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Just watched epic game of the Australian Boomers vsing Argentina in basketball! It wasn't talked bout much, but I mangaed to catch the LIVE action on One. In the end, Australia owned their opponents 97 - 58.

It was a good match. A very good match. However, Australia seemed to dominate from the beginning. They got the first shot in, got the most 3-pointers in (11/23 compared to 6/22) and they had a few intercepts.

Also, the team worked well. They even pulled the tricks: one incident included an Aussie dribbling after a fast-break, while being marked, so he passed it... BACKWARDS... WITHOUT LOOKING to another taller Aussie who dunked it. There was also this massive black guy (Nathan Jawai - look out for him). Number 15, what a beast. He looked slow on his feet, but he could dunk and reject!

Let's look at the background infos coming into this game:

ARGENTINA
- they won the first ever FIBA World Championship in 1950
- took out gold in 2004 Athens Olympics
- took out bronze in 2008 Beijing Olympics
- have players playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers
- have never gotten less than a bronze in the FIBA Americas Championship
- ARE CURRENTLY RANKED 1ST BY FIBA =O

AUSTRALIA
- we are ranked 11th by FIBA
- have players playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Portland Trailblazers (Bogut's not in the team anymore)
- have won gold in 1971, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2007... for the FIBA Oceania Championship =="
- appeared 12 times in olympics, havent won a medal
- appeared 9 times in FIBA championship, havent won a medal
- we actually have a nickname for the team

Sooo for Australia to beat Argentina in tonight's bball match 97 - 58 was pretty, no, veeerrry awesome. I'm just glad that I watched it =) Plus, it's been a while since the LA Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, so it was good to watch some live basketball. (But this match was not as 'skillfully entertaining' as the NBA ones.)

This is just game 1 of a 3 game series, I think, called the Boomer Challenge or something. Hope they keep it up, all the way throughout the series, but also throughout the actual championship this year.

XTRA info:
- after the game, the Boomers were signing autographs... just letting you know.
- and everyone thinks that the Argentinians will scout the Boomers a bit more before the next match :L

At least we beat SOMEONE in the sporting world recently...*cough*GERMANY*cough*worldcupsouthafrica2010


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