4.30am Adelaide time.

Thanks kings. At that time channel 9 may show the whole game

If we play well we'll win this. Must pressure their guards and not let GB's 'big three' get good touches. Hopefully the refs let us beat Deng up like Brazil did.

at that time 9 may show no coverage at all.

wouldnt want to mess with someones fantastic opportunity to buy some shit.

Russia beat Spain in a thriller, so if Brazil beats China tonight as expected the best we can do is fourth. So now it just comes down to this game, win or go home.

I am confident we are a better team than GB in a head-to-head match-up though, even if their performances have been a little better than ours to date.

I was meant to be there. so disappointed.

current Arg v Spain 1/4 final with the winner to play USA. One side of the draw really loaded up.

Russia now got the easy quarter final game, looks like they are thru to semis, not bad for a team who had to go through qualifiers.

usa vs lithuania looks really good doesnt it.

we could learn alot from watching them. they are not going to compete with usa's athletes but the lithuanians are playing the game smart. if you use the ball well and make the most of your possessions on offense you put pressure on the other team to score down the other end.

for all their athletic ability we are not running the 100m sprint out there. beat them at basketball, plain and simple. skills and smarts.

I'm not sure an NBA coach, much less an NBA assistant, is suitable for the international game unless you're a team full of NBA athletes

Hasn't been Maric's tournament, that's for sure. Baynes has been better than expected finishing with dunks and cleaning up a bit.

We'll need to seriously pick up the pace to win this one.

We trail 36 to 46 at half time...

Our defense has been letting us down in this game s far which has been disappointing.

This is embarrassing.

Horrible start to 3rd quarter...Giving up an offensive board and score, turnover, missed layup...we just look so disorganised, rushed and without direction right now

Delly with two triples as we went on a 9-0 run...

C'mon!

Wow = back to a 3 point game!!! Delly and Mills filling it up from downtown! 14-2 run in the last 2 minutes...

Come on Boomers!

Nice sun by the boys

Wow...our transition is killing GB right now and Patty is stepping up.

All tied up on a Mills 3-point play = 53-all.

Mills bringing it! Seems to have improved his body control a lot

Need to keep that pressure up. We usually have a crap 3 qtr, need to turn that around to make som noise in these games, oh nice pass by Ingles & the Patty finish

17-2 run?

WTF? How can the refs take the FT's away from us???? Mills went to take FT's that Nielsen should have as the refs had no clue and then GB informed the refs and tghey took the shots away from us??? That's wrong!

Lol @ the refs decision on that play phase

The refs fuck up & take it out on us, never seen a decision like that

While Im a huge Delly fan I hate how streaky he is lol.. he's either dead on or misses everything, looks like he's just dead on tonight :p

Our half court offense is horrible still

Delly and Mills have all 22 Australian points in the 3rd quarter so far!

Baynes picks up his 4th is not good for us...

Mills getting it done on the "British" college player

Newley has been so valuable, even without outside shots dropping

Up 64-57 now! We have turned it right around...GB led by 15 early in the 3rd!

I agree Casey they were make up free throws

Now up 9, and we are on a 30-6 run!

Why was Patty stripped of those free throws earlier in the quarter? I don't get it!

30-14 run by Australia has the Boomers leading 66-60 at 3 quarter time!

GB hit a tough triple at the buzzer to arrest their slump.

It was Australia's best scoring quarter of the tournament to date but after 2 minutes we looked like going down as we trailed by 15!

Go You good thing. Baynes is NBA type. BANGGER

That was amazing. I cant remember ever seeing a bigger 8-minute turnaround in international basketball! Delly and Mills on fire.

The story was our defence though, how many scores did we get from our pressure? Hopefully we dont go inside our shells now we are in front, we need to play to win, not save the game.

i love this boomer shit

Our best qtr of the tournament. Great stuff.

WOWWWWWWWW

Mmmiiillllllsss!!!!!!!!!

PATTY

Solid defensive effort is creating some great opportunities at the other end. Brilliant turn around. Mills is doing very well - topping 30 points now.

Great start to the 4th! Andersen with a lovely turnaround J followed by a Mills triple! We now lead hy 11.

Mills has 32 points on very good shooting!

First time an Aussie has hit 30 points in an Olympics game since Shane Heal against New Zaaland many moons ago...

Awesome D continues as Mills nails another basket!

And I was gonna go back to bed at 1/2 time...

This is ridiculous.

13-0 run to start the final quarter by the Boomers! Mills continues to fill it up and now GB are getting ugly...

43-9 run now! The difference in individual class is obvious now the pace has picked up.

Channel 9 is a peice of shit and can go to hell

Mills is unconscious!

We just don;t look like missing right now for the first time in ths tournament!

Mills sits dow with 39 points and 14/22 from the field and 5/7 from downtown.

Maybe not Melo efficient but Patty put in some work

Channel 9 still haven't gone to the basketball, preferring to chat and do some updates. Is it too paranoid to suggest they don't want to promote a game whose domestic league is broadcast by a competitor?

Oh and is that a olympic scoring record by Mills?

That's the high score at this games now for Mills, topping Melo's 37. Hits the bench with 39. Wow.

I can't believe we now led by 31!

We trailed by 15 less than 2 minutes into the 3rd quarter!!!

Grat defensive second half which has sparked our transition game which has destroyed GB. Paul you are right on the mark...

59-13!!!!!! The whole team is in the collective groove. Great feeling when it's all flowing like that.

Gibbo!!!

Yeah LC, amazing it took us so long to pile on the pressure but my god it was worth the wait!!!

All our shots falling now...

As Gaze said - "When it rains it pours!"

Did anyone see that coming?

Wow - 70-24 in the last 18 minutes! Unbelievable. And geez Im glad, because my faith in aussie basketball was being severely tested at 36-51.

Mills has 39, the highest individual score since a 42-point outing from Oscar Schmidt. Yet, Channel 9 haven't shown a second of the game that I've seen. Couldn't have snuck away just briefly?

Not the highest individual Australian tally I don't think, but very timely.

46 point turnaround on the back of an anon claiming the scoreline was embarrassing. Then everyone came to the party.

Hopefully they carry that shooting form through to the next game because we could do with another win to try and avoid the US for a bit longer.

This is downright freaky.. I know we needed to work on our outside game but this is ridiculous!! :)

70-29 second half by the Boomers, including 40 points in the last quarter, saw us crack the 100 point mark to win by 31.

We had 11 players score with only Barlow missing out on the party.

Delly and Mills sparked us in the 3rd as we cranked up our D.

We shot 57% from the field and 54% from downtown!

We now can only finish 4th and we will likely match up with USA in the crossover due to Russia's amazing win over Spain after trailing 22-2 in the first quarter!

One of the more amazing games I've seen.

The offensive production goes without saying but Joe Ingles D on Deng has to be commended. I think he does a lot of things at NBA level. Perhaps everything except create his own shot.

Did channel 9 show any of that?

It's a joke ch 9 are showing replays, interviews and updates anything to not show the ball. Am thinking about boycotting ch 9 after these Olympics or when I leave the hole that is my isa

Damn Russia

If I'm not mistaken, C9 did not show a single minute...they prefer interviews and highlights over live action unless it is swimming, rowing, has something to do with horses or now athletics...

Off topic, it's pouring outside The Boomers made it rain here as well

"Patty Mills earned right to make shots" - Brown

http://projectspurs.com/2012-articles/august/spurs-brett-brown-patty-mills-earned-right-to-make-shots.html

Something contagious was rampant within the Boomers squad in that second half...3 point shooting!!! Let's hope the second half symptoms persist against Russia and then a likely team USA...

Fletch, problem with that boycot is that I already want to boycot Ch 10 for pushing some gender-bias bullshit like whatever that men-planning-weddings show they have planned is. And Ch 7 have their share of trash. Pushed further into the SBS and ABC corner.

Can't we avoid the US? Oh, I see - losing team still gets a point and we lose any head-to-head with Spain or Brazil?

Only way to avoid US would be for Argentina to beat them. And if they're in that kind of form then I don't like our chances vs them either!

At the end of the day, it may not have always been pretty, but we've beaten the teams we should beat & haven't been disgraced in the other games. Just a shame we couldn't have snuck the Brazil game & had a punchers chance in a QF.

Hopefully we finish our pool games with a good showing vs Russia. Our best will be competitive, though the Russians have played great so far.

Im pretty sure Patty taking 20+ shots isnt in our best interests against any team with decent guard talent. Gaze used to average about 12, Parker averages 14, Penney 14 - I think it's lazy coaching by Brown.

It was great tonight, but riding the hot streaks of an inconsistent player is not a recipe for success in international basketball. We need to find ways to use his talent to open up the rest of our offence.

Lithuania just showed it again tonight how to play against NBA all stars. Why can't the Boomers do it.

Honestly, i dont worry Russia at all. I leave it to the coaching staff and just enjoy the game

Boomers def GB 106-75 Box Score


We held Deng to 9 points on 3/15 shooting.

Mills line...39pts (14/22 FG, 5/7 3PT, 6/6 FT), 5reb, 2ass, 1st, 4to in 30min

Andersen had 13pts (6/11 FG, 1/2 3PT), 5reb, 1blk

Ingles had 11pts (5/12, 1/5 3PT), 2reb, 4ass, 1st, 1to

Baynes had 10pts (5/6 FG), 4reb, 1to but sat plenty in second half on 4 fouls.

Dellavedova had 9pts (3/6 FG, 3/5 3PT), 3reb, 3ass, 3to

Obviously Mills was something else, but I really like Newley's stat line: 8 points, 4/4 from the line, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals

2 blocks as well. Such a shame he cant shoot anymore, he would just be something else.

BTW, assuming France beats Nigeria, Argentina would have to beat the USA by 18 (if maths correct) to move to first place - unlikely.

Hey guys I made a post about on the WWOS facebook page regarding their lack of live coverage of the Boomers in this game.

Like my post and let's see if it can go viral to bring attention to this matter.

Here is the link : http://www.facebook.com/wideworldofsports/posts/454808141216334

Maric is rubbish. Thankfully Baynes has been solid and aggressive and so has Andersen on offense although his D and rebounding could be better.

Have to thank foxtel for their coverage it has been great. Channel 9 coverage has been terrible, as it has for every olympics i can remember.

ch 9 are an embarrassment. they showed "highlights" starting from the second half that went for about 3 mins at most. was pretty much a sports tonight clip.

ok, so maybe when you had one station we could understand you wouldnt run a full bball game as you would lose a fair amount of viewers, but now you have 3 stations, and 2 are showing identical olympic coverage (wtf is the point of that?) you can run the long form sports ie bball, volleyball, hockey on one while you cut from swimming events etc like you do on the other. hell, you could easily delay those games like 30 mins to fit them in without to much criticism, it would be a viable and successful option.

why the frak dont they do that??

they just dont give a shit.

Would be nice to save a game like this and use it against a strong USA team. We'd almost have a shot then! Glad Patty had a strong outing, people were starting to hate on him, now they will be jumping on his bandwagon! Also another solid effort by Anderson.
Great effort by the team, love Gaze commentating these games!
Can actually justify the amount of money dished out on Foxtel every month by the Olympics coverage alone!

Where are all of the patty haters now???
He takes shots because that's what he is told to do.
Patty's role at the olympics isnt to be a pg it's to play at the 2.

Wow, I thought everyone hated Mills, things change quick here!

Isaac, Aussie highest is 48 by Eddie P vs Mexico in 1976.

Really wish Newley was back here in Adelaide, looked real good. Top 10 in blocks for the tournament.

DB5, I knew who had the highest Australian score but couldn't remember how to spell his name off the top of my head!

Boomers unlucky not to finish higher in their pool. Luck of the draw from the qualifiers (We could have got Nigeria or even Lithuania)as it turns out will be the biggest factor between us finishing 4th in the pool, which IMO will be seen as a par performance, and 3rd which would be looked upon as a good effort. Get the luck with Nigeria in our pool and it almost certainly would have given us a shot at France/Russia/Argentina in the crossover.

haha, neither could I hence the Eddie P. Haha.

Also didnt Heal have a huge game for the Boomers with about 10 3's??

We all knew Mills was capable of this. I've been waiting for his breakout, explosive game. Unfortunately, for every stunning game he has like this one, he has plenty of 7/20 type games with some trigger-happy rubbish thrown in too.

I expected Mills to have stronger tournament. His form did fall away in the later pre-Olympic games, so I suppose we had warning that his form wasn't so great. I expected him to produce more in the previous games. It just took his 4th game to pull out something good, and it was damn good. Hopefully he can carry this shooting form through to the next two games, not only his trigger-happy form.

Thought Werner was our best shooter .
Later , I saw Palubinskas .

Two of the keys to this win that not many people have mentioned were Delly's shooting at the start of the 3rd quarter. Three 3-pointers set the tone and gave us some momentum to get the offence going. Also, we kept Deng scoreless in the second half, and amazing defensive effort!

I note the comments above about Newley. His all-round play has been brilliant, and as another posted note he is top-10 in blocks for the tournament. Given his recent three-point shooting woes, I felt so sorry for him when he finally made one, but stepped out of court in the process so the basket didn't count!

Delly's threes stopped the rot, and the defence turned the game. It was nice to see us really put some trademark Aussie ball pressure on and expose GB's vulnerable backcourt, who wouldnt start on any NBL team.

That pressure (and GB hitting the O-boards too hard on bad shots) really uncorked Mills in the open court where he is one of the best in the world.

I feel sorry for Deng, it is so hard for him to be effective with so little talent feeding him. Look at his games against good teams the past two years:

v Lith - 8/22
v Turk - 6/16
v Spain 4/12
v Russ - 8/27
v Braz - 3/13
v Aus - 3/15

The only time he got off was late in the game against Spain a few nights ago when he finished 10/20 after being 6/15. Not surprisingly that was the closest they have got to beating a good team.