Anonymous
Years ago

2017 FIBA Asia Cup - 17/08 QF Australia vs. China

This is being played on Thursday night WST 11:30pm, so 1am CST/1:30am EST Friday morning for the rest of you. Airing on "Fox Sports 506" (horrible new naming system of channels by Fox Sports btw, wtf were they thinking?)

China beat Syria last night barely 81-80. The game before that they beat Iraq barely by 1pt as well.

We get the extra benefit of rest. However on paper out of the other three top seeds we face the strongest team - unfair if we lose ;)

If we win the QF the SF opponent will be NZ you would think.

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AngusH
Years ago

This will be the first time we've faced anything approaching "size" this tourney, so we'll see. We should win comfortably, but it's a decent step up from the teams we played in our pool.

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B.O
Years ago

Will the refs be um, Chinese?

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Anonymous
Years ago

No.

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Baller#3
Years ago

I dare say this game is why we have been continually shooting from the perimeter. We could have dominated with size all tourney so far, but then when adjusting to bigger teams may have struggled. I think we will come in a wipe them if we play the same style as the first three games.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Baller#3 makes sense. I thought it was odd they were jacking it against midgets. So either it was preconceived (let's hope) or just laziness.

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Anonymous
Years ago

jacking it up*

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Anonymous
Years ago

Newley....pfft

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Anonymous
Years ago

Urrgh I've got $200 on Australia -14.5.. ffs let's go boomers!!

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Anonymous
Years ago

WTF why is it so close? Pathetic if we lose. $1.06 unbackable with the bookies yet could be a boilover.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Two threes in a row from unexpected sources makes it +8 all of a sudden. Even the commentators just a minute ago were saying WTF at it being so close.

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Anonymous
Years ago

China get a tech flop to further bail us out.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Fastbreak now 66-55. A minute ago when I first turned it on it was 55-53.

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Anonymous
Years ago

57-55 actually

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Anonymous
Years ago

71-55 now at 3QT, just a tiny 16-0 run in four to five minutes. Another trash team put into the dumpster.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yo -14.5pt dude you must be happy now lol

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Anonymous
Years ago

Who would you take out and add in come qualifiers?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Damian Martin comes to mind first for additions.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Newley out.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Out
Norton
Gliddon
Newley
Blanchfield
Kay
Brandt

In
Martin
Sobey
Goulding
Moller
Bairstow
Johnson
+
Cadee
Mccarron
Creek
Kickert
Anderson
Hodgson

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Anonymous
Years ago

Oh.. and Lisch for someone else.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Goulding or Sobey (if continues being hot) as well.

That's for PG and SG.

This Asian Cup team is an NBL B team.

Bigs as per Asian Cup.

An A team starting five would be imo:

Martin
Goulding or Sobey
Newley
Kickert
Andersen

Bench players from this Asian Cup.

One naturalised player allowed = Lisch?

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Anonymous
Years ago

I had Newley above but only due to the name. Take him out, he has been such a bum lately.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Martin/Cadee
Sobey/Lisch/Mccarron
Creek/Moller
Kickert/Bairstow/Johnson
Anderson/Hodgson

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LC
Years ago

Boomers vs Tall Blacks semi final showdown.

Boomers set up semifinal showdown with Tall Blacks

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paul
Years ago

Hodgson/Andersen
Kickert/Kay
Creek/Blanchfield/Newley
Goulding/McCarron
Lisch/Cadee/Norton

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Anonymous
Years ago

Anon:

'I had Newley above but only due to the name. Take him out, he has been such a bum lately.'

Newley leading assists with just under 6 per game...

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Anonymous
Years ago

Newley also 2nd in steals per with 1.7 per... Second only tpo Creek with 2 per...

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paul
Years ago

Brad has struggled, and the team has been worse with him on the court, but I think that's because he is out of shape, not because he has become a bad player all of a sudden.

Once he's in-season I think he'll be of definite value for the Boomers, particularly for the road games.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Absolutely paul, thanks. He should come good.

LOL @ the "but 6 assists and 1.7 steals pg" stat replies.

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twenty four
Years ago

Are people here serious with the Moller stuff? It's getting out of hand, even if they're not. Let's see him actually play ONE good game of pro ball before handing over the reins of Aus basketball to him...

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