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Beantown

Years ago

Boomers warm up games start tonight

Mick, are you sure the pick and roll coverage problems are a result of Lemanis' coaching? I thought it was more down to lack of foot-speed from some of our bigs and a few guys needing to get more repetitions in on our defensive system. Maybe some jet-lag too!

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Years ago

Judging Lemanis on one game is a trifle early. This team is new and has only played 1 game together.

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Years ago

Recap of Boomers win over Finland is now up on PnR:

Boomers come from behind to defeat Finland in friendly

The Australian Boomers commenced their 2014 FIBA World Cup campaign in Klaipeda, Lithuania, against Finland. After a long trip and little time to shake the jet-lag, the Boomers used their experience down the stretch to come from behind to record a 100-95 victory.

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Beantown

Years ago

Definitely a solid win. Finland are a good team and we were getting our legs under us after a lot of travel, not to mention Lemanis was trying to give everyone a run.

If we'd been playing to win, no way Lemanis leaves Outback Shaq out there. I reckon both times Jawai was on they blew the lead out to 10 within minutes! Its not too late to replace him Andrej. Get someone in who isn't an overweight liability!

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Beantown

Years ago

Love Delly's effort countering all the screens the Finns set. His D has been great down the stretch. Also did a great job boxing out the Finnish big man when he slipped the screen and then came up with the rebound! That led to Ingles go-ahead three.

Speaking of which, nice to see Ingles getting the eye of the tiger when the game is on the line. He came up big when it mattered tonight.

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daneo

Years ago

old heads Jingles and Newley showing how its done..

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daneo

Years ago

anyone got a box score ? they would have to be over 70% from 3pt land

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Years ago

I thought Jawai would have been in better shape to get a gig on this team...he has done some good things, but defensively he is a liability right now.

Loving Bairstow & Motum.

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Beantown

Years ago

Yeah Jawai is far too slow. They just carve us up on D as soon as he is on the floor. Not happy with how out of shape he is either.

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Years ago

Every time Jawai has stepped onto the court, the Finns always seem to be able to get an open look from outside.

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Years ago

Ingles big in the 3rd quarter so far.

Defence has lifted again.

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Beantown

Years ago

Agreed! Loving the Brockus Motumus. Showing once again how sneaky he is at getting open looks. Smart player.

I think Gibson's copping some unfair heat on here tonight. He was very good in that second stint he had, pressuring their point guard and taking his scoring opportunities when they came.

How long since we stepped off the plane? Many of the guys definitely looked a step slow in all their movement and decision-making in the first half. Lots of passes just being made a split second too late and fast break opps blown due to poor decision-making.

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daneo

Years ago

Motum is quality finishing under the basket, he was doing it in summer league also. Its like a quick release layup..

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Beantown

Years ago

Much better 2nd stint from Exum. Liking Bairstow's agility and hustle compared to his direct opponents.
Better agility from our bigs is allowing us to slow their penetration and our guards are starting to get steals again as a result. Much better last few mins.

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Beantown

Years ago

The Fins have been setting some nice screens to get their shooters open looks and they are nailing them. They are also getting up in our face on D and we look rushed and out of sync a lot on offence. Exum looking very tentative so far. Dellavedova is going to have to do a LOT of work at the point in this tournament by the looks.

We looked much better with Bairstow and Baynes out there early. Defence dropped off once we started to sub our starters.

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Years ago

Great stream in HD for me :)

A vast improvement on the U17 men's coverage by FIBA tonight ;)

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Beantown

Years ago

Mine was Josh, but I switched off the HD button on the bottom right and is working well now

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joshuapending

Years ago

dropping in and out for anyone else?

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Beantown

Years ago

Damn is that Goulding in civvies?
Injured?

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Years ago

You can watch the teams warming up now!

KingPodge - I don't know you well enough, but I am flattered (I think).

A great legitimate stream too! All Lithuanian games are being streamed via this same site.

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