“Sometimes you play with your brain, sometimes you play with your body. Sometimes you play with both.”
That was how former NBL coach Joey Wright breathlessly explained the sport of basketball after starring for his 40-45 division team Big Feat in the Pan Pacific Masters Games today (Tuesday) at the Runaway Bay Indoor Sports Stadium.
“This is my second time at the Pan Pacific Masters Games – in fact, this is the second time for about five of us on our team,” he said.
Wright played college basketball at Drake University and The University of Texas in the United States.
He is possibly best known to Australian sports fans as the highly successful former coach of the Brisbane Bullets and Gold Coast Blaze National Basketball League (NBL) teams.
But the two-time NBL Coach of the Year is finding the transition from coaching to playing is not always easy.
“I started being a coach a little bit on the court and it got the other team a bit mad,” he joked.
“But it’s a great opportunity to play here. The competition is great. Some of these guys played in the NBL and about half played professional basketball of some kind.”
Wright’s game on Tuesday was intense – some shoving even broke out after a hard foul.
“It’s competitive, that’s why it’s the Masters,” he said.
“When you get in your age bracket the talent level is pretty much the same as your own.
“I think the great thing about the Masters is that you get to play alongside and against people of your own ability,” he said.
Wright said he hopes to return and play in the 2014 Pan Pacific Masters Games and does not have any intention of stopping any time soon.
“I’ll play every year as long as I can stand it.
“There is a guy out here who’s 65, so I hope to play until I can’t walk any more,” he said.
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