Brisbane Bullets Wikipedia. Brisbane Bullets. Leagues. NBLFounded. History. Brisbane Bullets. Arena. Brisbane Convention Centre. Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Arena Capacity. 4,0. Convention Centre1. Entertainment CentreLocation. Brisbane, Queensland. Download free PowerPoint backgrounds and templates Brainy Betty. Free Corbin Bullet Swage Technical Papers. Downloadable Files PDF Format The following list of files are in the Adobe Acrobat format PDF called the Portable. Team colors. Blue, Gold Maroon General manager. Richard Clarke. Head coach. Andrej Lemanis. Championships. Download 8 Bullets For Free ' title='Download 8 Bullets For Free ' />Retired numbers. Website. Brisbane. Bullets. com. au. Uniforms. The Brisbane Bullets are an Australian professional mens basketball team that competed in the National Basketball League NBL from 1. The Bullets won three NBL championships during their first run in the league, being successful in the 1. They also competed in the 1. The team reached the playoffs 2. On 3. 0 June 2. 00. Bullets license had been returned to the NBL, following financial difficulties for owner Eddy Groves and the failure of attempts to find a new ownership group. For the 2. 01. 41. NBL hoped for the return of a Brisbane based franchise, bringing up the possibility of a Bullets resurrection. These hopes finally came to fruition on 1. September 2. 01. 5, with the Bullets being revived for a return to the NBL in 2. HistoryeditEarly yearseditThe Bullets were established in 1. National Basketball League, under the captaincy of Bruce Fitzgerald, and head coach Bob Young. Of the 1. 8 games played during the inaugural NBL season, Brisbane won 1. Brisbanes Cal Bruton finished as the leagues highest points per game scorer of the season. The Bullets made it to the finals in the second NBL season of 1. Dave Claxton took over as head coach as well. Finishing in third place, winning 1. Bullets met the West Adelaide Bearcats in the second semi final, losing 1. Brian Banks made the All NBL first team that season. Banks became the Bullets captain the following season. After making the finals in the second season, Brisbane did so again in 1. Brisbane finished in fifth place, but first placed St. Kilda did not attend the finals, as they were in Brazil contesting the World Club Championship. The Bullets lost to Launceston Casino City 7. In 1. 98. 2, with new coach Rick Harden, the Bullets missed out on qualifying for the finals, finishing eighth. In the following season, they finished fifth, still outside of finals contention. Funny Comedian Videos Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure here. Import guard Ron The Rat Radliff, known for his long curly hair and brilliant outside shooting, played his first season for the Bullets and in the NBL in 1. Championship YearseditUnder new coach Brian Kerle, who would go on to win the 1. Coach of the Year award, the Bullets first playoffs appearance since 1. After defeating the Coburg Giants and the Geelong Supercats in the finals, the team were into their first ever NBL Grand Final with the game to be played at The Glass House in Melbourne 1. NBL Grand Final was played at a pre determined neutral venue. Unfortunately, they were not successful in capturing their first championship, losing to the defending champion Canberra Cannons 8. Australian Boomerspoint guard. Phil Smyth. Star import Leroy Loggins, who had returned to the Bullets in 1. West Adelaide Bearcats, capped off a great season with the Bullets by winning his first of 3 NBL Most Valuable Player Awards as well as being named at Small forward in the All NBL Team. The Bullets had emerged as the leagues most powerful team under Brian Kerle and again finished in first place the 1. Grand Finalists after a hard fought win over the Cannons in the finals. With the game being held at their home venue, the Chandler Arena, the Bullets were still favourites to defeat the Adelaide 3. Bearcats in 1. 98. NBL force for the first time in what was to be the last single game grand final in NBL history despite the 3. Newcastle Falcons by the record score of 1. Semi final. Leading 7. Bullets then outscored Adelaide 4. NBL grand final record for points scored in the final period and easily accounting for the 3. The teams major change during the 1. Chandler Arena and into the brand new Brisbane Entertainment Centre which could seat up to 1. Bullets the largest and newest home arena in the NBL at the time the next largest venue in the league was The Glass House which could only seat 7,2. Indeed, the Entertainment Centre was not only the NBLs but also Australias then largest indoor arena. They finished the regular season in third place with a 1. Grand Final in a row with wins over the Sydney Supersonics and regular finals opponent Canberra in the playoffs. In the first ever NBL grand final series to be played over three games, the Bullets went down to the Ken Cole coached Adelaide 3. Game 3 of the series 1. Adelaide the 3. 6ers had a league leading 2. In the opening game, over 1. Australia, saw the 3. Bullets 1. 221. 19 in overtime at the Entertainment Centre, while they became the only team to defeat the 3. Adelaide in 1. 98. Game 2 1. 048. 3 at the Apollo Stadium. Leroy Loggins was again voted the leagues MVP in 1. Brisbane a second MVP title while he was again a unanimous selection to the All NBL Team. Crucially though, Loggins fouled out of both Game 1 and 3 of the Grand Final series which limited his on court impact. Bullets back to second on the ladder again behind only Adelaide with a 2. Semi finals. There they defeated the Illawarra Hawks two games to one to advance to a league record fourth grand final in a row, where this time they were up against the Perth Wildcats in their first ever Grand Final series after upsetting the 3. Semi final series. Perth were playercoached by former Bullets favourite Cal Bruton, who had left the club at the end of 1. Brian Kerle. Bruton had successfully turned the Wildcats into a championship contender with the addition of forwards Kendall Tiny Pinder and the Alabama Slamma James Crawford. The Bullets won their second NBL championship, winning the first game 8. Perth, before taking out Game 2 1. Entertainment Centre in Brisbane. Leroy Loggins continued to star for the Bullets, and in 1. MVP award shared with Adelaides 1. Grand Final MVPMark Davis, as well as being voted as the Grand Final MVP for the series win over the Wildcats although the Grand Final MVP was his first official award, Loggins had also been the player of the game with 4. Grand Final victory. Form slumpeditThe Bullets finished the 1. A highlight of the 1. Bullets was first year player Shane Heal winning the NBLs Rookie of the Year award. The 1. 98. 9 season saw the team fail to make the playoffs for the first time since 1. In the wake of this disappointing season, the Bullets line up was extensively overhauled Leroy Loggins, Greg Fox, and Robert Sibley were the only players from the 1. Bullets team to continue with the club for the 1. Larry Sengstock and Ron Radliff left to join the NBLs second Queensland based team, the Gold Coast Cougars, for its inaugural season in 1. Boosted by new imports Derek Rucker and Andre Moore, the Bullets made a huge turn around in 1. They would again win their way into the grand final, again playing the Perth Wildcats. This time however the Bullets went down 21, losing Game 3 at home 1. Game 2 of the series, with the Bullets levelling at one game all with a 1. NBL grand final record crowd of 1. Brisbane Entertainment Centre. This would stand the highest ever grand final crowd for a game played outside of Melbourne until 1. Game 2 of the 2. 01. Grand Final series between the Wildcats and New Zealand Breakers at Perth Arena. The attendance remains the eighth largest for an NBL Grand Final game. Brian Kerle won his second Coach of the Year award, while new import guard Derek Rucker becoming the second Bullets player to win the NBLs MVP award. The 1. 99. 1 season was not nearly as successful, as the team finished in ninth place, way out of finals contention with a 1. However, in 1. 99. Bullets were back in the finals, making it to the quarter finals. In 1. 99. 3, former NBL Coach of the Year 1. North Melbourne Giants 1. Bruce Palmer became the new Bullets coach, and the team made it as far as the semi finals.