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It's hard to judge Newley and Ingles because they hardly get any touches. Mills monopolises the ball, as is his style, and really at the moment it's out best option. At some point he needs to find a happy medium between creating his own offense and getting the ball into the hands of those two...

A pretty good showing by the Boomers. They always seem to do us proud, but I wish they would address the slow starts to major tournaments... they've played together for long enough. On the basis of that game, I think the rotation needs a bit of a shuffle. I would start Newley, and allow...

More importantly, how old will Penny Taylor be? We will probably need a young gun or two coming through to supplement what we already have, as the US will have Taurasi in her prime, amongst others.

Re: Television coverage bitch thread and my axe...

No Lazaros Papadopolous, no Greece! :D

My heart is won. FWIW, my depth chart moving forward: Well, that was a fun exercise. Couldn't decide on 12th man. If Andersen goes around again, obviously the big men would shuffle down a spot. Or, the final spot goes to the next next big thing, like your boy, for instance. Maybe...

Both teams are claiming that the others were sledging, and they wanted to give it back through their play... Obviously the adversial system isn't working here. :D I absolutely love the way we play against the US. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Australia's lack of success has a bit of upside. I've been able to appreciate the performance of athletes from all nations on a much greater level than previously. Probably has a bit to do with maturing, as obviously as a kid you're a nationalist. I think Australia's poor performance would be...

In my view, Bolt. Completely jawdropping what I got to see him to do. Of course the Americans will say Phelps, and they have a lot of records that they can justifiably point to. Bolt is helped as an athlete in that we could see him toying with his competition versus Phelps who is doing all...

Maybe Sofoklis Schortsianitis can take care of that for us...

Usaaaaainnnn!!!! > Phelps

Boozer laid down one of ours with a hard foul with about 90 seconds to go and didn't put the hand out to help him up (pretty much basketball convention). I wasn't too fussed about it, but then again, it doesn't cost anything to do. It's not like Boozer achieved much in the game except...

A gold medal for the US wouldn't be a bad result for us actually. All of these guys would likely retire from international play (mission accomplished!) thus opening the door for 2002-2006 to repeat itself all over again...

Well, I think we can pencil in Patrick Mills hitting the NBA in the short-term. He is the kind of player that could drop into the mid-to-late first round (concerns over his height) and thus land on a good team. Now there's a player Joe Q. Australianbogan can get behind.

I'm not much of a proponent of the international = NBL success argument. If we medal in an Olympics maybe, but the World Championships has no significance on the Australian mainstream map. What will see the NBL become successful is when we have the current crop of youngsters in the NBA at...

Worthington can play his normal game against the lesser teams and can be a goon for the US, so he has some use.

The route to the "big league" is through the AIS, not the NBL. They do a brilliant job of producing individual talents (Bogut, Newley and Jawai being products recently being drafted; Mills, Ingles and Ogilvy not too far away). The basketball world has been taking note of these recent...

You have no foundation on which to be optimistic. You have already demonstrated that you are unaware of the point in the careers of the Boomers team we have fielded and how our performance compares very positively to the recent elite basketball nations. Mills for example, as a first-year...

I don't think anyone will be shedding crocodile tears over that. If you can't get excited by the performances of Mills (19 y.o), Newley (23) and Ingles (20) against the best in the world, in their athletic primes then you're no big loss here...

Continuing to have no idea. Our performance against the US tonight was on par with the 2006 World Champions (Spain, for you information) in the group phase. The US are that good. We have made massive steps in this tournament.

I was explaining why anyone who knows anything about basketball is 'happy' (your words) with our performance tonight and in previous games. The team is going to have to be successful in spite of the NBL, the likes of Mills, Newley etc. have or are going to make much more money overseas than...

Pretty much why your above comment lacks credibility. We have the blossom individual talent to make some serious dents in future competitions - look at what Mills, Bogut, Newley and Ingles have done (and Nathan Jawai still to come). They are simply taking time to mould into a team, which is...

I'm proud of the way we're fighting out this game, and have done so in the tournament. You guys are just too, too good. Much manlove for Patty Mills though... Newley has had a fantastic tournament too. If we weren't asleep in the first 2 games, we could have been a better position to play...

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If we play a perfect game, we might keep the damage to a 10 point loss. We've played half a perfect game (Athens) and three quarters (Shanghai) and still not even given them a fright.

Faster, higher, stronger. It's what the Olympics is all the about. Essentially the simplest human athletic pursuit. The best at it in the world.

Well, someone who is say, 6 inches tall (and thus has larger arm and leg spans), if they are able to create proportional leverage (or greater), they would be at an advantage. Simply put, all things being equal, the taller competitor would be better off, I would think? Now, obviously taller...

Fortunately it will take 9.6 seconds, as opposed to the many swimming replays...

How tall is he exactly? Looked like a grown man going against under-12s out there...

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