Congratulations Lindsay - it's well deserved!

Congratulations Lindsay - it's well deserved.

How about who will be the next Lindsay Gaze? Hurley did very little for the sport as a whole in comparison to Gaze.

People talk about the size of basketball participation in Victoria but who deserves credit for that more then Gaze? Who worked with Councils and State Government to build venues? Who worked with Clubs to build them into huge Associations?

People like Gaze at grassroots level and Kerle in promoting the sport have acheived a lot more then Hurley.

Hate to "rain on the parade", and I am involved with the Tigers, but I also hate nepotism in the sport of basketball, where parents get in a position of power and make sure their kids get preferential treatment.
What I have always wondered is, was Lindsay Gaze the founding father of nepotism in the sport of basketball too? Because if he was, he's done no one any favours in that regard.
Was Andrew really that good? Or did he just get such a good leg up at the right times? How many other guards from that time with real potential, missed out because of that preferential treatment?

If Andrew was really that good, how come he didn't cut it on the international stage.
Like Andrew Bogut now can (if he's fit).

And if that's the best you can come up with by way of discussion, then you are probably just another part of the problem, that see's basketball languish in this country, when it should be doing so much better.
Anyone who finds it necessary to attack anyone with an opposing view (or even a suggestion, in this case) generally has NO INTEGRITY.
But you should do a good job as a basketball administrator though ;-)
I'll recommend you for my local club.

Well it's good to see you have got back to trying to address the argument rather than pathetically trying to attack the person.
There really seems to be an Andrew Gaze "love-in" going on here, and I suppose thats fine. But when I see (or read) people with the blinkers on it just reminds me too much of my ex wife so I really have to ask some more questions.
But before I do, for your information, I am a long time Melbourne Tigers supporter - and my kids play rep for Melbourne Tigers - and Andrew has been a neighbour of mine and I think he's a great bloke and have no problems with him personally.
I am also really impressed with how he still takes the time to coach a rep team in our club - along with his father.

However, my first point still stands, was he and his father the harbringers of the father son nepotism that riddles our sport today and drags it down from what we could be achieving - especially in the mens side.

Then you went on to talk about how great he was on the world stage.
While there is no doubt he is head and shoulders above the rest of what Australian men's basketball achieved during that time - he is still a minnow on the world stage - and that's by his own admission too.
He also got given every possible opportunity via his father and his mates - and with that sort of support - how many others could have been just as great if not better? - and who might have missed out as a result?

Then I asked the question about his performance on the international stage - say compared to Andrew Bogut - and you have taken the time (or was it just copy and paste?) to provide this;
- NBL Rookie of the year 1984 at age 18, averaging 29.1ppg (world?)
- NBL leading scorer 14 times (world?)
- Scored 18,908 points in the NBL over 612 games in a 22-season span at an average of 30.9ppg (world?)
- 2 NBL titles (1993 & 1997) (world?)
- NBL MVP a record 7 times - the award is now named after him! (world?)
- Australian International Player of the Year in 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998 & 2000 (world?)
- NBL Most Efficient Player award every year from 1990 to 1997. (world?)
- All-NBL First Team 14 times (world?)
- Voted the NBL's greatest ever player in 2003 (world?)
- In 1989 played NCAA Division 1 for Seton Hall, losing in the National Championship game in overtime to Michigan (he was 25 years old then playing against college age players)
- Played for Italian club Udine, averaging more than 30ppg (don't know about this - was it division 1 ?)
- In 1993-94 he played seven games for the Washington Bullets in the NBA (7 games?)
- In 1998-99 he played with the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA, winning a Championship ring (while he got a ring - by his own admission he hardly got on the court)
- Represented Australia in 307 international games (in an average team)
- Only 3rd basketball player in history to play at 5 Olympic Games (in an average team)
- Led the Boomer's to 4th placings at Olympics in 1988, 1996, 2000 (in an average team - although 4th place isn't too bad and is probably the pinacle of his achievments)
- Flag-bearer for the Australian team at the opening ceremony at the 2000 Sydney Olympics (world?)
- He is the scoring record holder in Olympic basketball competition (in a lesser team)
- Played in 4 World Championships (in an average team)
- He is the second-highest scorer of all-time in World Championships competition (in an average team)
- In 1991, named as one of the 50 greatest players of all time by FIBA (in an average team)
- Retired from professional basketball after 20 years 612 games in the NBL (world?)
- In 2002 awarded an AM for his massive contribution to sport in this country. (world?)
- Currently coaches juniors at Melbourne Tigers
- Sits on Board of Basketball Australia since 2008 (world?)
- Chair of Basketball Australia's Honours and Awards Commission (world?)
- Media commentator and personality (world?)

And you love to go on with this anonymous crap - but what is so revealing about your LC title?