Hoops

G2: Boomers vs Greece B Team

Vart i do agree, it is a much better deal then weve had, which is good but we can and should do better. hopefully we can build on this and move forward. cant afford to fall back again.

lets just hope keneally has the same contacts and respect that bruno has. Ive known bruno for 18 years and im not going to get into a debate in here with you HO but until Basketball is on Free to Air at prime time the game will never be what it could be. Thing is big business and executives at both channel 9, fox and now 10 have so much respect for bruno and i have no doubt he would be able to get a good TV deal for BA. Its about taking the game to the next level, the level it should be at. Lets just hope Kristina has the same kind of "Pull" with people like David Gyngell as a brunco cullen does.

Pretty good idea from Bogut .
Bruce Jawai Kahzzouh going against the Boomers
would give them a hurry up .

well you all know my opinions on the administration running this game. Useless. now they have kristina running the show. she has never run her own business, never had to pay staff, never had to market, create leads/new customers, grow brand, invest and make tough decisions. I hope she proves me wrong and i hope she is a success because basketball in australia deserves better.

Should have tried to convince a bruno cullen or someone like that who is a proven, successful sports administrator with alot of pull.

Well said rjd and Vart.

I was at both games. Game 1 was a professional outing, the Boomers executed plays it had clearly been polishing since the sloppy YouYi series. Roles within the team were being defined as different lineups were rotated through (regardless of the situation as there was never any scoreboard pressure).

Tonights game (after a rampaging start) turned into more of a "playing down to the opposition" level at times...at least offensively. The ball was moving around the arc beautifully but stagnated when we fed it into the post (the addition of Anderson might alter this but Baynes showed promise).

However, the defense tonight was awesome (Barlow was shutting dudes down - probably why Brown is a fan, not stat gathering but very effective). Greece were harassed all night and by the end they'd dropped their heads, lost their composure, and ended up playing ugly and comitting a lot of cheap/lazy/dirty(ish) fouls which the Boomers didn't bite on or fight back (not even Wortho who was belted a few times).

Even if the competition isn't strong, the boys really seem to be on the same page and should be feeling good about themselves as a unit on both ends of the floor (which is about as much as any team can do at this point).

I thought in game 1 Joe looked very classy without dominating, but tonight what a great job. delly running the point, im sure baynes and maric will be better with delly running the show. Again Newley cant shoot the ball which is a worry. looks like we turned the ball over a bit though. better on the rebounds tonight. cant wait to play spain. really want to see where we are at, but its good signs though

We win easily, 91-51 which is what I was kinda of expecting in game 1 to be honest...

Newley struggling with his shot yet again...5/12 after being 3/10 and 0/3 from downtown...

Delly running the pick and roll again by the looks of it with Baynes in particular

Wortho turning it on on 4/6 shooting with 3/5 from downtown for 15 points.

Ingles with 17 points to lead all scorers.

Live stats
http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/13/05/69/02/92baYWSoOPS/

Go Joe!

Because I can only "catch" the game via Live Stats, has anyone else noticed that BA have spelt a certain assistant coach's name wrong?

Nielsen has 6 points and 2 rebounds and looks like he is contributing this game so far.

Crawford no minutes to date yet again, and the same with Kickert.

Would like to think Crawford gets a few inutes to at least build some confidenceotherwise what is he on the team for? The last thing we want is to get to London, need a perimeter threat and he checks in...but the guy has not played for nearly a month?

Half time leading 45-26.

Ingles leads all scorers with 15 points on 6/9 shooting, 2/2 from downtown alongside 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block with no turnovers.

Maric has 7 points on 8 rebounds.

Aussies shooting 5/8 from 3PT range so far.

Boomers have 22 rebounds to 9.

12 turnovers to 10 the only black mark so far from what I can see via the live stats - the only option available to me.

Boomers rebounding far improved so far leading the count 19-80 as we lead 44-24 with less than 2 in the 2nd quarter.