USA vs Australia
 

Cmon the aussies !!!

If US loses this game i will never watch another US basketball game again :winkwink:

We wont let the yanks forget it if we whoop there buts :thumbsup

its only one quarter over, but hey, it's not what I expected :glugglug

ahahahaahahaha.... we're winning.

:glugglug

go U.S.A.

damn I would have missed it if you hadn't reminded me

thanks

too bad it's not the best U.S. players or all other teams would get smoked

They dont show it here :(

Well they might not be the first team that was selected, but they are still the greatest players in the world, they all could score but dont play as a team.

Well it IS your best team because if some players are to selfish that they cant put themselves out to play for the olympics they shouldn't really be considered part of the country anyway. That's not the type of person I'd like to have living in Australia.

Anyway USA are 4 points up with 8 minutes left and will probably win now unfortunately.

USA 75:67 AUS

Nepal

Bugger. only 2 minutes left and were like 11 points behind. fuck eh! good effort boys although it always hurts losing to america in anything.

wow, Lebron James!

go USA! :thumbsup

c'mon, it's not like losing to the kiwis, it's more like a friendly thing :)

usa won... rank #4 now

LBJ

FF

Ok, we admit defeat!

There is one great thing I like about the Yanks is that they know how to celebrate and let every one know how good they are :)

Completely unfair analysis. When the best American basketball players were invited to play on the Olympic team they look back and see strings of 40 and 50 point wins and dominating performances. In short, boring lopsided games in which they would best estimate that they weren't needed. It's always been that way so why would they expect it to be any different?

I see critics calling the american players "primadonnas". Was the 1992 team that beat Croatia by 40 and Lithuania by 50 primadonnas? Of course not. They cared as much to win just as much as anyone else. Nor is this team's players. They are a group with many younger and third tier players getting a lot of playing time. They seem to be giving it their all to me.

International play has improved tremendously in recent years. Many NBA players hadn't been aware of that.

Things change. It has taken more than 100 games played for international play to catch up with the America's third tier players. Eventually, even the best American players will be matched around the globe. Why wouldn't they?

And here I thought Australians tended to look down upon patriotism. You guys are feverish patriots, eh? "For my country".

I imagine if Australia won you would have been very quiet. Hell, there would have probably been a celebratory riot in Brisbane ;-)

its a shame if you say No when you get asked to play for your country at the olympic games... its olympia!

It's just the olympics. It's not like it's the NBA finals or something. ;-)

Nba finals 50 million ppl watching it .. but millions of dollars to earn

olympia a few billion ppl watching the finals and it must be the greatest to get a gold medail for your country

Thats right. I dont understand how anyone could possibly turn down playing for your country. It should take precedence ahead of anything else.

I never realized Australians were so much more patriotic than we Americans. Well, knock yourself out and wave those flags, friend.

I've never been much of a fan of the olympics. At least from an American's point of view there aren't the same level of rivalries as you see in a professional sports league. I occasionally watch a little track and field and maybe a basketball game here or there but I can't say I've ever cared who wins in gymnastics.

Right. Because nationalism is the most important quality and should take precedence ahead of anything else. Right?
Wave that flag!

I won't either unless they start using college students instead of these no heart having pussies.

^ One of the reasons Americans are generally disliked by the majority.

Good Job

That arrow was aimed at colin ;)

Well maybe if we were playing Rugby then you guys would rock otherwise in Basketball your team has no chance. :winkwink:

we did have a chance :winkwink:

but you are right. any type of football and you would be gone!!!!


it's good to see actually i stumbled across the usa rugby league website. it's great to see there's a decent competition going on over there.

Go Australia!!!!!! :thumbsup

Majority of people in the world believe in a God. Obviously being in the majority doesn't make one right. It just makes you a "follower". Wanna blindly follow us into battle again?

Uhhh. Game's over, bud. The good guys one ;-)

NFL? ;-)

:1orglaugh

damn.. the aussies had the yanks beat for the first three quarters.. great come back from the americans though...It's a pity the final score doesn't tell the tale of the game - the aussies just lost it in the last half couldn't put any sort of offence together. Jesus Shane Heal looked like a little white boy compared to a couple of the US guys heheh.

bummer too bad Australia couldn't pull through.,

that is grid iron. not football.

you should have stopped watching it after the ridiculous loss vs Puerto Rico! :thumbsup

Aye, missing Kobe, Shaq, T-Mac, J. Kidd, Ben Wallace..... I despise Kobe, but he's a great player, even if he hogs the ball. He would havbe been too proud loosing to Puerto Rico....what's Lamar Odom's excuse? Even Mike Tyson and Ali looses once in a while....this coming from a former clipper.

yah, US have weaknesses...but they are not working as team. The other teams are using zoning. Looks like they are taller than the US too.

Don't mistake the Australian obsessions of sport and gambling with patriotism.

Good point Joe Citizen, they are worlds apart! :Graucho