Let down the tyres on the Team USA bus

Aussies by 7

oh you think they will just go there and get star struck by those NBA superstars? Of course they go there to win, a belief to win any games by ignoring the status of their opponents.

We as fans think differently. For many years those NBA superstars were sold all over the world and we always look at them as heroes going against the rest of the worlds including ours. And we will always be stubborn or persistent in playing against those basketball Gods of our minds.

But again, they are in the Olympics. An ancient flame that ignited hundreds of years ago when commercialism still nowhere to wash our minds.

Look how Lithuania have done it this morning to US Team. and still we couldnt be convinced because they are Lebrons and Kobes.

Maybe, we want the Boomers just to make a no show in the game just to satisfy our hollywood movie like perception happens.

ok......0 x turnovers for entire game....95percent from the 3 line....2/3 game ending injuries to (key) usa players....bogut makes an appearance and plays a full game, racking up 30 points & 25 rebounds......if all this fails (BB's plan b).....give the ball to mills and get out of the way !!

too much of a hollywood movie eh. yes, NBA games are hollywood products. And when you have too much of them you tend to forget other parts of the world even your own who of course have the right to play and win any game.

Mills will always going to do it. Who else? ask Brown

Mills is not bad. On the court, he took more shots to compensate lack of talents in the team. thats Brett Brown plan for sure(confront him if you dont this coaching plan).

Off court, Mills comes from a family of Sports circle, plays musical instruments, make nice jokes, well liked by his NBA mates even given a prvilege to host TV segment in Portland. Also, always ignore any racial issues towards him and instead prove it on his games.

i dont understand why there are more hates than admiration for such a nice guy

I want to see strong defence..absolutely pressure every ball handler and every pass. Take the style out of their game and reduce them to a skills based team. Push them out of their comfort zone and absolutely harrass them. Push LeBron the most, he is the most mistake riddled player when he is forced to play outside of himself and this will ruin his confidence and make him collapse like he has so often before.

Come out hard on the Defence and push hard to the ring to try to get their foul count up.

We have to play with self belief and constant movement. Brett Brown wanted us to be the fittest team on the court and this is the game we have to show we are.

I think the USA are beatable because of their arrogance. We showed how damaging we can be against GB..continue that form and we can down the USA.

lithuania were very strong with the ball in offense.

Kobe leads NBA in FG attempts in years because the Lakers live and die on his offense in-spite of other scoring options that the team had.

Last season, Kobe finishes with 43% FG accuracy and they just let him walk away. The team lives and die with his offense.

Mills just little over at 44% FG after 4 games but he's more authority to shot more because of Bogut's absence and none from the Boomers can step up further.

Durant, Westbrook and Lebron James belongs to the top five players who led NBA if field goal attempts last season.

Its just an accord game plan that many of us couldn't accept.

Better result is what mattered most for the team mostly when it gives them important wins.

I reckon we just need to play a grat game against Russia first!

I didn't know we had a "Derrick Anderson" on the Boomer's roster?

I think you mean David Andersen?

again, if we are in NBA where they encourage isolation plays, player match-ups are inevitable.

Looking at team USA roster, if we will think of match-ups then we better off not sending any team at all because those players are freaks in every department and will only eat our players.

But of course, we have to look too at this factor seriously.

So the rest of the participating teams will rely most on team offences and defences. Also players rotation will be an important factor too.

There's no way we will go on one-on-one plays against the americans.

and last, the sports psychology we are tough on. Have faith

Very simple, play an offense very high, outside of the 3pt line when with patty in. This will open up other offensive players.

Australia is due for something good to happen at this Olympics.

We can do it!

Cut their freaking heads off!!

yes and they been preparing for it since the conclusion of Beijing Olympics.

sooner or later, the dream will become a reality

When is this game scheduled to be on TV?

Hopefully channel 9 can show at least 3/4 of the full game.

To note the question above, no, we are not definitely playing the USA, but it is more than likely.

If Argentina can beat the USA, then they might move to the top of group A. I say 'might' because the final result will depend on a couple of things.

If France lose to Nigeria, then Argentina just need to beat the USA to finish first. However, if France beat Nigeria, then Argentina will need to beat the USA by 17 points to finish first.

So all Aussies should be cheering for Nigeria to get over the French, and then for the Argies to knock off the Yanks!

forget Ch. 9. people there doesn't know about the game. they just want to ride with its worldwide popularity.

i remember reading the news about that Belinda Snell's buzzer beating from the half-court. i almost freak out when none of the aussie writers can figure out how to explain it in a simple manner. one has writtten like "from its own back", ridiculous such

Lithuania played their game plan like they were playing any other opponent. They rebounded and ran hard looking for transition shots, and in the half court they spread the floor and either shot threes or took it to the cup.

It's not that different to Australian style basketball we see in the NBL, and ideally it's how our team can play in the future. Im not sure Brett Brown is quite ready to change his style in a couple of days though!

We just have to play our game and see how we go, hoping they have a horrific shooting night. Whatever we do we cant fall back into our habit of being reactive defensively or it could get really ugly.

Run the ball at every opportunity so that the USA doesn't have time to shut Patty and Delly out of the game.

Make it really physical to annoy the heck out of the pampered superstars.

And hope for a bit of luck in the shooting department, so that we get points from everyone who's free rather than just 3 or 4.

We have three players who take 60% of our shots (and score 58% of our points), so it is tough to expect others to score much.