 1979 - silver medal 1981 - silver medal 1983 - silver medal 1985 - silver medal 1987 - silver medal

1989 - silver medal 1991 - silver medal 1993 - silver medal 1995 - silver medal 1997 - silver medal 1999 - gold medal 2001 - gold medal 2003 - silver medal

2005 - silver medal 2007 - silver medal 2009 - gold medal 2011 - silver medal 2013 - silver medal 2015 - silver medal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simon Turnbull: Hoops and Haka: All Blacks? Meet the Tall Blacks The Independent on Sunday (March 12, 2006).
2. ↑ Team portrait on the official website of the 2006 World Cup ( memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Official website of the New Zealand Basketball Federation (English)
• New Zealand Basketball Federation on the official website of FIBA (English)