Aussie's FIBA World Cup Thread

Philipinos are the worst fans in the world, even if they lose to Serbia -100 they will still say that they are the best team in the world.look what these little people write on the fiba page

you have no idea I see.Ask anyone in Australia if he likes Filipino. Go to facebook, fiba page and see what these funny people write. Spam on every page

Classic look ahead spot Peekay. Aussies no doubt will get the win but to cover 40 points is massive. They play Lithuania after this match which will be the game they all have their eyes on. Lemanis will play his slow ball I think in this game. Senegal hit just 1-23 three pointers vs Lithuania, surely they can hit a few more against the Aussies. We don't have the best perimeter defense and I think that we might hit cruise control whilst up by around 20 and then Senegal get the cover. I was actually going to post this as a play very shortly but will do it now.

 Senegal vs Australia: Senegal +39.5

Quote Originally Posted by peekay89:

Glad to have you on the same side, but hope my opinion hasn't swayed you.

I just like to post my thoughts

Definitely not mate. This game I had circled after the Aussies 2H comeback vs the Canadians. What I mean by that is that the Canadians went on a nice 18-5 run early in the 3Q, took the lead and then the Aussies had to fight back strongly and that 16 point win doesn't actually show the true closeness of the game IMHO.

Like to grab these lines early because I have seen the lines move quite a fair bit. This one is for tomorrow night

 Venezuela vs China: Over 145.5

Will count that one early. Aussies playing sloppy aand really bad basketball

YTD: 4-0

With the over pending in France/Jordan tonight and Venezuela/China tomorrow night. That will do me for today at least, enjoy the matches. 

Great showing by Senegal and the game played out as we thought. A slow grind.

this was a good bet 

hello aussie

good calls

what makes you think of the over between france and jordan

since I'm french, our defense is elite..jordon could have trouble scoring today.

cheers mate. Agree with what you said about the French D, it¡¯s exceltionally good and Gobert should beast in this game but I think France let their hair down a bit and score well and easily against Jordan. Gobert should score easily as well. Jordan should push the pace which I think France will enjoy. I think Jordan can get around 70, with France making up the rest. 

Thanks for the Senegal cover Aus. I tailed it and made an easy $500.

That'll cover 10 cartons of vb to get me through the next month of NRL (and even AFL) finals and the start of the NFL season and Premier League and the kick off of NCAAF and the US Open and the rest of the Ashes...so much good sport on at the moment...and the weather is awesome...lots of good beers to be drunk thanks to you bro 

That's awesome Mick. Enjoy those VB's mate. Great time for sports and the NBA is just 6 weeks away as well.

They weren't at their best but can understand they didn't have their minds completely on this game. Big challenge up next for the Aussies.

France on fire..... Jordan didn't crack 70 like I thought but the French did enough scoring to get the over

Wow and  totally missed all your plays 

This has now dropped to 143.5 but still happy because I believe that this game crawls over 150.

Big D and Koypikz

Some of the luck I have had playing Overs in the last 2 days has been ridiculous.

China vs Poland went to OT to get the over

South Korea vs Russia they scored 48 points in the last and a Russian decided to lay the ball up with 1 second left in the game up by about 15 to get the over

USA vs Turkey Tatum is fouled on a 3 point attempt with 0.1 left in the game down 2. He bricks the second and scores the other two to send it to OT

Crazyyyyyyyyyyy

That is some ridiculous crazy luck Peekay. Some of these games have been great to watch. Kemba came out publicly and said that FIBA is much more physical than the NBA which is it and it just shows you soft the NBA has been for several seasons now.

If anything, this World Cup is proving that team chemistry is integral to success.

You only have to look at the teams that have been and played together for lengthy periods to see how it reflects on the court. Lithuania, Serbia, Australia, Greece, France all look relatively fluent on the court, whereas watching the USA in not only their first 2 World Cup games but their friendlies against Canada and Australia before the tournament, they are purely just getting by on talent alone. 

I think there may come a time shortly where it just clicks and they destroy an opponent, so I have my eye on that Japan game next up, otherwise unless a h2h line really pops out, I may stick to totals. 

It's always fun watching basketball and willing both teams to score, rather than hoping one team does well and the other does poorly. 

I do like the China/Venezuala Over play ADU; China showed how well they can score in the 1Q of their last game until foul trouble to their key players slowed things down. 

Hopefully they try to put on a show for the home crowd and pick up the pace to score as much as possible; I don't think they want a bleak, boring showing for the thousands of home fans who support them so fanatically.