Hoops

Likes & Dislikes of last nights Boomers Game

The courtside announcer is Luke Westley, who incidentally is running against Kate Ellis in the upcoming federal election. I was wondering whether they might have exchanged pleasantries at the game? :)

Liked Mills' game.
Liked the pluckiness of the Argies.
Agree that a full strength Argentinian team would probaby hand us our head.
Sat 5 rows back behind the Boomers bench & the court announcer was indecipherable all night...

Likes - Mills
Dislikes - Newley's reply to being asked when he'd suit for the sixers agen ( sounds like he's been asked that a million times though )


KG - was a regular at Apollo.

I could hear the MC all night (which was Nathan Strempel fwiw) just fine sitting in the north-east corner, but I walked out the western exit during the on-court interview and couldn't really hear it at all. Maybe there was an issue with the PA on the western/southern side(s)? I usually sit on the southern side during the Sixers season and can hear everything just fine.

So you all could hear what the court announcer was saying? I was 8 rows behind the Boomers bench and I couldn't understand a word he said all night?

Jawai underwhelms me, to be honest. I thought he played with disinterest, rarely rolling to the basket or bothering to box out. Is he still badly affected by his ankle injury?

Mills was sensational, depite a few soft turnovers. Apart from a few blown calls, I thought the refs did a pretty good job too, allowing the contest to remain a fairly physical affair. Overall it was a good night - I'm sure they would have sold the place out if any of the more-notable Argentinian NBA players were on the tour. The atmosphere is usually a little underdone at Boomers games (compared to Sixers games), but last night it wasn't too bad. I was definitely glad I went anyway!

Yeah, No Jawai dunk in game. But some nice flushes during warm-ups. The man is all hate when it comes to the dunk.

you got to start the chant yourself, dont sit around and wait for the announcer. thats what we do in the north eastern corner, although we werent there last night.

An Argentina side with at least one player over 6 foot 10 would have been nice too. That would have made for a more even competition.

The intensity of the game for brief periods was impressive. Argentina's aggressive defence really unsettled the Boomers for a few periods.

Mills was very good, but the Aussies needed all of the play to be run through him and I thought the team dropped off swiftly from there. A full strength Argentina side would have killed us.