Boy Gorj has 2 of the best 3 point shooters ever in this squad yet Bear has the last shot. Obviously do not know the circumstances but can not imagine why he would be the go to player.

I still remember the NBL semis a few yrs back when the ball went to our man sappa twice down the closing stages of the game for 3 pt shots to keep the 6ers in the game. Smythe said he felt that the other team were going to expect someone else to shoot it so the play was sapper.

Dont pretend to know about NBL much anymore but ronaldson did have good 3 pt shot for a BIG fella a few yrs ago (and the confidence to back it up).

Its probably also easier to get a shot off quickly, in the dying seconds if your around 6 foot 8 as Ronaldson would be instead of a 6 foot guard as Heal is.

I would rather use ronaldson to screen Brett or Heal for a three than bear having a wide open 3

I would rather have ronaldson handing out the towels!
Or
The H2O!
Or
The tickets!
Or
Souviners
Or
Keys
or
pom-poms
or
Hot Dogs

J bags you are rude!
Eh!

China's guards are pretty weak. Seems like me to be a pretty shocking result.

Isaac, I have the fiba buzzer installed, but at start-up it keeps saying 24.7.2004 is not a valid date. My date and time on my cpu are fine. Did this happen to you?

Yeh, was just talking to DJ -- happened to him too.

It'll probably come up with a few errors occasionally and make some clicking noises (reloading or something), but it seems to work apart from that. Good idea, I think.

"Ronaldson had a chance to win the game on the buzzer with a 3-point attempt, but missed it."

-myeh, if it were a medal game i might be annoyed if ronaldson missed the buzzer beater. a leadup game against china, you win some you lose some.

"From outside, China were 57% to Australia's 32%."

-either our perimeter defense is terrible or china got lucky. i dont see our perimeter defensive pro J.Smith among those scorers, anyone know how many minutes he got?

"China went to the line 42 times to our 15."

-either we aren't be aggressive enough and settling for jumpshots too much, or the refing was poor.

"We were out-rebounded 28-21."

-not a terrible margin playing against yao.

here is the url to the box score:

http://ba1.basketball.net.au/resources/ba/boomers/china.htm

as a team we put up ALOT of 3s.
3pt FG Attempts - Aus 38, China 14
neilsen was the only player to put up more than 3 2pt fg attempts for australia.

They must have a different way of counting rebounds than they do for ABL/NBL/NBA in China. I see the stats say that there were only 49 rebounds for the game, with China winning 28/21, but Australia missed 42 Field Goals (combined 2 & 3) and China missed 30. That means there was 30 Team Rebounds for the Game, which would be an unusually high number I would think.

Australia will never have a premier team that will match the world's best teams with the likes of Lithuania, Germany, France etc.
The only real player there who happens to be 20 and the youngest is Bogut the rest have their own styles and arrogance which seems highly obvious when watching it through the TV screen (there'll never be an AUstralia with a medal at the world's or O-Games). Personal opinion.