Lindsay Gaze

Lindsay John Casson Gaze OAM (born 16 August 1936) is an Australian former basketball player and coach.

He has two older brothers, Barry and Tony, who is a former coach of the Australian national women's basketball team, the Opals.

Lindsay Gaze and his brothers were raised by his mother, after his parents separated soon after moving from Adelaide to Melbourne, in the early 1940s.

Lindsay and Barry Gaze played in the Victorian Football Association for Prahran, and they were both selected as members of an Australian rules team that played an exhibition match during the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, although Lindsay didn't take the field.

Lindsay Gaze held the position until his retirement in 2005, during which time the number of registered players in Victoria rose from around 2,000 in 1958 to over 200,000.

He developed a reputation as a fanatical trainer, training two or three times a week with his club and at home.

[2] At his retirement, journalist Stephen Howell of the Melbourne Age, wrote that history would judge him as, the most influential figure in Australian basketball.

Gaze was announced as the head coach of the Tianjin Ronggang, of the Chinese CBA, for the 2008–09 season.