This is Brad Newleys game expect a lot of dunks. Baynes will also take control as well, but please oh god...Let patty at least drop one 3 pointer tonight...

Defnitely a must win. Are 9 showing this or is it another live stream deal?

I don't think you can ever trust Ch 9 to show a full game. Might get bits and pieces. Get First Row bookmarked and ready, IMO.

Can't believe wily old Wang Zhizhi still gets around for China. Looks older than 35!

Surely we have to click by now. shots have to drop.

Saw an interview on Foxtel with Patty Mills last night.

Almost fell off my chair when he said they'd generally executed their offense fairly well in the two games so far, and that the Boomers were traditional slow starters.

WTF?!

The team needs to regather confidence and get their offence back in check. I'd love to see the boost they'll get when Patty drops a 3!

Hoopie could not agree more .
Unlike Opals I never expected this team to do that well but apart from showing character they just not taking chances presented with poor offence and shooting. Mills shooting has been a joke and needs to penetrate and provide open shots for others.
We are not a small team so like to see Bigs get a bit more mongrel around ring

Their focus, or at least supposedly, was to not be slow starters any more and get some early win's in the tournament.

To hear Patty say they are still slow starters is a little disheartening.

It's Beijing all over again unfortunately.

Doubt it will be as good as Beijing, but anything can happen. Tonight they have to make sure they pile on the pressure and dont let China get into their sets or their preferred halfcourt D. We dont want to get bogged down and turn it into a shooting contest.

It's not the NBA Brett Brown!

Like to see Goorg back in 4 years!!

It's not like we haven't been getting shots - they're just not going in. If we'd hit just a couple more threes (not unreasonable to expect from Mills, Ingles and Newley), we'd be 1-1 after beating Brazil and at least forcing Pau Gasol to play a few more minutes.

Brown better play pc this game if the team is shooting as poorly as they have been. These are must win games. The others were expected losses. You gotta use the tools your given, can't go down wondering from here.

We havent really been creating a lot of wide open shots.

Realistically we copped more of a break to be able to make the score respectable against Brazil with their better shooters missing some good looks than we robbed ourselves of victory by our poor shooters missing theirs.

A shooting slump for the whole team? Just need 1 to start hitting some shots...Just 1!!
Give us something to cheer about...as opposed to venting our frustrations out on Hoops.com and bagging the team!

Yeah cos Goorjian teams always shot the ball well (rolls eyes).

Agree with anon 373205 though. Lets hope the AIS is putting a greater emphasis on shooting for our upcoming basketballers.

I'm a huge fan of Patty Mills but as some stage Patty has to show us a better range of shot selection in London. When Patty gets the ball in offensive transition he is almost unstoppable with his quickness to get to the rim. Just need you Patty to play a bit more to your strenghts & put the 3 ball away for the moment. Would like to see Patty splitting the wing onball screen & creating some havoc within the key & creating easy close to basket scores for our big. Must win for us tonight Boomers!

Ok seem to be missing shots early on......Maybe still warming up??

Thankyou Mills!!

China 15 Australia 8. 3:24 to go in first.

game is here:

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/133365/1/watch-olympic:-australia-vs-china.html

FREE!

22-21 end of first. Some good points..we have started hitting from the outside! Bad points..our D is pretty ordinary.

Something you don't see very often. Got the translator there in the Chinese timeouts.

Goorjian would be an upgrade over Brown... but for my money, I'd take Beveridge. Remember, the reason Goorjian wasn't renewed was because he supposedly wasn't good at preparing teams for tournaments. Beveridge has the runs on the boards in tournaments, has great respect of the current generation of Boomers & is respected internationally (eg. Nike Summit)

Ingles starts 2nd quarter on fire...two consecutive and-one's...both going left!

Australia up 32-27.

Ingles looking good. Neilson struggling.

Andersen with a 3 and foul - going for a 4-point play!

PPPAAATTTTTTYYY!!!

Anderson beasting!

Ingles just missed two straightforward layups...but on the second miss it was recovered and Mills hits a treble instead! Now up 42-30! Defensively we are doing a lot better now too...

We are getting everyone involved on offense and we look so much better doing so. Hence Andersen has hit shots, Ingles making good decisions, and Mills getting the ball into the hands of others and making the most of open looks...

Australia went on a 16-3 run...

Andersen has 13 points so far...

On channel 9 now...

Hey Zues hits the court

no barbers in Spain... gold

Lol Rasheed was thinking the same..Yetti!!

no barbers in Spain... gold

Boomers up 49-33 at half time...

Really good defence in that 2nd quarter helped spark the offence.

Hitting shots from long range, and getting to the rim.

Andersen 15pts, Mills 12pts, Ingles 8pts.

Loving Drewey's special comments, agree with Young Gun - no barbers in Spain comment gold.

Drewy has been great, and I must say that Casey has been good in my books too...

Nice to see us playing with some confidence. Not hard to do against China though - they really aren't very good.

Very happy to see Mills trying to get the ball into our big guys this game instead of doing his best Kobe impersonation.

Also good to see Andersen backing himself and Ingles continuing to drive the basketball.

Lets hope these guys continue to play with the same confidence against the bigger names of Russia and GB.

Wish I was getting the Aussie commentary. I have visions of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd right now! "Ooooh where do I get a waaaa-bbit"

Close out, stop jumping!!!

Quit jumping Patty!!

A couple of soft turnovers early in offence saw China nail back to back trebles to see the margin cut back down to 10 points 51-41.

Shipeng for China 6/7 from downtown!

Shipeng ball is now on fire

Shipeng hits another to be 7/8 from downtown!

C9 back showing the basketball...

@Beantown - I see the point you are trying to make, but counting GB as a bigger name is a bit of a stretch for mine.
FIBA
China - 10
GB - 43

Granted, Luol Deng is pretty good.....even with only one wrist.

* These rankings are laughable I'll grant you (China ranked higher than France and Russia) but my point being they are both what you would consider lightweights.

** This is my friend Mr Wang Zhizhi.......no offence.

They link well together on offence thats for sure!

Ingles shooting poorly in this game from the field and the free throw line...

PC!!!

PC checks in!!!

PC shoots immediately and his shot got deflected.

Boomers still leading 61-52 at 3 quarter time.

I see the Boomers are running their strict NO CUTTING offensive sets again

Nice elbows Ando.

Our best 2 big men in Baynes and Andersen are now both on 4 fouls...we look better with these guys on court...

Very small lineup!!! How come no Maric?

Channel 9 back showing the hoops...

I think the best hope of Barlow finding a barber in Spain is for him to be signed by Seville....

I think Brown has lost confidence in Maric...

Get that outta here!!!

Yeah injury still bothering Maric?
Come on Patty pass it!! Don't go amongst the trees!

Mills makes 3 poor decision in a row...rejected on a breakaway, missed a transition triple, and then rejected on another breakaway...

C'mon Patty, blocked 3 times now pull it out.

Gee Delly has great vision and a brilliant waiter...

Mills finally finds range again and Australia start 4th with a 9-0 run. Defensively we are killing it.

Really like Worthington's aggression tonight

This is an average team we're playing guys the Spanish must have been having a snooze

China , no fight. Little bit of blood and they go to water.
Keep that in mind for next time we play them.

Boomers back up by 20...

Good ball movement to find Mills for three, and then great D by Nielsen on Yi to spark a transition dunk by Newley via Ingles.

Even though it has been convincing it's not a performance that will have the Russians running scared. Considering how poor China were in the second half the Boomers should have won by a lot more. While we are clearly still a long way off the level that's required to challenge for a medal, we are starting to play to our strengths and there are some positive signs.

I still think Nielson gets way too much playing time, however this may be due to Anderson's foul trouble and BB's reluctance to go to Aleks Maric (is he injured?).

Patt Mills has absolutely no basketball IQ.

Yi just pulled a heart muscle for China after Wortho banked a jumper...

LC the medical term for that is a Heartilage

Delly and Baynes are really starting to play well together. They have a good understanding of eachother's game.

Crawford with a tip in at the buzzer to score his first Olympic points...we win 81-61.

Mills had 20, Andersen 17, Ingles 13, Baynes 8, Delly & Wortho 7 each.

Ingles had 7 assists, Delly had 5 and Wortho 4.

Wortho had 8 rebounds, Ingles and Newley 7 each.

We shot 8/24 from downtown.

10 turnovers, 28 assists...

Full stats here: http://www.london2012.com/basketball/event/men/match=bkm400b07/doc=stats.html

Well we got the win we badly needed so that's good, but I agree with all above that is was hardly clinical. Mills was embarrassing in the second half.

At the end of the day it doesnt matter how though, we got the win and now have to pull all stops out for GB to get ourselves through to where we belong.

1 game at a time. Hopefully we can improve on tonight's performance when we play GB. Did anyone else see tape under Patty's knee brace? Wonder if he's hurting a bit, he seemed a bit slower tonight and was getting killed on d.

@Jim Bert, I was thinking during the game Union Olimpia should sign Dellavedova, because while neither he nor Baynes are great players individually, when they team up on that pick and roll it's pretty darn effective.

Will be interesting to see how GB and Russia defend it now theyve had time to look at it.

It's funny that everyone has been calling for Crawford to get minutes yet all three of his perimeter shots were completely off! Understandable after all that bench warming I suppose but still.

Jingles is now such a complete player. he is our key. he is our best player. really enjoy watching his game. good decisions most of the time, very good passer, streaky shooter, get ride the bump on the way to the hoop. very good Jingles. Dave Andersen played well although i think he missed a couple of easy put backs under the hoop. Wortho did well. outside shot fell away badly in the 3rd quarter and think we only scored 11 or 12 points. still my worry

Jingles is now such a complete player. he is our key. he is our best player. really enjoy watching his game. good decisions most of the time, very good passer, streaky shooter, get ride the bump on the way to the hoop. very good Jingles. Dave Andersen played well although i think he missed a couple of easy put backs under the hoop. Wortho did well. outside shot fell away badly in the 3rd quarter and think we only scored 11 or 12 points. still my worry

Andersen seems to miss the easiest of shots close to the hoop but is capable of making very difficult turnaround jumpers and threes with some regularity

Delly was only 2/4 FG tonight so he didnt really take too many but I get your point, in previous games its been half his shots.

It is weird tho, he almost never took that shot at St Mary's till last season and even then he never shot it much.. its like he's too scared to go for a layup, he should start working on a pull up jumper or something

Delly was practicing floaters at the Boomers training camp in Perth. Its clearly no surprise to the coaching staff. I imagine he's been told he doesn't have enough quickness/elevation to get a shot off inside at the next level so he's working on alternatives.

Yes sircreate seems like AIS etc not coaching pull up jump shot which is one of easiest shots as too many of young players like Della and watching Creek all last season with no shot if cant crash through to ring.
Guess my views on coaching different to others as never ever want to see Goorg coaching Boomers .
Really think Brown doing a good job as got team back into games and really
on the international scene we are not that good a team really with only a real fringe NBA player as marquee player who playing very average and poor on court marshal.
How the hell did Nielsen get captain still the jerk he was in NBL