Ripping up decals not "smart" by Boomers

Basketball Australia has 拒絶するd (人命などを)奪う,主張するs from Philippines coach Chot Reyes that Boomers players 誘発するd 緊張s by "hitting" 対抗者s during the warm-up before their World Cup qualifier.

But CEO Anthony Moore 収容する/認めるs it "wasn't the smartest move" by team 公式の/役人s to 除去する 床に打ち倒す decals that they believed had 提起する/ポーズをとるd a 脅し to player safety.

Speaking to reporters after Monday night's brawl, Reyes (刑事)被告 Australian centre Daniel Kickert of striking four Filipino players before the match had even started and 非難するd him for "誘発する/引き起こすing" the all-in fight by 肘ing Roger Pogoy in the 直面する in the third 4半期/4分の1.

While 非難するing Kickert's in-game 活動/戦闘s as "unsavoury", Moore said nothing of the sort had happened during the warm-up.

"We 絶対 反駁する that. It's a conversation we've had with team 管理/経営," he told reporters in Brisbane on Tuesday.

However, Moore 確認するd the Boomers may have unwittingly riled the hosts by 涙/ほころびing up advertising boards that players had slipped on the day before the game.

Australian basketball 広大な/多数の/重要な Shane 傷をいやす/和解させる, who was commentating for Fox Sports, told Channel Seven the 活動/戦闘s were taken to be "disrespectful" by the Philippines.

Moore said Basketball Australia later apologised to the Philippines Basketball 協会.

"We had a team shootaround the day before, 床に打ち倒す decals are always something that you look at," he said.

"We trained, had 非常に/多数の players 落ちる and 落ちる ひどく and our team 管理/経営 undertook a course of 活動/戦闘 that we 現実に apologised for. We ripped the decals up.

"That wasn't the smartest move we made.

"There's no 疑問 that 高くする,増すd the 問題/発行する, but that was more from an 行政官/管理者, 連合-to-連合 part as …に反対するd to players."

一方/合間, Moore - like many 観察者/傍聴者s - was left puzzled by the 活動/戦闘s of the Philippines team straight after the fighting stopped.

As FIBA 公式の/役人s took 在庫/株 and deliber ated over whether the game should continue, several Filipino players gathered to take a group selfie.

"I thought it was pretty 半端物, to be in a position where you've been in a major altercation and then to be seemingly enjoying the moment. I 設立する that very strange," he said.

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