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Boomers games coming up

Australia has a style of game that is unique and that really shines in the NBL, and Australian basketball players have a unique identity and culture. You can't just insert any old NBA coach and assume that they're going to "get that". You need a coach that understands the culture and the play style. Australian basketball is at its best going deep into its roster, playing an energetic full-court style of game that harasses from siren to siren, being up and in, and having an equal opportunity offense bred off of their defensive pressure. NBA style basketball would basically concentrate on isolation match ups, of which we would have a few but is not our strength. Some NBA coaches, of course, would see our strengths but I don't think you can just throw in any NBA coach and just expect better results because they coach in the NBA.

When it comes to current coaching, you can only judge off what we have done with the talent we have. We came within a point of bronze in 2016, and we've gone (almost) undefeated in Asia since then. The one game we did lose, we were slotting in players that haven't really played together before. And even with how disjointed preparation has been, we've largely dominated the region, even while trying to figure out the xs and os. And I have no doubt when our talent comes back, we will again be one of the top teams in the world as shown at the last Olympics.

For those questioning whether Lemanis can take the Boomers to a medal, he was one bad call away from it last time. And let's consider that a lot of the pre-Olympic assessments expected Australia to bottom out at about 8th place on talent. We will be one of the most talented teams at the next Olympics and World Cup, perhaps second only to the USA.

Blanchfield probably. He only got around 10 mins game time.

Kazaks did pretty good against a quality Japanese side.

43-95 lol

Well the US do that with Jeff Van Gundy coaching for FIBA Americas events with a team made up of mostly G-League players (they lost to Mexico, who lost to Puerto Rico twice, weird) and Popovich coaching their World Cup and Olympics team with their NBA roster.

So yeah they can easily, but will Basketball Australia do that? No

Stupid question can the boomers have two head coaches Andrej lemanis coach the NBL Boomers and qualifying games and maybe EX NBA coach doing World cup Olympic games? With a boomers team like


Patty mills

delly

Ben simmons

Aron baynes

Exum

Joe ingles

and many more europe and NBA players
can Andrea lemanis Coach the team to a medal

any ftee live streaming ?

No stickers on the court

Always rated D Johnson. Hopefully he gets some minutes in his 1st game

You wouldn't know there is a game on from the traffic on here right now.

Yep, that team would be competitive in the NBL....

Surely McCarron starts in the 3 ahead off blanchfield and Drimic.

I think the foot will come off the pedal once we get a comfortable lead. No blowouts away for the rest of qualifying

Yes.

Squad hopefully will change before a much tougher Iran.

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