Isaac
Years ago

China beats Boomers, 84-78

Depspite winning the rebound count 36-20, Australia fell to China 84-78.

China defeated Australia's men's basketball team, the Boomers, by six points in Beilun overnight in the first of two international friendlies, 84-78.

Toronto Raptors forward Nathan Jawai top scored for Australia with 14 points to go with 8 rebounds while Gold Coast Blaze guard James Harvey, who was named Captain of the Boomers for the tour prior to the game, added 12 points and 4 rebounds.

Townsville Crocodile Peter Crawford had an outstanding defensive game and finished with 9 points.

Quarter by quarter:
1 AUS 23 CHN 19
H CHN 42 AUS 41 (2318)
3 CHN 62 AUS 57 (20-16)
F CHN 84 AUS 78 (22-21)

CHINA 84 bt AUSTRALIA 78 (Nathan Jawai 14, James Harvey 12, Peter Crawford 9) in Beilun, China

China were without Yao and Yi.

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mystro
Years ago

and you guys didn't have bogut or mills, not a bad game for 2 teams playing without their big guns.

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Guam in NBL
Years ago

it's a very inexperienced team, not sure about the chinese team obviously, plus goorjian would have helped the opposition immeasurably. I think harvey is a good choice as captain, goorjian was never going to pick him while he was coach and I think he always deserved more opportunity than he got.

Here's a question: would the current Australian team beat the 2000 USA team if they played now. I'd say not, they have duncan, garnett, kidd, carter etc

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Sebastian
Years ago

Harvey played in the European tour Prior to the Olympic games and played in 1 or 2 of the iran series here at home as the side was being selected so to suggest BG wouldnt pick him is incorrect.

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Guam in NBL
Years ago

Yeh but he played about 2 mins per game against Iran. Goorjian's mind was obviously made up before that series.

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Isaac
Years ago

Some video highlights which focus on the Chinese team.

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AK-47
Years ago

From the video above Australia look terrible!

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Anonymous
Years ago

has there ever been worse statement about the state of australian basketball than this

while Gold Coast Blaze guard James Harvey, named Boomers captain before the game, added 12 points and four rebounds.

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