Tall Blacks News
August 25, 2008
The New Zealand Tall Blacks have dropped a place while their Tall Ferns counterparts have remained steady in the latest FIBA World Rankings released on Monday.
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July 20, 2008
Daniel Gilhooly, NZPA
New Zealand Tall Blacks great Pero Cameron predicts his team will bounce back from their Olympic failure but he will not commit to being part of any revival.
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July 18, 2008
The New Zealand Tall Blacks Olympic dream has ended.
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July 18, 2008
As if facing sixth-ranked Greece on their home floor wasn’t enough.
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July 17, 2008
Another game against Germany, another defeat.
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July 16, 2008
As a New Zealand Tall Blacks player, Dillon Boucher was on the wrong side of some lop-sided scores against Germany.
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July 15, 2008
Cape Verde may have been a dangerous unknown but the New Zealand Tall Blacks were not interested in the underdog story.
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July 15, 2008
FIBA
Cape Verde now know what it’s like to play at the highest level of the men’s game after suffering a 77-50 mauling at the hands of New Zealand on Monday in Athens.
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July 13, 2008
As strange as it may sound, New Zealand Tall Blacks coach Nenad Vucinic is just as concerned with Cape Verde as he is Germany.
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July 11, 2008
The New Zealand Tall Blacks got exactly what they needed heading into next week’s FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament – a confidence-boosting win.
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July 10, 2008
A fourth quarter comeback was not enough for the New Zealand Tall Blacks to upset Slovenia on their home floor.
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July 9, 2008
A fourth quarter fade cost the New Zealand Tall Blacks a chance at victory in their first game at the Alpos Cup in Slovenia this morning.
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July 8, 2008
The NZ Tall Blacks were remembering a lost friend and his whanau as they prepared for their opening game of the Alpos Cup tournament in Slovenia today.
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July 5, 2008
The New Zealand Tall Blacks surged to their second straight win in their Olympic qualifying build-up in Toronto on Saturday morning.
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July 3, 2008
The New Zealand Tall Blacks put a three-game losing streak behind them with a 13-point win over Lebanon in their second game of the Jack Donohue International Classic in Canada on Thursday.
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July 2, 2008
Despite a game-high 26 points from returning shooting guard Kirk Penney, the New Zealand Tall Blacks fell to a 90-63 loss to Canada in their first game of the Jack Donohue International Classic on Wednesday morning.
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July 1, 2008
It’s a new week, a new country, and more importantly, a new tournament for the New Zealand Tall Blacks.
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June 29, 2008
Wellington Saints centre Nick Horvath has won the hotly contested naturalized spot on the NZ Tall Blacks roster for their last-ditch bid to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.
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June 28, 2008
It all started so well.
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June 28, 2008
Live scores and stats from game two of the Al Ramsay Shield series between the New Zealand Tall Blacks and Australia Post Boomers from the State Netball Hockey Centre in Melboure.
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June 26, 2008
The Tall Blacks first step towards Olympic qualifying proved a shaky one.
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June 26, 2008
Live scores and stats from game one of the Al Ramsay Shield series between the New Zealand Tall Blacks and Australia Post Boomers from the North Shore Events Centre in Auckland.
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June 25, 2008
The changing face of the 2008 Tall Blacks has seen guard Paora Winitana bumped into a leadership role this season.
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June 24, 2008
Teams for the Al Ramsay Shield series between the New Zealand Tall Blacks and Australian Boomers.
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June 24, 2008
The Australian Boomers will see some fresh faces when they take on the New Zealand Tall Blacks in the opening game of the 2008 Ramsay Shield in Auckland on Thursday night.
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June 23, 2008
Preparing for their Ramsay Shield opener against Australia, the NZ Tall Blacks have suffered another setback with the withdrawal of Wellington Saints forward Brendon Polyblank.
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June 20, 2008
Teenager Corey Webster looks set to become the youngest Tall Black in almost a decade after his selection for the national men’s squad preparing for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Athens next month. Continue reading »
June 19, 2008
The New Zealand Tall Blacks host the Australia Boomers in game one of the two-game Ramsay Shield series at the North Shore Events Centre on Thursday, June 26.
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June 15, 2008
Now his beloved CPS Nelson Giants are eliminated, NZ Tall Black coach Nenad Vucinic doesn’t really care who wins the 2008 Dominion Finance National Basketball League title … as long as they do it quickly.
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June 6, 2008
NZ Tall Black coach Nenad Vucinic has named 19 players for his national team trials at North Harbour from June 16-19.
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June 6, 2008
Basketball Australia has selected a squad of 17 players to represent the Australian Boomers in five international matches, including two against the NZ Tall Blacks, in June.
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June 5, 2008
Nelson Mail
Tall Blacks coach Nenad Vucinic is splitting his career between hemispheres after securing a job with top Estonian club Kalev/Cramo.
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June 3, 2008
It took a summer of agonizing and a last-minute change of heart, but Phill Jones could finally delay the decision no longer.
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May 2, 2008
The Australian Boomers will return to their graveyard – the hallowed floor of the North Shore Events Centre – when they cross the Tasman for the first leg of this year’s Ramsay Shield series against the Tall Blacks on June 26.
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April 18, 2008
Tall Blacks guard Lindsay Tait will launch his comeback from injury in the Dominion Finance NBL in the nation’s capital.
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April 17, 2008
New Zealand Tall Blacks and Appliance Shed Harbour Heat forward Mika Vukona will be a fire-breathing Dragon next season.
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April 8, 2008
Toby Robson, Dominion Post
Nick Horvath is finally a New Zealand citizen - handing the Tall Blacks a 2.09m boost ahead of the Olympic qualifying tournament in July in Athens.
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March 27, 2008
Toby Robson, Dominion Post
Craig Bradshaw has signed with Turkish division one club Efes Pilsen, ending speculation that the Tall Blacks forward might play in this year’s National Basketball League.
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March 17, 2008
NZ Breakers assistant coach Dean Vickerman will fill the same role under Tall Black coach Nenad Vucinic when the national team heads to Europe for their last-ditch attempt to qualify for the Beijing Olympics.
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February 22, 2008
Home-and-away encounters with archrivals Australia on June 26 & 28 will set the NZ Tall Blacks on the path towards the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament less than three weeks later.
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