What’s the starting five there? Walker Mitchell Middleton Tatum Turner Is probably the stronger. Or maybe Fox in place of Walker would be a better fit. A strong 5 but I’m not sure if it would be the best in the league. They’d be damn good in regular season with that bench though.
Kind of agree. I wonder if they would be able to beat the very best teams in a seven game series. What i do see is a very very deep team that might win because on any given night or for any injury they would have a replacement. They could be very healthy for the playoffs. But other than that they might not be able to beat a team like the Clippers/Lakers right now? Betting the Blazers would give them a run also.
They have already played the select team twice, and the select team beat them both times, by a greater margin the second time.
It's a pretty big, off-season time investment for something that's basically volunteer work. Most of these guys only really have substantial time with their families/friends for 4-5 months a year anyways. The Olympics still has the "cache" of being a big deal and that's more of an ego thing for a lot of the "megastars". So I get why guys aren't really interested in going if you're Harden, James, Curry, etc what do you really gain by going?
I'm glad they got humbled in an exhibition game that's meaningless...will give them something to prove...which over the years team USA hasn't had to do often.
Cory Joseph still not in Australia as Canada’s ‘disaster’ hands Aussie Boomers the edge ahead of warmup games
Tip-off for the Australia v Canada warm up game is in approximately three hours. Both teams will be pretty cagey given they're in the same pool at the World Cup. Coverage in Australia is on SBS Viceland, and I think on CBC in Canada. This stream might work in the USA: https://www.cbc.ca/sports/basketball/canada-exhibition-fiba-world-cup-australia-1.5246053
Fulltime Australia 70 - 90 Canada Kudos Canada! Physical game, refs were letting a lot go, and Canada realised that early. Australia took three quarters to figure that out. Lazy defence by Australia for much of the game. Lots of rotations, and different lineups by the Australian coach, clearly still trying to figure things out. Three point shooting, and turnovers were the difference. 3PM/A (%) Aus - 6/34 (17%) Can - 13/32 (40%) TO Aus - 15 Can - 9 https://www.fibalivestats.com/u/AUSO/1313248/ Game 2 is on same time tomorrow.
Australian coach just caught a ball heading out of bounds off Canada; possession Australia! Refs didn’t even notice, Nick Nurse was furious!
