Aussies and basketball

[YoungRemy]

this question is directed at the Aussies on the board who follow basketball. Are you following the Bucks more this year because of Andrew Bogut? Or Could you give a crap? Do you invest more time in watching the NBA in general now that one of your own is a future star on an up and coming team?

the reason I ask is with International Hoops becoming better and more popular, each team is developing its own fanbase in other countries based on their all-stars from their homelands:

Yao Ming: creating a BILLION strong fanbase in China, they follow the Rockets for Yao only. they could care less whether the Rockets win or lose, they are cheering for Yao.

Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker-
they have turned the Spurs into an International team, Ginobili's Argentinian team beat the US for the Gold Medal in Olympics 2004.

Even while I was in Puerto Rico, they were airing Detroit Pistons games every night because of Carlos Arroyo, and he is a benchwarmer...

and all of the Euro players as well have their country behind them.

I think Bogut will be a pretty solid NBA center. I know he went to that sports-oriented academy in Australia that caters athletes to the sport they are best built for at an early age...


talk to me Aussies...

[Tzar]

no one gives a shit anymore because he badmouthed Longley.
they'll have a tiny article in the sports section about how he is doing with the Bucks, and it's usually at the end of the sports report.

we don't pay alot of attention to NBA.

[Kid Presentable]

A friend of mine is following Bogut quite closely.

[scotty]

We really didn't know who he was until he became the #1 draft pick for the NBA. So our care factor was already pretty low. Then, as Tzar said, he badmouthed Luc Longley and we went 'fuck you, too, tiger'.

[TurdBerglar]

luc longley wasn't really all that great from what i can remember

[hitmonlee]

everyone stopped liking basketball in about 1993.

[Gareth]

wrong
and bogut is good but roy will be chris paul.
and the best new foreign player is fabricio oberto cos his haircut rules.

[Drederick Tatum]

Andrew Bogut is already better than Luc Longley ever was or could have ever hoped to be. Longley was just lucky to play on a team and in a system with such talent, that all he was required to do was basically get out of the way.

[icy manipulator]

repeating the obvious but no one gives a shit about basketball in the land down under. oh ah glen mcgrath :p (y)