TALL PLAYERS SCARCE
(New Zealand Press Association) ROTORUA. There are three key requirements to any improvement in New Zealand indoor basket-ball-overseas competition, tall men and patient coaches.
•‘The first part is the easiest,’ said Mr C. Agnew, of Hamilton, the New Zealand coach at present handling the national men’s training squad in Tokoroa. “We are now travelling ourselves and creating good will, and we are attracting more overseas teams to the country. Later this year an Australian state team will visit New Zealand to play several provincial sides and the New Zealand side will travel to Australia for a 14 or 15-game tour, including the national
championships in mid-Sep-tember.
Also this year San Jose, an American university team, will play three tests during a New Zealand tour.
Mr Agnew said the biggest problem he faced in naming the 10-strong national side was to overcome the absence of tall men.
“Tall men take longer to develop and have special problems. These problems need special coaching, which, for the most part, is not available here.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 15
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