I don't know about that, Roscoe. I suspect it'll be more like Brazil's situation in the World Cup. They always have the most talent and everyone always picks them as the favorite to win, which they still do more often than anyone else, just not every time.

Alright! A matchup with the US. Will be quite a challenge as this Aussie team is but a shell of its former self. We are missing a couple of good players and our crop of veterans are all gone.
Andrew Bogut is the only recognisable player outside of Oz pretty much.

If only we still had Andrew Gaze... In case you don't know who he is, he won a championship with the Spurs in 99, but didn't get much of a go.
He is the all-time olympic scoring leader, and 2nd all-time world championship scorer. He used to carry us in international play. I wish I could find some of those games.
His stats from the Aussie league are insane and will never be beaten.

You can find more info here. Anyway, thats just me trying to psyche myself up for the game and a small tribute to our main man. I'll be happy with a competitive performance from the Boomers.

Basic Summary
http://www.interbasket.net/players/gaze.htm

In-depth Summary
http://users.chariot.net.au/~spcardwd/gaze2.htm

Go team!

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It is still but a dream but I would like to see the U.S. vs Ser/Mont in the finals. To see like the top six draft picks in '03 on the floor together would be something.

In order to make it more fair, though, could we split them up so Darko does not have to take them all on at once?

Why isn't Glynny on the Greek team? He must suck.

Without overly hyping the subject (for fear of igniting the Darko-lover haters)...

Out of 278 players in the FIBA Championships, our former towel boy is currently 13th in ppg, 5th in rebs, and 1st in blocks.

Our former chopped liver point guard is 4th in ppg and 4th in assists.


At least Delfino is breaking out... 14th in steals and a decent 9.8 ppg.


The Pistons may very well have a systematic talent recognition problem.

is it me or does bosh suck.

he looks really bad out there in that 12th man role. but the fact that we all know he's a beast in the nba brings up a funny point to me. darko looked kinda bad in the 12th man role and he's tearing up the world championships and is the man on his team. isn't it funny how oppurtunity or lack of oppurtunity can alter the perception of the quality of a player.

right now based only on how they are doing in the world championships who can honestly say they would take bosh over darko??? i don't think anybody would be saying those "man we could have drafted bosh" comments.

not to mention darko started out the tourney with some pretty bad to average games. he has really picked it up as the tourney goes on.

lets hope delfino gets some minutes when he comes back home.

It's you.

He is another surprising statistic. There are only 2 players in the FIBA Championships who have more blocked shots than personal fouls. Darko is leading with a ridiculous 1.6:1.0 ratio. Gasol is 2nd at 1.1:1.0.

I always thought that Darko's biggest weakness was that he was foul prone and could be pump faked easily. Maybe he caught on.

Bosh put up 20 points yesterday...
He was saying he hardly gets to touch the ball with all of the other talented players... let's just say the talent pool goes much deeper than the Serbian team... Bosh doesn't play near the minutes as Darko... the Serbian coach is using Darko as a primary option right now.... I wish that would have happened last year.