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Game 3 - NBL All-Aussies vs China

If you’re not interested don’t watch, ignore any press, but I was enjoying watching and better than most shit broadcast at the time.

Another pointless NBL foray into China. Forget all the Lemanis stuff. Why even comment on a team he will never even coach again.
My question at such short notice (queens birthday weekend) why even do it.

In addition to AD these players are representing the NBL, it is not a Australian/Boomers team. It was a dads army who was available team.

Wow, just some fair-dinkum dud comments in this thread.

This is a "friendly" series, and a chance for guys who otherwise wouldn't, to be able to represent their country.
Yes, China doesn't send their best players, well newsflash neither do we.

But by & large it was a good hard-fought series, with the Aussies coming away with an impressive win.

As for the players appearing disinterested in game 3, again newsflash, this was always going to be China's night. Whooping them 3-zip would just ensure that next time China either send better players, or just don't invite us back.

I’m confused. If Lemanis is so bad and we sent such a crap team, then how did we beat the taller, faster and better-shooting Chinese who have Goorj as assistant coach? Twice!

The dude thinking Bevo is better than Lemanis must be Mrs Bevo.

The dude saying Bevo Amd Goorj are no good must be Lemanis himself posting.

Bevo always seems to make quite a few in-game adjustments against the 36ers, that deadly 1-3-1 zone being pulled strategically after Joey burns a time-out in the 4th last season a case in point.

No it really doesnt. It actually proves the opposite. He prepares his team knowing that if they stick to their game plan for 40 minutes, they will be competitive. Its a marathon, not a sprint etc.

Put any spud in with our team and they at the very least make it to fourth. Lemanis coincides with our best squad ever.

Yes and likewise I'm so convinced about Lemanis because of you.

"Because Goorj had no plan B either."

So every coach sucks then? Yet you defend Lemanis? Odd.

and yes Bevo is better than Lemanis, probably win bronze.

"Bevo is Goorj lite. Prepares his teams well so they're always competitive but has no in game plans for when things go awry.

If you think BA are dumb for appointing Lemanis, you're even dumber if you judge him based off this meaningless game."

Yes Bevo is Goorj diet so what? We won't get Goorj but Bevo we can.

And no it is not dumb, Bevo is superior to Lemanis.

I'm not judging him solely on this game. I am judging him on everything he's done since New Zealand Breakers. Brisbane has sucked. The Boomers have only narrowly beat Asian teams they should absolutely beast over. The only thing he has is to say that Rio was decent, and even then we fell pretty hard at the end of the competition and failed to stand up when we needed to. The game against Serbia shouldn't have gone the way it did.

A bit like anonymous saying BY only did good team preparedness and no mid game plans. That's meaningless but more importantly so hilarious.

Bevo would be perfect. Should've got the job originally. BA clouded by the Lemanis three peat at Breakers. Fools (as always).

Referees or not, that game was an indictment on Australian basketball. A team of Australian NBL veterans, with Olympians and guys who are considered stars of our league, should not be blown out by a young Chinese national team. It just should not happen. I don't care about the excuses.

I question whether Lemanis is truly the man to lead our Boomers. Are we going to have our best ever Boomers getting pummeled by some average team that just so happens to have more heart on the day?

It's concerning. After a few terrible seasons with Brisbane I feel like we shouldn't count out an SOS call to Goorjian, Brett Brown or Bevo.

Barlow and Moller were good, Melbourne will be good again.

The other way of looking at it is that it is character building to strive against the odds and succeed. Tonight the NBL all stars showed none of that character, but will hopefully learn from the experience.

Very average Aussie team.

The Chinese team, even with some helpful officiating, has been good. They can only hit their shots, and get in the lane, which they have. Zhang(?) has been interesting.

No X factors in this Aussie team (Goulding included).

Lemanis must be a bit worried about his signings, Cadee and Gliddon are struggling.

This reffing makes me sick

Play the bench more, only got close when Newley, Barlow, Brandt, Moller and Gibson were on. Australia shooting 32.3% to 60.7 for China.

I want to listen to NBA games, last year I could access them through the NBA app. This year it is not available through the app.

I aslo tried the All Access link to Audio League pass and I get this error message when I select the game.

"Timed out trying to establish a connection with the server".

I then tried FreqSeek and because we aren't in the U.S. we are blocked from CBS and ESPN radio affiliates. Which covers the vast majority of possible stations.

I tried contacting NBA.com and they sent me a generic answer that wasn't at all helpful.

Can anyone make any suggestions on how to listen to games live either through the sources covered above or any other way?