I haven't been this excited about the boomers chances since the 1996 atlanta olympics :d lol

:lol: Many memorable moments in that era. US vs Boomers.

- Shane Heal / Charles Barkley confrontation.
- Shane Heal draining 3s from beyond the 3 point line.
- Shaq just totally owning Ray Borner / Mark Bradtke and any other Australia centre / forward.
- Slammin Sam McKinnon.

I reckon this time we've got the players to really take on the US. In fact I reckon we will wipe the floor of the other teams.

The yanks are actually talking themselves down ahead of the world cup, too many players missing, Spain always play together etc
We got the Olympic gold in the bag!!

Probably traumatised by that Paul George injury. :?

Some coaches are frothing over this kid. Shall be interesting

I remember wagging school for that game, basketball was so huge back then. So many years we've had the potential to medal only to come away disappointed. But I reckon you're right, if we have everyone fit and available for Rio we are a big medal chance.

Part of it, plus Durant not being available means they lost their starting 3 and 4

Josh Childress to the Kings.

Read this as him going to Sacramento and was about to rip into him :lol: good signing for Sydney

I knew I should have put in Sydney to clear up the confusion. My bad. :lol:

Big loss to Slovenia first up
Aron baynes looks like he's done for the tournament as well, not a good start

say hello to USA in the round of 16

Big win against the Lithuanians, should be able to beat Mexico and Angola from here
People are saying it was a "tactical loss" by Lithuania to be bracketed away from the U.S

I think it might have been. If you look at the stat sheet, Montenjenaus had barely done anything...he could have piled up the stat sheet if he wanted to.

Even the team stats don't look right, Lithuania shot a lot better than us even with all those turnovers

Win against Mexico
strange game, absolute piss poor 4th quarter, one of the worst played at this level without a doubt

maybe they should have another group stage in round 2 to reduce these shenanigans and speculation of shenanigans

Loss to finish the group stage vs Angola
Just roff
One of the Angolans absolutely lit it up though, think he finished with just under 40 pts

Something like the old cricket world cup "super 8" stage would solve it for sure. They already play a stupid number of games back to back so I'm sure they could work out a way.

Fully expecting Lithuania to tank their last game.

Apparently Joey Ingles is heading to the NBA.

Boomers going to have a scary team come Rio.

I dare say they are gonna push Spain to be the no.2 team in the World.



Edited by SocaWho: 4/9/2014 11:23:41 PM

its pretty easy to score when no one is defending you

perhaps a degree of randomness for the first crossovers
so group D doesnt know if they're going to crossover to group C or group B before the group stage is over

more like cup football i guess

Yep not a fan of how the knockout stage is structured. It's pretty much like this to ensure the top 2 teams can't meet before the final. Not sure why that's such a big deal.

thats true :lol:
at one point all the aussies were just watching him go get the rebound and easy lay-up

It was an obvious tanking by the the aussies. Coach Lemanis should get the boot, I've been following basketball for 25 years and it was the biggest disgrace I have seen in Australian basketball. I don't care if it was about avoiding second place, we should be playing to win all the time.

Im probably overreacting but im pretty passionate about the Boomers.

Edited by switters: 5/9/2014 06:38:16 PM

yes i saw at the end
they were standing around watching them get about 4 rebounds on the one play when they kept missing

even with their bench players they should've smashed angola without raising a sweat

i dont like seeing this kind of tanking but when the tournament format encourages it, what can you do

The tanking paid off
We da best

Better hope Dante improves a hell of a lot in 2 years for that to happen.

He hasn't exactly impressed has he. Im thinking he will be a long term project. He's going to have to be more of an assists guy than an isolation player. He can play isolation against dudes that are athletically inferior than him (like he has been in Australia) but in the NBA he will be up against a brick wall night in night out. And also he will have a scouting report on him so teams will really do their homework on him and nail him on his weaknesses.

Edited by SocaWho: 6/9/2014 12:08:11 PM

Fark me dead what happened. Boomers are out.