The Australian men’s basketball team are under no misapprehensions about the challenge that awaits them in the week ahead, as the Boomers’ Olympic campaign gets underway on Saturday. “We know we’re in an absolute shitfight in our group,” straight-shooting coach Brian Goorjian admitted recently.
The “group of death” that awaits Australia is one of several reasons that the Boomers head into the Paris Games with mixed views on their prospects. After winning a historic bronze medal three years ago in Tokyo – “rose gold” even, the first in the history of Australia’s men’s program – a generational shift began.
