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Years ago

China v Australia LIVE NOW

Link to stats: http://linky.com.au/wlt4n

Need to be better on offence - inside-outside game would be good. Very disjointed.
Very happy with the defensive rotations though. Ned to focus on offence and maintain the defence.

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Beantown

Years ago

Like you Big Ads only saw the 2nd half. I basically agree with what you have said. Our defence was very good and I think it will be an effective ploy even against some of the better teams at the Olympics.

Our offence was truly awful though. I couldn't discern one obvious play that our guys were able to execute effectively to get someone open. As always with the Boomers our offence consists of dribbling and passing randomly around the perimeter hoping that someone will get open to jack up a 3.

When we did get it into the post to Bogut, everyone stood around waiting for him to post up Yao. That is not what we want against someone that big and good. Bogut is at his best when he can hit cutters going to the basket. I hope Goorjian addresses this, because Newley, Ingles, Nielsen, Wortho, Barlow and even Sav should have a lot of success taking it hard to the hoop in this way.

My only other comment is that our guards need to start knocking down open shots late in the game. China was able to stay in the game because we repeatedly missed easy jump shots.

So my question is, who is our ICEMAN? Who wants to be the Boomers starting shooting guard for the next 6 years? Newley? Barlow? Ingles? We need one of those guys to take a big step forward to be successful.

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MACDUB

Years ago

He just took a shot and it was an airball.
He doesn't even look like he wants to score. He needs to step up more.

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MACDUB

Years ago

I didn't have to sign up.
Australia IMO aren't playign good basketball. We are only up by 6 at the moment, against a very poor China team.
The Chinese are having big problems as their coach doesn't speak Chinese and they need a translator.
Nielson isn't exactly acting like a captain. Just got a technical for kicking a chinese player and seems pretty fired up.
Australia are a 20 point better team(at least)

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Years ago

billo - what site beside Hoops SA allows you to do anything these days without some sort of registration.

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