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Years ago

Opals vsCzech Republic

BDH - was it the role players who cost the Opals the Czech game, was it the Coaching strategies that cost them the game or was it just that the Czech Coach and players were the better team on the night?

They did go on to make the Gold medal game.

The problem with any Coach, Boomers or Opals, is that they choose the players they perceive will get the job done. Obviously Summerton and Screen were not perceived by Graf as being the type of players she wanted.

Unfortunately, the games are not won in hindsight. The Opals went on to beat Russia and France again, so perhaps it was just a bad night, coupled with poor tournament long officiating.

Anonymous
Years ago

Alicia Poto should have been there. She can shoot, gets the ball inside and has the smarts.
Why play the whole bench in the early games and then hardly use them in the last 2 games. They were all up to the task. It was the same old plays with the same old players.

Years ago

Surely the person to blame is the Coach who obviously had a big say in team selections, not the players picked. I would assume it was the coach who determined what plays were run and which players were on the court. It was the "guns" who didn't fire, not the youngsters average performance, that cost the Opals the game.

Blind Freddie could have seen that the Opals were slow to cover the open 3 point shooters in previous games. That is what blew the Opals away in the last quarter to win the game. Summerton and Screen were not there so it is only a theoretical debate as to whether or not they would have performed any better than those who were there.

Hopefully Basketball Australia will take stock of the Opals performances and actually do something about it. Both the male and female teams suffer from being a strong team in a very week pool. The European Teams had a lot harder and longer qualification path as well as regular team play in the Europa Cups, etc.

The Socceroos are only now just starting to benefit with the regular competition in Asia, but they also suffer from not having all their players available all the time. At least all the guns play in Europe so they can play friendlies there on a regular basis. It is not practical for this to occur in basketball and I would assume the $$ would not be available to pay the players for an extended training time.

Years ago

Pardon my ignorance but where has Richards come from? Not meaning to be nasty but i havent seen her to my knowledge. How did Erin go today- i didnt realise it was on.

LC
Years ago

Big upset and very disappointing outcome for the Opals in losing to the host nation 68-79.

Cambage led Australia with 22, Jackson had 13, and next best was Harrower with 8. Taylor went 2/15 from the field, Jackson 3/15, Grima2/7 and O'Hea 2/7. Our field goal shooting percentage was just 28.6% compared to the Czech's 37.5%. We hit just 4/21 from long range compared to 10/21. We won the rebounds 49-42, but everything else was pretty even.

In other games, Belarus upset Russia, so the Czech's play them in a relatively easy semi-final. Spain beat France and now play USA who thrashed South Korea in the other semi.

A missed opportunity, not al that dissimilar to the Boomers with the exception the Opals had higher expectations.

Years ago

wow!! something we haven't seen in a LONG time from an Opals team

Years ago

I see the games are tonight.
Any Discusion over winners??
Or have we all lost interest in the Metro League?


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