"As a player:"

* 4x NBL (Australia) Best Defensive Player/Defensive Player of the Year (1982–1983, 1988–1989)

* 6x NBL (Australia) All NBL Teams/All NBL First Team (1982–1985, 1988, 1989)

* 3x NBL champion (1983–1984, 1988)

* NBL (Australia) Most Valuable Player - Grand Final/NBL Grand Final MVP (1988)

* Australian International Player of the Year/Gaze Medal winner (1988)

* NBL (Australia) 20th Anniversary Team/NBL's 20th Anniversary Team

* NBL (Australia) 25th Anniversary Team/NBL's 25th Anniversary Team

"As a coach:"

* 3x NBL champion (1998, 1999, 2002)

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"Philip John Smyth" Order of Australia/AM (born 11 May 1958) is a former Australian basketball player and four time Olympian who won three National Basketball League (Australia)/National Basketball League (NBL) championships with the Canberra Cannons before going on to be a three-time championship-winning head coach of the NBL's Adelaide 36ers.

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Sometimes you have to win ugly -- the Pigs are a scrappy team and I was really happy with how the guys stuck it out.

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I was very disappointed in their effort in that quarter. I'm not the sort of coach that likes to rant and rave but the players would have definitely understood my message in the change rooms after the game - it was unacceptable.

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But we won't be putting all our eggs in the one basket as the Tigers are much taller than us right across every position.

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Had it been a final game both would have played at a pinch.

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Defensively it was probably the best we've played all season.

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There's no point in us risking Dusty now and paying for it in the finals.

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We knew coming in, but the guys didn't talk about it.

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Third or fourth place isn't an advantage either way.

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We were hoping to finally have everyone together but now it's just going to take a bit longer.

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