Hoops

Boomers v Venezuela, what time Monday?

Golf, an actual sport, more pointless than finding out who's the best at walking in the world? I dunno

As far as I can see, that was an important win from the perspective of world rankings after the games.

Even if we lose in the quarter finals, we should now finish 5th in the tournament.

It's a real blow as Bairstow has been very solid in his role.

If Bairstows injury is serious it makes us a lot more reliant on Bogut, Baynes, Anderson and could mean minutes for (shudders!) Brock Motum!

Not sure if we'll make the quarters injury-free, though. News on Bairstow? Doesn't look good.

Boring game, thought Venezuela would have had more fight with their tournament on the line.

Great to see Australia up 46-24 on the glass.

Looks like Goulding has found his mark. It's a good thing going forward for him to have confidence scoring off the bench when Patty's back on the court.

Goulding Taking Over!!!

Thanks, @AussiePride, I'm on the FIBA site as well.
Go Boomers!

Aus up 57 to 43 1 minute into last quarter.

Having to follow it on Fiba website as app not working.

What's the score, please?

I think we should get this one and I feel it is a good opportunity for Baynes to show more aggression and stamp himself as our second best big going forward, notwithstanding how good Anderson has been, it is Baynes who needs to show something in this one...

At the half, Broekhoff, Lisch, Bairstow, Motum, Martin, combining for 0 points in a combined 37 minutes. Just 0/4 shots though between them.

We cross to the Boomers and it's already deep into garbage time :p

Tennis.... equal with golf as the most pointless Olympic sport.

Piss off!!

fantastic to be watching that twit murray instead of the boomers.

Which channel??

The official Rio Basketball site has had the entire tournament mens and womens games and times right from the start, they haven't been wrong yet.

Patty sitting this one out

They showed the full game against France too. It was just separated into halves (first half was on 71).

Fair call to Channel 7 since only showing the second half of our first game against France they've shown I think Serbia & China in full on 7TWO and the USA game in full on 7.

@7olympics

The Boomers game will be on 7TWO at 8am AEST, we'll tweet if the channel changes.

I got 7:30am SA time from Boti's initial times before the tournament started. The USA game was also scheduled for 7:30am and turned on the TV and it was already a few minutes into the game so 7:15am is probably the actual start time.

It's a fair question in this case though. FIBA have had some incorrect info at times, and Boti's blog incorrectly has it as 01:15 AEST

Aussie, you can just google rio basketball and all the tournament info will come up for every game, if your posting you obviously have the internet.

Thanks man. Let's hope Channel 7 show the entire game again

Pretty sure it's
06:00 WA
07:30 SA/NT
08:00 AEST

What time AEST?

7:15am isn't it?

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The National Basketball League has unveiled a new national marketing campaign that brings to life the unique elements of the sport of basketball at its launch of the 2010/11 NBL season in Sydney today.

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