2015/16 NBL Season/Off-season news/Boomers

[Gozu]

Half-time

Boomers 54

USA 49

PUMPED!

[Gozu]

Unfortunately we were outscored 49-34 in the second half they cranked up the defence and we ran out of puff and went back into our shells playing like we usually play against the USA like a deer in headlights. Still a lot of positives to take out of the first half if we execute and just treat them like any other opponent we can hang with them.

USA 98 (Anthony 31, Irving 19, Durant 14) def Australia 88 (Mills 30, Bogut 15, Andersen 13, Dellavedova 11)

The 10 point loss equals our best result against them when we lost by 10 to them at the Athens Olympics however this USA team is certainly a better team than that one which went on to finish 3rd.

[Gozu]

The Illawarra Hawks have announced the signing of their second import Michael Holyfield a 6'11" centre who played last season in the D-League after doing training camp with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2015 playing in one pre-season game with them.

http://www.hawks.com.au/featured-news/m ... cle-hawks/

[Gozu]

The Brisbane Bullets have announced the signing of their second import formerly of the Perth Wildcats Jermaine Beal. The two-time NBL championship winner and 2014 Finals MVP has signed a 1 year deal with an option for a second year with the Bullets.

http://www.nbl.com.au/featured-news/bul ... back-beal/

[Gozu]

The Boomers got the comfortable win over China this morning. We rested Bogut and limited the minutes of the main guys. We've now officially qualified for the quarter-finals just need to get through our last group stage game against Venezuela on Monday morning.

Australia 93 (Bairstow 17, Motum 15, Andersen 12, Baynes 12, Broekhoff 12) def China 68 (Yi Jianlian 20, Guo Ailun 11)

In the game after ours the USA only beat Serbia by 3 points!

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have signed their second import Greg Whittington a 6'9" PF who has been playing for Sioux Falls in the D-League and last season played some pre-season games for the Miami Heat.

http://www.sydneykings.com/featured-new ... ague-star/

[Gozu]

The Boomers have made their best ever start at an Olympics going 4-1 in the group stage games after beating Venezuela this morning. Patty Mills sat the game out but Cameron Bairstow injured his shoulder during the game with talk it could be a dislocation.

Australia 81 (Goulding 22, Ingles 11, Bogut 10, Broekhoff 10) def Venezuela 56 (Perez 12, Cubillan 10)


The Boomers will find out who their Quarter-Final opponent will be tomorrow. In other games the USA beat France by just 3 points too.

[Gozu]

Not what I would call ideal but the Boomers have drawn Lithuania in our QF clash on Wednesday night. If we were to win that supposedly we would play the winner of Croatia vs Serbia in the Semi-Finals but first thing first we need to get past Lithuania who have a very good record against us in Olympic play and have beaten us in the Bronze Medal Game twice 1996 in Atlanta and 2000 in Sydney.

Quarter-Finals

QF 1 - Australia vs Lithuania 11:30pm Wednesday night

QF 2 - Spain vs France 3am Thursday

QF 3 - USA vs Argentina 7:15am Thursday

QF 4 - Croatia vs Serbia 10:45am Thursday

[BoundaryRider84]

Opals lose

[Gozu]

Less than 2 hours to go until Boomers vs Lithuania starts!

The 36ers lost to the Illawarra Hawks in a pre-season game tonight in Darwin 91-84. The Hawks were without their three imports the 36ers minus Anthony Drmic. Top scorer for the hawks was Oscar Forman with 15 for the 36ers Mitch Creek scored 19 and Eric Jacobsen had 14 points and 11 rebounds.

In NBL signing news today the Hawks announced the signing of their third import Marvelle Harris a 6'4" SG who leaves Fresno State University as the school's all-time leading scorer and the Cairns Taipans have signed their second import Fuquan Edwin a 6'6" SF who played in Israel last season.

[Gozu]

Boomers win by 26 points!

An outstanding game of basketball by us, such awesome defence throughout along with hot starts by Mills & Delly. We were just relentless all game now just one win away from the Gold Medal Game. Next up we play the winner of Croatia vs Serbia in the Semi-Finals.

Australia 90 (Mills 24, Baynes 16, Dellavedova 15, Ingles 10) def Lithuania 64 (Kalnietis 12, Kavaliauskas 12)

[king neptune]

The way this team has come to play is absolutely sensational. I completely wrote them off before the start of the games. I thought it would be just more of the same. Now just one more win guarantees a medal. I know anybody would prefer a silver over a bronze medal but I've always thought it would be a better feeling to win your last game and get the bronze rather than lose your last game and get silver. Still a huge game against Croatia/Serbia before we can think about that.

[BoundaryRider84]

Cmon Argentina.

[Jim05]

USA v Spain semi after both won comfortably

[BoundaryRider84]

USA v Spain semi after both won comfortably

Neither of these two look really dangerous

[Gozu]

Croatia are looking good at half-time

[BoundaryRider84]

USA v Spain
Australia v Serbia

[Gozu]

USA v Spain
Australia v Serbia

It's all set up for us we get Serbia who we beat by 15 earlier in the tournament a win go into the gold medal game and guaranteed medal but if we lose then probably play Spain in the bronze medal game and they would be favourites.

[Gozu]

The Olympic Games Semi-Final times have been confirmed.

Semi-Finals

SF 1 - USA vs Spain 4am Saturday

SF 2 - Australia vs Serbia 7:30am Saturday

In NBL news the 36ers tonight won their second pre-season game against the Hawks in Darwin 80-65. For the 36ers Terrance Ferguson scored 15 and for the Hawks Nick Kay had 12 pts & 13 boards.

Also today the NBL announced it's Blitz pre-season tournament has been renamed the Australian Basketball Challenge and will feature two teams from China the Zhejiang CB Golden Bulls and Tianjin Ronggang alongside the 8 NBL teams to be held in Brisbane from the 23rd-26th September.

http://www.nbl.com.au/uncategorised/nbl ... challenge/

[Gozu]

Very disappointing Semi-Final performance by the Boomers we were never in it and Serbia's defence in the first half when they held us to 14 points was incredible. Still a possible first ever medal at an Olympics is still on offer in the bronze medal game against Spain after they lost in the other SF to the USA by 6 points.

Serbia 87 (Teodosic 22, Markovic 14, Macvan 12, Raduljica 11) def Australia 61 (Mills 13, Motum 13, Ingles 12)


Bronze Medal Game

Australia vs Spain 12am Sunday night

Gold Medal Game

USA vs Serbia 4:15am Monday