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Auburn Basketball Centre

Locality: Lidcombe, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9646 3840

Address: Wyatt Park, Church Street 2141 Lidcombe, NSW, Australia

Website: https://parramattawildcats.basketball/

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25.01.2022 #SomeoneSpecialTurnedForty #WildcatsCoachOfTheYear2019 #HappyBirthday #WelcomeToTheForties #Parradise @ Auburn Basketball Centre

23.01.2022 Here’s the full array of segments from Friday’s Channel 7 Sunrise show featuring the Noosa Pickleball Club. I’m hearing so many new Enquiry stories from all ar...ound the country... this is fantastic !!! We welcome our new Facebook group members as well , hope to see you all on the courts soon.

22.01.2022 Hello all ... due to the announcement by the Sports Minister today about continuing to use social distancing and reducing numbers at community sport, we can not... allow spectators to come into the Centre for the foreseeable future. You can however watch games on Glory League. Please make sure you contact us and reiterate your email addresses to make sure it will be a seamless process to view games after they are played (generally the following day). Best regards and stay safe. From the Board of Management of PBA/UBL. See more

20.01.2022 #WeeklyCasualShootaround #WeekendCourtHire #HappyToBeBack #ANewKindOfNormal #GiveUsACallToFindOutMore 96463840 #CompsBackSoon #StayTuned #ComeAndSeeUs #GladToBeBack #Parradise

20.01.2022 14 years ago today, someone was reading a text message while driving and so didn't see a car stopped ahead, slamming into it at 80km an hour, without breaking..., forcing that car under the ute in front of it, and injuring the driver of that car irreparably. That injured driver had just celebrated his 1 year wedding anniversary, had had a thrilling career in the cattle industry in NSW and QLD, had then been a very successful real estate agent and had moved into the area of training real estate agents. He and his young wife had plans of starting a big family, of taking them camping, fishing, horse riding, go-kart riding, scuba diving, and travelling. You know, all the things you plan when you're young and have your whole life ahead of you? That changed 14 years ago. The instant that texting driver hit him, not only did he sustain a crush fracture to a vertabrae, he also tore the ligament that holds his head onto his spine, which means his neck is constantly dislocating. Severe, excruciating pain is his constant companion, along with so many other disabilities and issues that, I personally, would have crumbled from long ago, and although he carries himself with grace and dignity, his life is incredibly challenged and difficult. How do I know? That amazing man is my husband. Out of our 15 married years together, 14 of them have been an incredible struggle. We don't get to have a 'normal life' (whatever that may be, it certainly isn't this), and our daughter has known no other life with daddy but this, but I can honestly say although we manage remarkably well (if I do say so myself!), this isn't something I would wish on anyone.. All because someone 'needed' to read a text message..... Mate, it can wait. Put. The. Phone. Away.

15.01.2022 He's back! The Kings have committed to picking up Craig Moller’s club option for the 2020-21 NBL season, keeping him in the purple and gold for another year. Read: https://bit.ly/301MouN

11.01.2022 #YoungsGuns #SeasonSix #RoundFour #Wildcats @sydneybasketballinstitute #WildcatsGotItDone 77-69 @ Auburn Basketball Centre

11.01.2022 #AirFelicano #ThereIsHopeForTheVerticallyChallenged #TwoWeeksIntoRehab @kasey.vaughan

11.01.2022 #UltimateBasketballLeague #SeasonEight #Draft #TwentyThousandDollars #ComeAndGetIt

08.01.2022 #LetsGetBackToIt #UBL #YoungGuns #SeasonSix

04.01.2022 DIFFERENT; adjective: not the same as another or each other THE LESSON: A person is smart. People are often dumb. Learn when to make your own educated choices... without assuming the way others do things is best for you. THE STORY: Don Nelson took over from Jim Cleamons as Head Coach of the Dallas Mavericks on 5th December 1997. Although our rate of wins did not improve noticeably for the remainder of the season, the feel in and around the team certainly did. Nellie’s coaching resume was impressive. He bought with him 20 years of coaching experience from the Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors and New York Knicks. Our on-court philosophy switched from running plays to making plays, and our training reflected that. The was more skill development and less team structure. We all needed to get better and learn to react to the situation immediately in front of us. Nellie wanted players, not robots. In his role as General Manager leading up to the 1997 Draft, Nellie had been the guy from the Mavericks that flew to Australia to see me. He drafted me for my speed and my hands, not my basketball ability. I was different. Now I got to play for the guy who drafted me. In my very first training session with him, he pulled my game apart. Your shot is too slow. You step backwards after your jab step when you face up and gives your defender more time to react. You get the ball to the rim too slowly after you pick up your dribble. Everything I did needed to be faster. From catching the ball to shooting or passing it, the ball needed to be in my hands for less time. Defenders were too quick and athletic to just be fundamentally sound now. I would only ever have a split second to take advantage of a situation. At the end of that first session, he asked me to hold the ball above my head and shoot it from there. He started rebuilding my shot. It no longer mattered how the ball got to the release point above my head. Nothing robotic. How many jump shots have you taken since you arrived in Dallas that you felt like you had plenty of time? he asked me. None. They did not exist in the NBA. I needed to get to my release point fast, and from anywhere. I had to learn to shoot off balance, to catch and shoot off bad passes. I needed to drill shooting against defenders. Nellie would throw bullet passes all over the place- above my head, outside my shoulders, below my left hip. The second the ball hit my hands it needed to move into my shot immediately from wherever I caught it. I was allowed no movement to get balanced, and absolutely no movement toward the floor like I had been. All unnecessary movement had to go. Where most coaches were coaching shot set up with feet, hips and shooting lines, Nellie was focussed on speed and release. My feet, hips and shoulders could do whatever they wanted, but I needed to be able to replicate what happened in my shot release every time. This advice helped me grow my perimeter game to become a strength at my height. My teammate Dirk Nowitzki did it better than anyone in the world. Don Nelson did not subscribe to only the always play to your strengths mindset. He wanted to expose our opponents’ weaknesses as much as we aimed to highlight our strengths. Make a team or an individual beat you in a way that they have not regularly demonstrated, especially if you are not the most talented player or team, which the Mavericks of the late 1990s certainly were not. In 2008, I watched Hawthorn win an AFL Premiership with their rolling zone. They were different. In 2016 I watched the Western Bulldogs handball club win the 2016 Premiership. They were different. Not many people would argue that the Hawks or the Dogs were the most talented team in the league those years. After each Premiership, we saw the rest of the AFL try to catch up. In Dallas, back in late 1997, different was already happening. Mavericks versus Bulls in Chicago. The minute we were in the penalty each quarter, Nellie instructed Bubba Wells to foul Dennis Rodman as soon as the ball crossed half court. He wanted Rodman shooting free throws instead of trying to defend Jordan and Pippen. Bubba became the fastest player to foul out in NBA history, lasting just 2:43 and Dennis Rodman shot 12 free throws. The Bulls won, just, but Nellie had changed the game. It was played in a way we wanted it played and gave us the best chance of competing. This strategy would later be widely adopted and known as Hack-a-Shaq as opposition head coaches copied what many of them had criticised at the time, most noticeably against one of the poorest free throw shooters in the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal. Mavericks v Rockets in Houston. Nobody on our team could defend Hakeem Olajuwon. The Houston Rockets had surrounded him with shooters and would let Hakeem go to work or find open shooters out of the trap most opponents sent to him. Nellie saw the Rockets differently. Most of Olajuwon’s post ups were on the left block. Instead of battling Hakeem in his favourite spot, or trying to keep it out of his hands, we trapped the point guard at half court. The only pass we allowed out was to the opposite side of the floor. Then we denied it back. Olajuwon was forced to catch it and play on the right block, where he played much less. We limited Olajuwon for long periods of time and split our series with the Rockets that season in the 1998-99 season. During my time in Dallas, I would often guard poor shooting guards. My favourite matchup was guarding 5’3 Muggsy Bogues for a game. The idea was to give him lots of space, dare him to shoot and have more length to help on their better scorers. It was also to show the Golden State Warriors something they were not accustomed to playing against. Show teams something they are not used to seeing. Be unconventional. Be different. 20 years earlier, Don Nelson was credited with inventing the position that many now know Larry Bird, LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo to have mastered, the Point Forward. While coaching the Milwaukee Bucks in the early 1980’s, Nellie began using 6’7 forward Marques Johnson to initiate offense while their starting guards were injured. Instead of using weaker guards and being at a disadvantage, Johnson’s bigger, slower defenders were forced to guard the ball as it was advanced, shifting the advantage back to the Bucks. During his years coaching the Golden State Warriors, Don Nelson was also credited as one of the first coaches to play 5 smaller, faster players against traditional bigger line ups. It was criticised early but earned the tag Nellie-ball when he had All-Stars Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin running and gunning so successfully that they earned the nickname Run TMC. Within that line-up, Nellie would post up 6’0 point guard Tim Hardaway and space the floor with bigger players who were given the license to shoot the 3. Not many guards practiced defending the post, and not many bigs practiced defending the 3. He loved to put his opponents in unfamiliar, uncomfortable situations. Even in my time at Dallas, shooting guard Michael Finley was our best, and most often used post player. Only now, 30 years after the basketball world was introduced to Nellie-ball, coaches around the world have embraced and implemented Small-ball. Don Nelson has been described as many things. Infamous. Non-traditional. Crazy. Genius. The person best placed to describe Nellie is likely his son Donnie. Dad was someone who would do whatever it took to win. The way we created our teams is the way teams are being put together now. If he had a calling card it would say that he was extremely creative, he wasn’t afraid to try something new and was a visionary. He’s not normal and knows he’s not normal. For me, Don Nelson taught me that not being normal has many advantages. He looked outside the box and found new solutions to old problems. Not all of them worked, and boy was he reminded of them, but many did. To this day, people are pigeon-holed in all areas of life. Nellie didn’t just encourage his players out of those pigeon-holes, he smashed them to pieces so they could never go back. I am proud that I was different to a lot of tall basketball players. I am thankful that Don Nelson allowed me to be. Don Nelson - Most wins by a Head Coach in NBA history - 1,3351,063 (.557) Inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012 Head Coach Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks #ChrisAnstey #PersonalBest

04.01.2022 Hi Facebook friends I want to create a long overdue post in praise of the wonderful Flo Osborne. Flo is 89 years young and lives in Sheltered accommodation in D...overcourt During lockdown and beyond on in her tiny kitchen on several occasions Flo has cooked up to 20 wonderful fruit or meat pies. (Well over 100 in total ) for us to distribute amongst the vulnerable and elderly through our NEST /Harwich community centres hot meals service. Every pie is made from scratch, the pastry mixed and rolled the fruit prepared and then cooked in her tiny oven. This is I believe a remarkable act of community kindness, also a huge victory over age and supposed infirmity. My frustration is that try as I may I cannot get the local press, radio or TV to write about the incredible work this wonderful lady has done in her community. Of course Facebook has more readers by far than any of the above. So I am asking you to share the hell out of this and make the amazing Flo a social media hero . Many thanks guys Les xx See more

03.01.2022 A post by Physio Peter Ali who says we're better to do some warm-up exercises before we return to sport. We are privileged to have Peter playing at Auburn Baske...tball Centre: Peter Ali | Sport Scientist & Physiotherapist Director of PTC Performance P: 0451281280 E: [email protected]