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| Last night Australia played the USA in the Quarter-Finals. Australia Lost the game 116-85. Patrick Mills top scored for Australia with 20 points. |
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| Australia beat Lithuania today 106-75. Andrew Bogut top scored for Australia with 23 points. Australia finished 4th in group A and will play USA in the first game of the Quarter-Finals. |
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Australia played Russia today. The Boomers won the match 80-95. The win has put Australia into the quarter-finals. David Andersen posted 11 points and 5 boards. Andrew Bogut and CJ Bruton tied for top scorer with 22 points.
Now Lithuania become a major game for the Aussies, whose other win in Beijing came against Iran.
"We have one more game in hand," Bogut said. "We want to beat Lithuania. If we don't win that game, we know it's a (quarter-final) match-up against the United States."
"Lithuania are one of the best teams in the world, they are still undefeated." |
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| Today Australia got its first win at the Olympics playing against Iran. Australia won by 38 points, the final score was 106-68. Brad Newley top scored for Australia with 24 points. David Andersen scored 10 points with 5 rebounds. Australia next play Russia on Saturday. |
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| Australia played its second game against Argentina last night. Australia was down 18-3 before David came into the game giving Australia a lift with a outside Jump shot. Australia finished the first 23-11. Pushing forward to reduce the Argentinean lead, Australia got within 10 points by Half-time. In the third quarter Argentina again pulled away, pushing the lead out to 17. In the end Australia lost the game 85-68. David Andersen had 10 points with 6 rebounds. |
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| Australia played its first game of the Olympics against Croatia. The Boomers lost the game 82-97. It was an unexpected result going into the game with a strong lead-up to the Olympics. “We’ve got four more games to play (in the group stages) and we’ve got to move on and move forward,” " Our lead-up to this was good and we played two quality teams and didn’t get dominated in the fashion we did tonight." Coach Brian Goorjian said. David Andersen scored 4 points in 13 minutes of play. View the boxscores here. |
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| Australia pre-Olympic preparation finished with a loss against Team USA. Australia Lost the game 87-76. Boxscores(PDF). Brian Goorjian was happy with the performance of his team and believes the Boomers will now enter Beijing on an upbeat note. After the game Kobe Bryant talked about Australian coaching staff and rated the Boomers as Team USA’s finest opposition in the Olympic build-up. “This is the best team that we’ve faced thus far in terms of the execution and how hard they played and it was a fun game to be a part of.” |
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| David Andersen is in Beijing preparing for the Olympic Games with the Boomers. The Boomers play Team USA tomorrow night in Shanghai. The game will be televised live on ESPN at 10pm Tuesday. You can send him a messages of support and any questions directly on the forum here. David is often on the forum replying to questions and comments. |
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| Australian Boomers played their 3rd game of the FIBA Diamond Ball for men against Argentina last night. Australia had the lead most of the game unfortunately losing the lead late in the forth quarter. Australia lost the match by 4 points 91-95. You can see the game report here. David scored 10 points with 3 assists. Australia won against Angola 78-81 for their 2nd game and beat China in their first game. the final score was 67-55. Australia finished the tournament 2-1 in 2nd place after Argentina. |
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| Australian Boomers have just finished Pre-Olympic Acropolis Tournament in Athens. Australia finished the tournament with a Win against Brazil on Wednesday night. The final score was 89-84 with Chris Anstey Top scoring with 24 points. On Tuesday Australia Played Greece, David Andersen top scored with 13 points. Unfortunately Australia lost the match 69-89. Australia came third in the tournament behind Greece(1) then Brazil(2). Check out the team statistics here. |
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| Today David Andersen will celebrate his 28th Birthday. Happy Birthday David. Good Luck at the Olympics and in the future with Barcelona. |
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David Andersen has signed 3-year contract with Barcelona. David was weighing up options for NBA with Atlanta this year as he was looking forward to the challenge of heading to the NBA, unfortunately with New management coming into the team and the task of re-signing some stars the timing was bad and David had to put things on hold.
"It was disappointing how things fell through with Atlanta this year, hopefully things will work out in the future." David said.
Then came the decision for David to move to Barcelona in Europe and continue in the euroleague. One of the deciding reasons was the New Challenges ahead with his new team in Spain.
"I had a great 4 seasons in Russia with CSKA, we won many things and the team was the most helpful i have ever been around. I will remember the CSKA family forever, and i thank them for the many good times." David said about his former team.
Now with the timing right David will join up with the Australian team in Europe for pre-Olympics Preparation, after visiting Barcelona to finalize the contract and do some physical exams.
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| The Fourm has been changed made it easier to post. Updated the forum categories. |
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| The CSKA 2007-08 gallery has been update with photos from the finals against Khimki and from the CSKA presentations night here. |
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| CSKA Moscow are the Russian National Champions! CSKA Moscow played game three at Khimki. CSKA won the match 78-88. David Andersen scored 11 points and grabbed 8 rebounds. Trajan Langdon top scored with 21 points. |
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| CSKA Moscow played against Khimki in game 2 on Friday. CSKA won the match 74-66. Trajan Langdon top scored with 20 points. David scored 17 points with 5 rebounds. CSKA are up 1-0 in the finals series of Russian National Championship. Game 3 is on Monday against Khimki away in Khimki. |
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| CSKA Moscow played against Khimki from Moscow region. CSKA won the match 97-76. Matjaz Smodis top scored with 26 points. David scored 4 points with 1 rebounds. CSKA are up 2-0 in the finals series of Russian National Championship. Game 2 is tomorrow against Khimki at Home. |
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| Short Media Clip about David and interview from the Final Four in Madrid posted on YouTube by Euroleague TV "A-Factor" All Multimedia clips have been posted in the Gallery. |
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| CSKA Moscow played against Dynamo Moscow at Dynamo. CSKA won the match 62-76. Matjaz Smodis top scored with 21 points. David scored 16 points with 7 rebounds. CSKA have won the series 3-0. The finals begin on the 22nd against Khimki at Home in a best of 5 games series. |
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| CSKA Moscow played against Dynamo Moscow at home. CSKA won the match 85-78 in overtime. Jon Robert Holden top scored with 19 points. David scored 11 points with 4 rebounds. CSKA lead the best of five series 2-0. Game 3 is on Tuesday 13th at Dynamo. |
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| CSKA Moscow played against Dynamo Moscow at home. CSKA won the match 74-59. Matjaz Smodis top scored with 20 points. David scored 11 points with 5 rebounds. CSKA lead the best of five series 1-0. Game 2 is tomorrow at home. |
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| The Gallery has been updated with photos of David and the team from the Final Four in Madrid here. |
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| CSKA Moscow played against Maccabi Elite from Tel Aviv, Israel in the Final at the Community of Madrid Sports Palace. CSKA played a great game winning the match by 14 points the final score was 77-91 . Trajan Langdon top scored with 21 points and was awarded the Finals MVP. David Andersen scored 13 points and grabbed 5 rebounds. CSKA Moscow are the Euroleague Champions for the second time in three years. CSKA won in Prague 2006 and now in Madrid 2008. |
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