Line for Boomers at +14.5.
Do we have anyone other than Mills and Goulding that can light it up.

Mills, Ingles and Landale all look like they're sitting this one out.

12 noon in Perth - how outrageous! - who will go to the home opens?

Do these front seats look more elevated or is it just me?

Anyone know the livestats link?

Thanks anon. Ingles has been cold with his shooting during this campaign, but he has been great in pick-n-roll situations. 5 assists in the 1st quarter. I'd like to see more Ingles-Baynes picks.

Why play Sweet Caroline at a basketball game? Weird.

Good defensive adjustments by Lemanis.

But nbl players are shit.... Lemanis is shit.... How can this be.

USA can't complain about the refs so far.

Boomers running some more sets and mixing D up quite a bit more. Entertaining.

USA up 49-48 at H/T

Good first half D by Australia, getting some good looks inside, but let down by shooting just 2/14 from 3s.

Although USA still have 49 points in the half. Need that defense to be more consistent.

Was that 'NSW' embroided on Goulding's jacket while he was pimping out Melbourne in that tourism with Gaze? Gold.

tourism piece*

Bogut should embroid "NMSL" on his.

Big question here is whether Plumlee is worse than an nbl player.

Ingles looks better when he gets into the kind of action that he is familiar with in Utah.

#931 makes sense but still hilarious wearing that while fapping over VIC.

who are australia's ast coaches (besides d patrick)

The standard clean-block-is-a-foul from the NBL ref. Not complaining though.

who are australia's ast coaches (besides d patrick)?

3QT AUS 78-76 USA

Will Weaver.

Will Weaver, Adam Caporn & Luc Longley

Will Weaver and Adam Caporn plus Luc Longley as Asst coaches.

I wouldn't be surprised if USA didn’t win gold.

Some of those European teams would be licking their lips for sure.

This is not an intimidating USA team at all.

Never mind we're up on the US with one quarter to go WHO ARE THE ASSISTANTS?!??

All the... Insert any young player not in the nbl... should by in the team regulars are quiet. Not saying Boomers will win but so many underestimate both the nbl and how well we do on an international stage. Clearly Lemanis has been building stuff as we get deeper in our prep.

Not in the nba

52,079

EWe posted at the same time.

never mind the score look at the crowd

Not a peep from Makur Maker.

Yeah I looked at the crowd and there are a lot of sheep there but as long as it's revenue for basketball.

thanks Splinky

no need to be a smart a..e Perth boy

He's the NBL Referee of the Year.

Bogut getting no love from the refs

LOL a banked Mills three. Hey, whatever it takes.

believe

AUS favourites in live betting now at $1.40.

Mills ON FIRE.

I mean BEAST MODE.

Mills THIRTY

He's out of control and overtaken the commentary completely.

Fk yeah.

I don't mean to brag but we're the greatest!

Where are the haters now?

They ... they did it! :O

Mills was clutch. So good to see Mills play like that.

What an effort by the Boomers. Awesome game to watch. Obviously the hero of the game was Kay's +18 +/-.

Sack Lemanis!

As a young man growing up I dreamed of being able to watch a national game between Australia and America. Tonight my dream became a reality, luckily I guessed that the superstars wouldn't come out so I didn't go to the event live. But even watching it on tv, I didn't change the channel repeatedly to see what else was on and go on Facebook etc because the performance churned out tonight was unbelievable. Most of the above joy I totally agree with, a gem of a selected team with way more excitement as a div 3 under 14 game. I'm grateful I paid for the electricity to watch even a part of it let alone going to it live. Can even use the excuse of flooding youngsters to prepare for Olympics.

Sack Lemanis!

Makur Maker has gone into witness protection.

Awesome promotion for the upcoming NBL season on SBS Viceland. The ultimate lead-in.

This is what happens when you play proven winners like Kay. It's the little things what win games. The NBL ain't no cupcake league.

USA's first loss in 13 years

The home refereeing was a bit biased to be honest.
And lemanis should still be sacked.

"proven winners like kay "
you got to be kidding, Andrew

boomers won because of nba guys like Mills, ingles, Bogut, the nbl guys are passengers and offer nothing to this team

yep Dave shut the f..k up

First loss in 13 years with NBA players and it was Australia who did it!

Their last loss with NBA players was at the 2006 World Champs.

People who went but only on Thursday are crushed right now.

Nice! So proud right now.

Omg

Was screaming at the tv to get kay off late and again when creek checked in


But but

Wowwowowowowwowowowo

No more complaining about seats in the media

Just all how we WON

Jingles in pick and roll and playing point forward from now on

Omg so proud of those boys.

I don't care it was USA light and Australia B+

Seriously people don't take away from one of the greatest victories in Australian basketball ever (men)

Thank you LK. This doesn't happen without him and his team.

Calm down our VERY best fluked a win over their C graders.

Before Rio Bogut's health was suspect. It was when he came into the team that the Boomers form really lifted. It looks like Bogut can be just as influential on this team. He might be 3 years older, but he looks just as fit and athletic as in Rio and high IQ doesn't disappear. He might even be more potent as a scorer.

It is only a win in a practice game, but the best part is that we looked much closer to our Rio form. The offense was running well and there were patches of some serious D. It is also important to get guys like Mills and Ingles into some form. Now we need Delly to step up. He was great in Rio.

After this game I think bogut above baynes.

I like baynes game but bogut has the edge in iq and passing.

Mind you both of them on the floor would be good against taller line ups

Great job fellas.
Many will point out who is missing on both sides but it was a great game.
Still history making result.

https://www.espn.com.au/olympics/basketball/story/_/id/27450965/australia-stuns-team-usa-snaps-78-game-streak

Do we earn any points towards the FIBA World Rankings list for this win?

Thanks for checking.

I'm still worried about opposition stretch 4/5s. This time it was Barnes. Canada has the shooters to burn us too.

We've beaten them in an exhibition. Monkey off back.

Now let's do it in the real thing and take home a medal in China.

You can only play whoever is in front of you.

Is this available on SBSondemand?

Went to the game - wasn't on the floor so can’t speak to that or the extortionate concert prices.

In the stands at the back had no issue, loved the game and the setup. IMO people were over reacting last game and because of the result this time around that negative feeling shifted completely.

I’d have like to have seen some more crowd involvement such as you’d see in the NBL by the announcer, and intro music being like thunderstruck, tnt, joker and the thief etc

So that was pretty great. Good on Nick Kay, could've gone into his shell instead played really well. Loved the reaction from the guys afterwards, acted like they’d been there, know they still have all the work ahead of them.

"Is this available on SBSondemand?"

Not sure, but twitch.tv/nba has both games available to stream at 720p.

I cannot see Plumlee going to the WC unless he's deliberately included to give other big guys a chance to get their +/- up. Woeful.

I'd have like to have seen some more crowd involvement such as you’d see in the NBL by the announcer

1. Does the game 2 win negate the negative press regarding seating when it comes to promotion of Australian basketball?

How does that change my opinion of what I would like to have seen Koberulz?

Why did you choose to be a stickler about that particular rule? I'd have thought going back in time to redo the past breaches some sort of rules of physics.

Thanks for your contribution, one day you’ll learn the concept of a forum and opinions

How does that change my opinion of what I would like to have seen Koberulz?

^ yes, channel 7 hates every sport that competes with AFL. All channels have their own agenda* for showing what they want and in what light, but 7 seem to be notoriously bad for highlighting the negatives in all sports, including basketball.

*their own agenda being if that channel covers that sport. As basketball is not on 7 and hasn't been for over 20 years, then it couldn't care less about the gane and will highlight any negatives over the positives, while protecting the AFL as much as possible (Marvel is owned by the AFL, but 7 won't mention that in the critisism)

The Guardian usually seems to have an issue with basketball also. There's zero coverage until something related to Cambage flares up, or until the Filipino brawl, or these seat complaints. They have however put up a story about the history-making win at least.

Here's the article if you think pageviews might motivate them to cover basketball more.

biggest win in Australian Sports history in front of the biggest crowd in Australian Sports history And some people want to sack the coach. Brilliant.

if you don't think that game mattered, what's the saying, it's not my fault you're stupid.

If you were at the game yesterday you know how much this mattered. It certainly mattered to everybody in the stands who spent the whole game standing on their feet screaming. Even if they had to watch it on the Jumbotron and paid too much money for not being able to see. It mattered to every newspaper in America who had it on their front page. and in Australia. It mattered to every team in the World Cup who now knows that the u.s. is not invincible. Basketball is a game of confidence. Now we've got some and they don't. So what you're saying is it mattered when they lost to Canada in the first game against the United States so much everybody wanted the coaches and the team fired. But now that they won, and beat the best team in the coming tournament. It doesn't matter.

Agreed re: 7. Horrible network.

How have the rest of the fake news mainstream media covered it?

Great result
We showed everyone this US team can be beaten; Serbia, Greece, Spain, France will be feeling good about their chances for gold.
You heard it hear first, this US team won't medal. I've told ya the top 4 too.

The key was Ingles handling the ball more. When he runs point forward they get into their sets earlier and he is much more damaging than Delly on the pic and ball.

I like subbing Goulding in for Delly here too if shooting is required.

Finally getting that ball movement from Rio that Gaze and Heal where talking about from the Canada game!

@ KET

Game is on SBSonDemand.

Agree with starting intro for the Boomers. Music for USA was fine, but terribly underwhelming for the Aussies when some solid pump up music would've got the crowd going. Came across poorly on the broadcast also.

As someone else has already mentioned, very little that can be done re announcers etc soliciting crowd involvement in-game. Just the way it is, especially with USAB pretty much being an event 'partner’.

Personally thought promoters were way off the mark with pre-game entertainment inside. No hype whatsoever. The gender neutral DJ was ridiculously out of place, if I wanted to listed to shitty loud mash-ups I’d turn on Hit Network radio on a Friday afternoon.

Floss Cam, ugh. Sweet Caroline singalong, double ugh. Amateur hour.

At least we won.

The gender neutral DJ

Makur Maker where you at?

Went to both games.

Didn't think there was any difference with the crowds at all. The only thing that changed was the crowd getting in to the game on Saturday in the fourth quarter when it was apparent the Boomers were a chance.

Some people's reactions to this win have been ridiculous and puzzling. Okay, this is not the dream team. Everyone agrees. But what they are is the gold medal favorites heading into the world cup, and the most talented team at the cup by a wide margin. So if you can't accept it as a true win against Team USA, accept it as a win against the gold medal favorites, which is an achievement no matter how you slice it, and bodes well for our world cup campaign. It is also the first time we've beaten Team USA, regardless of its line up, since the times when we were stocked with NBL guys and they were playing college kids. However you cut it, we created history and ended a 66 year streak. It also looks pretty good in front of a crowd of 55'000 who probably never anticipated that a win was actually possible. Maybe people should stop being a bunch of bitter and hateful cunts and see all the positives that come from this win.

Is it our biggest win ever? Well, has any other win had the kind of media significance this has? I'd argue it is our biggest win ever in terms of public interest and exposure. Let's face it, the Boomers don't have a great history of winning those big, important games. And if we had won a medal it would easily trump this game. But in lieu of anything more impressive or any bigger statement, this is probably our biggest win ever, yes.

"Calm down our VERY best fluked a win over their C graders."

Are you some kind of moron?

Ben Simmons? Dante Exum? Jonah Bolden? Thon Maker? Ryan Broekhoff? Any of these names ring a bell?

You could make an NBA starting 5 out of the Boomers we're missing.

Lemanis doesn't lack confidence either does he. I admit myself if that I was coaching I'd be too scared of the backlash of making moves like he did, but he stuck to his guns, and it paid off... Pulling off Landale/ Baynes down the stretch and then going ultra small for the last possession. Bold.

@ME

Bolden & Maker aren't in our best 10 guys once Exum/Simmons come back so the don't make the roster as it is currently constructed.

Bolden & Maker play a similar position and with Simmons in that pushes them further away from a roster spot as Landale has clearly proved he is a better player than both at the FIBA game as his skill set is perfect for FIBA baskertball.

Broekoff most likely makes it ahead of creek or Gliddon but Maker/Bolden don't make the ten make roster.

Good point. If that doesn't make them work harder to gain their spot (or regain their credibility, in the case of Bolden) ...

Wow, imagine our depth if we can afford to leave guys like Cooks, Bolden, T Maker, ... out

"@ME

Bolden & Maker aren't in our best 10 guys once Exum/Simmons come back so the don't make the roster as it is currently constructed.

Bolden & Maker play a similar position and with Simmons in that pushes them further away from a roster spot as Landale has clearly proved he is a better player than both at the FIBA game as his skill set is perfect for FIBA baskertball.

Broekoff most likely makes it ahead of creek or Gliddon but Maker/Bolden don't make the ten make roster."

Okay. The point I am making is this team is not our "Very best" possible team. Ben Simmons alone could potentially make the team substantially more dangerous. I think it's unfair for people to say the US didn't have their best team yet to ignore who we are also missing.

Broekhoff will be straight into the team. I imagine Bolden and Maker are still in our best 12.

It's amazing we have that level of competition for the squad.

Simmons, Delly, Exum
Mills, Goulding
Ingles, Broekhoff
Baynes, Bolden
Landale, Bogut, Maker

A squad like that seems right for me if injury/ egos allow it.

As the above said, when you start leaving out some pretty high calibre players

@Greggo

Landale has been playing the 4 spot beside Bogut/Baynes at the 5.

Maker & Bolden are both 4's in FIBA basketball as neither can guard the 5 spot as they simply don't have the frames/size to do it.

Cooks/Adel might be the ones who push for the spot behind landale at the 4 spot but can;t see anyway to fit them all into the team as we'd have to many of the same guy/position

Swap Landale and Baynes in my chart if you wish.

Maker is definitely a 5 in FIBA.