Netherlands men's national basketball team

Netherlands
FIBA ranking	45 1 (9 August 2021)
Joined FIBA	1946
FIBA zone	FIBA Europe
National federation	Basketball Nederland
Coach	Maurizio Buscaglia
Nickname(s)	Oranje (Orange)
FIBA World Cup
Appearances	1 (1986)
Medals	None
EuroBasket
Appearances	16
Medals	None
Home	Away
First international
	Netherlands 48–27 England ; (Geneva, Switzerland; 30 April 1946)
Biggest win
	Netherlands 134–54 Morocco ; (Hagen, West Germany; 15 May 1975)
Biggest defeat
	Czechoslovakia 93–19 Netherlands ; (Prague, Czechoslovakia; 27 April 1947)

The Netherlands men's national basketball team (Dutch: Het Nederlands Elftal) represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland.

The Dutch have reached the European Basketball Championship on 15 occasions. Their best results at the event came in 1983, where they finished in fourth place. They have also qualified for the FIBA World Cup once, in 1986. However, in recent years the national team has struggled to maintain consistency to reach major international tournaments.

The team represents itself as the Orange Lions.

History[]

1946–1991: Early years[]

The Netherlands playing a match against Luxembourg in 1959

The Netherlands were one of the teams that played in the 1946, 1947, 1949 and 1951 EuroBasket tournaments. During this period, the 5th place finish in 1949 was the best performance by the national team.

1961–1991: EuroBasket success & World Cup debut[]

The Oranje qualified for three European Basketball Championships in the 1960s (1961, 1963, 1967). After three consecutive missed tournaments, the Netherlands had another three EuroBasket appearance stretch from 1975, 1977, and 1979. During the 1977 EuroBasket, the Netherlands' star player Kees Akerboom shined during the tournament. He finished the competition as the top scorer, and earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team.

At EuroBasket 1983, the Dutch had its biggest success in history under head coach Vladimir Heger. The national team achieved fourth place at the tournament. The Dutch wound up reaching the semi-finals, but eventually fell to Italy. In the third-place game they would lose again, this time to the Soviet Union.

Three years after achieving success at the continental level, the Netherlands qualified to the World Cup for the first time in 1986. The national team ultimately did not make it out of the group stage though, finishing the tournament with an (2-3) record to place 14th overall.

1991–2012: Long mediocre period[]

Francisco Elson was the face of the team for a long time

From 1991 until 2012, the Netherlands did not qualify for a EuroBasket tournament. Star player Francisco Elson, former NBA-champion, represented the team on several occasions but the team never came close to qualifying. During this period, notable Dutch players like Dan Gadzuric were not willing to play for the national team. Home games were usually played at the Topsportcentrum in Almere and usually had little to no media attention or fan support in the Netherlands.

Rising from the ashes (2012–2015)[]

Toon van Helfteren coached the national team to its first EuroBasket tournament in 26 years

In December 2012, it was announced that the Netherlands national team would be dissolved for 2 years, because the national federation NBB {Netherlands Basketball Bond} was not willing to invest money in to it. After a campaign by Dutch players who played in the Dutch Basketball League, the national team was eventually saved. Sports broadcaster Sport1 became the main sponsor and DBL-teams invested in the team, which started playing again.^[2]

During August 2013, the Netherlands was on its way to qualification for EuroBasket 2015, but lost two games 20–0 because the team played with two players – Mohamed Kherrazi and Sean Cunningham – who were identified as foreign players by FIBA.^[3] The NBB believed that both were eligible players, and was upset that the attention came up after the Netherlands already won 2 games.^[4]

"Miracle of 2014"[]

Logo used from 2012–2019

At the start of the second 2015-qualification round, things looked bad for the Oranje. The DBL-teams didn't have any more money to invest in the team and the NBB wasn't ready to take the team back. Head coach Toon van Helfteren, who worked as a volunteer, still did prepare for the qualifying games. He invited 42 players to play for the national team,^[5] but after most (notable) players rejected the offer, he started his first training camp with 7 players. The team eventually shocked the world, by beating heavy favorite Montenegro to get the second place in their group. On 27 August 2014, the Dutch national team qualified for EuroBasket for the first time in 25 years.^[6]

Return to EuroBasket (2015–present)[]

The national team left the NBB and FEB, from 2015 the team was run by the NMT. Coach Van Helfteren then had his contract with the national team extended. In contrast to the summer of 2014, big name players from foreign leagues applied to play for the national team.

In the first game at EuroBasket 2015, the Dutch beat Georgia 73–72 behind Charlon Kloof's 22 and Worthy de Jong's 16 points.^[7] The Netherlands remaining four games though were all loses, but only by single digits to power houses such as Croatia and Greece.

On 22 July 2019, Italian coach Maurizio Buscaglia signed a contract to become the head coach of the Netherlands, ending in the summer of 2021.^[8]

Competitive record[]

EuroBasket[]

EuroBasket					Qualification
Year	Position	Pld	W	L	Pld	W	L
1946	6th	3	1	2
1947	11th	6	2	4
1949	5th	6	2	4
1951	10th	9	5	4
1953	Did not enter
1955
1957
1959
1961	15th	6	3	3
1963	16th	9	1	8	1	1	0
1965	Did not qualify				3	1	2
1967	16th	9	0	9	3	3	0
1969	Did not qualify				4	2	2
1971					3	0	3
1973					6	4	2
1975	10th	7	2	5	9	7	2
1977	7th	7	3	4	8	7	1
1979	10th	8	4	4	Directly qualified
1981	Did not qualify				8	4	4
1983	4th	7	3	4	9	9	0
1985	12th	7	1	6	Directly qualified
1987	10th	7	2	5	9	6	3
1989	8th	5	0	5	10	7	3
1991	Did not qualify				6	2	4
1993					6	2	4
1995					5	3	2
1997					15	7	8
1999					13	6	7
2001					13	7	6
2003					10	0	10
2005					12	2	10
2007	Division B				8	5	3
2009	Division B				8	5	3
2011	Division B				6	4	2
2013	Did not qualify				8	2	6
2015	21st	5	1	4	9	5	4
2017	Did not qualify				6	4	2
2022	Qualified				6	3	3
Total	16/38	101	30	71	204	108	96

FIBA World Cup[]

World Cup					Qualification
Year	Position	Pld	W	L	Pld	W	L
1950	Did not qualify				5	1	4
1954	Did not enter				Did not enter
1959	Did not enter				Did not enter
1963	Did not qualify				EuroBasket served as qualifiers
1967
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986	13th	5	2	3	6	4	2
1990	Did not qualify				EuroBasket served as qualifiers
1994
1998
2002
2006
2010
2014
2019					16	6	10
2023	To be determined				To be determined
Total	1/18	5	2	3	27	11	16

Olympic Games[]

Olympic Games					Qualifying
Year	Position	Pld	W	L	Pld	W	L
1948	Did not qualify
1952
1956
1960					7	5	2
1964					8	2	6
1968					8	1	7
1972					9	5	4
1976					9	4	5
1980					3	1	2
1984					3	1	2
1988					4	2	2
1992					5	2	3
1996 to 2016
2020
Total	0/19				56	23	33

Results and fixtures[]

Win Loss

2020[]

21 February 2020 EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers	Turkey	65–72 0	Netherlands	showAnkara, Turkey 0
18:00 CET	Scoring by quarter: 17–18, 21–23, 16–13, 11–18
	Pts: Mahmutoğlu 20 Rebs: Birsen 13 Asts: Birsen 4	Boxscore	Pts: Kloof 27 Rebs: Kloof 6 Asts: three players 3	Arena: Ankara Arena Referees: Ademir Zurapović (BIH), Radomir Vojinović (MNE), Gintaras Vitkauskas (LTU)

24 February 2020 EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers	Netherlands	59–69 0	Croatia	showAlmere, Netherlands 0
19:30	Scoring by quarter: 21–18, 14–20, 16–9, 8–22
	Pts: Franke 11 Rebs: Kherrazi 11 Asts: Kloof 4	Boxscore	Pts: Ukić 14 Rebs: Planinić 6 Asts: Ukić 6	Arena: Topsportcentrum Referees: Georgios Poursanidis (GRE), Mārtiņš Kozlovskis (LAT), Fernando Calatrava (ESP)

27 November 2020 EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers	Netherlands	78–76 0	Sweden	showIstanbul, Turkey* ^{[note 1]} 0
16:00	Scoring by quarter: 15–18, 23–24, 18–12, 22–22
	Pts: Franke 22 Rebs: Kherrazi, Williams 6 Asts: De Jong 5	Boxscore	Pts: Czerapowicz 21 Rebs: Spires 11 Asts: 7	Arena: Sinan Erdem Dome Referees: Tanel Suslov (EST), Sergei Beliakov (RUS), Paulo Marques (POR)

29 November 2020 EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers	Netherlands	71–73 0	Turkey	showIstanbul, Turkey* ^{[note 1]} 0
17:00	Scoring by quarter: 14–24, 23–17, 18–14, 16–18
	Pts: Kloof 17 Rebs: Kloof 8 Asts: three players 3	Boxscore	Pts: Larkin 23 Rebs: Şengün 4 Asts: Larkin 9	Arena: Sinan Erdem Dome Referees: Tomas Jasevičius (LTU), Alexandre Deman (FRA), Gintaras Vitkauskas (LTU)

2021[]

20 February 2021 EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers	Croatia	57–65 0	Netherlands	showIstanbul, Turkey* ^{[note 1]} 0
20:00	Scoring by quarter: 19–11, 16–16, 13–22, 9–16
	Pts: Šakić 17 Rebs: Bilan, Šakić 10 Asts: Krušlin 6	Boxscore	Pts: Franke 15 Rebs: Kloof 9 Asts: Van der Vuurst de Vries 4	Arena: BJK Akatlar Arena Referees: Manuel Mazzoni (ITA), Lorenzo Baldini (ITA), Ivor Matějek (CZE)

22 February 2021 EuroBasket 2022 qualifiers	Sweden	74–59 0	Netherlands	showIstanbul, Turkey* ^{[note 1]} 0
17:00	Scoring by quarter: 23–17, 16–20, 18–16, 17–6
	Pts: Czerapowicz 19 Rebs: Jerebko 11 Asts: 5	Boxscore	Pts: Nzekwesi 11 Rebs: Van der Vuurst de Vries 6 Asts: Van der Vuurst de Vries 8	Arena: BJK Akatlar Arena Referees: Saverio Lanzarini (ITA), Ivor Matějek (CZE), Gintaras Mačiulis (LTU)

Team[]

Current roster[]

Roster for the EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers matches on 20 and 22 February 2021 against Croatia and Sweden.^[10]

Netherlands men's national basketball team roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Age – Date of birth	Height	Club
SG	0	Yannick Franke	24 – (1996-05-21)21 May 1996	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	Lublin
G	1	Keye van der Vuurst de Vries	19 – (2001-12-29)29 December 2001	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	Oostende
C	2	Joey van Zegeren	30 – (1990-12-07)7 December 1990	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	Real Valladolid
SG	3	Boy van Vliet	26 – (1994-07-13)13 July 1994	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	Den Bosch
G	6	Worthy de Jong	32 – (1988-03-14)14 March 1988	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	Leiden
F	9	Mohamed Kherrazi	30 – (1990-06-29)29 June 1990	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	Kangoeroes
F/C	13	Roeland Schaftenaar	32 – (1988-07-29)29 July 1988	2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	Cáceres
PF	15	Emmanuel Nzekwesi	23 – (1997-09-05)5 September 1997	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	Leiden
PF	20	Luuk van Bree	24 – (1996-02-24)24 February 1996	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	Leiden
F	30	Olaf Schaftenaar	27 – (1993-05-15)15 May 1993	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	Girona
F/C	33	Jito Kok	26 – (1994-03-23)23 March 1994	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	Kangoeroes
PG	90	Charlon Kloof	30 – (1990-03-20)20 March 1990	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	Ormanspor

Head coach

Maurizio Buscaglia

Assistant coach(es)

Matthew Otten
Raoul Straathof

Legend

(C) Team captain
Club – describes last
club before the competition
Age – describes age
on 20 February 2021

Depth chart[]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1	Bench 2
C	Jito Kok	Roeland Schaftenaar	Joey van Zegeren
PF	Mohamed Kherrazi	Luuk van Bree	Emmanuel Nzekwesi
SF	Worthy de Jong	Olaf Schaftenaar
SG	Yannick Franke	Boy van Vliet
PG	Charlon Kloof	Keye van der Vuurst de Vries

List of head coaches[]

showNo.	Name	Nationality	From	To	Games coached	Wins	Losses	Winning percentage	Notes
1		Netherlands	31 March 1946	1 May 1951	39	15	24	.385
2		Netherlands	1 March 1952	1 April 1952	3	1	2	.333
3		Netherlands	1 November 1952	1 April 1953	3	1	2	.333
4		Netherlands	1 September 1953	1 September 1955	3	0	3	.000
5		Netherlands	1 March 1955	31 January 1957	3	0	3	.000
6		Netherlands	27 October 1956	27 October 1956	1	0	1	.000	Interim replacement.
7		Netherlands	1 November 1957	1 November 1957	1	0	1	1.000	Interim replacement.
8		Netherlands	1 March 1959	1 May 1959	10	2	8	.200
9		Netherlands	5 March 1960	2 October 1965	5	1	4	.200
10		Netherlands	1 April 1960	1 November 1965
11	Egon Steuer	Czechoslovakia	1 September 1966	1 July 1970	55	18	36	.333	Steuer was the first ever foreign coach.
12		Netherlands	1 October 1970	1 May 1971	10	4	6	.400
13		Belgium	1 May 1971	1 May 1973	31	17	14	.548
14		Netherlands	1 May 1974	1 May 1974	1	1	0	1.000
15	Bill Sheridan	United States	1 October 1974	1 July 1976	56	33	23	.589
16		Netherlands	1 January 1977	1 September 1977
17		United States	1 May 1978	1 June 1979	30	20	10	.667
18		Netherlands	1 April 1980	1 May 1980	11	3	8	.273
19	Ton Boot	Netherlands	1 February 1981	1 May 1981	10	5	5	.500
20		Netherlands	1 July 1982	1 August 1982
21	Vladimir Heger	Czechoslovakia	1 April 1982	1 June 1986	82	44	38	.537
22		Netherlands	1 June 1986	30 June 1991
23		Territory of Curaçao	1 June 1991	1 June 1993	26	9	17	.346
24	Toon van Helfteren	Netherlands	1 September 1993	1 June 1997	44	24	20	.545
25		Belgium	1 June 1997	1 May 1999
26		United States	1 September 1999	1 February 2000	5	1	4	.200
27	Maarten van Gent	Netherlands	4 August 2000	1 January 2003
28		Suriname	1 January 2004	14 April 2006	26	5	21	.192
29	Marco van den Berg	Netherlands	24 May 2006	4 February 2008	13	8	5	.615
30		Israel	13 May 2008	20 April 2012	43	25	18	.581
31		Netherlands	25 June 2012	2013
32	Toon van Helfteren	Netherlands	6 March 2013	25 February 2019					Coached at EuroBasket 2015.
33	Maurizio Buscaglia	Italy	22 July 2019

Past rosters[]

1946 EuroBasket: finished 6th among 10 teams

3 Chris van Laar, 4 Joop Koper, 5 Henk Mik, 6 Wim van Someren, 7 Freek Brandt, 8 Jan Aldenberg, 9 Henk Koper, 13 Chris Kugelein, 14 Wim Kunnen, 15 Ben Gerritsma (Coach: Dick Schmüll)

1947 EuroBasket: finished 11th among 14 teams

3 Joop Koper, 4 Chris van Laar, 5 Freek Brandt, 6 Jaap van Veen, 7 Wim van Someren, 8 B Winkel, 9 Tan Eng Hau, 10 Henk Koper, 20 Visser (Coach: Dick Schmüll)

1949 EuroBasket: finished 5th among 7 teams

3 Jaap van Veen, 4 Jaap van Veen, 5 Tom Losekoot, 6 Tan Eng Hau, 7 Henk Koper, 8 Joop Koper, 9 Wim van Someren, 10 Henk van de Broek, 11 Jan Hille, 20 Freek Brandt (Coach: Dick Schmüll)

1951 EuroBasket: finished 10th among 17 teams

3 Tim de Jong, 4 Johan de Hoop, 5 Bob van der Valk, 6 Ab Gootjes, 7 Jaap van Veen, 8 Henk van de Broek, 9 Vok Alberda, 10 Kees van der Schuijt, 11 Jan Hille, 12 Piet Ouderland, 13 Ton Koemans, 14 Rinus van Eijkeren (Coach: Dick Schmüll)

1961 EuroBasket: finished 15th among 19 teams

4 Henny Braun, 5 Antonie Boot, 6 Jan Bruin, 7 Jan Driehuis, 8 Dolf Pouw, 9 Wim Franke, 10 Maarten Sleeswijk, 11 Gerrit Kok, 12 Peter de Jong, 13 Gunter van de Berg, 14 Franciscus de Haan, 15 Hans Perrier (Coach: Jan Janbroers)

1963 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 16 teams

4 Jos Pelk, 5 Antonie Boot, 6 Jan Bruin, 7 Jan Driehuis, 8 Simon Schagen, 9 Bob Grosmann, 10 Wim Franke, 11 Gerrit Kok, 12 Roelof Tuinstra, 13 Jan Schappert, 14 Franciscus de Haan, 15 Frederik Witte (Coach: Jan Janbroers)

1967 EuroBasket: finished 16th among 16 teams

4 Petrus Rijsewik, 5 Antonie Boot, 6 Jan Bruin, 7 Frank Kales, 8 Antonius van der Kroon, 9 Karel Pastor, 10 Karel Vrolijk, 11 Erik Jager, 12 Roelof Tuinstra, 13 Erik van Woerkom, 14 Franciscus de Haan, 15 Frederik Witte (Coach: Egon Steuer)

1975 EuroBasket: finished 10th among 12 teams

4 Jan Dekker, 5 Antonie Boot, 6 Jan Sikking, 7 Hugo Harrewijn, 8 Herman Pluim, 9 Walter Ombre, 10 John van Vliet, 11 Kees Akerboom, 12 Dan Cramer, 13 Toon van Helfteren, 14 Pieter van Tuyll, 15 Harry Kip (Coach: Bill Sheridan)

1977 EuroBasket: finished 7th among 12 teams

4 Al Faber, 5 Jan Dekker, 6 Jimmy Woudstra, 7 Cees Limmen, 8 Emill Hagens, 9 Bert Kragtwijk, 10 Cock van de Lagemaat, 11 Dan Cramer, 12 Kees Akerboom, 13 Jan Loorbach, 14 Renso Zwiers, 15 Harry Kip (Coach: Jan Janbroers)

1979 EuroBasket: finished 10th among 12 teams

4 Bert Kragtwijk, 5 Jan Dekker, 6 Dan Cramer, 7 Mitchell Plaat, 8 Emill Hagens, 9 Al Faber, 10 Sid Bruinsma, 11 Jimmy Woudstra, 12 Kees Akerboom, 13 Toon van Helfteren, 14 Pieter van Tuyll, 15 Harry Kip (Coach: Tom Quinn)

1983 EuroBasket: finished 4th among 12 teams

4 René Ridderhof, 5 Ronald Schilp, 6 Randy Wiel, 7 Mitchell Plaat, 8 Jelle Esveldt, 9 Al Faber, 10 Jos Kuipers, 11 Dan Cramer, 12 Cock van de Lagemaat, 13 Henk Pieterse, 14 Roland van den Bergh, 15 Rob van Essen (Coach: Vladimír Heger)

1985 EuroBasket: finished 12th among 12 teams

4 Martin Esajas, 5 Ronald Schilp, 6 Martin de Vries, 7 Marco de Waard, 8 Jelle Esveldt, 9 Ron van der Schaaf, 10 John Franken, 11 Cock van de Lagemaat, 12 Jos Kuipers, 13 Peter van Noord, 14 Hans Heijdeman, 15 Rob van Essen (Coach: Vladimír Heger)

1986 FIBA World Cup: finished 14th among 24 teams

4 Rik Smits, 5 Jelle Esveldt, 6 Ronald Schilp, 7 Cock van de Lagemaat, 8 Raymond Bottse, 9 Rene Ebeltjes, 10 Chris van Dinten, 11 Hans Heijdeman, 12 Erik Griekspoor, 13 Emill Hagens, 14 Marco de Waard, 15 Peter van Noord (Coach: Ruud Harrewijn)

1987 EuroBasket: finished 10th among 12 teams

4 John Emanuels, 5 Ronald Schilp, 6 Marco de Waard, 7 Cees van Rootselaar, 8 Jelle Esveldt, 9 Okke te Velde, 10 Rik Smits, 11 Chris van Dinten, 12 Peter van Noord, 13 Toon van Helfteren, 14 Henk Pieterse, 15 Jos Kuipers (Coach: Ruud Harrewijn)

1989 EuroBasket: finished 8th among 8 teams

4 Raymond Bottse, 5 John Emanuels, 6 Marco de Waard, 7 Cees van Rootselaar, 8 Rolf Franke, 9 Okke te Velde, 10 Richard van Poelgeest, 11 Frans Houben, 12 Milko Lieverst, 13 Paul Vrind, 14 Peter Dam, 15 Jos Kuipers (Coach: Ruud Harrewijn)

2015 EuroBasket: finished 21st among 24 teams

0 Yannick Franke, 5 Leon Williams, 6 Worthy de Jong, 7 Charlon Kloof, 9 Mohamed Kherrazi, 10 Ralf de Pagter, 12 Kees Akerboom, Jr., 13 Roeland Schaftenaar, 18 Nicolas de Jong, 21 Robin Smeulders, 23 Henk Norel, 44 Arvin Slagter (C) (Coach: Toon van Helfteren)

Notes[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all matches in the November 2020 and February 2021 windows will be played behind closed doors in select host cities.^[9]

References[]

^ "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 9 August 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ "Nederlandse basketballers gered door Sport1". Volkskrant.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 June 2014.
^ "Netherlands Incur Penalty". FIBA Europe. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
^ "NBB niet eens met straf". NOS. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
^ "Eredivisie basketbal Nederland". Basketballleague.nl. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Basketballers na 25 jaar naar EK". Nos.nl. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
^ "Dutch Win On Return". Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
^ "Italiaan Buscaglia nieuwe basketballcoach Nederlands mannenteam". Oranje Basketball. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
^ "Statement regarding the November 2020 and February 2021 Qualifiers". Retrieved 18 September 2020.
^ "Netherlands during the EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers". Retrieved 20 February 2021.

External links[]

Official website (in Dutch)
Netherlands at FIBA site
Dutch National Team - Men at Eurobasket.com
Netherlands Basketball Records at FIBA Archive

[November_2020_and_February_2021_behind_closed_doors-10] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all matches in the November 2020 and February 2021 windows will be played behind closed doors in select host cities.^[9]

[FIBA_World_Rankings-1] "FIBA Ranking Presented by Nike". FIBA. 9 August 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

[2] "Nederlandse basketballers gered door Sport1". Volkskrant.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 June 2014.

[3] "Netherlands Incur Penalty". FIBA Europe. Retrieved 15 June 2014.

[4] "NBB niet eens met straf". NOS. Retrieved 15 June 2014.

[5] "Eredivisie basketbal Nederland". Basketballleague.nl. Retrieved 16 January 2015.

[6] "Basketballers na 25 jaar naar EK". Nos.nl. Retrieved 16 January 2015.

[7] "Dutch Win On Return". Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

[8] "Italiaan Buscaglia nieuwe basketballcoach Nederlands mannenteam". Oranje Basketball. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.

[9] "Statement regarding the November 2020 and February 2021 Qualifiers". Retrieved 18 September 2020.

[11] "Netherlands during the EuroBasket 2022 Qualifiers". Retrieved 20 February 2021.

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