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 SAITAMA, Japan (AP) - Tab Baldwin, New Zealand's head coach for the last six years, resigned after his team's 79-62 loss to Argentina on Saturday in the second round of the FIBA world championships.
"I just think it was time," Baldwin said. "This is not a snap decision. I've talked about it with my family. It was a decision I believed in some time ago as the right decision but wasn't prepared to announce it until this tournament."
New Zealand (2-4) finished a surprising fourth in the 2002 worlds, but appeared on the verge of not even advancing out of this first round after losing its first three games and being down 18 points at halftime to Japan in the fourth. New Zealand came back to win that game 60-57 and beat Panama to advance to the second round where it lost to the reigning Olympic champions.
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