Yeah it seems the Boomers 1st pre-tournament game starts tonight v Finland.
As per Basketball Australia website

Airbnb Australian Boomers pre-FIBA Basketball World Cup Tour

Lithuania Tournament

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Finland
Friday 8 August @ Klaipeda, Lithuania 11:15pm (All times AEST)

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Ukraine
Saturday 9 August @ Klaipeda, Lithuania 11:15pm

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Lithuania
Tuesday 12 August @ Klaipeda, Lithuania 2:00am

Finland Invitational

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Finland
Wednesday 13 August @ Helsinki, Finland 2:00am

Nice Tournament

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Ukraine
Saturday 16 August @ Nice, France 2:00am

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Philippines
Sunday 17 August @ Nice, France 2:00am

Airbnb Australian Boomers v France
Monday 18 August @ Nice, France 4:30am

Strasbourg Tournament

Airbnb Australian Boomers v Finland
Saturday 23 August @ Strasbourg, France 4:30am

Airbnb Australian Boomers v France
Monday 25 August @ Strasbourg, France 3:00am

Are these games going to be shown on livebasketball.tv??

The Lithuania v Ukraine game has a stream, so hopefully the Lith v Boomers gane the next night will have too.

Looks like Australia vs Ukraine is going to be streamed tomorrow night on the Lithuanian station above but no mention of the Aus vs Finland matchup.

I mentioned this in the other thread but for those that may have missed it the Lithuanian national broadcastor has an app that allows you to watch their channels live. The app is called LRT GROTUVAS. If they are broadcasting the games locally (and i think that would be likely) you can download this app for free and watch the games. the only negative is i dont know how you could record it or watch it later. Let me know if you have trouble finding the app but should come up easily enough.

What crappy timing. I was in Klaipeda recently. Would have been awesome to cheer on the Boomers there!

I have the app running Phil but I can't see tonight's game in any program listing. My Lithuanian is a little rusty though!

11pm AEST tonight.

Game vs Finland live online via SportoTV.

Link: Australia vs Finland

They are streaming all games of Lithuanian tournament.

Thanks LC!!

Brilliant!!!

Cheers LC!

Thanks LC now I've got no choice but to stay up with work at 6:30 tomorrow lol

You bewdy!

LC I could kiss you.

But I wont, for now.

10.45PM Adelaide time

You can watch the teams warming up now!

KingPodge - I don't know you well enough, but I am flattered (I think).

A great legitimate stream too! All Lithuanian games are being streamed via this same site.

Apparently Drew Gooden suiting up for Finland this WC was a hoax...

Damn is that Goulding in civvies?
Injured?

dropping in and out for anyone else?

Mine was Josh, but I switched off the HD button on the bottom right and is working well now

Great stream in HD for me :)

A vast improvement on the U17 men's coverage by FIBA tonight ;)

Any word on Goulding?

The Fins have been setting some nice screens to get their shooters open looks and they are nailing them. They are also getting up in our face on D and we look rushed and out of sync a lot on offence. Exum looking very tentative so far. Dellavedova is going to have to do a LOT of work at the point in this tournament by the looks.

We looked much better with Bairstow and Baynes out there early. Defence dropped off once we started to sub our starters.

Gibson is terrible at this level and shouldn't be on this team. People forget that until they see him play. why??

We are really making it hard on ourselves with no shooters too...

I hope Lemanis works out his rotations because his sub patterns have been a bit odd...obv very early days though

Gibson is terrible... Why oh why...
Also, Andersen really really needs to retire already.

They can get a flawless HD stream from Lithuania but the folk at the NBL cannot get NBL.tv to work.

That's better... Close out on the shooters and run.

Bairstow and Motum look the best out of the bigs

Oh and I've been hating on Andersen in the green and gold for like 12 years now. Not just half a game.

Much better 2nd stint from Exum. Liking Bairstow's agility and hustle compared to his direct opponents.
Better agility from our bigs is allowing us to slow their penetration and our guards are starting to get steals again as a result. Much better last few mins.

Wow, Gibson did something good.

Motum is quality finishing under the basket, he was doing it in summer league also. Its like a quick release layup..

Brock Motum has seriously improved leaps and bounds. I really hope he makes an NBA squad this year.

Good comeback.

33 for Finland is Troy Murphy who was drafted by the Bulls a view years ago but never really saw any court time. Think he is with the Jazz this season? He was suiting for them in the Summer League. Definitely a 3 point shooter!

one made 3 for the half by my count. No wonder they are down despite owning inside and in transition. Gonna be the story of our WC campaign...

Whatever happened to our ability to shoot the 3? Australia used to be renowned for it.

Agreed! Loving the Brockus Motumus. Showing once again how sneaky he is at getting open looks. Smart player.

I think Gibson's copping some unfair heat on here tonight. He was very good in that second stint he had, pressuring their point guard and taking his scoring opportunities when they came.

How long since we stepped off the plane? Many of the guys definitely looked a step slow in all their movement and decision-making in the first half. Lots of passes just being made a split second too late and fast break opps blown due to poor decision-making.

Jawaii looks shocking. so slow and has trouble on closing out on bigs that can shoot the 3. How Ben simmonds didn't make this team is beyond me.

oops! Sorry guys, yes indeed, it's Erik Murphy not Troy. As much as I love the Bulls, clearly his lack of court time led me to confuse him with the other and better Murphy! ;)

looks like the shot clocks fugged???

Did anyone elses stream go to shit at half time?

Oh that was totally a 3....

Ingles big in the 3rd quarter so far.

Defence has lifted again.

Brockus Motumus still playing really cleverly out there.

Jawaii still looks like he needs to eat 12 less donuts a day.

Get jawai off now and take a time out. Everyone looks gassed.

Shooting clinic..

Aus lacking a rim protector too..

Every time Jawai has stepped onto the court, the Finns always seem to be able to get an open look from outside.

Yeah Jawai is far too slow. They just carve us up on D as soon as he is on the floor. Not happy with how out of shape he is either.

How many points has motum got? He has to be leading the team. And seriously, wtf is Jawai even doing on at this point.

I thought Jawai would have been in better shape to get a gig on this team...he has done some good things, but defensively he is a liability right now.

Loving Bairstow & Motum.

Bairstow and Motum look like the only NBA players on this Boomers team, (even though only Bairstow is the only one out of the two to have an NBA contract)

The Finns move the ball well, set good screens and are shooting the lights out but the real problem is that they didn't get the memo that we have NBA guys on our team!

Andersen still can't do anything at all right.

Seriously, those guys can hit open 3's. You probably should have realised that after the first 15 they hit.

This is a joke. An absoloute joke. Whats the point of even bringing out the big guns of delly and bairstow if you're going to play jawai and gibson 5-6 mins a half?

Have Finland missed a 3?

anyone got a box score ? they would have to be over 70% from 3pt land

I think the Boomers scouting report on Finland said Finland can't shoot 3s so don't bother guarding them

Lol @ the commentator. He's been ading -is to the end of every players name on our team. Then he goes and calls Lemanis "Lemon-o"

I hope Dante just had an "embarrasment" injury on that one...

First lead since the first quarter!

JINGLES!

JINGLES!

if i understand correctly -aus is the male suffix ?

Ankle? All those Adidas haters will come on out if he is wearing them.

yeah, and in oz the term "outback shack" means dunny right?

I said it before and I'll say it again. JINGLES!

Joe showing why he should be in the NBA

old heads Jingles and Newley showing how its done..

Love Delly's effort countering all the screens the Finns set. His D has been great down the stretch. Also did a great job boxing out the Finnish big man when he slipped the screen and then came up with the rebound! That led to Ingles go-ahead three.

Speaking of which, nice to see Ingles getting the eye of the tiger when the game is on the line. He came up big when it mattered tonight.

Lots of things to improve on, but an interesting game and glad to get the win.

Definitely a solid win. Finland are a good team and we were getting our legs under us after a lot of travel, not to mention Lemanis was trying to give everyone a run.

If we'd been playing to win, no way Lemanis leaves Outback Shaq out there. I reckon both times Jawai was on they blew the lead out to 10 within minutes! Its not too late to replace him Andrej. Get someone in who isn't an overweight liability!

Ingles looked as though he was going through the motions in the first half but didn't he turn it on in the second. Anyone know what Goulding's injury was?

Patty mills with one arm is better than halF of these players, need to get him in :D

Tall Blacks will play Finland tough!

Recap of Boomers win over Finland is now up on PnR:

Boomers come from behind to defeat Finland in friendly

The Australian Boomers commenced their 2014 FIBA World Cup campaign in Klaipeda, Lithuania, against Finland. After a long trip and little time to shake the jet-lag, the Boomers used their experience down the stretch to come from behind to record a 100-95 victory.

I suspect 'world rankings anon' is the same person as 'end of season stats anon'!

Finland beat Russia, Greece, Slovenia and Turkey at last year's Eurobasket. They are by no means a world power, but they are a dangerous team who are on the rise.

Am i the only one that is really worried about the step down in coaching savvy from Brett Brown to Lemanis?

i dont know if lemanis can get it done at this level, he seems seriously outmatched in terms of Xs and Os..

Judging Lemanis on one game is a trifle early. This team is new and has only played 1 game together.

Agreed, but i was never keen on his selection, and his pick and roll coverages were really concerning. P&R defence isn't as make or break in the NBL.

Hopefully he turns it around but he's never coached a team of this calibre before so his learning curve might be steeper than any player's.

It's stating the blindingly obvious but we definitely miss Mills. What we lacked (which Finland had) was a guard who could create for himself out of pick and roll situations. Hopefully Goulding can be that guy if/when he gets over whatever injury he has. It isn't really in Dellavedova's or Exum's (not yet at least) skill-set as they're both primarily pass first guards.

With Jawai it was clearly a calculated gamble by Lemanis to select him. I think we need to wait until the end of the month to see if his mobility has improved before we can say conclusively whether or not it was a gamble worth taking.

Mick, are you sure the pick and roll coverage problems are a result of Lemanis' coaching? I thought it was more down to lack of foot-speed from some of our bigs and a few guys needing to get more repetitions in on our defensive system. Maybe some jet-lag too!

There is definitely a few issues but that is what we have 9 pre-tournament games for. If we played like this in the first game of the world cup you would be worried but there is no reason to panic yet. It is all about getting our best combinations out there and giving the whole team a run. The main rotations should not be any where near finalised until games 7 - 9.

Wasn't impressed with Jawai last night but there are quite a few more warm up games so may hold off criticism for now.
Bairstow and Motum were great for us.

I have no idea if lemanis is a good coach or not but looking 5-8 years into the future is he the coach who will let a group of thoroughbreds e.g. simmons, maker, adel, WmW, Exum, Bolden, Mading etc run.

"P&R defence isn't as make or break in the NBL"

Don't agree with that, some would say it's more so because most teams only have one big on the court leaving the bucket less protected when he's defending the pick-and-roll, especially with a lot of big guys able to pop offensively.

Brett Brown effectively admitted he struggled in the 2010 WCs so I'm not sure it's a step down in coaching, we'll find out once the real stuff starts I suppose.