Basketball-'09 Boomers watch

[Gozu]

The Boomers are about to take on New Zealand in Game 1 of the FIBA Oceania Championships two game series. Game 1 in Sydney will be shown live on Fox Sports 2 at 5:30pm on Sunday.

South Australian's Brad Newley, Joe Ingles and Oscar Forman are joined in the squad by Aron Baynes, Jason Cadee, Peter Crawford, Matthew Dellavedova, Adam Gibson, James Harvey, Nathan Jawai, Ater Majok, Aleks Maric, Damian Martin, Luke Nevill, A.J. Ogilvy, Liam Rush, Stephen Weigh and Mark Worthington.

[Gozu]

The final 12 man Boomers team has been announced ahead of Game 1 starting later today:

Brad Newley, Joe Ingles, Nathan Jawai, Mark Worthington, Oscar Forman, Aron Baynes, Peter Crawford, Matthew Dellavedova, Adam Gibson, James Harvey, Damian Martin & A.J. Ogilvy.

[Thiele]

Final Score

Australia 84
NZ 77

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 69,00.html

[Thiele]

Game 2 is on Tuseday

[Gozu]

Game 1: Australia 84 (Ingles 26, Jawai 17, Newley 13) d New Zealand 77 (Penney 23, Pledger 16, Tait 12)

Australia lead the series 1-0

[brod]

Aussies got smashed on the boards (31-45) and Jawai had 11 of those 31, with no other Aussie grabbing more than 5

Jawai had 17pts, but only 5/15 shooting

[Gozu]

Game 2 is live from Wellington, NZ today at 4:30pm on Fox Sports 3 & HD. It's being replayed at 10:30pm on Tuesday night on HD and at 6am Wednesday morning on Fox Sports 1.

[Magpiespower]

Just wish they didn't play it out at Homebush...

[NFC]

Aussies by 4 at 1/2 in Game 2.

Newley has been awesome.

[saintal]

NZ 100
Aus 78

[NFC]

Beyond pathetic. 36 points against in the 3rd qtr are you kidding?

Lots of work to do Brett Brown.

[brod]

Just wish they didn't play it out at Homebush...

Just wish they didnt play it at all

[Gozu]

Game 2: New Zealand 100 (Vukona 25, Penney 24, Pledger 15, Tait 12) d Australia 78 (Newley 20, Jawai 17, Ogilvy 14, Ingles 13, Gibson 12).

Series tied 1-1 but NZ win the Al Ramsay Shield on points differential.

Shocking game, we looked terrible but this is our second string team. The Boomers now depart NZ immediately for China and the Stankovic Cup and I believe South Australians Jacob Holmes & possibly Luke Schenscher have been called into the squad.

[drebin]

Throw in Schenscher, Neilson, Anderson, Bogut, Mills and things would have been different however the Tall Blacks had a very inexperienced team as well - the performance was disgraceful by the Boomers.

The most frustrating player to watch is Nathan Jawai! Someone should teach him how to shoot when backing his player into the basket. He has no soft touch with his hook shot or one handed push - he clangs them into the board and or the ring. Also he has to learn to extend his shooting arm right up and drop the ball down when using his hook shot. A number of times last night he barely got his arm higher than the ring!

[brod]

Throw in Schenscher, Neilson, Anderson, Bogut, Mills and things would have been different however the Tall Blacks had a very inexperienced team as well - the performance was disgraceful by the Boomers.

The most frustrating player to watch is Nathan Jawai! Someone should teach him how to shoot when backing his player into the basket. He has no soft touch with his hook shot or one handed push - he clangs them into the board and or the ring. Also he has to learn to extend his shooting arm right up and drop the ball down when using his hook shot. A number of times last night he barely got his arm higher than the ring!

And hes trying to get a contract with the Mavs

[Gozu]

Throw in Schenscher, Neilson, Anderson, Bogut, Mills and things would have been different however the Tall Blacks had a very inexperienced team as well - the performance was disgraceful by the Boomers.

The most frustrating player to watch is Nathan Jawai! Someone should teach him how to shoot when backing his player into the basket. He has no soft touch with his hook shot or one handed push - he clangs them into the board and or the ring. Also he has to learn to extend his shooting arm right up and drop the ball down when using his hook shot. A number of times last night he barely got his arm higher than the ring!

We were also missing Luke Schenscher, Adam Ballinger (now a naturalised aussie), Mark Worthington, CJ Bruton & David Barlow from our full strength line up. There would only be 2 or 3 guys from that team last night that would make a full strength Boomers team. The Kiwi's were only missing Craig Bradshaw, Pero Cameron and I think Mark Dickel from their team. It's not exactly panic stations but regardless we still should've won the series and comfortably.

I agree Jawai can be frustrating to watch but we need to keep in mind he only picked up a basketball for the first time about 6-7 years ago I think. He was discovered on one of the islands off the coast of north Queensland and brought over to the mainland to play Rugby and it was there that due to his size someone suggested he should learn to try and play basketball. He's a project with massive amounts of potential who to a degree is still learning the fundamentals of the game.

[Gozu]

And hes trying to get a contract with the Mavs

He's already got a contract with the Mavs. But there is the possibility that they might buy him out and release him.

[drebin]

The other annoying part of losing to NZ was the way their commentators carried on! They were making out like it was some sort of giant killing effort beating the "B" Grade Aussies with no actual mention of the number of star players missing as pointed out.

I was interested to read Boti's column in the 'tiser this morning as I knew he would reference this loss back to when BA and the other dh's like Shane Heal hung Phil Smyth out to dry when we lost the 2001 series to NZ when we had an understrength line up vs NZ's which went to 4th place (still can't believe it) in the 2002 WC's.

Losing to NZ is nearly as bad as losing to the poms in any sport!

[Gozu]

It is almost as bad as losing to the poms lol That NZ commentator is a nut anyway but I think Worthington supposedly made some comments on the NRL Footy Show last week about beating them by 20 points or something so that probably juiced things up further.

[Gozu]

The Boomers are now playing in the Stankovic Cup in China and in their opening game bounced back from the disappointing NZ series with an excellent win over Turkey tonight.

Australia 70 (Dellavedova 13, Forman 12, Harvey 12) d Turkey 54 (Sonkol 11)