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Beantown

Years ago

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XY, no doubt the Boomers got their butts whooped last night, but I don't think the signs were as bad as you suggest. I'll give you a few reasons:

1) Croatia is very familiar with the Boomers now and they have obviously made good adjustments to our defence. Not every team will have that advantage.

2) I doubt every team we meet will have as good a shooting night as the Croats did last night. They really were on fire.

3) We certainly were not overmatched physically, and our individual skill level was right there with the Croats. Unlike for the past few years, when we have had a very shallow talent level in our team, we now have a whole raft of guys who are capable of performing well at the Olympics: Bogut, Mills, Barlow, Nielsen, Newley, CJ, Anstey have all shown the ability score and play good defence. Our problem as a team is simply inexperience at the Olympic level.

4) I have actually been impressed with the defensive schemes Goorj has setup in a short time with this team. It is night and day with every other Olympic team I have seen, going right back to 1992. Just the fact that we have the athletes now to play a full court press speaks volumes for how far our athletic ability has come.

So yeah, I'm disappointed we missed our chance to knock off Croatia. It will make finishing 2nd or 3rd in our group more difficult now, but I still believe that if we play to our ability, we will get through to the quarters.

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Beantown

Years ago

Is Jawai fit now Isaac? I thought he missed out because of his injury?

If we knew he was going to be right by the games, I agree, I would have taken him over Sav or Redhage. He is one of the keys to future success for the Boomers and needs intl experience asap.

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Beantown

Years ago

Nielsen looks like he had an excellent game... sans free throws.

Disappointing to get blown out in a game we needed to win though.

Does anyone know if we mainly played zone or man to man in the first half? I thought the bit of zone we played 2nd half made it too easy for them to move the ball and get good shots. When we played man to man, especially full court, I thought we made their life more difficult.

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Beantown

Years ago

Man those Crotians are shooting lights out. Doing a good job of exploiting switches off of screens too.

The Croats seem to be getting away with a few body checks on baseline drives, but overall they are kicking our butts.

We don't seem able to break their defence down often enough to get the good shot. Bogut not doing anything useful either.

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BettyLeadfoot

Years ago

Running in IE tab in firefox

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BettyLeadfoot

Years ago

Stooge not working for me using allsportsnation last link in channels running sopcast. choppy but it works.

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Beantown

Years ago

Anyone who was watching the 2nd quarter, WTF happened?
Why are we getting beat so bad by Croatia?!?!

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Beantown

Years ago

Aaah, excellent, Stooge TV is working for me. Must just be too much traffic on the other site and wouldn't letting me join.

Too bad we are getting creamed tho :(

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Beantown

Years ago

Hey you guys, are you able to get a feed from this site by just clicking on the Aus v Cro link?

It is not working for me. I don't usually use windows media player tho, so that could be a problem there.

Any advice?

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BettyLeadfoot

Years ago

yep watching it now

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