Play hard boys, tough game

Tough ask, but anything's possible. Best of luck, Boomers.

We need some breaks from the refs as well. It's going to get physical and we need to conserve our fouls.

Can't wait :D

When does it start?

At 8 i believe

hope the refs let the Boomers play physical

7:45 Online Stream Of The Game

Scores?

True Blue, this does not seem to work?
are you up & running?

Game doesn't start till 8.15 melb time

anyone got a stream with aussie commentating

link 1 is working ok for me so far...

I tried this site the other night and tonight.
The count down timer goes down to 0. This allows me to remove the ads, but the stream never starts.
Have tried on IE and FireFox. Firefox does nothing at all, on IE at times I got it to work for maybe 5 seconds of each 20.
What am I doing wrong here?

Also, what is the ILivid plug-in?

I just did the BBC expat shield download and an now watching the game in a good format. Thanks for the advice!

What an amazing shot Delly WOW

Good pg play from Delly

Delly to Baynes I love it

Aaron has been good this series.

Fuck me Delly gr8 pass and finish knocked over my seat AND spilled my drink!!!

loving how we are playing, keep it up boys

Great start. Love the reaction from the bench in that highlight just shown.

Up 19-14. 5/19 FG from Spain so far.

Bogut and Delly would have been something just sayin

Foul shots
Spain 8
Aus 0

Jingles STILL can't get a call!!!
The Gasol boys are a protected species

Ingles is nba material

Patty is good in transition. Modify your game give it to others when the defense is set.

Jingles ripping them a new one. Great work from the team so far.

JINGLES!!!

Ingles, what a pass. Bit like LeBron to Durant the other day.

Ibaka is the dirtiest player on the court. All shoves and elbows...and why wouldn't he, if he's not getting called for it?

these 2nd chance points are just killing us.

Australia have not taken a single foul shot for the entire first half.

Just sayin'

Someone moron was giving it to Bogut about not wanting to play in the Olympics, his response was do you think I prefer it on the couch than being there. It would be nice to have him though.

no push there!

Wow we can't get much luck with the refs.

We are getting molested on the boards and shooting crap yet only down by 5.

I'm now convinced international basketball brings out the worst offense in people

The refs must be rocking espana uni's under their shirts!!!

Thoughts from the half

Delly is developing into a great player.

Ingles is def. NBA material.

Patty needs to remember that the best part of his game is transition and drives to hoop. As Gaze said the Boomers were looking their best when he was on the bench as they are able to get it through more hands in the offense. should be a good 2nd half.would like to see a better 3pt percentage and for Andersen or Maric to finish inside.

I wish Delly's shot was dropping believe it or not he usually makes those silly floaters off the one step.

Both Mills and Delly need to improve their shooting.

The rebounding is crazy out of our hands. We need Maric to beast in this second half.

Also only 2 turnovers belonging to Newley. Lift MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jingles is playing to his ability. wow i wish i had the natural ability of him and newley. Patty at the moment is a liabiity on offence and defence. Hopefully newley and ingles can keep up their confidence. Delly is playing better and i think its time to throw in PC. we need to start hitting the 3 ball if we are any chance. if not Spain will walk away with this game. Just so proud of Joe. he could definately play a role on an NBA team.

good to hear Gaze backing PC and suggesting Brown give him a chance to address their struggling 3pt shooting

Mills needs to let the offense come to him in the half court & like Gaze just said 2 turnovers at the half is a great improvement on last game.

Alot of 1 pass and then shooting by the Aussies....We aren't running back on D!!

Not smart to start both Mills and Delly I feel in this game.

Need the help rebounding

*begrudgingly* Spain are shooting well

"Not sure if we should be in this timeout". Classic Drewey.

Thank the Southern Tigers

for Joe Ingles

Can't hit a 3
Can't get a call when we take it at their bigs

What can you do?

Feel like I'm watching the sixers

Do we even have an offence? And can we buy a foul?

Please give Crawford a go

Anybody watching the Equestrian? ;)

This is pathetic

The difference in the two teams in 3 point shooting is just disgusting to watch.

BBC commentators were starting to wonder why Australia hadnt been to the free throw line yet just before Australia finally got their first. Really makes you wonder.

This is starting to look really really bad

Not getting any calls from the refs, joe was hammered by the gasols but the refs don't call it, but if the Gasol brothers are breathed on they go to the free throw line
At this point with australia down by 22pts isn't it time to bring on PC or Barlow and let them shoot??? if not now when??

something is wrong with these refs. ingles cant get a call and then they call soft ones on us. I agree its time to throw PC in, something needs to be done from a coaching point of view with our 3 point shooting. technique is so bad. Wouldnt matter if Bogut played.

We are deffinetly getting hit alot harder to get a foul call to goto the line than we are giving out..some soft fouls for them we get clobbered.

All we need is PC to jump on in the 4th, knock down 8 or 10 straight triples and we're back in this thing

Not sure how Nielson gets a game.

This commentator is a dud. He stuffed up the Snell prayer and now he calls Anderson when he's not even on the court

Lol

Channel 9 your so useless...Irish horse riding instead of the Australian game...omfg you suck worse than I thought you could

I reckon the only 3 point over 40% is Crawford. Don't think anyone else comes close.

Have flipped it to channel nine on occasion! Great looking horses.

Commentators are basically calling us lazy on D

This is absolutely disgusting. We have no offense whatsoever, so push the ball!!!!!! damn it Brown, can you not coach?!? "I want the Boomers to be the fittest team in the olympics". well how about using that fitness mate.

Seriously, what did people expect? This is a mediocre Boomers team at best. Top eight is a pipedream.

Agree about the fouls Skud. Wouldn't make enough difference though. We are just clueless on offence and too few guys can even make open shots.

Contrast that with Spain who pass to draw us out of position and then have guys like Llull and Fernandez who don't look like missing when they get the open shot.

Rudy Fernandez who i would consider one of the most hot/cold streaky shooters to play as SG has unfortunately for the Boomers actually hit his shots. I bet he'll go ice cold against the US.

Spain def. getting the advantage of the refs, having had 15 free throws to Australia's 4.

Patty Mills missing an open reverse layup...
TAKE HIM OUT PUT PC IN!

Are we just playing bad or Spain playing really well?????? Wonder if Gaze is getting bored commentating this?

Ubaka!!!

POSTERIZED

Nice poster for Nielsen to take home for his final Olympics

Ibaka just put Nielsen on a poster!

Tonight, it is safe to say, Patty stank it up. Missing the reverse layup pretty much summed it up.

...and Baynes just put Ibaka on his arse

I'll

...and Baynes just put Ibaka on his arse

I'll

...and Baynes just put Ibaka on his arse

I'll

Honestly, as much as people are bagging out Mills, he is the only one getting good shots, so I encourage him blazing away. We are not setting good screens, we are not running good offense of any kind. Just go for it Mills

Sums up our night. Just got out rebounded by a guy sitting on the floor in the key!!

Crawford where are ya mate. Brett Brown you stubborn prick.

This is just a shambles..and now my connections decided to go slow grrr bbc.
Brett Brown is just letting them do the same shit over and over again..seriously disgusting coaching being followed by disgusting lazy players.

PC sitting on the bench when we cant shoot this happened last game and still he is sitting there...seriously how much of this is influenced by Marty Clark cause this is like watching a game he has coached.

Brett Brown has been dining out on that one championship with the Giants for years. Did sweet FA with the Kings, and while he got lucky to get into a great Spurs program, no way is he NBA head coach material. As overrated a coach as they come.

With Mills unfortunately its all about him

oops.
Computer just had a Patty moment. Firing away with no control.

I don't mean it Patty, I still love you

Sergio Rodriquez had "Spanish Chocolate" handles according to these commentators

Is anyone else getting this annoying, lecturing Englishman commentating on their feed? God I want to ram his smug, half baked 'basketball knowledge' back down his throat!

We only start scoring when the game is out of reach & nothing to lose. Let's see if we can make some history & win it

Worthington would have got the foul if he hadnt of shit himself and turned sideways on that charge

At least Patty is hustling on D. He'll start hitting shots one of these games.

Brad Newley = Classy

Gotta love Gaze's commentating!

Lucky mills came back

Agree that Crawford should be getting a go. I actually think he should be getting good minutes every game on this shooting challenged team.

Two good things to take out of this game are the improvements in TO's and the way Ingles and Newley have attacked the rim. Those were the two things we failed to do in the Brazil game, so at least that has been addressed.

Why can we not even try the trapping d earlier in the games? look at what we do when we run and play uptempo. Brown should be ashamed of himself. If it were a higher profile sport in Australia, this guy would be publicly criticised.

if he is not going to play crawford he should have taken jawai as a back up big.....BB's ego is bigger than the whole team put together.

Time for Crawford to get a go Brett. Don't die wondering. We need an outside threat. I'm sure if he comes in the other guys will improve as well.

^^ agree^^

gotta say ive been a fan of brett brown but looking more closely i dont think so. when we are more then 20 down and cant hit an outside shot PC still cant get in the game. i think gaze was getting frustrated by browns ignorance in not giving PC a go and the lack of 3 point shooting. I am speechless after that performance. seriously these guys are professional basketball players and in 2 games they hit what 8 from 50 odd from beyong the arc. Pathetic

Exactly anon (fire away with the CAPS!). Seriously selecting Crawford in the squad is the biggest tease ever. Is Brown aware how silly this looks now?

Jawai would be perfect for the way we are playing. Half court bullshit where you don't even take a peek at the rim until the shot clock reads about 5 is perfect for a big bastard like Nate. Brett Brown obviously brought Crawford over for bit-the-bullet situations. I have counted at least three bite-the-bullet situations already this olympics.

As embarrassing as that was, I much prefer our shocker to be against Spain than against GB or China and us miss the QFs. Let's hope thats the only one for the tournament.

As embarrassing as that was, I much prefer our shocker to be against Spain than against GB or China and us miss the QFs. Let's hope thats the only one for the tournament.

you would think with how bad their 3pt percentage is, that he would 'test' his best 3 shooter.
dont forget when you criticize mills.....he is doing exactly what his coach asks,otherwise he wouldnt be on the court.

I praise Mills for how he's playing, his shots just are not falling. and boy are they not falling. Mills should actually be playing faster, they all should be playing faster, F*** ME!

They say we need to beat Russia to avoid the U.S. We gotta beat GB & China 1st. It can only get better not any worst. Fingers crossed!!!

What are the odds an Australian journo asks Brett Brown about the stagnant offense or the point of Peter Crawford's selection and not "How much would you like to have Bogut in the team?" or "Do you think we need more NBA stars like Patty Mills to do better?"

Brett Brown should shoulder 50% of the blame in this game. Can they not just dump it into Andersen and play off him if their offence isn't working or is that too simple?

Has our coaching in Australia changed in the last 2 decades. our strength right through the 80's, 90's and even most of the 2000's was our outside shooting. what has changed, where have things gone wrong. have we forgot how important good shooting is.

Has our coaching in Australia changed in the last 2 decades. our strength right through the 80's, 90's and even most of the 2000's was our outside shooting. what has changed, where have things gone wrong. have we forgot how important good shooting is.

Kickz 101 is offering the Boomers 3 point % off all basketballs tomorrow. Roughly 16.5% off

I think Brett Brown deserves some blame because I don't think he's done enough to improve our 3 point deficiency which we've all known was there.

Defensively he's done a sterling job. Our starts have been really good. The intensity great.

I am just as disappointed as everyone else with the Boomers play and agree with most of the comments however beating Spain was never really a possibility even with Bogut as we just don't have the same depth of talent as the top 5 teams.

I cannot see us beating Russia & beating GB at home will be tough.

Maybe A Gaze should put his hand up to coach the national team after the games

Sorry Anonymous have to disagree with your comment "Nothing about the Boomers spain were on another level". Yes spain lifted their intensity in the 3rd quarter and yes they are superior players then us in many ways, however if you shoot 4 from 25 odd from outside with most being open good shots, then YES it is something about the boomers. Can it be fixed with these current players, i have my doubts. We played well in many areas but 4 from 25 or whatever it ended up being. this is putting so much pressure on our bigs inside. Obviously people are expressing their frustration with our team and 1 fundamental area of the game that we are so terrible at.

We seem to have quarters in which the offense stalls.

Ok, two warm up games out the way, now time for the serious stuff. But seriously...no real surprises yet, prior to the games most thought the Boomers were a 50/50 chance against the boys from Brazil and expected a loss to the Spainards. Have China and Great Britain as wins and Russia as 50/50.

Lets hope Brazil drop their games against Russia, Spain and Great Britian (emphasis on hope).

Brown's had four years, not two weeks! But now is not the time for the blame game, we lost to a team we were expected to, although not quite in such embarrassing fashion, so we have to leave that behind and beat China.

We have to make top eight, that would be a disaster if we don't from this Group. Anything better is a bonus given we havent beaten a single world class team in an official tournament play since 2008.

Add to that, we are 4-16 against such opponents since Gaze retired.

Channel 9 went to the game about 2 minutes before halftime , then showed the third quarter
and didn't go back , after that .
Which you'd expect . Not a pretty sight .

Lucky for Patty he signed his extension with the Spurs before this tournament because he has looked more NBA D-league than the real show so far.

this would've good to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Su5-UkMrCA&feature=fvwp

but i'd settle for some outside shots dropping

Just adding to my meaningless stats, we were something like 9-23 against the top teams from 1988-2000. I guess we are a good second tier country who has only produced two world class players (Gaze and Bogut) in that period when looking at that.

Not much defence being played by the boomers but check out the shooting of Heal. No wonder gaze is getting so frustrated with this teams shooting.

Boomer v USA 1996

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3OCJBVgGHM

the lack of ball movement is a real concern.reckon we would have been better to keep Goorjian as coach and why does brown select PC if he was not gonna play he would of been better selecting a younger player

Casey calling ibaka "u-Baka" was so annoying and an insight into how little he follows the game.

The main problem here is that Brown didn't change anything up when Spain went on that third q tear. I'd have to disagree about the free throw situation somewhat. While Spain were favoured, there were a couple of instances where Newley took it at the rim and then faded sideways away from the contact with his finish. That's not how you attack the rim.

Some other observations:

- Delly has a major kink in his jumpshot that needs correcting.
- our defense is world class to start the game, and then dies off: what's the point of putting so much effort in if it's only going to be for a half?
- for a team who applies that kind of pressure, we need to loosen the rotation to prevent the effort on d tiring the legs out from underneath our shooters.
- still see absolutely zero swagger on the offensive end from anyone except ingles
- this team is on par offensively with the cairns taipans. Maybe worse. It's like watching a middling college team who simply cannot score from anything except a well executed set play.
- why don't we run any pick and rolls? Why is the pick and roll not taught properly to young Aussies? We have multiple options and combos to run pick and rolls all day.

Can we start a John Casey drinking game

Drink when:

He calls a dunk a "flush"
Someone gets a shot to "stick"
Someone misses - therefore their shot doesn't "tumble"

I'm sure there is way more

I now remember John Casey Drinking Game was a thread about 5 years ago ... and John Casey Bingo. How stupid am I. I couldn't get it to tumble.

User friendly roll.....runs out of real estate HAHA

Get your own name there paul! I got it first!

Don't complain about Casey - I remember when Brian Taylor (AFL great and sometime basketballer)commentated NBL with Drewey.

All Taylor could say was that he wanted to see more biffo, and that was the only thing that ever got him excited about the game.

Reading all these posts, its starting to reflect soccer in AUS. Lots of comments about Brown stepping in and not working well, does not know the players etc. We have bad skills etc, cant run plays etc. I take thew wide view how can we be competitive internationaly when basketball in Australia is going backwards. Like soccer the game needs to be financial have strong junior programs developing kids into world class athletes with the basic skills etc.. both sports are in same boat. I wish AFL was an international game as they have it all sorted from the ground up. Like them or hate them other sports need to have a strong national body setting (or commission)setting the agenda.

I think we showed in this game that at best, we can compete and maybe upset a team such as Spain on our day. Our defense is right up there, although we seemed to drop off in the 3rd...

As others have said, prior to the games nobody really expected us to beat Spain, and we managed to keep the margin respectable in the end.

Where we are really struggling is on offence, where at times we are impotent. The 3-ball continues to hurt badly.

I echo the sentiments of many others,someone liek PC could have helped in both games to date. Why include him in the team for 3 point shooting and not use him when we need him?

We also seem to not use David Andersen effectively. In the game against Brazil we went to him in the second half and he delivered. We have really not gone to him again since.

Mills and Ingles look like our man most capable to contribute offensively, but both have really yet to break a game open but will have a few more chances yet.

Delly continues to get more minutes as he is the only guy on this team that knows how to run a team and get others involved. Some of his creativity on offence has been great - but we need to run more pick and rolls with him and Baynes in particular as they seem to have clicked.

So much to say, but in essence, we all new the Brazil game was going to be 50/50. We all knew the Spain game was unlikely, so now we move into the games we SHOULD be expected to win against China and GB, and then the 50/50 against Russia.

I'm not counting my chickens just yet as we have yet to win a game in these Olympics, but a win against China and GB will mean we finish 4th in our group at worst, and a follow up win against Russia will see us 3rd and avoid USA.

I just want to make sure we finish in the top 4 in our group first and foremost. A game against USA I can live with if we finish 4th, as at least we finish top 8 which many people would have accepted prior to the games and a chance to still finish 5th. But a game against the USA is also a chance for guys like Delly, Ingles, Baynes, Andersen and Maric to show their worth against NBA stars and increase their chances of gaining interest from NBA teams.

But we need to win our next two games...lets just focus on China.

I'm not going to discuss coaching just yet and will leave that to after the games.

Mick you say that Delly has a major kink in his jump shot. I admit it looks awkward but he usually gets the job done. As college players Delly has the better fg% from his latest year that Mills who looks brilliant yet can't sink quicksand at the moment.

Seriously guys if we lose to GB in basketball i don't think i'll be able to get out of bed for a few days.

Plus Marty Clarke is there WTF. These coaches along with swimming need to not pick on old name payers. There are new younger players , late developers, who need to be considered for the future in many of our aust sports. Clarke loves his boys like caddie and creek but don't just pick em on name. THINK outside the square!