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This is not an Australian team selected to win a set of international friendlies. It's an NBL team playing exhibition matches. They send whoever's available and willing to go, regardless of nationality. Hence the NZ and USA players on the team and the NBL bench players.
Maybe NBL underestimated China but it's more likely they put together the best team they could muster and that team's now learning to play together during the games themselves.
Was a good game. Sure, some calls were very questionable but we had our chances to win the game. Offense got stagnant at times. Especially when Steindl had the hot hand, Moore and Webster decided to play matchups instead of continuing to move the ball earlier. Took Gleeson too long to fix up the PnR defence in the 4th quarter. DJ was struggling to defend their big man and they ate especially down the stretch. He couldn’t grab defensive boards down the stretch either. Costly move I reckon! All in all, still played well. Way better than the first game, took the physicality to Team China as well which was good.
Hard to watch when we aren’t getting calls, but can’t use that as an excuse when we can’t defend, box out, and finish off our opportunities.