Hoops

World Champs: Boomers vs Jordan 28-Aug

Neither is Barlow

The commentary on the FIBA TV highlights is brilliant at the end!

"Looking for the last shot of the game and there it is, and it's missed.... and it's in, and it's in, and it's missed, and it's missed again, and.... Australia by one!"

All it needs is "boom goes the dynamite!"

anyone know of any links to download a replay of the game??

Scratch my comment about Markovic. He just seemed to be playing more than Mills when I was watching, but Mills played a lot more minutes looking at the boxscore. That's what you get for only seeing about half the game!

I have not seen the entire game, as I only tuned in halfway through the 2nd quarter and then missed bits and pieces of the third BUT the things that stood out for me as to why we almost lost were:
1) No-one could stop that big US guard of theirs. He was blowing by everyone we put on him and creating havoc.
2) I'm guessing the Jordanians had the shooting game of their lives because they kept making big shots from behind the arc all game.
3) Their long shots led to lots of long rebounds and our guards were consistently out of position to grab them.
4) Not getting our hands on those long rebounds and using Markovic as our primary point meant we didn't push the ball enough. This team needs to get easy transition baskets to keep the scoreboard ticking.
5) Apart from Andersen we were ice cold from outside.
6) Ando and especially Maric were able to have their way with the Jordanian bigs inside, but our team is inept at getting them the ball on a consistent basis.

It was made even more annoying with that stupid commentator. I'll watch the next game with the mute on.

I have not watched the game but just viewed the highlight package on FIBATV.com.

Bloody hell what went wrong? Looks lik Maric, Andersen and even Nielsen carried the team, but gor precious little from the smaller brigade.

By the looks of it, without Maric in the game we would have been doomed. Also, what happened to our defence? This was supposedly I strength going by pre-WC games - it looks like it went out the window?

It was a very nice put back dunk by Maric on the trail too!!!

I guess if we were to have a bad game, it was better to do so against Jordan and still come away with a win rather than against a team like Germany, Serbia or Argentina.

Love to see some more comments from peple after they have watched this morning's Fox Sports replay.

BA Recap: http://linky.com.au/d5j6n

Next game is against Argentina, at 4:30AM AEST Monday morning. We have to pull up our socks and fast if we want to be competitive in that game let alone get a win.

The Jordanian's US import certainly showed up a defensive weakness for us. We don't appear to have anyone who can stop a guy like that. Does not bode well for later in the tournament. Brown better hope his team can do a better job of rotating on D in future to compensate. Our bigs did not do a good job of their help D on the penetration.

Well done guys. Looked like a charge at the end of the game there, but the refs let it go. Fortunately we played better volleyball than they did!

Must have missed some of Maric's scoring early in the game (I only tuned in late in the 2nd quarter) because I don't recall him scoring 23!!! I liked what I saw from him in the low post though. He is quite mobile and deadly against an undersized team like Jordan.

shittt that was insane finish...

Great shooting under pressure from Ando. He has finally shown what he is capable of for the Boomers in this game. Probably the only positive thing we can take from this. A win would be nice too... come on guys don't let us down now

aussies up by 1 with 13 seconds left

at the foul line to take the lead aussies 10 seconds left

down by 1 jordans ball 33 seconds left

Why do the Boomers always start really badly in international tournaments? This is incredible we will be incredibly lucky if we get out of this game with a win

aussies ball down by 3 less than a minute

75-70 with 1.14 to go

71-68

71-64 not looking good.

Wow, Jordan are just shooting it real well and we can't stop them. Refs with a terrible call a few secs ago, when the Jordan forward fell over with no contact and they called a foul!

jordan 69 -aus 64

jordan 66-64

just join that website i linked you too and its free then the stream works 64-64

aus 64-62

http://www.bet365.com/extra/en/streaming/live-sport/ you just need to join first and it works. score aus 62-60 jordan

My head is going to explode soon. We are playing like a bunch of nunmpties and on top of that, even tho I am logged in to watch the game already, it woulnd't let me open the stats window unless I sign in again!!!

So I try this... and it won't take any of my passwords... so I try to register... and it tells me my email address is already registered. Ok so I click 'forgot your password' and ... NOTHING FARKING HAPPENS!!! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGH.

FIBA you've hired a bunch of retards to design your website. Sack them all and start again!

what a move... very lucky..

More Dragons players on this boomers team than NBL players now.. goes show how good they were

wortho back to his dragons form

http://www.basketball.finalball.com/jordan-vs-australia/

click on box live stream its good

Yes, Foxtel a 8am tomorrow.

Best bet to watch live is find a free online stream.

is it on foxtel by anychance?

Mens game

Eastern Mavericks 96 to West Adelaide Bearcats 84

Ben Madgen 28 points


Womens game

West Adelaide Bearcats 65 to Eastern Mavericks 58

Lesley Grieger 17 points

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