Australia Women's Nationl Team 2012

[carlo]

Australia NT is in Olympic form, as it rolled over Brazil 102-58 to end the series by winning the 3rd straight game.
Liz Cambage was perfect from the field (8/8) and topped all scorers with 23.
Opals scored 53%FG and outrebounded Brazilian team 48-16.

http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/13/05/69/06/94krX3tHnx9I/

[carlo]

Jayco Opals European Pre-London Schedule:

13 July – Jayco Opals vs. France - 5:00PM UK time - Sheffield, UK
14 July – Jayco Opals vs. Great Britain - 5:00PM UK time - Sheffield, UK
15 July – Jayco Opals vs. Angola - 12:00PM midday UK time - Sheffield, UK
20 July - Jayco Opals vs. Brazil - 5:30PM French time - Lille, France
21 July – Jayco Opals vs. China - 6:00PM French time - Lille France
22 July – Jayco Opals vs. France - 5:30PM French time - Lille, France

An intense prep program for the Australian NT !

[carlo]

Australia-France 69-59, Liz Cambage 28 pts (10/11 FG shooting).

http://www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=302&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2573&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=e20ce64b12

[JGX]

Australia 87 Great Britain 63

http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/20589/05/64/87/64NpkAmNkLljk/

[carlo]

And another monster-game of Liz Cambage (29+11 and 42 eff.) !

[JGX]

Australia 70 Angola 46

Another big game from Cambage but Jackson DNP and no production from the guards.

[carlo]

In their last 2 prep games the Opals won a close game with Brazil 78-75 (Belinda Snell 28, Liz Cambage 24) and then lost to France 64-58 playing without Lauren Jackson and Suzy Batkovic. Belinda Snell again high scorer for her team (14), Yacoubou and Gruda 14 & 12 for the winners.

[carlo]

Lauren Jackson named as Australia's flag bearer at the Olympics opening ceremony.

[sinobball]

Aussie "A" and "B" teams are both in China.

The Opals, which is missing 90% of its best players but still enough to beat New Zealand (Maybe? Or I guess both team are already qualified for the 2014 Worlds) lost to China 64-69 in Game 1 despite 24 from Belinda Snell. Zhao Shuang led China with 17.

The Emerging Opals though got destroyed by their Chinese counterpart 43-78 and outrebounded 16-35. What is the makeup of this team? They also lost to Netscouts/USA by a huge margin:

http://netscoutsbasketball.com/blog/netscouts-basketball-womens-usa-all-stars-romp-over-australia/