Shooting The Breeze

She’s an Aussie Icon! Tully Bevilaqua, a member of the illustrious 2006 Opals gold medal winning Womens World Cup Squad and one of the OG’s that paved the way in that Golden Opals era joins us on Shooting The Breeze. From a WNBA Championship in Seattle alongside LJ in 2004, an Indiana Fever stalwart and Perth local Tully is now in her first professional Head Coach role in New Zealand’s Tauihi Bask...

In this BONUS episode we take a moment to reflect on a massive Series 3. We highlight some memorable takeouts in what was a wide range of guests where we explored beyond our shores to Britain, Morocco and to our trans Tasman friends in NZ shaking things up and motivating us to step it up. Let’s not forget the people behind the scenes, sports agents, broadcasters, fans and our community legends at...

In our final Episode for Series 3 we go behind the scenes and talk womens voices in hoops and sports. Selected for the inaugural FIBA She Calls Game, Julia Montesano is no slouch on the mic. She’s called AFL to Basketball since she was a teen in Melbourne and is ramping up for the FIBA Womens World Cup in Sydney this September where she will call play by play alongside some heavy weights in the sp...

In this episode passionate NZ Hoops fan and PhD researcher Linden Moore hailing from Pleasanton in the Bay Area of Northern California is doing her doctorate around NZ women’s basketball at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Linden is currently on the ground in Auckland and living the dream of following the new historic Tauihi Aotearoa League in its first season and its impact amongst lo...

In this episode Jade Melbourne only 19 years of age is vying for a return to the Opals squad for the FIBA Womens World Cup. She’s repped the Green & Gold in junior ranks but no one can forget her enthusiasm when she burst onto the Opals squad at the FIBA Asia Cup in Jordan earlier this year. She’s the real deal in hoops passion, and her speed and agility was something to see at the recent Japan fr...

Josie Taoi, a Sydney hooper of Fijian descent is the founder of a grassroots program that’s paying it forward - Promote The GOAT “PTG”. Sharing her story of faith and personal conviction in founding PTG she tells us how using and promoting basketball to not only showcase the diversity, can also create teachable moments in her hoops community program to help kids become happier, healthier and more...

In our eponymous episode we’re quite literally Shooting the Breeze on whats happening in Womens Hoops! We Look at the WNBL and how they’ve stepped up communicating to the fans with an early look at pre-season and season dates as well as free agency. With a lot of developments in club ownership and new Head Coaches announced in recent weeks, the player signings in the off season were slow to start...

In this episode, Stranger Things: Opals and Japan, our hosts Paul Camillos and Jacinta Govind talk about the recent 3 game series between Australia and Japan in Sydney and Newcastle. The Akatsuki Five won the series 2-1 where several Opals players debuted in the Green and Gold. It was a thriller of a series, fast paced, closely contested and no doubt both teams will be analysing and adjusting as t...

We talk with one of the leagues most seasoned players Britt Smart, having played nearly 2 decades in both Europe and the WNBL Britt shares some of the secrets to her fitness, longevity and movement that also provides the x-factor in her coaching business bsmartbasketball.com She recently re-signed with the UCCapitals, having been awarded the Players’ player last season Britt gives us a look into w...

Our first Aussie Paralympian guest is Amber Merritt aka ‘BAM’ (and yes there is a story to that one), joins us on the eve of the Asia-Oceania Champs in Thailand that are also the qualifiers for World Champs taking place later this year in Dubai. It’s a blast of a podcast as Amber shares her journey as an athlete with a less visible disability with grace and humour. We hear about the tremendous leg...

An absolute ripper of a pod with the Head of the WNBL Christy Collier-Hill.  Moving across from her role as General Manager for the Melbourne Boomers to help the WNBL get to the level it deserves to be at. With the explosive growth of other codes in women's sports we get real on whats needed for the WNBL to rise to the challenge. Christy shares her vision and dreams, acknowledging there's a long w...

It’s WNBL Free Agency time! Our special guest Vanessa Panousis joins Shooting The Breeze to freewheel the Free Agency list. Ness is currently tearing up the floor in the NBL1 East with Sutherland Sharks. With so many players and coaches up in the air, tune in as we toss up some scenarios in possibly the longest WNBL Free Agency list in recent memory! Enjoy! Don’t forget to like, share and leave a...

She’s a national basketball treasure and Inducted into Basketball Australia Hall of Fame. We welcome back Lorraine Landon as she takes us behind the scenes of the FIBA Womens World Cup Volunteer program, she shares insights into the biggest hoops event on the planet and it’s volunteers - the absolute beating heart of the FIBA Womens World Cup. Get pumped for a huge spectacle of Womens Hoops and th...

In a masterclass on change and growth within sport, joining us on this episode of Shooting The Breeze is Justin Nelson formerly the General Manager of the Melbourne Boomers. Head of Commercial at Sky Sports NZ Justin has set in motion the establishment of a new women’s competition in New Zealand, Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa that gives Kiwi talent a chance to play at home and contribute to the growt...

Coach Liz Mills is smashing ceilings across the basketball globe. The only female Head Coach in the men's Basketball African League (BAL), a feat never accomplished in the Australian Men’s National Basketball League, or NBA. She's made history and continues to smash preconceptions of women coaching at the elite level. We get into the BAL experience, the hopes for her Moroccan team AS Salé and the...

We love to showcase our Playback series to offer up short & sweet clips from some of our most recent podcasts from the current series. In our 2nd playback for Series 3 we rewind choice bits from Episodes 55 through to 59 where hosts Paul Camillos & Jacinta Govind welcome Bevan Murray, Cassie Breen, Darren Paul, Emma Groves and Brent Ford. It’s a great sampler if you’re new to our podcast or even i...

Sammy Wloszczowksi, ‘Sammy W’ is well known across the WNBL, WNBA & Euroleague teams and many of their superstar athletes. In his role in player management at SIG Sports he has forged real and significant relationships with some great Aussie basketball talent.  Sammy gives us a rare view into his world of working alongside and supporting athletes across all stages of their professional sporting li...

As we kick off WNBL Finals Week special guest Vanessa Panousis jumps on to talk WNBL22 regular season and Finals predictions. We wrap up another challenging season featuring some phenomenal Womens Hoops. A review of the regular season and some crystal ball gazing for an unpredictable Finals Weeks. We also spotlight some legendary performances. Get around it! Don’t forget to like, share and leave a...

Nat Burton has recently transitioned from WNBL player to an Assistant Coach at the hot shooting Perth Lynx. Transferring her knowledge and skills from her own lived experience in challenging her mindset throughout her professional career, she is now using that in assisting perhaps the most besieged WNBL team in Covid times at the Lynx. Always open and honest in sharing her own experiences througho...

Fleur McIntyre is only the 5th female to Coach in the NBL. She's joined the NBL Sydney Kings as Assistant Coach and is loving the opportunity to turn her academic knowledge in exercise and sport science from her role as an Assoc. Professor in Fremantle, into the high octane world of men's professional basketball. With extensive coaching experience in both Men’s and Women’s Basketball, including th...

The I Am A Girl program is shooting for the stars with the goal of reaching 10,000 girls and women across NSW during the three year program. The program aims to engage girls and reconnect women, whether through playing, officiating or in administrative roles to build the foundations for sustainable growth in a popular sport. Two remarkable supporters of Women's Hoops Karen Irwin and Rachel Herrick...

Abby Bishop is a formidable talent in Aussie Women's Hoops. Having achieved 3 WNBL Championships with the UCCaps and a WNBA ring as well.  Known across the global hoops landscape from the USA to Europe, her return home to Australia with the Southside Flyers this season had her playing incredible basketball. Recently her season was cruelly halted with a tear in her soleus muscle just before an Opal...

The FIBA Women’s World Cup Qualifiers are done and dusted. 12 Teams have punched their tickets to Sydney for the FIBAWWC in September 2022. Opals legend Michele Timms joins us again for her invaluable take on the FIBAWWC Qualifiers, how each team faired and our Aussie Opals lifting the intensity levels in pursuit of another podium finish come September! Timmsy offers up a frank review of the Quali...

We love to cover behind the scenes Stories so we're exploring the WNBL fan space, the fantastic fan art and signs they create and the relationships that get created! Diehard fans Emma Groves and Brent Ford met at a charity AFL game and have connected through their love of #womenshoops and their beloved UCCapitals.  Bringing enthusiasm and energy and showing their support to the players that inspir...

We love to showcase our Playback series to offer up a short & sweet intro to some of our latest podcasts from the current series. In this Playback we feature Episodes 51 through to 54, and its a beauty! Episode 51: From the youngest kids on the block Sydney Uni Flames Development Players Sherrie Calleia and Morgan Yaeger talk to us in the preseason to share their journey’s and their determination...