Hoops

World Champs: Boomers vs Serbia 1-Sep

And yes, we now must beat Angola to finish in 3rd spot.

I wake up to find the Boomers have lost to Serbia 79-93 - and again aother case of what could have been. Nonetheless the Serbs are a very strong team...

Brad Newley top-scored with 13 points,Patrick Mills added 12 points (6 assists), Matt Nielsen and Aleks Maric each had 10.

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As expected the tall Serbian guards proved a handful, and in particular Teodosic.

Mills, Gibson & Ingles were all horrible tonight. Selfish offensively and lost on D, even Gibson who is widely regarded as a good defender was poor. The serbian guards made our starting back court look very second rate. Newley and Barlow were good though. Our bigs got very little touches inside, our guards need to utilise them better to get themselves easy shots by playing inside out rather than jacking a whole lot of 3's. Our offence looks great when we push the ball with Newley and Mills on the break but we need a half court general to get us organised into some kind of offence on a consistent basis. Too many soft turnovers and lack of effort on the offensive glass really hurt us. Especially at crucial stages in the game.

Our starting backcourt if it stays that way really needs to take a long hard look at themselves tonight and turn things around soon. Because they were all horrible in what may be the turning point in our world championship campaign. Newley, Andersen and Neilsen really showed their big game european experience tonight.

anyone got the free throw stats?

ingles is a liability defensively for us right now, get barlow back in!

That Teodosic dude is an assassin.

Could the commentator please stop calling us "Aussie"?!

Wortho, unbelievable...


We need to box the hell out, definately still in it.

COME ON BOOMERS!

ingles quit whinging and just get a rebound, standing watching ain't gonna get it done champ.

gibbo might need to check his undies after tonight. struggling!

would one of our guards get a rebound! ingles, newley, gibson, mills are all passengers on the glass! no effort to get to o-boards and just watching on D hoping one of our bigs who are battling with krstic down low will come up with it some how. Boards are there to be had then we need to get out and run in the fourth really put some pressure on their d trans, right now too many second chance points is killing us.

11 off rebs to Serbia. Killing us!

Considering we've been smashed on the boards on the defensive end, and they have been red hot from 3, we really aren't that far down.

Nah, should be good for the rest of the game, that site kills

Agreed, Barlow is getting screwed. That foul called early on him, he didn't even have a hand on the bloke!!!

Yeah live on Fox.

I wish we missed that first shot of the game. Hit it (3) and all of a sudden, that is our offence! grrr..


Wortho played well for the 5 mins he was on. Probably only has 2 pts 1 reb, but 1 ast, 1 stl, a charge taken, and some elbows thrown.

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Nearly time now, come on lads..

Bruton and Bogut in yes but wouldnt be taking Maric out at all ... he has been one of our better players.

I think he has a better all round game than jawai and a lot more fitness

I want to share the optimism........but I don't think they will win this game, I think the Serbians will win by 11 to 15 points.

However this is definately one of those times that I will be most happy to be proven so wrong.

Regardless of the result, given the recent games against France, Brazil, Germany and Slovenia, I think the Boomers are setting up a great platform for London in 2012.

For the time being I'm going to hope for the best and enjoy every win.

The more I think about it, Maric would want to make a statement and play well given all the innuendo about him not wanting to play for Australia andf given the fact it is against the Serbs. As a result he could well prove the difference for us in this game.

Boomers by 9.

Maric and Andersen top scorers.

Newley to have a stand out game defensively.

should we look at one for 36ers?