Canadian basketball team alumni, supporters celebrate Olympic qualification

Canada into quarter-finals at FIBA World Cup

Yet with Canada trailing Spain by 12 points entering the fourth quarter Sunday morning, Friends of Victoria Basketball COO Nick Blasko’s mind began racing ahead to the potential process involved of again hosting a last-chance Olympic qualifying tournament next summer at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

“It was wild and all of us were thinking back to what happened here two years ago as we did our small part to help the team, and [whether the Victoria group might have to consider preparing again to host another last-chance qualifier], but what a thrilling comeback,” said Blasko. “We always knew this group had the talent. It was a matter of bringing that chemistry together,” said Gerald Kazanowski, the Nanaimo and University of Victoria Vikes product who played in the 1984 Los Angeles and 1988 Seoul Olympics for Canada.Canada has the third most NBA players in the World Cup with seven following the U.S. with 12 and Australia with nine. France and Germany have four each.

“And it’s not just one or two guys. It’s many players. For the first time in a long time we have true lock-down defensive standouts with Dillon Brooks and Luguentz Dort.”Kazanowski and Kelsey were part of the B.C.-centric Canadian team that placed fourth in the 1984 Los Angeles and sixth in the 1988 Seoul Olympics with a roster that also included former UVic stars Greg Wiltjer and the late Eli Pasquale and Jay Triano out of SFU and Karl Tilleman from the University of Calgary.

The B.C. connection goes back further to the mercurial late shooting-guard Billy Robinson of Chemainus and centre Lars Hansen of Coquitlam leading Canada to fourth place at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and Victoria players Art and Chuck Chapman and Doug Peden leading Canada to the silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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