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Australia too hot for Chile (31213)
Australia has won its final game of the first phase of the World Cup, taking their tally to 3-2 at the cut off. An outstanding game from Michael Bridgewater has planted the seed of success in the next round. Bridgewater was unstoppable on Monday night, dropping 18-22 from all over the place. " At one point, I saw him chuck up a rainbow 3, something he has been stuffing around at training with when the coach isnt looking" explained Maverick. "It never looked like missing, its a party trick he told his girlfriend he'd dedicate to her while we are away".

Rumors circulating the u21 world are the Good Grief is carrying an injury. The star guard sat for the majority of the game. The coach did not comment on the situation at the press conference, but added fuel to the fire when discussing rotations. "Obviously when we have a guy or two injured, it gives an opportunity for our 2nd lineup to step up and produce, guys like Hughes really did that for us". Hughes first game in the green and gold was fruitful, knocking in two long range 3s.

Australia now eagerly awaits the next round draw. Regardless of their next opponent, there is no such thing as an easy game from here. The eight teams to advance through are Phillipines, USA, China, Russia, Italy, Serbia, Lithuania, and Australia. Number one team in the world, Spain, fell victum to the tough draw, being eliminated despite a 40pt win overnight to Russia.

MVPs
3 votes- Bridewater (39pts, 18-22fg, 8 boards, 16.0 rating).
2 votes- Danxiang ( 19pts, 3x3pters, 3 assists, 2 boards).
1 vote- Santegoeds (13 boards, 5 pts, 14.5 rating).

Excellent work and impressive that you could even survive the CT. Go Australia!

Nice stuff!

Bad week for the U21 team we put more effort in and still lost to the Phillipines. We were badly GDP'd which didn't help and while lots of players had issues our PFs going 7/24 in a LP offence designed for them is a horrible result.

yep was disappointing to see tactics worked against us. It is the first game Phillipines havent gone with a slow offense. With our bench bigs the only talls ready to play, they had a hard game against the mighty phillipines bigs in proficient. We really missed bridgewater there. At the same time youve got Santigoeds who shoots 70% from C, so that makes the offense appear to have worked from there. He just needed some help.

MVPs:
3. Santegoeds- 7-10 fg for 15pts, 6 rebs. Also held his man to 5-14 fgs.
2. Hamburger- top scored in his first u21 game, with 17pts including 2 3s from the SF spot.
1. Grief- 11pts, 3 rebs, Grief held his own.

Next up we have world number 1 USA, the draw certainly does not get any easier at this stage. Ill be contacting all managers today regarding game shape and training.

Last edited by whitewind at 12/22/2014 6:25:37 PM

Thanks mate, good luck with your semi final, I'm sure you will make it from here, you have played this season very very well.

Good luck to the Philipinas they seem like a good mob

USA defeat Australia 91-70 (31235)

It was a well fought out game, but we were well off the Americans in terms of class. I was amazed Team USA didnt use a fast pace, given they are battling out a spot for the semi final and need percentage. There is now a real battle going on for a finals birth, and just a shame we are not a part of it.

MVP Votes:
3 votes- Doran. (18pts on 8-11fg, 5 boards, 1 assist, 15.5 rating) in 15 mins game time!
2 votes- Grief (12pt, 2 assists, 2 rebs, 2 stls, 15.0 rating).
1 vote- Santegoeds (9 rebs, 7pts, 1 ass, 1 stl, 1 blk, 15.0 rating).

Next week is our final world cup game vs China. It is a dead rubber since one of USA and Lithuania will be fighting it out for 4th in their last match.

bad luck - good effort tis season though

the Points per 100 shots are interesting. Base Offence is always a good offence is use to see where deficiencies/strengths are offensively.

Thanks for the write up and for taking the team to worlds.