LC
Years ago

World Champs: Opals vs Canada 23-Sep

The Opals kick off their World Championship defence against Canada tonight in Ostrava, Czech Republic at 11:15pm AEST.

You can sign up to watch the game live at FIBATV.com for a small fee.

Australia goes into the game with injury concerns hovering over Snell, Taylor and Tolo, whilst Jackson and Bishop have only just joined the team following their WNBA championship winnning series.

In any case, Australia has a far more talented and deeper roster than the Canadians, and should be able to successfully get through and perhaps even be in a position to give their injured stars more time to recover.

My prediction is Australia to win by 28.

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Isaac
Years ago

Centrebet are not taking head to head bets, and have the line at -32 to Australia!

For the championship, Opals are second favourites at about $5.50. USA are at $1.18.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Hopefully they leave Taylor and Harrower planted on the bench which is what graf has hinted at.

If we learnt anything from the Olympics its that the Opals need all 3 guns firing. I still think the lose of Batkovic is going to hurt more then the Cambage/Tolo fans realise.

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Anonymous
Years ago

is there livestats anywhere?

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Ushiro
Years ago

Game is live on Fox 2

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Anonymous
Years ago

i was referring to live stats on the internet. thanks anyway/

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LC
Years ago

Australia defeated Canada 72-47.

Jackson had 13 points and 7 rebounds in playing 20 minutes, whilst Harrower also had 13 on 83% shooting to go with 3 assists and 5 steals to be the Opals only players in double figures.

Australia opened up an 18-3 lead and were never headed. Taylor did not play as predicted, whilst everyone else on the roster played 10 minutes (Tolo) or more, but nobody played more than 22 minutes (Harrower & O'Hea).

Australia were just 3/16 from downtown, won the rebounding 36-29, committed 23 turnovers to Canada's 27, but out hustled them 14 steals to 6. You can catch the full replay of the Opals vs Canada on Fox Sports 3 at 12:30pm AEST today.

Basketball Australia Recap: http://linky.com.au/u1g5i

Great start...next up is Belarus who defeated China last night 68-57. They will prove to be greater competition than Canada, with the game being broadcast by Fox Sports live from 11pm AEST tonight (and replayed on Fox Sports 2 at 12:30pm AEST on Saturday)

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Anonymous
Years ago

go girls

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just home
Years ago

go you godd thing go !

put a gap in them

go you good thing go !

reffing was very sympathetic to canada last night hwen they were being shalacked by aust very soft calls.

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