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Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
All I wanted to know was if you shot into your own basket or the opponents'. Now 30 replies and 400 views later, we've started an international incident?!!?!??!
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the famous quote:
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Coach my posting of May 01st answered your question and I will post it again:
NFHS, NCAA, and NBA/WNBA: A team attempts to throw the ball into its basket.
FIBA: A team attempts to throw the ball into its opponents basket.
As far as the international incident, I believe that our NBA Champions would win the FIBA World Championship hands down. But that is not the point.
I have to defend Oz on general principles. Western civilization owes it survival to the U.S.A and the four major countries of the British Empire (Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Time and time again, it is these five countries that come to the rescue of western civilization at a great price to their own citizens to make sure that totalitarian states do not over run this planet and that the values of freedom that we cherish do not vanish.
My father spent 42 months in the Pacific Theater and said that the Aussies were great people, and he sincerely meant that.