Hoops

Stankovic Cup

A win is a win...and against China in China is always good!

We looked really disjointed and I must say I was quite surprised with a number of things including; the starting lineup and Barlow used sparingly (particular in first half).

Brown is probably giving guys an opportunity for playing time now to work out his World Championships rotations, but I think Gibson looked the better of Martin and Markovic IMO in last night's game.

And I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments of many others in that we needed to drive the ball and take it to the rack far more than we did in last night's game. Ingles, Newley and Barlow are slashers and are far better utilised in getting them slashing to the basket.

Anon, I agree about attacking the basket. We either settled for threes or missed good opportunities to drive all night. I think we should be looking to drive and hit Newley and Ingles on hard cuts more often than not, but players need to get their timing right. Andersen and Nielsen and Wortho will get a lot better opps to score once the defence is out of position as well.

Final score was 64-63. Just saw the highlights on the Chinese news. Was a straight drive and dish from Mills to Andersen. Chinese over-committed and Andersen got good position on his man.

Baynes had a couple of nice highlights. I like his body strength, which is severely lacking in all our other bigs at this tournament. Don't know if he can shoot or keep his cool, but built a little like Vlahov. Would be good news for the Boomers if he proves to be two thirds as good as the former Wildcat.

FKN unblvbl. After the finish, show a few shots of players shaking hands then straight to the studio for 5 mins of crapping on in Chinese then they finally show some highlights but they DONT SHOW THE FINAL SHOT!

So still not sure exactly what happened in the final play!

Least we eked out a win after playing very poorly. Ingles was solid late in the game and Andersen at least is money from the FT line, even if he looked really out of sorts in general play. Wortho was solid on Yi late in the game too, despite giving up a massive amount of size.

Was it a straight drive and dish or a put back off the first miss? My feed schitzed out for a sec and just saw Andersen or someone bundle it in.

Well done Boomers. Got put back and then blocked Chinas final desperation three

Time out sounds like Brown wants Worhto or Patty to get open for the shot... here wer go

yaaaaaaaaawn

Refs taking ridiculous amount of time to work out foul call.

After 2 more non shooting fouls on Yi, he goes to line in bonus and makes both. CHina up 1. 10 secs left.

Yi missed both FTs.
Boomers miss contested layup.
Wang Zhi Zhi makes 1-2 FTs
Boomers lead 62-61.
17 secs left. China's ball

Correction to my last post. Boomers up 62-60. 1:15 to go. Yi at line

Ingles sinks the and 1. Boomers down 2. Not sure of time left. Would be about 1 min though I reckon.

Have started the 4th better. Yi just got a superstar call on an offensive rebound though. My girlfriend gives me bigger shoves than that!

50-43 after 3. Have only watched the second half of the 3rd quarter, but that was awful. Guys keep on receiving the ball flat footed and missing their chance to drive to the basket.

Newley at least looks like he can create something. Why did it take so long to get him back in during the 3rd?

Back to 48-41 now. Mills and Wortho hit threes. Offence still horrible though. It's a three point shot or nothing seemingly.

Where can we watch the cup? And I gather fiba have live scores on their site?