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Live audio now: Boomers vs Argentina, July 30

Down 30 in the first half? Ouch!

Three bad losses so far.

Delly is a combo guard. He can score heavily if required.

And yes, the translation was taken from Babelfish!

James, I'm guessing that the translation LC posted was from one of those 'babel fish' sites. Those sites just use a program to do a literal word for word translation, so there is no human input. Hence Ingles is translated literally to English.

I like the literal translation though - much more entertaining than your standard match report!

Nice to get a few more stat Isaac - good to see Jawai solid on the boards and Della had an excellent debut to pull in 5 rebs and come up with 3 steals on top of his scoring. Positive signs from him. Does anyone know if he is a 'pure point' or more of a combo guard?

Good work from Jose 'Jojo' English. Nice to see him regain some shooting form. Looks like Nate did alright too, and that Della made an impact on the scoreboard.

Disappointing to hear "Brett the Browns" team scored "only by means of the route of three points". The more things change the more they stay the same... sigh.

No surprises that we went down by 20 though. Gonna be a steep learning curve for a lot of our guys.

I presume the names got translated there too, unless Australia has a new player called "English". :)

So Ingles top-scored for the Aussies with 22 points, with next best Jawai with 14. Dellavedova had a good debut by the looks of things, with 9 points.

Here is a game report translated from spanish (I assume English = Ingles):

Positive beginning in the preparation towards Puerto Rico

In its first friendly way to the Match of the Americas of Puerto Rico, the Argentina Selection won with authority to Australia by 98 to 78. Great party of Paolo Quinteros with 26 points. Besides the triumph, the bahiense night counted on the exciting tributes to three historical ones of selected ours, Pepe Sanchez, Alexander Montecchia and Juan Espil.

In one night special and full of emotions, Argentina surpassed by 98-78 to Australia and offered a great spectacle before the 3,500 people who gave appointment in the stage Osvaldo Casanova of White Bay, in the first friendly encounter facing Premundial.

This party, besides being the end initial foot of the preparation towards Premundial of Puerto Rico, was scene of the touching tribute that the Confederation Argentina de Básquetbol realised for three players who offered to the maximum by selected ours: Pepe Sanchez, Alexander Montecchia and Juan Espil.

Gestures of emotion and tears in the eyes could be observed in these three referring of ours básquet when the song “We was heard plows the champions” and it was transmitted, in giant screen, images of them defending celestial and the white one.

In the exclusively basquetbolístico thing, Argentina left a good image before the Australian equipment. With a demolishing starting of Paolo Quinteros, that marked 12 so many in this period, the Argentineans gained the 29-15 fourth initial and finalized 55-32 in the marker above to go away to the long rest. The best one in the second chapter was the escort Diego Garci'a who wrote down 11 points.

There, Sergio Hernandez began to rotate the bank of relief to give minutes of game to the greater amount of players. Stonecutter, Quinteros, Kammerichs, Scola and González had formed in incicial quintet. Later they entered I read Gutiérrez, Figueroa, Diego Garci'a, Weigand, Vay, Pelussi and Juan Gutiérrez.

Directed by Brett the Browns, only by means of the route of three points they tried to approach in the marker. The maximum anotador of I collate was Paolo Quinteros, that added 26 units, product of 5 of 6 in doubles, 4 of 6 in triples and 4 of 4 in shots from the line. Diego Garci'a with 16, Luis Scola with 10 and Roman González with 10 also presents in the marker were made.

The preparation of the Argentine set continues in the city of Rosary where the Super4 will dispute. In this contest, directed by Sergio the Hernandez they will make debut before Uruguay, soon they will play again in front of Australia and they will close its participation before Brazil.

Synthesis of the party:

Argentina (98): Stonecutter 3, Quinteros 26, Kammerichs 4, 10 Scola and González 10 (Fi), the 5 Weigand 6, Figueroa 5, J. Gutiérrez 7, Ls. Gutiérrez 6, Garci'as 16, Vay and Pelussi 0. DT: Hernandez.

Australia (78): Gibson 11, Barlow 5, English 22, 14 Jawai and Baynes 4 (FI), Dellavedova 9, Crawford 3, Nevill 7, Weigh 0 and Form 3. DT: Brown.

Here is a link to the summary of the final result - translated from Spanish:

Link: http://linky.com.au/2ouqn

Final score, Areghtnina defeated Australia by 98 to 78.

Paolo Quinteras led all scorers with 26 points. More to follow.

Keep it coming if you can!

Nice work Isaac!!