SF: Australia vs Serbia

[CHBB]

10 points Australia? Really? I'm afraid the Aussie peaked in that 54 point first half against USA. Their career NBA backups are not used to playing these kind of minutes. I hope Australia can prove me wrong, but I don't see it.

Career NBA backups? I'm guessing you're referring to Baynes and Delly? Because Mills and Bogut are both used to playing huge minutes.

14 points in a half has to be a record.

[LDK]

Nice job Serbia! Amazing defence. That Mills desperate shot shows how Australia players are feeling so far

[usagre]

Group phase results mean zero.

That goes for the USA too. Similar to '14 I expect their best performance of the entire tournament in the final.

[Mr Chacho]

Jesus Christ, am I the only one seeing Serbia playing rugby, not basketball in defense? Even in typical Euroleague game, some would have fouled out by now?

Do you know who Lamonica or Christodoulou are? Referees in Europe are bad, but not too bad.

[CoachZ]

Thanks for reply .
I have to say that Serbia , so far , they are majestic .

We are playing well. Let's see how we open second half, that will be the key.

Also as I have mentioned, deep rotation is KEY for this kind of defense. You saw the minutes by second unit. If you are going to defend like this and play, you gotta have depth and use it. We did the same vs USA.

[usagre]

Career NBA backups? I'm guessing you're referring to Baynes and Delly? Because Mills and Bogut are both used to playing huge minutes.

14 points in a half has to be a record.

Mills is a career backup too.

[Mr Chacho]

Australia only has scored 14 points in 20 minutes??? Ricky Rubio is the new australian shot teacher?

I am a Teodosic hater, but I have to admit that this guy is really really good, too good.

[Earendil]

Good game from us so far this is first time I see Djordjevic organizing defence on par with what Ivkovic used to do. Still we need to be very very careful coz if we drop they can easly go back in the game. 3rd quarter will tell us all

[Beez]

Career NBA backups? I'm guessing you're referring to Baynes and Delly? Because Mills and Bogut are both used to playing huge minutes.

14 points in a half has to be a record.

Mills doesn't starts. That what a backup is. Bogut played limited minutes. He probably didn't play the 4th quarter quarter in over half of Golden State's games last season.

[Boomer]

Australian basketball always save the worst for playoff basketball, I thought this team was different man

[CoachZ]

It's not the issue of career backups. It's an issue that Australia is a team full of flaws which teams just didn't exploit and Aussies were shit hot shooting over defense vs most of the teams. Their offense is actually way to simple to long term challenge serious defenses. They run about 5 sets that I have seen so far in the tournament, and that is way to little if you are a bad PnR team, which they are. None of the bigs really run the PnR well outside of Bogut.

They are not a very good off the dribble shooting team (nobody outside of Mills can do it at a high level). Others are spot up shooters, that means you are 100% dependent on sets and screens to work for open shots or Dellavedova to create (which he isn't doing, he has shit himself so far). When you have that situation and you match it with a good defensive plan and lots of hustle and energy from opponent, you get this. The issue is this Aussie team never had plan B nor needed it in this tournament. Plan A always worked. This is where coaching and knowledge of the game by players comes into foreground.

[usagre]

This Serbian team is making a similar run to France in '00. 2-3 in the group stage finishing fourth, then all the way to final where they played well against USA.

[Boomer]

Australian basketball always save the worst for playoff basketball, I thought this team was different man

It's not the issue of career backups. It's an issue that Australia is a team full of flaws which teams just didn't exploit and Aussies were shit hot shooting over defense vs most of the teams. Their offense is actually way to simple to long term challenge serious defenses. They run about 5 sets that I have seen so far in the tournament, and that is way to little if you are a bad PnR team, which they are. None of the bigs really run the PnR well outside of Bogut.

They are not a very good off the dribble shooting team (nobody outside of Mills can do it at a high level). Others are spot up shooters, that means you are 100% dependent on sets and screens to work for open shots or Dellavedova to create (which he isn't doing, he has shit himself so far). When you have that situation and you match it with a good defensive plan and lots of hustle and energy from opponent, you get this. The issue is this Aussie team never had plan B nor needed it in this tournament. Plan A always worked. This is where coaching and knowledge of the game by players comes into foreground.

Hate to admit it but that's a fair post , see if anything changes in the second

[Silent Killer]

Australian basketball always save the worst for playoff basketball, I thought this team was different man

a wrong time to have a bad game.

[Dtown]

Are we at the point where Australia is trying to build momentum for the Bronze, or do they still have a chance here?