NEWLY reviewed vision from the Australian Boomers’ game against the Philippines appears to show what sparked the now-infamous brawl between the two teams.

During warmups, while both teams were running through their respective layup lines, a Filipino player is seen putting his leg out to trip Daniel Kickert. Kickert then turns and pushes a different Filipino player, before both teams came face-to-face, and had to be separated.

The incident appears to be among the things that helped ignite what ended up being a violent third-quarter brawl, where 13 players were ejected.

After the game, Philippines head coach, Chot Reyes, referred to an altercation during warmups, but his description doesn’t completely match the facts at hand.

“The reality is, Kickert was hitting our players during the warmups,” Reyes said. “He hit Carl Bryan Cruz, he hit Matthew Wright, he hit Pogoy, and he hit Calvin Abueva, during the warmups.

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“So, when he did that, the foul of Pogoy on Goulding was called a foul; offensive foul, it was a basketball play. But, he was the one who came in, then (Kickert) decked Pogoy, for the fifth time. You can’t expect to do that to a team for five times, and not expect to be, to retaliate.

“So, that’s what happened. Unfortunately, that triggered entire brawl, and unfortunate as it is, like I said, it’s something that, you have to be there to know what really went down.”

While both teams did come face-to-face — and there’s evidence Kickert did push at least oneplayer — the vision shows a Filipino player starting the incident.

The in-game brawl came with about four minutes to play in the third period, when the Boomers were leading 79-48. Chris Goulding was elbowed in the face, then shoulder charged in the midsection. That led to Kickert throwing an elbow at the Philippines’ Roger Ray Pogoy, with both teams then getting engaged in a violent altercation.

After Kickert’s elbow, the vision shows Jayson Castro and Andray Blatche charging at him, before multiple Filipino bench players also approach the big-man. A separate incident targeting Nathan Sobey then broke out, with Thon Maker appearing to launch multiple flying kicks to protect his teammate, as well as to fend off a player who punched him from behind.

Another pre-game incident that caused concern for the Philippines, was Australia’s decision to remove some floor decals from the court, after Australian officials believed they were a safety hazard.

That action was taken a day before the FIBA World Cup Asian qualifier between the two teams, with Basketball Australia CEO, Anthony Moore, saying that an apology was made to the Philippines Basketball Association.

“We had a team shootaround the day before, floor decals are always something that you look at,” Moore said.

“We trained, had numerous players fall and fall heavily and our team management undertook a course of action that we actually apologised for. We ripped the decals up.

“That wasn’t the smartest move we made.

“There’s no doubt that heightened the issue, but that was more from an administrator, federation-to-federation part as opposed to players.”

FIBA’s official Twitter account relayed the news that disciplinary action will be taken, following the brawl, with the decision to be announced over the next few days.

“Following the incident that occurred in the third quarter of the Philippines-Australia game on Monday in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Asian Qualifiers, FIBA will now open disciplinary proceedings against both teams,” the account, @FIBA_media, tweeted. “The decision(s) will be communicated in the coming days.”

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Olgun Uluc covers basketball for Fox Sports Australia. Twitter: @OlgunUluc