I'm offended Beantown...check out the thread I have meticulously been keeping up to date.

2011 U19 World Championships for Men: The Emus

And...I expect a formal apology ;)

Anthony certainly is Franks brother, 15 years age difference. Pity he started the tournament so well because he's now been scouted extensively and has attracted quality defenders. Think he's heading to Boise state.
Having said that though, its allowed others guys to enjoy a bit more freedom as they've been paying so much attention to him. Even when not scoring though, his defence against poland and in particular shutting down their dangerous gaurd Ponitka was one of reasons we did it so easily,
As for serbia beating us last year, only 2 active players from Aus (plus mitch) were in that team and not many of the serbs are from 17's either. They play with a lot of emotion so we need to get under their skin to upset the balance,

Apology? NEVER! LOL LC... should've done a search I guess, but wanted to give the topic a bump so everyone would see it.

Anon 860, try reading the first post for the time!

Thanks I Spy, I am surprised to hear there is only 15 years difference between Frank and Anthony. That would make him only 34. Is he still playing professionally somewhere or has he retired?

So is Anthony going to be better than his brother? What do you guys think?

Anthony has the work ethic that Frank never had...

Anon, bookmark the Latest Action mode if that's your preferred forum style.

Im adamant that Frank is Anthony's uncle.
Anyone know?

MACDUB.....
Im with you on your post

Frank is the older brother to Anthony. Anthony is a lazy and undisciplined player, tries to take short cuts whenever he can. The mail is that European clubs have targeted him, Iggy and Creek with big $$$$ offers, so I dont expect Iggy and Driggy to go to college in USA

Luckily Boomer doesn't know what he is talking about...i assume you or your son got their butts kicked by Drimic...

Iggy going to Boise State...

Both will play for Australia senior mens team in the near future

Yes, both are tremendous players.
Unfortunately, we probably won't see them in the NBL.
Both have Euro citizenship (Drmic with Croatia and Hadziomerovic with Bosnia and Heregovina or Serbia).

Therefore, they can play in Europe as local players.

As such, Euro clubs would be willing to throw big $$ at them.

Drmic and Igor possess great shooting ability, size (Iggy is 6"5 and Drmic is 6"6), Basketball IQ, Instant offence, rebounding and playmaking abilities.

Well, after Boomer's post, I no longer believe that Anthony and Frank are brothers...

So, anyone reckon they'll be awake for the game at 1:30am SA time?

I will be Beantown! FibaTV!

Cool, I just bought a subscription. Hopefully it runs better than the US Russia game! Just caught the last couple of minutes but it was unwatchable. Probably doesn't matter but *SPOILER ALERT*

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It only took a few Russkies for the US to go down on (er... to) someone. ;-)

i didnt have any issues with watching the usa russia game.. stream hi def fine

Yeah, I was just unlucky I think AlexKrad. I usually stream games fine too. Hope I don't get shafted for the Emus game!

Haha, the commentator only mentioned Melbourne and Adelaide viewers! Guess he doesn't know about Sydney, Brissy, Perth, etc?

Australia playing very stagnent offense...

Need to pick it up, down 8-1 5min in

and i did laugh at the commentators comment,

not to mention how they are pronouncing names

hows your feed beantown? mines pretty average..

oh and bad foul call on creek! after the missed travel

Very very average first quater 22-12. Terrible offense, and defense wasnt much better.

And a bucket load of fouls too... refs are calling it super tight.

Greenwood with 6 the standout

Yeah, my feed has been pretty good. Not a good start from the Emus, but its mostly because we have no true bigs. VERY undersized team. We are going to have to force some more turnovers to get back into this. Cvetokic looks very assured for Serbia and they are getting all the shots they want round the basket.

I didnt think we are doing to bad of a job defensively, but offensively we have been very average. Picking up this quater but still a ten point buffer. Drmic needs to get going

Doing a great job of cutting this lead. Down to 5 with Cvetokic still on the bench. Offense looking more up tempo, defense looking more intense

We are trying hard defensively, but with no size under the basket, the Serbians are getting some nice easy layups. If their centre could play a bit more we'd be screwed.

At least we have some great shooters. Drmic and Greenwood have nice strokes and Iggy's shot might look weird but it is money. Loved his catch on the block and the turnaround rainmaker, nothin but net!

half time Serbia 42 - Australia 38,,,

much better second qtr for australia. Offense much much better. Play like this for another half, they should get up

Iggy shoots some serious rainbows, those things are like the polar opposite of j.holmes jumpshot!

My feed seemed to improve for the 2nd qtr, fingers crossed it stays that way!!

Any ideas if the other 1/4 finals will be able to be watched still? I know they archive games but im hoping to watch them tomorrow, any ideas??

The Serbs still scored the same amount of points in the 2nd as they did in the first, but I reckon the bulk of their second quarter points came earlier on, before Cvetkovic went out. His 2nd foul and extended stint on the bench eventually hurt their half court offense.

In contrast, our hot shooting in the 2nd has us right back in it and we are now looking like we can win it. Up until 3 mins into the 2nd quarter I was pretty worried.

Its nice to see some young Aussies coming through who can really shoot it. Drmic, Iggy and Greenwood can all shoot the three well and put that with Bose and the Boomers have a nice pool of young shooters to address what I think has been the senior team's biggest problem for many years: horrible outside shooting!

Huge scoring error!!

Drmic was called for an offensive foul but it has been stuffed along the way and got given to creek instead and put him on 3 fouls!

Not sure if the games are archived. Aussies got screwed with Creek being given Drmic's foul at the start of the 3rd. Refs obvuiously think all Aussies look the same!

Wow Greenwood picks up his third, then Technical for his fourth. Soft technical, but stupidity by Greenwood especially considering he is the captain and hot shooter at the moment.

Could be a huge turning point here

FFS, now Greenwood has 4 fouls! I thought his reach in looked clean and then the ref was VERY quick to give him a tech for dissent. With two of Australia's big three on the bench, our reserves are going to have to come up big!

I agree received a very quick technical, Not warranted in the 1/4 final for the current hot player.

And now Serbia push out to a 20 point lead.

Cotter needs to make something happen,

Greenwood back on the floor with 4 fouls.

Cant see Australia winning from here.....

Certainly not helped but some interesting refereeing, but aside from that they havent been able to contain Cvetkovic

Game over. Cvetkovic controlled things nicely again in the 3rd quarter and with Creek and Greenwood forced to sit, we lost our composure. Oh well, it was good to see those two guys, Iggy and Drmic to see how they play. There's four guys who have some nice potential for the Boomers down the track.

Creek needing to sit with his 3rd (or should I say Drmics foul) then Greenwood needing to sit with 4 really did kill the game for them.

Undisciplined but also bad refereeing/adminstration

Oh and one last thing before bed...

commentator = awful - id rather carfino!

Nice posting with ya Ammon. We didn't win, but it was nice to see what Greenwood in particular can do. He was shooting lights out and really lead the team well. I think he finished with something like 7/11 from downtown? Great effort anyway.

Believe it or not, one of referee's on the game did 7 playoff games in first two rounds of last NBA season won by Dallas.
Ceratinly didn't play well enough for the W, they got too many easy baskets, they did what they wanted offensivly.
our offence at times was just far too one dimensional and our guys couldn't create for themselves like serbia managd to.They shot at a fair clip too, think above 60% for pt field goals, always tuff to beat that.

Thanks Beantown, was good to know someone else is probably paying for it today like I am!

Greenwood did finish at 7/11 from three which Is super impressive.

Oh well plenty of reason still to watch!

Just wondering what difference Mitch Norton would have made? I think the commentator said he was our best player at the tournament last year? (U18s I guess?) I understand he would have been our starting PG, so assuming he is a lot better than Aldridge, you'd think he would have helped us counter Cvetkovic better.

It would also have helped our offence if Greenwood and even Iggy weren't forced to do PG duties. Greenwood did a decent job, but he is clearly more of a combo guard than a true point. Iggy was out of his depth trying to handle the ball so much.

Between not having a good PG and no true bigs, we did well to be in that game for most of it. IMO it shows the ability of our wing players: Greenwood, Creek and (to a lesser extent last night) of Drmic and Hadziomerovic.

Beantown, I agree.
I think the Emu's probably had the best depth at the 2,3 position with Hadziomerovic, Drmic and Greenwood.

If they had a 6"10-6"11 legit center, they could have made it alot further.

Interesting to see Argentina beat Croatia! Huge upset.
Although Croatia and Serbia did not make it to the SF's..it got me thinking..
How much would Yugoslavia dominate World Basketball these days if they still existed.
Croatia and Serbia have some tremendous players, and then youd have Slovenia (Goran Dragic and Sasha Vucajic)

No doubt that a top 5 PF/C would make a difference, Ogilvy type but there wasnt one to be selected.

As good as he is, not sure Norton would have made that much difference. Aldridge is a very good PG, better than Norton at this stage. Pretty sure the backcourt rotation was our strong point anyway, Aldridge, Hadziomerovic, Drmic, Greenwood.

As for Yugo team, not sure they would dominate, as we saw with USA, it's not about having a team of stars!

Aldridge didn't impress me last night. Was he slated to start ahead of Norton at the start of the tournament? He scored a few times late once the game was done, but he was nonexistent earlier. In fact, he seemed to be on the bench a lot and Greenwood was being relied upon to play the point instead. Perhaps he is down on confidence at the moment?

SixerFan, a Yugo team wouldn't have the same problems of a USA team because they generally play team basketball anyway.

Go back to the days of Petrovic, Kukoc and Divac. The teamwork there was unbelievable.

Teamwork is a fundamental aspect of Balkan Basketball (Croatia and Serbia).