Basketball
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A):
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- Lost to Spain (74-79)
- Lost to United States (55-81)
- Lost to Czechoslovakia (68-69)
- Defeated Japan (92-76)
- Lost to Cuba (70-84)
- Defeated Brazil (75-69)
- Defeated Egypt (89-66)
- Classification Matches:
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- 9th/12th place: Defeated West Germany (70-69)
- 9th/10th place: Defeated Poland (91-83) → 9th place
- Team Roster:
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- Glenn Marsland
- Ian Watson
- Richard Duke
- Bill Wyatt
- Eddie Palubinskas
- Brian Kerle
- Peter Byrne
- Perry Crosswhite
- Ray Tomlinson
- Ken James
- Tom Bender
- Toli Koltuniewicz
- Head Coach: Lindsay Gaze
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)