2023 FIBA World Cup

[king neptune]

Dammit, needed Thybulle or Green to step up and make life difficult for Schroeder. Hope they can bounce back, we may have gotten a bronze at the Olympics but World Championship/Cup podium finish still unachieved.

[DOC]

We beat Japan 109-89 and go through to the second round.

[Gozu]

Our highest ever score at a World Cup too, Xavier Cooks with 24 points & 16 boards off the bench.

Australia 109 (Giddey 26, Cooks 24, Green 15, Kay 13, Mills 11) def Japan 89 (Hawkinson 33, Watanabe 24, Togashi 14)

[Gozu]

The Boomers have advanced to the second round and results from the group stage carry through to the next round with the top two teams from each group advancing to the Quarter Finals. These are the new groups:

Group I: Serbia, Dominican Republic, Italy, Puerto Rico

Group J: USA, Lithuania, Montenegro, Greece

Group K: Slovenia, Germany, Australia, Georgia

Group L: Canada, Spain, Brazil, Latvia

Australia's second round games:

Friday September 1 - Australia vs Slovenia, 9:40 pm

Sunday September 3 - Australia vs Georgia, 5:00 pm

Also with New Zealand knocked out in the group stage it means Australia has now automatically qualified for next year's Olympic Games in Paris.

[DOC]

Underway. Must win game.

Mills looks pumped.

[DOC]

Another poor start.

Playing a higher court press but getting slaughtered on the roll to the basket. Being out rebounded as well.

I think we are yet to score from outside.

Down 28-17 nearly quarter time.

[Jim05]

Any chance these mugs can hit a shot?
Not looking good

[Jim05]

Cut the lead to 4 at the last break

[Jim05]

And blown away in the last so that’s the end of us in an absolute failure of a tournament. Some hard questions have to be asked of this squad

[MW]

Need to ask why Ingles got so many minutes when he’s old and afraid to shoot.
Giddey showed his age at times but should have played more
So bad on the defensive glass

[king neptune]

Bloody disappointing, with no Landale we don't have a single big man that's NBA standard and you really do need that if you're gonna finish top 3.
Love Joe Ingles but think this should be his last international tournament. Glad he's got another 2 year NBA contract already stitched up because this comp did him no favors at all.
Not as strong a squad as we've sent out before but still too good to go out like this.

[Gozu]

Very disappointing, the Boomers now play their final game against Georgia on Sunday night.

Slovenia 91 (Doncic 19, Tobey 18, K. Prepelic 11, Hrovat 10) def Australia 80 (Giddey 25, Mills 17, Exum 13)

[Gozu]

The Boomers finished their World Cup campaign with a win over Georgia tonight.

Australia 100 (Mills 19, Exum 18, Reath 16, Giddey 15, Ingles 10) def Georgia 84 (Bitadze 20, McFadden 18, Shermadini 16, Rati 12, Sandro 12)

[Jim05]

Lithuania beat the Yanks and defending Champions in Spain were eliminated by Canada

[Gozu]

Quarter Finals

Tue Sep 5 - Lithuania vs Serbia, 5:30pm

Tue Sep 5 - Italy vs USA, 9pm

Wed Sep 6 - Germany vs Latvia, 5:30pm

Wed Sep 6 - Canada vs Slovenia, 9:15pm

With no classification games played for teams knocked out in the second round, Australia finished 10th.

[Gozu]

Basketball Australia have confirmed Brian Goorjian will be coaching the Boomers at next year's Olympic Games in Paris.

https://nbl.com.au/news/goorjian-locked-in-for-olympics

[DOC]

Watched the USA trounce Italy last night. Up by 40+ in the third. Ran the bench for most of the second half. Won 100 67.

Defense was terrific. Match up with either Germany or Latvia in the semi's.

Long odds on to win it from here.

[Gozu]

Semi Finals

Fri Sep 8 - Serbia vs Canada, 6:15pm

Fri Sep 8 - USA vs Germany, 10:10pm

[Gozu]

Big boil over Germany have just beaten the USA 113-111 in the SF sending them into the bronze medal game.

Bronze medal game

Sun Sep 10 - USA vs Canada, 6pm

Gold medal game

Sun Sep 10 - Serbia vs Germany, 10:10pm

[Gozu]

Canada wins the Bronze medal 127-118 in OT, the USA finishes 4th.