He did very well today and against GB, really got his shot going. Funnily enough he is much more at home against the might of the USA than the top euro and sth american teams.

He's only averaged 14p at 38% against those teams over his three tournaments, and in 2010 and 2012 that was 15p at 34%. But his two games against the USA have been really superb in a faster style game.

I guess the lesson for opponents is don't let him get opportunities in the open court, and the lesson for Boomers coaches to best utilize his talent for the team is play a style that gets him in the open court, but use him less in half court sets.

He's playing for his points though & sometimes looks selfish. His clip wouldn't be that great either. He's gotta stop going up against 7 footers on the break! He seems to have a green light from coach so he's living the dream!!

In the last four games Patty shot the three ball at 47% (16/34).

If he had of shot it like that from game one, we would have beaten Brazil, and pushed Spain to the limit, and still be playing.

That's a huge IF and doesn't really hold water because he shot very poorly against Russia. He shot very well against the USA and the two minnows and poorly against Euros and Sth Americans, which is becoming a pattern.

His 3/10 from three against Russia was ok. If one more goes down and he shoots 40% everyone says thats great!

I don't think its a huge if, as he shot the three between 35-50% everywhere he played this past year.

I personally think it took him a while to get going after being thrown into the two-guard spot permanentely right before the games commenced. He should have been playing that spot from the opening day of the first training camp.

Patty's Olympics was reminiscant of his short stint with Melbourne. It took him a while to adjust to being 'the man', but one he did he excelled.

Patty is a scorer, plain and simple. I don't think we should force him into being a point guard.

I for one congratulate him on a great tournament. Where would we have been without him?

He's only just turned 24, and he's going to get better and better.

I say it's a HUGE if Vart because Patty has shot the three ball at 21% against top Euro and Sth American teams in 2008, 2010 and 2012. This tournament was even worse at 17%.

To then say if he had shot at 47% against Brazil and Spain we would still be playing is wishful thinking rather than a realistic proposition based on what he has done so far.

I understand what you're saying paul. I don't think its 'wishful thinking' though. I'm realistic enough to understand what happened in the past can't be changed. Even with the stats you've provided, Patty shooting 1/9 on three's against Brazil goes against the trend. All I was trying to convey was that if he hit one or two more the result probably would have been a lot different. But he didn't, and we lost.

I 'hope' that we see a lot more of the 47% Patty in the future, against ALL nations!

Im with you Vart. if we shoot better against those two teams i feel confident the result may have been different. to shoot that bad and still be in the game to win it. Wow.

I'm definitely with you on that one Vart! Less quantity will mean more quality.

Mills took 116 field goals for his 129 points. That's 19 shots a game, compared to others in the top 10 (Scola, Ginobili, P.Gasol, Kirilenko, Durant, Anthony, Barbosa and Parker) averaging under 13 shots per game. The exception being Deng with 17 shots per game.

Given that kind of volume shooting, he ended up with a respectable shooting percentage, although as paul pointed out, propped up by strong performances against the lower ranked nations (or the US with fast-paced offense). This tournament has shown that future Boomers teams should try to be more selective in the way Mills is used at the offensive end, which hopefully we can afford to do with more offensive options in future teams.

I think the Russia game showed this team has enough scoring when they play the right sort of game. To score 82 points against a tough Russian team (highest score against them) despite Andersen and Mills shooting 10/34 is quite an effort.

I think Brown may have finally got over his 'I dont have a very talented team' mentality the past few days. Up until then his offensive strategy was remarkably poor.

when you are undermanned in the bigs dept in a tournament like this, more often then not...you have to roll the dice from the 3 line.
but trying to shoot layups against someone who is 8/10 inches taller ...ten times more athletic... just dont make sense to me !!

so what did he average for assits? like 1 or 2? he should be getting 5+ minimum with his ability to get into the paint!