Australian basketball.

[peternorth]

NATIVES OF AUSTRALIA IN THE NBA
​

Dyson Daniels	Atlanta Hawks	5
Alex Ducas	OKC Thunder	88
Dante Exum	Dallas Mavericks	5
Johnny Furphy	Indiana Pacers	12
Josh Giddey	Chicago Bulls	3
Joe Ingles	Minnesota Timberwolves	7
Kyrie Irving *	Dallas Mavericks	2
Jock Landale	Houston Rockets	2
Thon Maker	Houston Rockets	15
Jack McVeigh	Also of the Houston Rockets	58
Patty mills	Utah Jazz	8
Duop Reath	Portland Trailblazers	28
Ben Simmons	Brooklyn Nets	10
Matisse Thybulle	Portland Trailblazers	4
Luke Travers	Cleveland Cavaliers	33
Josh Green	Charlotte Hornets	10

 

[eth-dog]

How is that not goal tending?

 

[DT_35]

How is that not goal tending?

It’s not in FIBA

 

[DT_35]

Patty so careless with the ball

 

[eth-dog]

Honestly **** the refs. Cost us this.

 

[eth-dog]

It’s not in FIBA

Then how did it get paid against Landale?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Good effort, just couldn't do it when it mattered.

 

[DT_35]

Oh look another basic turnover

 

[eth-dog]

Good effort, just couldn't do it when it mattered.

7 vs 5 on the court

 

[Big_Luch]

I love goorj.

Paddy has a flame thrower.. sub him off with 6 minutes to go in the 1st half.

Meanwhile every other team plays their star to the last couple of minutes for a rest.

Not goorjjjj

 

[eth-dog]

**** Serbia. **** the Refs.

Better team lost. Jokic and Bogdanovic were brilliant but the Refs won them that.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Farewell my sweet Prince Patty

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I love goorj.

Paddy has a flame thrower.. sub him off with 6 minutes to go in the 1st half.

Meanwhile every other team plays their star to the last couple of minutes for a rest.

Not goorjjjj

Yep, you should never take a player off when he is as hot as Paddy was. Bad error by the coach, the game slowed down for Australia right at that very point.

 

[mickelboy182]

** Serbia. ** the Refs.

Better team lost. Jokic and Bogdanovic were brilliant but the Refs won them that.

Ended up 1-3 for the tournament, don't deserve to feel too sorry for ourselves to be honest.

Poor coaching and loose handles the story for mine

 

[eddiesmith]

Loose handling was ****ing shocking the whole tournament.

It’s like they were so unsure of their next move they forgot to worry about the ball.

Then there’s Patty who spends half his game on the floor.

 

[GC2015]

In the end, did Landale fouling out cost us the win? Jokic essentially won them the game in OT and I would've thought Jock would do better on him than Reath did.

 

[eth-dog]

Ended up 1-3 for the tournament, don't deserve to feel too sorry for ourselves to be honest.

Poor coaching and loose handles the story for mine

Not sorry for ourselves. Just calling it how I see it.

Well, Boomers career over for Mills, Delly, Ingles and Kay. Hopefully we replace them with Furphy, Matisse and two more 2/3's

 

[JT_the_Man]

World Cup isn’t until 2027 but…

Giddey/Mills*
Exum/Green
Daniels/Furphy/Thybulle*
Reath/McVeigh
Landale/Zikarsky/Magnay*

Bizarrely I’m confident the 9 I don’t have asterisks next to will be there. Mills obviously (well, maybe not obviously given his FIBA GOAT status but…) won’t be there, but that spot is a raffle as it stands so he gets a juicy Joe Ingles role. Magnay is 100% surplus to needs with Rocco but again, idk who to bring in so I’ll leave the incumbent. Who knows if Thybulle wants a bar of us anymore.

Names to watch are probably Toohey, Travers, Ducas, Proctor, Armstrong, Siulepa, Daniels v2. Might be forgetting someone else. Ben Simmons anyone

 

[RagingBear]

World Cup isn’t until 2027 but…

Giddey/Mills*
Exum/Green
Daniels/Furphy/Thybulle*
Reath/McVeigh
Landale/Zikarsky/Magnay*

Bizarrely I’m confident the 9 I don’t have asterisks next to will be there. Mills obviously (well, maybe not obviously given his FIBA GOAT status but…) won’t be there, but that spot is a raffle as it stands so he gets a juicy Joe Ingles role. Magnay is 100% surplus to needs with Rocco but again, idk who to bring in so I’ll leave the incumbent. Who knows if Thybulle wants a bar of us anymore.

Names to watch are probably Toohey, Travers, Ducas, Proctor, Armstrong, Siulepa, Daniels v2. Might be forgetting someone else.

Who knows someone out of the wilderness may pop up. It's still exciting as majority of the boomers team is young.

 

[matthew_s]

Then how did it get paid against Landale?

watch the replay.

 

[JT_the_Man]

**** that sucked.

 

[eth-dog]

World Cup isn’t until 2027 but…

Giddey/Mills*
Exum/Green
Daniels/Furphy/Thybulle*
Reath/McVeigh
Landale/Zikarsky/Magnay*

Bizarrely I’m confident the 9 I don’t have asterisks next to will be there. Mills obviously (well, maybe not obviously given his FIBA GOAT status but…) won’t be there, but that spot is a raffle as it stands so he gets a juicy Joe Ingles role. Magnay is 100% surplus to needs with Rocco but again, idk who to bring in so I’ll leave the incumbent. Who knows if Thybulle wants a bar of us anymore.

Names to watch are probably Toohey, Travers, Ducas, Proctor, Armstrong, Siulepa, Daniels v2. Might be forgetting someone else. Ben Simmons anyone

I'd go:

Giddey/Daniels
Exum/Furphy
Green/McVeigh/???
Thybulle/Magnay/Zikarsky
Landale/Reath

I don't mind going in with 2 point/5 wing/5 bigs approach.

watch the replay.

Yeah I ain't doing that

 

[larrikin]

Frustrating watch that one.

Goorj was terrible, but that was a given.

FIBA Patty rolled back the clock, then fell into the trap of trying to do it all on his own.

Giddey our best player and our worst player - he has so much potential but desperately needs to tighten up his handle and choose better times to go for the miracle pass. I guess that's what happens when you hand over the keys of the team to a 21 year old who's not a finished product.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Boomers takeaways: Time for next-gen transition? Best coaching candidates

The Boomers crashed out of the Olympics following a quarterfinal loss to Nikola Jokic's Serbia. Olgun Uluc looks at the big takeaways from the campaign, including the need to transition to youth, and who could be the next head coach.

www.espn.com.au

Mission impossible: How do Boomers replace FIBA Patty after Olympic heartbreak?

At 36 years of age, it's likely Patty Mills' final Olympics for the Boomers. But, after he put his country on his back yet again in the loss to Serbia, the question must be asked: how do you replace FIBA Patty?

www.espn.com.au

Couple of good reads. Replacing Patty is an impossible task - could really use Proctor becoming the guy we thought he’d become 3 years ago.

 

[Hrvat Hawks]

Not sure how they didn't get sets running for McVeigh. He just camped in the corner with hands up waiting for a pass. Really bad coaching the whole tournament. Terrible in fact.

Patty as much good he did, he did even worse stuff. Giddey needs to tighten up the passing.

 

[matthew_s]

Boomers takeaways: Time for next-gen transition? Best coaching candidates

The Boomers crashed out of the Olympics following a quarterfinal loss to Nikola Jokic's Serbia. Olgun Uluc looks at the big takeaways from the campaign, including the need to transition to youth, and who could be the next head coach.

www.espn.com.au

Mission impossible: How do Boomers replace FIBA Patty after Olympic heartbreak?

At 36 years of age, it's likely Patty Mills' final Olympics for the Boomers. But, after he put his country on his back yet again in the loss to Serbia, the question must be asked: how do you replace FIBA Patty?

www.espn.com.au

Couple of good reads. Replacing Patty is an impossible task - could really use Proctor becoming the guy we thought he’d become 3 years ago.

Not sure I'm on the same page with the coaching article.