Three more seasons followed with the 36ers where the Phil Smyth coached team never made it past the Quarter-Finals before he signed with the South Dragons for the 2006–07 NBL season.
At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Games, Smyth and his wife, Jenny Cheesman, would become the first husband and wife to captain Australian teams at the same Olympics.
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Phil Smyth, an Adelaide junior, was already seen as one of Australia's best point guard's when the National Basketball League first started in 1979, yet it took him until 1982 to actually play in the league, despite having represented Australia at the 1978 FIBA World Championship in the Philippines and at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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West Adelaide also made Grand Final appearances in 1980 where they lost 88-113 to the St Kilda Saints in Launceston, and in 1983 where they lost 73-75 to the Phil Smyth led Canberra Cannons in Melbourne.