Olympics Basketball Day 6 (Men incl Aust vs Iran)

[MRobbo]

Channel 7 have gone live

 

[Borgsta]

Great so we missed the first half!

 

[MRobbo]

2:26 left in the 3rd

Australia 68
Iran 43

 

[MRobbo]

Three Quarter Time

Australia 75 (Newley 24,Mills 10,Bogut 10,Redhage 9,Anstey 8,Neilsen 8)
Iran 48

 

[MRobbo]

CJ Bruton hits a 3 he is 1 from 2 in 20 mins court time so far

7:55 left
Australia 86
Iran 51

 

[MRobbo]

Final Score

Australia 106 (Newley 24, Mills 15, Anstey 13, Bogut 10, Andersen 10)
Iran 68

Good win for the Boomers (much needed!). Their next game is against Russia on Saturday at 1:15pm AEST.

Next Match is Angola vs China at 4:30pm AEST

 

[justthedukes]

Just saw the line for the Greece USA match is 22. Greece +22 anyone?

 

[PHX]

Just saw the line for the Greece USA match is 22. Greece +22 anyone?

Nup, Got smashed by Spain and then smashed Germany by about the same margin I think. So it really depends which Greece turns up and I'm not willing guess which one.

 

[DoubleA]

If we win our next 2 games we're almost there!

Surely a confidence booster, Newley looked very impressive although he should against Iran.

 

[peternorth]

If we win our next 2 games we're almost there!

Surely a confidence booster, Newley looked very impressive although he should against Iran.

sorry AA not holding my breath.

 

[MRobbo]

Quarter Time

China 28
Angola 15

 

[MRobbo]

Half Time

China 44
Angola 42

 

[Benny_]

China win comfortably.

Huge game by Yao

10/11 from both field and free throw for 30 points

7 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 blocks

 

[PVF]

Just curious, will the US game be shown tonight on SBS? I doubt it would for Channel 7.

 

[MRobbo]

Just curious, will the US game be shown tonight on SBS? I doubt it would for Channel 7.

Channel 7 doing USA vs Greece game due to start at 10pm AEST

Final Score

China 85
Angola 68

Next match Russia vs Lithuania starts at 6:45pm AEST (2nd half live on SBS from 7:30pm AEST)

 

[MRobbo]

Half Time

Lithuania 44
Russia 41

2nd half live on SBS

 

[Osmodiar]

just curious, we will have to beat both Russia (doubtful) and Lithuania (really doubtful) to have any chance of making the quarter finals right?

 

[Gridlock'd]

Gee AK played a good game, but lost it for Russia in the end with so many missed free throws and ball handling errors.

 

[justthedukes]

Yeah AK with some huge blocks, but really let them down at the free throw line. Really good game though, we will have to play out of our skins to stand any chance against either of those teams.

Thank god, I had Lithuania - 6.5 tonight, they won by 7, I was sweating abit.

 

[mdc]

just curious, we will have to beat both Russia (doubtful) and Lithuania (really doubtful) to have any chance of making the quarter finals right?

Nah, just beating Russia will do as long as they don't upset Argentina.

 

[Osmodiar]

Thanks MDC!

 

[FFB1]

This is f&*ked - cross to the US v Greece for all of 3 minutes then over to, surprise surprise, swimming - and heats of all things (sure the basketball may not be into finals yet but c'mon, as if there isnt enough swimming..). And here i am sitting there thinking as soon as a heat involving an australian has finished they'll cross back but NO, they replay and replay and reply then when they have replayed a little more they go to the next heat and so it continues. I realise Ch 7 have to cater for a huge spread of sporting fans but seriously, this is crap. its not the swimlympics.

Wow, I almost had to retract that, but we've headed over to the swimming again to watch them warm up and missed a replay of that kobe pass - clearly swimmers warming up and twirling their arms is more exciting..

 

[MRobbo]

Final Scores from last nights games

USA 90
Greece 62

Argentina 77
Croatia 53

 

[justthedukes]

This is f&*ked - cross to the US v Greece for all of 3 minutes then over to, surprise surprise, swimming - and heats of all things (sure the basketball may not be into finals yet but c'mon, as if there isnt enough swimming..). And here i am sitting there thinking as soon as a heat involving an australian has finished they'll cross back but NO, they replay and replay and reply then when they have replayed a little more they go to the next heat and so it continues. I realise Ch 7 have to cater for a huge spread of sporting fans but seriously, this is crap. its not the swimlympics.

Wow, I almost had to retract that, but we've headed over to the swimming again to watch them warm up and missed a replay of that kobe pass - clearly swimmers warming up and twirling their arms is more exciting..

That was the closest ive ever been to throwing something at the TV I reckon. Whats the point of showing 10 minutes of the basketball?

Then they went to the Hockey at half-time, I know it was the Aussies playing but if you start showing something, finish it. Either show the whole Hockey game, and then show a delayed replay of the USA-Greece match after, I'd prefer that than getting 10 minutes shown every hour. What's with them not letting us know what's going on aswell? I thought 'Coming Up' would mean straight after the break, not in an hour.

 

[peternorth]

they should at least tell the viewers what time it (or any other event) is on to allow us to plan....oh and stick to it!