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Lindsay John Casson Gaze (born 16 August 1936) is an Australian basketball player and coach. He played for Australia in three Olympics between 1960 and 1968 and coached the Australian basketball team at four Olympics between 1972 and 1984. Gaze coached the Melbourne Tigers for 35 years, including 22 years in the National Basketball League (NBL), winning two championships in 1993 and 1997. He was the coach of the year in 1989, 1997 and 1999 and is second in the all-time number of coaching wins in that league. Lindsay Gaze is a member of the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach and an associate member of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, and has been announced as a 2015 inductee to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. ==Olympic career== Gaze was born in August 1936 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Albert J. Gaze and Avis M. Gaze. As a youth, he played both basketball and Australian rules football. Gaze played in the Victorian Football Association for Prahran. He was selected as a member of an Australian rules team that played an exhibition match in the Melbourne Olympics although he didn't take the field. However, it was in basketball that he would make his mark in the Olympics. He was selected for the Australian basketball team for the Rome Olympics which was the first Australian basketball team to travel overseas for the Olympics. Gaze soon established himself as one of Australia's leading basketballers establishing an international reputation when he was selected as a member of the All-Star Five in the 1962 World Championships. He married Margaret Gaze in 1962 with the couple having a son, Andrew Gaze (born 24 July 1965) and a daughter, Janet Gaze-Daniels (born 8 July 1964). Gaze would represent Australia at the Rome Olympics, Tokyo Olympics and Mexico City Olympics. He developed a reputation as a fanatical trainer training two or three times a week with his club and at home. Gaze also coached national under 16 and under 18 squads during his playing career. His reputation for training led to his appointment as the coach of Melbourne Tigers in 1970 and of the Australian basketball side in 1971 coaching the team at four Olympic Games in 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984. Andrew Gaze was part of the team that he coached in 1984. Lindsay Gaze would write his first book ''Better Basketball'' in 1977. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lindsay Gaze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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