


LC
Two years ago
Game is being played behind closed doors. no broadcast and unlikely there will be stats.

BALLER#3
Two years ago
Just saw boomers post it starts at 6pm eastern. But yeah, not televised :(

AlphabetA
Two years ago
Listed on the Courtside so may be streamed. It's stated on the app that all warm-up games will be streamed.


ME
(he/kangaroo)
Two years ago
The team always does this and I suspect it's because there are things they'll be running they don't want opponents to see.

rjd
Two years ago
It's a smart idea to make it a closed session to prevent scouting on their real sets. Although it's a bit odd because Australia in group E and Georgia in group F are likely to encounter each other in the next round if they both advance. The Boomers have done this a few times before with closed sessions leading up to major tournaments.

Shaggy
Two years ago
Damn it. And this will be the one (and only) game that Dyson plays any good!

curtley
Two years ago
Showing your hand to Georgia will only be detrimental if they sell their secrets to a better team.

Perthworld
Two years ago
I read that as 'state secrets' for some reason, probably due to simultaneously thinking about how Stalin was Georgian. Should we be worried?
Sorry, carry on.

Luuuc
Two years ago
If we lose to Georgia we can just ring their Secretary of State and ask him to find some more points to add to our total. There's apparently nothing wrong with them saying they've "recalculated" such that we end up the winners.

Frogmanbaby
Two years ago
Aussies won 86-81. Were up 51-33 at the half.

Weedy Slug
Two years ago
Reports are we looked like shite again, ball movement non existent, lots of turnovers.

Perthworld
Two years ago
If we lose to Georgia we can just ring their Secretary of State and ask him to find some more points to add to our total. There's apparently nothing wrong with them saying they've "recalculated" such that we end up the winners.
I believe the process of addition in that part of the world is termed 'put-in'.

Patty"TheGOAT"Mills
Two years ago
1Q 29:18 +11 (-18)
2Q 51:33 +18 (-15)
3Q 70:54 +16 (-21)
4Q 86:81 +5 (-27)
It was too bad I couldn't watch the practice game live.

ME
(he/kangaroo)
Two years ago
"Reports are we looked like shite again, ball movement non existent, lots of turnovers."
Chris Goulding also top scored which should give some indication how representative that is.

Knockdown3
Two years ago
"Reports are we looked like shite again, ball movement non existent, lots of turnovers"
That might mean that they weren't running plays (but probably a good time to try them out), and reverted to stagnancy.....
Or, (and hopefully not), there's not enough basic offensive structure to keep both the players and ball moving.
In such instances, at the very least, run some suffle motion, back cuts, drive & kick outs etc.
In any case, I hope we dont see alot of iso stuff as happened in the 2nd half of the Spain game last workd cup

KET
Two years ago
Whenever Aussies go ISO after the first few plays of the game, they look like crap.
Run and gun is their thing

Knockdown3
Two years ago
Agree Ket. It's never been an effective approach.

ME
(he/kangaroo)
Two years ago
We've been here and done this plenty of times. They would have been trying things out. Chris Goulding top scored. Do you expect Chris Goulding to top score at the cup? It's clear to me they got their lead then played with things and ran their bench and played provably at 50 percent. This is Georgia let's remember. Do you think Georgia is better or worse than say South Sudan? It's clear to Mr what happened. We need to relax. This team is going to be better than we've yet seen. It's been seen every single major tournament so I don't know why we continue to freak out.

Knockdown3
Two years ago
I understand and agree ME, the score in this game isn't a concern at all.
They have gone iso in tournament games and it's been ugly.
Im just saying i hope they dont revert to that, because it negates what they're good at.
Good that Goulding got decent minutes, the more rotations they can use in tournament games, the more than can keep their legs fresh and pressure teams with swarming D

Luuuc
Two years ago
Kay 17 (3 treys, 3 of last 4 Boomers' FGs)
Goulding 13
Reath 10
Cooks 9
Exum 9 (4 clutch FTs to close game)
Thybulle 9 (clutch late 3)
White 6
Mills 6
Giddey 4
Ingles 3
Daniels 2

Luuuc
Two years ago
^ From Michael Randall on twitter
https://twitter.com/MickRandallHS/status/1693976738689335565

ME
(he/kangaroo)
Two years ago
Yeah Mick says they shared the load, tried some things, goorj is happy so I am not seeing an issue.
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