Spain's bigs are just too good and really their guards are just too good.

I'd love to see us push them but would be content with a 15-20 point loss, anything more than that could be disastrous for us as we'll need to beat China & GB plus hope we can snatch the last game against Russia to really have any hope of advancing to the next round.

Can't see us beating Russia but if we've just come off of two good wins against China & GB the guys confidence might be up and we might be bable to jag it.

they have their best cattle and we dont. hopefully we push them hard and keep it tight. if its tight right until they end they might fold under pressure.

Blind faith, wont beat Spain, sadly we just dont have the fire power to compete with theirs. Spain will get better as the tournement goes on, and will give the US a decent run for it all come medal time.

Patriotism is great, but be completely honest about this Boomers group.

Also, forget Mills, this should be Andersen's team, guy can flat out play the game. With his touch, isolate him on the block every time, and play from there.

Just because people are saying they don't think they can win, doesn't mean they don't want them to win.

If we struggled to guard the bigs of Brazil, what hope do we have guarding the bigs of Spain?

I hope we win and will be barracking hard for the Boomers, I just don't think we have the cattle. The margin will be determined by Mills shot selection and our ability to maintain possession.

A simple way to look at it - if the 3 ball drops we can win

And predict that mills will be completely shut down by spain - so someone else will need to step up and make some big shots

but I do like the boomers when they attack the hoop off pick n rolls

Boomers are due for a big one, after many years of waiting. I think we will upset, hopefully not Australia

People are missinformed. we dont need to beat 3 teams to just advance.. we need to beat 2... but we need to beat 3 to advance comfurtably and miss the US... its gonna be harder then we expected. Can we beat Spain? well yes we can, as for thoies saying "whos gonna stop gasol" etc... who was gonna stop any opf the players from france? no one particular person does it..mits a group effort... It can be done, but Im skeptical as to whether it will.

I think we should save our upset for the preliminary stages.

Being realistic, we've got no hope. Would be great to see them win, but Spain is a class above the boomers. I think we should be more worried about beating GB and China to advance to the next round. There is no guranteee we'll beat either of those two. Andersen definately should be the go to big, marics is slow and pretty unskilled, baynes is an ok player but only good for limited minutes, and nielsen is just plain crap. Patty, ingles and andersen should be the go to players, everyone else needs to play there role.

3 wins won't guarantee we miss the US, it didn't in 2008.

LOL. I love how people like being pessimistic just for the purpose of being pessimistic. The same people would have said we have no chance in hell against france.... I really wonder why they even follow Australian Basketball.. it boggles the mind. Look on the flipside, I am not being optomistic just for the sake of it either... I think people speak of Spain and get scared but there not actually looking at there form at the moment. they barely held us off by 6 in 2 games recently... great britian somehow got within 4.. they had a hard time doing away with China... a 16 point win after a tight 3 quaters and allowing Chinas star to score 30 on them... there a 'good' team, but dont assume there unbeatable just because of where they were a few years ago! As for "ogh theyve got Mark Gasol now"... well.. look what happened with us and Maric? he came in to the game, was on a different page then everyone else and spent the rest of it on the bench.... there not super humans and there suseptable to the same downsides that we are... Its going to be a hard game, but not an impossible one by any stretch of the imagination. if we lose it, it will be a single figure deficit I am sure... If we win, it will probably be close also. we do have areas we can expl;oit them on, our wings are arrguably more athletic... we are a little down in the big man department, but thats where we need to look to take the momentum for ourselves and not let it turn into a game where Spain can pound the ball inside. People were predicting a 20 pooint loss to Brazil even, we got within 4.. and couldve actually won... so basicly wake up... see this team is going to scrap for its life every step of the way. we will beat GB and China and we just need to scalp 1 giant, its hard but its very possible...

very funny sector... but id say were as 40% chance of beating Spain... so U might wanna mke your lotto bet